Posted on 08/07/2018 6:23:50 AM PDT by sickoflibs
A judge ruled Monday that a "firewall counsel" will be employed to protect sensitive information during federal court proceedings against Russians who allegedly attempted to influence the 2016 U.S. election through a widespread online campaign.
The new team, to be made up of attorneys from the Department of Justice's National Security Division who are not involved in the case, was previously requested by Robert Mueller's Special Counsel's Office to restrict the defense's ability to share sensitive discovery information with others, including the Russian government.
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Concord is one of three business entities, along with 13 individuals, charged in relation to a purported Kremlin-ordered online influence campaign ahead of the 2016 election, according to the Department of Justice. Specifically, Concord is accused being the "primary source of funding" for the Internet Research Agency, another Russia-based codefendant that allegedly employed an army of trolls to pose as Americans to spread propaganda and sow division online -- what the defendants themselves referred to as "information warfare," according to the indictment.
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Watch Mueller lose this too. His enemies are more powerful than he is and can exert pressure to put this nonsense away.
Not that I would recommend it to happen, but this could be a case where the Russians are in the middle of the court and shoveling these US-secrets folder around which they have access to, and suddenly they (the Russians) have a 60,000 page box or two to appear with all of Hillary’s emails (including the Top Secret ones). Then they might turn to Mueller’s guy and just say....oh those other firewalled documents that you wouldn’t allow us to see....we’ve already seen them.
How does one defend without it?
:-)
There is one thing that I believe to be very revealing in all this and the Brown Shirt Media is completely uninterested in pursuing an answer to the question. Just what in the hell did Manafort do for Ukrainian politicians that was worth $60 Million? How does a guy just show up in a suit with a briefcase and do ANYTHING that is worth $60 Million in a craphole like Ukraine in just a few months? The answer is pretty obvious. Nothing. IMHO we are just starting to see a number of stories like this about just how the GLobalist finance their crimes. Money laundering.
In essence the DOJ investigates the DOJ. A joke.
Since when does the main bad actor in this Kabuki show get to write new scenes?
What a joke....The defense is entitled to full disclosure.
How does one defend without it?
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Quiet! There’s no talking in the kangaroo court!
Department of Justice’s National Security Division is headed by John Demers, a Trump appointee. FWIW.
Mueller is effectively disclosing that no one has done more spying on the Trump Campaign then our very own CIA, FBI and their Dem allies.
Nice insight.......watching and waiting.
This case is a joke. Mueller’s trying to look like he’s having some success and the Russians are just using the trial to gather more intelligence. The Russians don’t even care what the verdict will be. They’re just in it for the giggles.
If this case would just move along it could blow Mueler right out of the water. He has NOTHING on any Russians, he put out indictments for the news media thinking he would never see one in an actual court. He has no evidence to back up his indictment and when it gets to the judge he will throw the whole thing out with prejudice. Badda Bing Badda Boom no more conspiracy.
How can a defendant know what he is charged with if there is no complete discovery? This is a soviet tactic.
Everyone should re-read “Gulliver’s Travels”... it is NOT just a children’s story, it is a scathing rebuke of government and liberals.
The phrase “you’re all a bunch of Yahoo’s” derives from this book.
Yahoo (Gulliver’s Travels)
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The term Yahoo was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of his satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels.
The Servants Drive a Herd of Yahoos into the Field by Louis John Rhead, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The original character
Yahoos are legendary beings in the novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, whose behavior and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift’s point of view.[1]
Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, greatly preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with “pretty stones” they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term “yahoo” has come to mean “a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person”.[2]
I do not understand why a trial is going forward when there aren’t going to be any defendants attending...Perhaps the attorney for one of the companies but so far, that’s all that’s EVER shown up.
From the link:
“”None of the individuals charged, all Russian nationals, are known to be in U.S. custody, and the U.S. and Russia do not have an extradition treaty, making it unlikely they’ll appear in a U.S. court anytime soon.
Concord has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges related to the online campaign. An attorney for Concord did not return an immediate request for comment for this report.””
I don't understand the indictment of company for a criminal offense.
And a foreign company at that.
Can a company be sentenced to jail?
“”Can a company be sentenced to jail? “”
I guess we’ll find out. A mess carefully engineered by Mueller - a first class jackass...
When it’s all said and done, can we get him a jail cell?
How can a defendant know what he is charged with if there is no complete discovery?
...which is why Mueller was pretty simply being a dumbass by filing charges.
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