[xeno]

Here's one of the discovery requests:

"... the government is requested to turn over to defense counsel and to disclose:

From 1945 to present, each and every instance where any officer, employee and/or agent of the United States Government engaged in operations to interfere with elections and political processes in any foreign country"

[old curmudgeon]

Lawyers do stuff like that to harass their opponents. Eventually they will negotiate a more reasonable request. And each gets to charge their client for hours of negotiations.

That particular request would take hundreds of clerks, 10 railroad boxcars of paper and an unreal amount of time and money to fulfill.

But it clearly makes the point that those who live in glass houses should not be throwing stones.

[Cboldt]

This is a good one too ...

B. Rule 12 Requests

2. From 1945 to present, each and every instance where any United States or foreign person has been charged by the government with violating 18 U.S.C. 371, for allegedly impairing, obstructing and defeating lawful governmental functions of the United States by dishonest means in order to interfere with the United States' political and electoral processes.

Hint. There are none. This is a novel and ludicrous legal theory. Especially when the defendant is engaging in what is generally 1st amendment activity, free speech, with any legal failures being in the area of campaign finance reporting, or registering as a foreign agent ... and even THOSE claims by Weissman are nuts.

This indictment was a political statement loaded with gratuitous accusations that had nothing to do with the (bogus) charges.

[DaveA37]

“......employee and/or agent of the United States Government engaged in operations to interfere with elections and political processes in any foreign country”....

Includes odumbo! Too bad he will “skate” on that one