The Arizona Senate released a big pile of records related to its election audit last night, in response to litigation by @weareoversight. If you have an appetite for a 4gb zip file, it's here: statecraftlaw.app.box.com/v/senateauditp…
Looks like the chair of the Arizona GOP had pretty extensive interactions with the gov't liaison for what the Senate claimed was a non-partisan audit, including arranging Newsmax and OANN hits for him.
Meanwhile, the president of the Ariz. Senate, @FannKfann, had some observations about the chamber's liaison to the Cyber Ninjas.
And we get a little look at the OANN sausage-making, in texts between correspondent (and audit fundraiser and Trump legal team member!) @christina_bobb and @FannKfann.
There's also a contract between Cyber Ninjas and a guy who made some fantastical claims that the 2020 election was rigged because it was mathematically impossible (and boldly claims to have invented email!) to conduct a "business intelligence analysis" of Arizona ballot images.
One of the documents the Arizona Senate produced about its audit is a copy of the failed election-overturning "Kraken" lawsuit in Michigan, for which ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and a handful of other attorneys were just sanctioned by a federal judge.
The list of names from the Arizona audit document dump is indeed interesting ->
One of the most interesting parts of the pile of Arizona Senate election audit documents released in response to a @weareoversight lawsuit is what's not there: In tens of thousands of pages, there's very little mention of the private groups that paid > 95% of the audit's bills.
(And most of the mentions of the private groups funding the audit that show up in the 22,000 documents released today are in news clippings or copies of people's public records requests trying to figure out who was paying for all of this.)
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(@Reuters) - Three former U.S. intelligence operatives, who went to work as mercenary hackers for the United Arab Emirates, face federal charges by the U.S. Justice Department, according to a court docket created on Tuesday.
Background: American hackers used state-of-the-art cyber-espionage tools on behalf of a foreign intelligence service that spies on human rights activists, journalists and political rivals.
The America Project put in more than half of the money for Arizona's audit. Its website leads with a video from Mike Flynn saying our nation is "under a new type of attack."
Another $550k came from Sidney Powell's group she's facing possible sanctions for her election suits.
The America Project, Inc. is a Delaware corporation formed in late April, whose registration appears to list no officers. Its contact address is a UPS Store in Tampa.
Trying to think of another situation in which the government hires somebody to do a job and anonymous private donors pick up more than 97% of the cost.
One of the lawyers in the "Kraken" lawsuit says they can't be sanctioned for their failed effort to overturn Michigan's election, citing as authority "cases too numerous to mention and any attempt to string cite them here would be insulting to all involved."
The lawyer who filed this is actually represented by another lawyer at this point, but the lawyer for the lawyer didn't file it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Relatives of Mike Flynn say in a new court filing that video of them reciting the QAnon phrase "where we go one we go all" was "not an oath of allegiance to QAnon, or any kind of oath at all. It was a simple, family, July 4 statement of support for each other."
Flynn's relatives, who previously appeared to flirt with QAnon online, now say in court: "It is common knowledge that Nazis, white supremacists and adherents of QAnon are violent extremists. ...To imply that a person is a Nazi sympathizer or a 'QANON FOLLOWER' is the same thing."
One of the last remaining lawsuits seeking to overturn the 2020 election ("Gondor II") seems to have run into a snag. The plaintiffs' lawyer says he used to have evidence to prove their case, but doesn't anymore because of a "saboteur in their own camp."
He then goes about impeaching the person who was going to provide all the evidence to prove the case (and also apparently raise money for other lawyers).
You may recall that this was the case in which a lawyer in Texas asked a court to basically throw out two of the three branches of government, lock in President Trump's policies and assume control of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
An investigation led by Michigan Republican lawmakers found no basis for claims by former President Donald Trump and his allies that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
"The Committee found no evidence of widespread or systemic fraud."