Daily Links: 08/04/17 – Enter the Mueller grand jury

Robert Mueller

• Special Counsel Robert Mueller ^[pictured] officially launches a grand jury, giving him new powers to investigate Trump & co.’s ties to Russia. Attorney Ken “Popehat” White breaks down what this means. Basically: Things are about to get interesting.
  (via @ggreenwald)

• This man proves you don’t have to be a real priest to get arrested for acting like one.

• These transcripts of Trump’s calls with the leaders of Mexico and Australia should be required reading for anyone who still buys the Donald’s tough-guy act. What a singularly feckless leader.
  (via @fark)

• Speaking of which, his call with Australian Prime Minister Turnbull is particularly enlightening – especially to Turnbull, who tangibly realizes he’s speaking to a complete imbecile.
  (via @radleybalko)

• Until July 31, Louisiana had a law that allowed police to charge people who threaten to report them for misconduct.
  (via The Watch)

• House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) loves NSA surveillance … except when it spies on his own team.

• Has your password been pwned? This handy tool checks a database of over 300 million stolen passwords to see if yours is included. (I can confirm that it works.)
  (via @SpiderOak)

• Kim Davis’s terrible lawyer (in every sense) wants you to know it’s not her fault that Kentucky taxpayers owe more than $220,000 in legal fees because she refused to do her job and got fired and then sued and inevitably lost in court.

• And finally, to be fair, I think this guy was just trying to get his ticket’s worth.
  (via Lan)

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