Thread: Rosenstein says 12 Russian intel officers indicted in special counsel's probe

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

But these witches are pleading GUILTY.

Would you plead "guilty" if they were bankrupting you and destroying your life? It often amounts to government extortion and intimidation. I don't think it is what the Constitution allows. But who can take on the cops? Flynn couldn't!

DOJ: Russians stole info on 500k voters
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BREAKING NEWS

Russians Targeted Clinton’s “Personal Office” On Same Day Trump Called on Russia to Find Her Personal Emails, Indictment Says

By BEN MATHIS-LILLEY
JULY 13, 20181:59 PM


There’s an interesting factoid noted in the special counsel indictment, released Friday, of 12 Russian intelligence operatives for hacking various Hillary Clinton-related Democrats during the 2016 campaign via the technique of “spearphishing“:

22. The Conspirators spearphished individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign throughout the summer of 2016. For example, on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a third-party provider and used by Clinton’s personal office. At or around the same time, they also targeted seventy-six email addresses at the domain for the Clinton Campaign.

As was quickly noticed by a number of observers, July 27, 2016 is the same day that Trump made his infamous and seemingly facetious request to “Russia” to find emails from Clinton’s Secretary of State tenure that she had deleted, on the grounds that they were purely personal, before turning over her server archive to the State Department. Trump made the remarks—”Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” at a press conference in Doral, Florida.

Some context: According to the indictment, Russian operatives had already hacked and attempted to hack the Democratic National Committee and other Clinton-related targets before July. (The indictment says the hacking started in March.) What’s being alleged (with seemingly intentional specificity) is that the Russians didn’t target Clinton’s “personal office” until the day that Trump asked them to.

At the time—in fact, during other comments on July 27—Trump publicly questioned whether Russia had in fact been behind any hacking.

Here’s what he said July 27 about comments about Russian involvement by Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook:

And then I see [the] campaign manager, I don’t know, a young guy, nice guy, who knows. And he’s on television and he said that Russia hacked them. Right? No, no, he said Russia hacked them. And I said, huh, how does he know? He doesn’t really know, but he said Russia hacked them.

Well before Trump made these comments, we now know, Donald Trump Jr. and campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos had both been approached by intermediaries who told them that Russia had “dirt” on Clinton.

Whether any information about the “dirt” had been passed to Trump himself, though, remains one of the many million-dollar questions that’s still (publicly) unanswered.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...-hack-her.html

I don't think it's going to be a Perry Mason moment. When's the trial for the first group of Russians?

Roger Stone's messages suggest he is unnamed person in new Russia indictment

It will be interesting to see where this goes.

CNN just announced on Don Lemon show through one of his guests, Garrett Graff, "CNN Contributor" that Mueller had announced in November of last year that they'd identified the Russians responsible for the campaign hacking. This is July, 9 months later? It's a pretty simple indictment if they have actual evidence to back it up which isn't mentioned in any manner in the indictment. Maybe that's normal, I don't know, on its face, it reads like a conjecture story, where you start with your targets at the end and build blocks backwards to link it to the DNC and Clinton Campaign. To me that's kind of ass backwards.

Trump's visit bends reality


ANALYSIS

President's inconsistent statements about allies put a cloud over his Putin meeting and leave Americans wondering what they can believe

Oh CNN is such bunk. There is no "cloud" at all over the Trump-Putin Summit, 60% of Americans support the meeting, think it's a good thing, and most of the 40% who don't, think there's something wrong with Putin because he learned Judo and Sambo martial arts when he was 13 and is a good swimmer, apparently not being aware of how much value Russians have put on sports for a very long time or don't know that the penalty for treason by a US military spy is the death penalty, same as in Russia, except when Russia does it our media calls it "persecution" and "asssasination".