Wanna talk, tovarish? FBI ad campaign targets cell phones at the Russian embassy, seeking tips and intel from anyone disgruntled over Ukraine invasion washingtonpost.com/national-secur… To give a sense of how geographically tight the target is, when I stood here, next to the embassy wall, I got the FBI’s Russian ad. But when I crossed the street? Nyet, nichego

our full story on Garland's speech about the Jan 6 investigation, with a link to the entire text... washingtonpost.com/national-secur… ... important to keep in mind that, given these are the points Garland and other DoJers have been making since Jan. 7, people are likely to hear what they want to hear in what he said today...

Scoop: Justice Dept is quietly seeking a 50-year bar to release of grand jury material - a rule which, if adopted by the courts, would keep Mueller-Trump records secret until 2069... washingtonpost.com/national-secur… ...DoJ is also seeking a new rule that would broaden their ability to impose gag orders on all manner of grand jury witnesses -- twin moves that critics say would build a higher, thicker wall of secrecy around federal courts and criminal investigations...

NEW: Confronted with their failures to pursue Nassar sex-abuse allegations, FBI officials gave false or misleading answers, inspector general finds washingtonpost.com/national-secur… The Indianapolis FBI office "did not formally document any of its investigative activity, including its July meeting with USA Gymnastics and its September 2 telephonic interview of one of the victim gymnasts. The office also did not formally open an investigation or assessment."

Newly-unsealed court documents reveal Trump Justice Dept. was hunting for the sources of three Post stories related to Russia when it seized Post reporters' communications records washingtonpost.com/national-secur… ooookay, we now know a few new key details about the leak investigation that led the Trump Justice Dept to secretly seek three of our reporters' phone and email records...

"TV and twitter, your honor, mean nothing." -- Michael Avenatti at his sentencing Avenatti is crying, thanking his family for standing by him. "I and I alone have destroyed my career, my relationships, my life, and there is no doubt that I deserve to pay, have paid, and will pay a further price for what I have done."

When paragraph 3 of your lawsuit declares Facebook is the government The mental (noun) of this lawsuit also hinges on the premise that when Facebook suspended Trump, it did so as part of the government Trump *was then running* since he was still, you know, the president

The Barr Trump memo story took another couple turns today, and here is the final updated version, and it's a vivid reminder (to me anyway) how deeply strange the Mueller/Trump era was at DoJ (brief thread)... washingtonpost.com/national-secur… … Judge Jackson skewers Bill Barr as using a PR strategy to neuter the Mueller report, yet she misses one of the key moments that arguably helped Trump most - when Barr and Mueller both keep quiet the fact that Mueller complained Barr’s description of his work was misleading…

1/A thread on the self-defeating practice of perpetual leak investigations 2/A couple years ago, I did some stories about secret surveillance techniques and ops you can find here (paywall): wsj.com/articles/ameri…
and here: wsj.com/articles/u-s-m…

In Flynn sentencing filing, Mueller writes that "senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards." "Several senior members of the transition team publicly repeated false information conveyed to them by the defendant about communications between him and the Russian ambassador regarding the sanctions." (presumably that list would include at least Pence and Spicer)

A little historical context from a former intern at the US Embassy in London (me)...

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...the relocation is all about security. the old embassy is a security nightmare because it’s right against the streets