U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller warned that Russian intelligence services still have active “interference operations” into U.S. elections and that handing over certain evidence in a criminal case could imperil ongoing investigations.
Mueller on Tuesday asked a federal judge in Washington for an order to protect voluminous evidence sought by lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting LLC, one of three companies and 13 Russian nationals charged in a February indictment alleging election meddling via social media. Prosecutors have uncovered evidence of other individuals and entities who are “continuing to engage” in similar activities.
The legal battle between Mueller and Concord’s attorneys highlights the tension between intelligence-gathering, which is cloaked in secrecy, and the U.S. legal system, which entitles criminal defendants to review evidence against them. Lawyers for Concord, a company linked to a longtime associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, have been negotiating to obtain documents from the special counsel to mount a legal defense.
The Russians are accused of producing propaganda, posing as U.S. activists and posting political content on social media as so-called trolls to encourage strife in the U.S. The evidence includes between 1.5 and 2 terabytes of data and involves U.S. residents not charged with crimes who the government says were unwittingly recruited by Russians to engage in political activity, prosecutors wrote. bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/mueller-seeks-order-protecting-evidence-in-russia-troll-case
It's called 'discovery', and they have every right to it.
Isaiah Hill
So like what leftist media has been doing the past 2+ years?
Leo Adams
Yup, they're on this site right now acting like noninterventionalists who are retarded enough to believe that Trump is an 11D thinker. Pretty soon the majority of Americans (at least in my southern Bible Belt neighborhood) are going to be so irate with Trump they'll be begging for boots on ground in Russia for meddling with our elections. That will be real soon. Russia should have put their weight behind DemSocc gang.
Carter Hernandez
You guys are just salty that the Ruskies betrayed daddy Marx and stopped being communists.
Jeremiah Martin
who was jewish
Jeremiah Campbell
your mom = jew ∴ (((you)))
Jason Flores
It is irrefutable fact that our election was interfered with by Russia. There has been an investigation since inauguration day into whether the current sitting president and members of his campaign willingly aided those efforts. That investigation has lead to charges against 20 entities, 5 guilty pleas, and put atleast 1 person in jail so far.
In the wake of all this, the majority of our representatives and the sitting president have not only refused to hand down any real punishment to Russia, but have actually praised Russian leaders and advocated to bolster Russia's standing at a geopolitical level.
Left, right, or center - this should absolutely trouble you if you care about the sanctity of American democracy. Don't feel like you are over-reacting.
Luis Martin
You stop searching for me. I expect nothing From You. We will soon forget about each other. hooktube.com/watch?v=Em1wDsyr_ko I will not cry about You.
Alexander Davis
You mean the same way the the US interferes with other countries elections and civil processes? And if that doesn't work the US bombs the shit out of them and installs an easily manipulated puppet. You're a real comedian user.
John Reyes
Nobody named in anything has been charged with anything related to spying, espionage, hacking, or helping the Russian government. Nobody has pled guilty to being a Russian agent. Why do you russophobes always obscure those facts and just lump it all in together?
Alexander Russell
and this is revelation? everyone is fucking meddling with everyone give it up
Mason Sullivan
Mueller shat himself when the 13 russians blamed for meddling appeared in court and asked all the due process and information about "russian meddling" Mueller tried to instantly push the trial 6 months, so midterm elections came first. The judge told him to get bent.
Thanks to Mueller, we'll know how america interferes, meddles and changes elections in other countries. And that is another step up the gallows for him and his treachery.
Jack Jones
America routinely inteferes in foreign elections and has the nerve to spread fake newsabout russia.
Yeah they never expected the Russians to defend themselves in cout. The last thing Mueller wanted was to give these guys a fair trial with all the evidence out in the open.
Gabriel Reyes
Hey mueller, why the long face?
Landon Richardson
REMINDER the specific criminal charge is related directly to the "hacking of emails" from the DNC. all other forms of "collusion" are mostly shitposting on social media. further information revealed that russians shilled for BLM, for hillary, for/against various other seemingly random political views. none of that is actually illegal collusion, even if trump personally paid them to do it.
the entire reason for the special council existing is to investigate the email leak. and to see whether trump had his hand in it.
theyre using this investigation to hopefully find out something else but have so far come up empty handed outside of a few financial "crimes" like tax inconsistencies, and unreported income, which the people plead guilty to and willingly paid what they owed since most of that seems to have been honest mistakes.
also, keep in mind that we all know how the dnc emails were leaked
Isaac Wright
you mean nobody except for those 13 russians?
Gabriel Anderson
I guess they just don't report anything on faux news about the mueller investigation, other than at the top of the hour scroll "witch hunt" across the screen.
Landon Jones
MUH RUSSIA
Christian James
no, not except them. they were not charged for any of those crimes. most of them arent being charged, and the few who are the crimes are minor. one of the guys was shilling for a bunch of liberal views.
Justin Morales
This.
Jackson Rivera
MUH RUSSIA share your evidence then oh, right. You have no evidence for anything
Wow it's fucking nothing. Some Russian nationals calling Shillary a cunt while praising Trump had sweet fuck all to do with Trump's victory, the Shill lost because nobody wanted to vote for her retarded ass and that doesn't change with or without "zomg teh evul russkies"
Michael Richardson
Correction: (((Leftist media))) with the ADL and AIPAC pulling the strings.