Posted on 08/06/2018 6:07:54 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A judge agreed to appoint an independent firewall lawyer to review pretrial evidence related to special counsel Robert Muellers case against Russians who allegedly interfered in the 2016 election.
The evidence will be screened for possible national security issues before it is turned over to a Kremlin-linked defendant, Bloomberg News reported Monday.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich approved the request for the counsel because Mueller is concerned with providing evidence to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a wealthy Russian businessman and longtime associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Department of Justices legal team warned against Prigozhin gaining access to sensitive evidence.
That evidence would include details about the governments investigation, identities of people and companies that are cooperating and personal information on Americans who were victims of identity theft, the outlet noted.
Prigozhin and his firm, >B>Concord Management and Consulting LLC., were indicted as part of Muellers investigation into Russian meddling during the presidential election.
Concord, through attorney Eric Dubelier, pled not guilty to one count of defrauding the U.S. government. It is the only Russian entity out of three to respond to the charges filed by Mueller's team earlier this year.
The company provides food services to the Kremlin and Putin reportedly frequents other restaurants he owns.
The Russian businessman has been dubbed Putins chief.
If the government gives in on this, the next thing ya know, the accused peasants will be clamoring for the right to know who their accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against them...
Should be that if the defense can’t see the evidence then the court and jury cannot either. If the prosecution can provide the evidence then they should drop the case and apologize to the defendant.
These liberal socialists demand all kinds of equal treatment for every illegal here? What is their problem with the Roosky. He is just an illegal.
“Too bad Sessions is not woke to the issues of his Dept.”
My impression is that many people here, and in Session’s constituency, had/have faith in him because as a senator he voiced support for issues that they believe in. That’s entirely understandable, but life is complex, as are people, and he can say those things and still be a self-promoting political animal. It’s just a sad and disappointing reality.
The judge is a Trump appointe, too.
double super secret....
..... but is any of it true?
Russians are Christians (73%). They just whipped Isis with the Syrians and the Shiites.Thry have a huge pipeline with Germany.!
#28. I’m with you re “ I am growing tired of “measured responses”.
Did we use a “measured response” after the attack on Pearl Harbor? Hell no! We declared war on the whole Japanese Empire and the Axis Alliance in Europe, and then smashed them to bits.
Doolittle and his bombers didn’t deliver a “measured response” when the bombed Tokyo, nor did we give a measured response at Hiroshima and Nagaski, Dresden, Ploiesti, Normandy, the Bulge, or at Anzio.
NO MORE MEASURED RESPONSES REGARDING CORRUPT MUELLER AND HIS DEMOCRAT AUTHORITARIAN MINIONS. All out war until they are defeated and jailed.
Remember that Muller is supposed to be Independent.
The word has no meaning anymore.
You are on trial but the evidence against you is secret.
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Perhaps hasn’t yet been imagined.
They have to find out what your defense is before they can invent the evidence against it.
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