Pissing Contest

If some of the Dear Readers have been sleeping under a rock, then it behooves these endeavors to draw attention to some information from the Mueller team with regard to Cohen and Buzzfeed. Of the many punditing, only Chuck Rosenberg with Maddow has done the j'accuse.

The information provided by Cohen about the Moscow Project in these proffer sessions is consistent with and corroborated by other information obtained in the course of the SCO's investigation.

Game, set, match. If Cohen did, in fact, tell the SCO that The Manchurian President told him to lie. If you pause the video, you'll see that the filing is by SDNY, not SCO. The only issue is whether Cohen didn't tell either SCO or SDNY that The Manchurian President told him to falsely represent the Moscow Project in testimony. Why would he still cover for The Manchurian President at such a juncture? And why would SCO make plain that his cooperation about the Moscow Project was backed up by other evidence?

And, naturally, why would the SCO get it's back up and tell a vague rebuke? The mostly likely reason is simple timing. The SCO was saving the pound of dry powder for later. But, again, Rosenberg points out that the SDNY filing shows that the pound of dry powder was sitting there in plain sight.