Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert S. Mueller III, says report prepared for Senate

The Washington Post ^ | 17 December 2018 | Craig Timberg, Tony Romm, Elizabeth Dwoskin

[zeestephen]

Months after President Trump took office, Russia’s disinformation teams trained their sights on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Having worked to help get Trump into the White House, they now worked to neutralize the biggest threat to his staying there.

[17th Miss Regt]

Ten pounds in a five pound bag.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Based on results, it looks like they screwed the pooch.

[Eddie01]

What? Did they say Mueller was ethical?

[House Atreides]

My God...now the despicable Compost is trying to build the corrupt, nasty Mueller into a hero being victimized and targeted by the RUSSIANS, RUSSIANS, RUSSIANS.

[ptsal]

Baloney

[jyo19]

You have to give it to them, they certainly have active imaginations.

[American in Israel]

Why do the LIEberls want a war with Russia so bad?

[sourcery]

These collusion theorists are more pathetic than the most pitiful and inept of “conspiracy theorists.” They make the Flat Earthers look reasonable, intelligent and plausible, by comparison.

[atc23]

What - are the dirty Reds beaming mind control rays to the leftist activist lawyers on Herr Mueller’s team?

You just cannot make this stuff up. I wish Tom Clancy were alive to see this.

[mass55th]

"Having worked to help get Trump into the White House"

When was it proven that the Russians helped Trump get into the White House?

[Kenny Bania]

One of the reports, written by Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and network analysis firm Graphika, became public when The Washington Post obtained it and published its highlights Sunday. The other report was by social media research firm New Knowledge, Columbia University and Canfield Research.

And I'm sure all of these outfits are compleeeeetly unbiased, right? Hell, a simple Google search reveals that one of the New Knowledge "researchers" used to work at Data for Democracy, and has has ties to....wait for it....the Washington Post and the State Department.

[Liz]

No need to ask Clinton (and Obama) about their Russian connections-----the paper trail is long and wide.

HILLARY'S STATE DEPT----AND THE OBAMA YEARS---UNRELENTING SCANDAL
By Ari Lieberman/ frontpagemagazine.com

EXCERPT The taxpayer financed-Skolkovo Scandal – While serving as secretary of state, Clinton oversaw a program meant to “reset” relations with Moscow and improve ties. The program centered around the Russian city of Skolkovo near Moscow with the stated aim of “identifying areas of cooperation and pursuing joint projects and actions that strengthen strategic stability, international security, economic well-being, and the development of ties between the American and Russian people.”

Hillary's State Dept program transformed Skolkovo into a technology hub akin to a Silicon Valley. Sensitive American technology was transferred to the Russians, substantially enhancing their military and cyber capabilities. The US Army and the FBI concluded that Russia had exploited the program for military applications.

The FBI warned American technology companies doing business in Skolkovo that the Skolkovo project was a means by which the Russians would acquire dual use technologies and apply them for military ends. According to investigative author Peter Schweizer, Russian and American companies and individuals involved in the Skolkovo fiasco “had major financial ties to the Clintons.”

Moreover, during the Russian reset period, those entities provided the Clintons with “tens of millions of
dollars” in the form of “contributions to the Clinton Foundation, paid for speeches by Bill Clinton, or
investments in small start-up companies with deep Clinton ties.”

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Of all the spurious excuses she gives for her loss, the most ludicrous is that
Hillary says she lost her "sure-thing election" because "Putin doesn't like me."
Comey sucked up big-time--told Congress Putin wanted to “harm Hillary.”

Hillary once bragged that she, alone, was brought into Putin's inner sanctum
where she assured Putin she was worried about wildlife like he was.

Putin whispered to an attentive Hilary that they were BFF.

Secy Hillary and Obama were eager to please Russia w/ the friendly reset button.
Hillary later said the reset gambit was Obama's and her idea "to strengthen Russia."

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Ex-Pres Clinton is s-o-o-o-o friendly he traveled to Russia to clinch the uranium giveaway deal.
And to pocket a $500,000 dollar speaking fee from a Moscow bank plus a sizeable commission.

Billybooboo even laid his "Hot Damn Hokey Hillbilly Act" on Putin.

[DouglasKC]

They are really ramping this up....seems like something big is in the works.

[heights]

I feel as if I live in North Korea.

[jerod]

Based on this late breaking information that Russia influenced Mueller’s investigation, I believe it’s time to bring the hammer down. Fire him and hire an entirely new investigative team to investigate him, Comey and his buddies at the FBI and the entire mess they created based on a dossier invented by Trumps political enemies.

Indicting people for perjure, evading taxes and paying hush money to porn stars wasn’t exactly his mandate and he has nothing implicating Trump as being in collusion with Russia. So it’s time for Trump to throw caution to the wind and do what he was elected to do... Drain the swamp and start with firing Bob Mueller’s *ss!

[kiryandil]

The Washington Hoax weighs in.

    

[goldstategop]

Fake news since it took a number of reporters to compile it.

[MAGAthon]

the New Knowledge boss (also boss of Data for Democracy) Jonathon Morgan & his co-author J.M. Berger:

LinkedIn: Jonathon Morgan, CEO at New Knowledge
Austin, Texas Area
ISIS Twitter Census
March 2015 – March 2015
An exhaustive investigation into ISIS activity on Twitter co-authored with author and journalist JM Berger. The report was published by the Brookings Institute and funded by Google Ideas. Its release was covered by dozens of international media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, CNN and Fox News.
From Brookings etc...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathonmorgan

here’s Berger:

VIDEO: 2 Dec: Mediaite: Extremism Expert Warns Trump Could Rile Up His Base: ‘If He Called for Violence, There Would be Violence’
by Tamar Auber
During an interview with SiriusXMProgress host Dean Obeidallah, extremism expert J.M. Berger warned that President Donald Trump could potentially rile his base up to the point of violence...
“If he [Trump] called for violence, there would be violence,” Berger replied, after saying that the presidency is a pretty powerful bullhorn and pulpit.
He added: “I think that is a pretty easy call. Where that puts him on the spectrum in between extremism and authoritarianism is a little more complicated.”...

“I will not make the direct comparison, but if you looking at somebody like Hitler, he had a very well developed extremist ideology he was advancing,” he continued on. “It was very specific … we don’t have that with Trump.”
He then said only time will tell how history will ultimately judge Trump.
“I think history will probably end up looking at him as an authoritarian who attempted to use extremism to his advantage,” Berger surmised. “But there is still a lot that could happen.”...
https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trump/extremism-expert-warns-trump-could-rile-up-his-base-if-he-called-for-violence-there-would-be-violence/

[Yaelle]

I heard today that the reason more blacks didn’t vote for Hillary was because Russia floated messages on social media for them to stay home and not vote.

Which is worse, that rooms of Russian hackers with fake accounts on social media are trying to influence our votes, or that we decide how to vote by what is on social media?

Why don’t we let everyone in the world do their effing best, but INFORM OURSELVES INTELLIGENTLY and not vote according to Facebook or twitter?