A grand jury in Washington, DC, has issued a sealed indictment in the Mueller investigation according to a CNN report.

Sources have indicated that the first arrest or arrests could occur as soon as Monday. Anyone who feels guilty should enjoy their last weekend of freedom, lawyer up, and make friends with a bail bonds company.

A lawsuit in Georgia about reports of Russian hacking during the 2016 election just got weird:

Plaintiffs in the case have argued that data from last November’s election and a special June 20th congressional runoff cannot be trusted due to the unresolved flaws in the machines. And while the election server would have gone a long way toward answering that concern, it was wiped clean on July 7 — just four days after the lawsuit was filed. Two backup servers were subsequently wiped clean on August 9, just as the case was moving to federal court.

I’m going to take a wild guess that the data center does not do off site archiving of data.

At some point the FBI took an image of the disk, but had no reason to preserve it if it had served the Bureau’s purpose. Getting access to the image, if it still exists, will require a subpoena.

Position: 18.2N 84.4W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North [005°] near 7 mph [11 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 40 mph [ 65 kph].
Wind Gusts: 50 mph [ 80 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 80 miles [130 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1005 mb ↓.

Currently about 370 miles [ 595 km] South-Southwest of Havana, Cuba.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Isla de la Juventud, La Habana, Ciudad de la Habana, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, and Villa Clara; Northwestern Bahamas.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Central Bahamas.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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