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Revealed: the US adviser who tried to swing Nigeria’s 2015 election

Sam Patten, an American consultant later mired in controversy, exploited emails obtained by Tal Hanan’s team

The Guardian - UK

Trump lawyer testimony "could be killer"

Trump lawyers will likely be forced to testify against him before the grand jury under the "crime-fraud" exception

Salon

Russia's Prigozhin admits links to what U.S. says was election-meddling troll farm

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, said on Tuesday that he founded and financed and the Internet Research Agency, a company Washington says is a "troll farm" which meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Reuters

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Untouchable review: Trump as ‘lawless Houdini’ above US justice

Elie Honig offers a powerful indictment of the former president and those who have failed to bring him down

The Guardian - US

How the Durham inquiry backfired to show weaponization of Trump DoJ

Investigation into origin of FBI Trump-Russia inquiry is ending with little to show but questions over its own political bias

The Guardian - US

GOP paints a dark picture as 'weaponization' probe begins

Republicans have opened a new inquiry with a brazen attempt to portray the federal government as weaponized against Americans

The Independent UK

Pfizer, George Soros and Robert Mueller: GOP’s ‘weaponisation’ hearing goes after an array of conservative boogeymen

A committee hearing held as payback for probes into Donald Trump quickly devolved

The Independent UK

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Durham's dud is worse than it looks

Trump’s attempt to bring disrepute to the Mueller report just backfired spectacularly

Salon

GOP can’t stop failing with conspiracy investigations

Now we have the GOP House’s so-called “weaponization” committee, which will put on a great show of trying to prove conspiracies about the mythical “Deep State.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Death in Memphis: The cost to us all

I've covered the police on and off for 40 years. I've never seen anything like the killing of Tyre Nichols

Salon

Trump orders House ‘weaponisation’ panel to probe his grievances in video rant

Mr Trump’s five-minute rant contains very few accurate statements

The Independent UK

George Santos linked to Trump donor with ties to sanctioned Russian oligarch, report finds

Newly revealed statements show congressman and Andrew Intrater developed business relationship in 2020

The Independent UK

Special counsels, like those examining Biden's and Trump's handling of classified documents, are intended to be independent – but they aren't entirely

Attorney General Merrick Garland has now appointed two veteran prosecutors as special counsels to oversee investigations into how President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump handled classified documents after leaving office – Biden after he ended his terms as vice president in 2017, and Trump after leaving the Oval…

The Conversation

Justice Dept. enters political fray with 2 special counsels

There are now two special counsels investigating the handling of classified documents

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What the new era of special counsels says about American politics

Virtually any investigation of a politician is seen through a partisan lens.

Reuters

Explainer-Biden vs. Trump: What is the difference between the two classified records cases?

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed two different special counsels to independently investigate the handling of classified records by Republican former President Donald Trump and his Democratic successor, President Joe Biden.

The Conversation

Special counsels, like the one leading the Department of Justice's investigation of Trump, are intended to be independent – but they aren't entirely

When Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed veteran prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee two criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump on Nov. 18, 2022, Garland’s goal was to shield the probes from the appearance of partisanship.

Salon

Special counsel "moving fast" on Trump

Don't expect the same approach as Bob Mueller from the new special counsel leading probes into the former president

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The Independent UK

Trump faces peril in docs probe after decades of scrutiny

As a businessman and president, Donald Trump faced a litany of lawsuits and criminal investigations yet emerged from the legal scrutiny time and again with his public and political standing largely intact

Salon

Trump attacks special counsel's family

Trump spent Monday raging at special counsel Jack Smith, his wife and her sister

Axios

Trump's new nemesis: Special counsel 2.0 unlikely to be Mueller repeat

Trump and his allies are reviving an old playbook they used to attack Mueller

Tribune News Service

Noah Feldman: New Trump special prosecutor isn’t the Mueller sequel

To no one’s surprise, Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special prosecutor, Jack Smith, to investigate former President Donald Trump. You might think that you’ve seen this movie before. But there’s little reason to think this will be a repeat of the Robert Mueller investigation that declined to bring…

The Guardian - US

Stephen Colbert on Fifa: ‘The most corrupt organization in history’

Late-night hosts discuss the World Cup in Qatar and the justice department’s new special counsel investigating Trump

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: What are special counsels and what do they do?

The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the remainder of two significant investigations related to former President Donald Trump focuses fresh attention on the role such prosecutors have played in modern American history

Reason

Comparing the Orders Appointing Special Counsel Mueller and Special Counsel Smith

Mueller could only prosecute if it was "necessary and appropriate." Smith has no such constraint.

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