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Old 07-13-2018, 01:47 PM
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An indictment from the office of special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday alleged that the defendants hacked email accounts of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign the same day President Donald Trump urged them to find emails that had been deleted from her personal accounts.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump...mueller-2018-7
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Old 07-13-2018, 01:50 PM
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President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, maintained a far more extensive relationship with drugmaker Novartis than previously disclosed — including pitching the company on an opportunity that would benefit a Russian-linked investment firm — according to a report issued Friday by Senate Democrats.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...is-ties-685804
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Old 07-14-2018, 11:17 AM
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Charges against Russian intelligence officers intensify spotlight on Trump adviser Roger Stone
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A federal indictment filed Friday accusing a dozen Russian military intelligence officers of conspiring to hack Democrats during the 2016 campaign spotlights communications between Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Trump, and an online persona allegedly operated by the Russians.

Stone has previously acknowledged exchanging direct messages on Twitter in August and September 2016 with Guccifer 2.0, who claimed to be a Romanian hacker. Stone has said there is no proof the account was connected to the Russians.

But according to criminal charges filed Friday by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, Guccifer 2.0 was actually operated by a group of Russian military intelligence officers based in Moscow. The Russians used Guccifer 2.0’s Twitter account to send multiple messages to “a person who was in regular contact with senior members” of Trump’s campaign, Mueller wrote in the indictment.

The messages quoted in court papers match exchanges that Stone had with the account, according to an image he posted on his personal website. A person familiar with the investigation also confirmed that the Trump campaign associate referred to in the indictment is Stone.
Time for Roger to get another tattoo.



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Old 07-14-2018, 03:13 PM
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US intelligence chief: 'The warning lights are blinking red again' on cyberattacks

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/14/polit...sia/index.html

Meanwhile, the idiot in chief still plans to meet his puppet master, after doing his bidding sowing discord among our NATO allies. Pootin really couldn’t have planned a better way to disrupt our democracy. Fools like Whell whistle Dixie (literally, the White Nationalist bastards), thinking the death of democracy is a good thing. Sigh.
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Old 07-16-2018, 02:30 PM
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Newsflash:

(WASHINGTON) — Federal authorities have arrested a Russian woman accused of conspiring to infiltrate American political organizations, including a gun-rights group, at the direction of a senior Kremlin official.

That’s according to court papers unsealed Monday in Washington. Maria Butina was arrested Sunday on a charge of conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of the Russian government.

Court papers say Butina worked on behalf of an unnamed Russian official to influence senior U.S. politicians and develop relationships with other political organizations between 2015 and 2017.

Prosecutors say the Russian official has since been sanctioned by the U.S.


http://time.com/5340200/maria-butina...organizations/

More to follow, I'm sure. I heard elsewhere that she had interacted with the NRA.
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Old 07-16-2018, 05:27 PM
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DNI Dan Coats stands up to the Traitor In Chief. Good for him, but he may need to resign to drive the point home.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/16/dan-...ver-putin.html
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President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead to announce new Russian election-hacking indictments before his meeting with Vladimir Putin rather than after -- in the hopes it would strengthen his hand in the talks, according to accounts from people familiar with the decision.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein went to Trump last week and offered him the choice: before or after the Putin summit on Monday in Helsinki? Trump chose before, ultimately putting the issue into the spotlight just 72 hours before the high-stakes meeting, the people said.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ed-in-election

So much for the notion that the "Deep State" announced the indictments on Friday in order to embarrass the Lying Dotard.
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Old 07-17-2018, 08:58 PM
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President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead to announce new Russian election-hacking indictments before his meeting with Vladimir Putin rather than after -- in the hopes it would strengthen his hand in the talks, according to accounts from people familiar with the decision.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein went to Trump last week and offered him the choice: before or after the Putin summit on Monday in Helsinki? Trump chose before, ultimately putting the issue into the spotlight just 72 hours before the high-stakes meeting, the people said.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ed-in-election

So much for the notion that the "Deep State" announced the indictments on Friday in order to embarrass the Lying Dotard.
Problem is, who on the Republican side of the equation would believe it?
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Old 07-18-2018, 06:56 AM
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Trump’s Crisis of Legitimacy

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...timate/565451/

There’s a reason we have two different words for legality and legitimacy. Each new wave of information about Russia’s targeted assistance to Trump—and the Trump campaign’s acceptance of that assistance—subtracts from this presidency’s quantum of that second, higher quality. His supporters may not care. But legitimacy is important precisely because it shapes the behavior and beliefs of non-supporters. And in Trump’s case, those non-supporters are the large majority of the American population.
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What I think was going on at Trump Tower.

1. Russians invite Trump campaign to meeting with promise of illegal aid against Hillary.
2. Trump's people accept. But no aid is offered, because the Russians fear a sting, and the meeting is a test.
3. Trump's people pass test. More covert cooperation ensues.
Consistent with above is this bit from current Atlantic article.

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Former spies told me last year that the meeting looked like a textbook intelligence operation aimed at gauging the Trump campaign’s interest in colluding with Moscow to undermine Clinton in exchange for lifting sanctions—a priority for Russia that former National-Security Adviser Michael Flynn discussed with former Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak in December 2016.
Main point of article is Putin's telling press conference reference to matters connected to the Trump Tower meeting.
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