[Alberta's Child]

I don't think the indictments themselves are questionable on that basis alone. I'm sure there are tools that can be used to track infiltration attempts into a computer network activity from the outside. If you send an e-mail to someone, for example, who erases it completely from his computer and then destroys his computer, YOU would still have a record of the e-mail traffic ... and there would be multiple intermediate servers for your domain that would also have evidence of it as well.

The BIGGER question I have is this:

Why would the U.S. Justice Department go to such lengths to hold a press conference to announce these twelve indictments of foreign nationals ... and then immediately announce that the case is being handed off to a national security division of the DOJ where the trials are not held in public courtrooms (if they are ever held at all)?

The whole narrative is filled with information from top to bottom that cannot -- and WILL NOT -- ever be verified.

[Alberta's Child]

P.S. -- What you saw last week was the equivalent of the President of the United States holding a major press conference to announce a lunar mission next year ... and then immediately announcing that there will be no further information given out about it and no media reports will be given because NASA will be conducting it as a highly classified mission.

Anyone who heard such nonsense would rightly conclude that the lunar mission is nothing but fiction.

[Gahanna Bob]

This begs the question, how is hacking the DNC server a national security concern? The DNC isn’t a government entity and they couldn’t have national secrets to be exploited.

[Cboldt]

-- ... then immediately announce that the case is being handed off to a national security division of the DOJ where the trials are not held in public courtrooms (if they are ever held at all)? --

The indictment was filed in the US District Court, DC. The handoff is basically from Mueller back to DOJ. The "National Security Division" specifier is cruft, basically meaning the criminal prosecution will be abandoned.

-- The whole narrative is filled with information from top to bottom that cannot -- and WILL NOT -- ever be verified. --

Guilt by FBI and DOJ insinuation and accusation. Same technique used by Congress. This is government. This is why the public should not trust or believe government. This is why the government is meant to have limited powers against its own public. This is why we have juries ... the government is essentially the enemy of the public, and it is up to the public to keep the government in check. The government will never keep itself in check.

[.44 Special]

Mueller is smoke-screening. Why issue indictments for 12 members of the Russian GRU that everyone knows the Russians will not honor? Reverse it. Would we honor Russian indictment of CIA staff? Of course not. If nothing else this was just meant cloud Trump’s meeting with Putin.