Posted on 07/13/2018 10:55:42 AM PDT by sickoflibs
A federal judge has approved a request to tightly control how evidence is shared with a Russian company accused of funding an Internet trolling operation to mislead American voters in the 2016 election.
The dispute over how to protect sensitive materials from disclosure had threatened to stall prosecution of the sole defendant to appear in court to face charges in the indictment of Russian entities under special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the District of Columbia said Friday that federal prosecutors gave “ample good cause” that identifying sources in the probe could tip off Russian intelligence and other foreign services to ongoing national security investigations and undermine efforts to protect future elections from similar interference.
Friedrich barred the U.S.-based attorneys for Concord Management and Consulting, which was indicted in February along with 13 Russian individuals and two other companies from sharing sensitive case materials from any foreign national without court approval.
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I suspect there is more to this than appears. Had the judge refused to rule that the defendants could not share the evidence with possible other defendants, Mueller’s team would claim they were forced to dismiss the case rather than share confidential information and blame the judge. Now that the judge has ruled the way the team demanded, they have to put up or shut up. My suspicion is that the team will share their evidence, then make sure it gets leaked to the press and afterwards claim the defendants leaked it. Sort of a win-win situation for Mueller. This is a dirty war.
There are some issues about who appointed this individual individual to the DC District bench. It was President Trump. Please see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabney_L._Friedrich
Sad.
You are so right. I do not doubt the US Justice Department and American System is as corrupt as any.It hurts tremendously for me to say that because I am a retired Police Officer and this is much more serious than Americans realize.It is very possible to Justice Department is behind all of this and it is a sham.
Agree, TOTAL BS. The entire US GOV AFGE and all Federal employees are union thugs.
Agree, Congress is in on it, too.
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