Robert Mueller indicts 13 Russians for election meddling

The first post on this thread -- Go look! -- concerned Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russian government-backed hackers for meddling in our 2016 Presidential election. They were part of Russia's GRU intelligence agency. Today, seven more GRU operatives have been charged with cyberattacks on the DNC, two Ukraine airports, Russia's central bank, two Russian media outlets, anti-doping organizations and a nuclear energy company. The US and Russia engaged in a "Cold War" from 1947 to 1991. In the 21st century, the two powers are embroiled in a Computer War.

Justice Department anounces charges against 7 Russian operatives for cyberattacks

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...cyber-attacks/

In the 1970s, Richard Nixon and Chuck Colson became infamous for their so-called "dirty tricks." They pale in comparison to all the many "dirty trick" perpretators in the current-day Republican party.

GOP operative secretly raised at least $100,000 in search for Clinton emails
Opposition researcher's efforts are of intense interest to investigators probing Russian election interference.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-ope...d=hp_lead_pos1

I composed a couplet: "Be they big or be they small, Robert Mueller will get them all."

California man who sold fake onine identities to Russians gets six months in jail

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...bBzm?ocid=AMZN

Trump continues to attack his former political opponent and Trump continues to make outrageous accusations with absolutely no evidence to support them. So what else is new?

Clinton fires back at Trump: 'You asked Russia to hack me on national television'
The Hill, Oct 11 2018

Hillary Clinton today offered one of her most direct rebukes of President Trump in months after Trump accused her of colluding with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania Wednesday night, Trump told an arena of supporters that there was "collusion between Hillary, the Democrats and Russia" during the 2016 election, despite offering no evidence for his claim. An intelligence community assessment in 2017 concluded that Russia's efforts were aimed at undermining the Clinton campaign.

"Seriously, you asked Russia to hack me on national television," Clinton responded in a tweet today, a reference to Trump's comments at a news conference on the campaign trail in 2016, where he appeared to call on Russia directly to find emails supposedly deleted from Clinton's private email server used during her time at the State Department.

"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said at the time, adding: "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."

The President has accused his former opponent of collusion with Russians before. In April, Trump quoted a Washington Post columnist who alleged that Clinton had sought compromising information on Trump from Russian sources during the campaign, which fact-checkers have found to be false.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...fJAf?ocid=AMZN

Most of these attempted cyber-attacks have been thwarted but the hackers never seem to tire or become discouraged. They keep trying.

DHS finds increasing number of attempts to hack US election systems ahead of midterms

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...qOJq?ocid=AMZN

Twitter today released ten million tweets that came from 3,400 fake accounts created by Russians and 770 fake accounts created by Iranians. Their goal: To sow discord, to build up Trump and to tear down Hillary. They succeeded. And Robert Mueller's team is now looking at these tweets.

Massive Twitter data release sheds light on Russia's Trump strategy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...vl3i?ocid=AMZN

Did Rosenstein just wake up from a two-year-long nap? He's telling us something that everybody already knows. Well, everybody except the squawking orange parrot: "Hoax! Witch hunt! Fake news! Awwkkk!"

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein says the Russia probe has uncovered a widespread Russian effort to meddle in the 2016 US election

https://www.businessinsider.com/rod-...-probe-2018-10

The first criminal charge has been filed in the Russian election meddling investigation. Surely there will be many more Russians charged with crimes. ("There will -- and don't call me Shirley.")

Russian national charged with conspiracy to meddle in 2018 midterm elections
CBS News, Oct 19 2018 5:11 PM EDT

A Russian national has become the first person charged by the US for conspiring to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections, according to the FBI and Justice Department. Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova is alleged to have participated in a conspiracy to "sow discord in the US political system and to undermine faith in our democratic institutions," US Attorney Zachary Terwilliger, of the Eastern District of Virginia, said in the indictment. The government says the conspiracy is also part of the 2016 influence operation that dates back to at least May 2014.

Forty-four-year-old Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg was the chief accountant of "Project Lakhta," an effort funded by Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin and two companies he controls, Concord Management & Consulting and Concord Catering. Prigozhin is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and is often referred to as "Putin's chef."

Khusyaynova is accused of overseeing a $35 million budget from 2014 to 2018 that covered spending on activists, social media advertising, registration of domain names, the purchase of proxy servers and promoting news postings on social networks. The Justice Department says the proposed operating budget for 2018 alone was more than $10 million. Those involved in the conspiracy made extensive efforts to appear to be American political activists, using virtual private networks and other tools to hide the fact that they were Russian.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian...erm-elections/

In 2016, Trump adviser Roger Stone bragged about being in contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who released hacked emails of Hillary Clinton. In 2017, Assange denied talking with Stone. In 2018, Stone denies talking with Assange. Stone also calls the Mueller investigation "illegitimate." Are Stone and Assange lying? No, of course not -- not any more than Trump and Trump Jr. and Kushner and Cohen and Hicks and Pruitt and Shulkin and Manafort and Spicer and Sanders and Price and Porter and Flynn and Bannon and Kavanaugh and...... .

Special counsel examines conflicting accounts as scrutiny of Roger Stone and WikiLeaks deepens

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...HEWo?ocid=AMZN

Trump's former campaign manager, who was sentenced to 14 days in prison for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia, will meet with Robert Mueller's team investigating Russian election meddling. Ooh, the drama! Ooh, the suspense! I like what Obama told a crowd in Milwaukee today about Trump's pledge to "drain the swamp": "In Washington, they've racked up enough indictments to field a football team. Nobody in my administration got indicted, so how is it that they cleaned things up?"

George Papadopoulos requests immunity in exchange for testifying before Senate Intelligence Committee

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...WFjh?ocid=AMZN

Republicans will say and do anything and everything to discredit the news media and discredit the Mueller investigation.

Mueller refers sex assault scheme targeting him to FBI for investigation
NBC News, Oct 30 2018 3:35 PM

Special counsel Robert Mueller last week asked the FBI to investigate a possible scam in which a woman would make false claims that he had sexually assaulted her, after several political reporters were contacted about doing a story on the alleged assault.

Multiple reporters were contacted over the past few weeks by a woman who said she had been offered money to say she was sexually assaulted by Mueller, the special counsel who is probing possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. After investigating, the reporters each independently determined the assault allegation was likely a hoax and that it was unclear if the woman had been offered money to make the claim. The reporters then contacted the special counsel's office to report that they had been approached about the scheme.

"When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the special counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation," said Peter Carr, spokesperson for the special counsel.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...gation-n926301

When Donald Trump faces trouble, his strategy is to deflect and divert. On the same day we learned Trump bragged about kissing women and grabbing them "by the p***y" and being able to do so because he's a "star," WikiLeaks released stolen emails with the intent of damaging the Clinton campaign and taking attention off Trump. Good timing, eh? Mueller today met with former Trump campaign chairman Stephen Bannon (again) and has spoken with several associates of Trump adviser Roger Stone. The plot thickens.

Mueller probes Roger Stone's interactions with Trump campaign and timing of WikiLeaks' release of Podesta emails

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...7Tx0?ocid=AMZN

Here are more details about the two idiots who falsely claimed Robert Mueller raped a woman in Manhattan -- on a day that Mueller was in Washington DC serving on a jury.

Conspiracy theorists, try, fail, to smear Robert Mueller with sexual misconduct claim

https://www.yahoo.com/news/conspirac...203753723.html

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Originally Posted by Rewind

"More hysteria than fact"? I disagree. Here are some facts: Russian trolls created 50,258 false Twitter accounts. Russian trolls spent a combined $100,000 to buy 3,000 ads on Facebook. The fake accounts and the ads were utilized to sow political discord and to build up Trump while denigrating Clinton. Facebook said the fake ads and fake posts were viewed by almost 150,000,000 users. Russians also utilized fake accounts on Google, YouTube, Instagram and PayPal. We will never know how many people changed their Presidential vote as a result of all the Russian propaganda.

US government says Russia infiltrated Facebook with fake users, accounts and groups supporting Donald Trump

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/msn/th...ump/ar-BBJe1h9

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Nope.

More actual analysis rather than hysteria.

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/11/0...n-russia-gate/

Will Trump seek to limit, or shut down, the Mueller investigation? Will Trump be indicted for obstruction of justice? Will Whitaker recuse himself? Will fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions run for the Alabama Senate in 2020? This drama has more plot twists than a Gillian Flynn novel!

Trump's acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who has criticized the Mueller probe, will now oversee it

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...si5o?ocid=AMZN

Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer call on acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to recuse himself from Russia probe

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...snnl?ocid=AMZN

Matthew Whitaker, a very vocal critic of the Mueller investigation and who says a probe of Trump's finances would be "crossing a red line," is now, unless he recuses himself, in charge of the Mueller investigation. And the Swamp just keeps on getting swampier.

Senator Manchin: US 'on the verge' of a constitutional crisis after Sessions firing
CBS News, Nov 8 2018 9:23 AM

Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who has often sided with President Trump, said today in a CBS This Morning interview that the US is "on the verge" of a constitutional crisis after the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He also said he hopes Congress picks up legislation to protect Robert Mueller's Russia investigation when they return to Washington next week.

"I think it's a big mistake to let Jeff Sessions go,'" Manchin said. "I understand the Mueller investigation is wrapping up. You ought to have a team in place to wrap it up so there's no questions." Asked about Matthew Whitaker, who was appointed acting attorney general by Trump, Manchin say he is concerned that "a person that's been so vocal against the investigation is put in charge a day after the election. I think that sheds bad light on it. I think that gives concern to every senator, Democrat and Republican. We are a country. The rule of law is everything. It's how we govern ourselves. Looking like it's all been tilted one way or the other is wrong."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sen-joe...ssions-firing/

Frank Figliuzzi, who used to work with Robert Mueller, spoke last night with MSNBC's Brian Williams.

Former FBI assistant director: Mueller is 'ready to indict some folks'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...w2gv?ocid=AMZN

Donald Trump, whom a White House official said yesterday is "pissed at damn near everyone," had another Twitter tantrum this morning, denouncing the Mueller investigation as "a total witch hunt like no other in American history" (even though there have been many indictments, guilty pleas and plea bargains) and insisting Mueller has found "no collusion" (even though the investigation is ongoing and Mueller has not released his findings). Trump also said Mueller should be investigating "the other side," meaning Hillary and the Democrats. Trump is getting increasingly unstable, angry, hostile and irrational. Hey, Trump voters, how do ya like him now?

Trump says Mueller investigators 'have gone absolutely nuts' and 'are a disgrace to our nation'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...JYIN?ocid=AMZN

Trump and his attorneys are saying some of the questions to which Robert Mueller wants answers are a "perjury trap." Jeffrey Toobin, an author, lawyer and former associate counsel in the Department of Justice, is CNN's chief legal analyst. Today on CNN, Toobin asked, "What are 'perjury traps'? I've never heard of any 'perjury traps.' If you tell the truth, you don't have to worry about perjury."

Trump does not know how to tell the truth so it is not surprising that he's fearful of committing perjury.

Trump is correct when he says Mueller's investigative team has "bad intentions." Yes, indeed -- they want Trump to tell the truth.

Trump says he’s answering written questions from special counsel in Russia inquiry
The President said he was handling the issue cautiously because "you always have to be careful answering questions for people who have bad intentions."

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...116-story.html