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Originally Posted by finnbow
I guess you're not smart enough to understand the reports written on this subject. The Russian government prevented the defendants from being served with court summons on this case, yet wants to use discovery to get a better understanding of how the intelligence community discovered their complicity (i.e., they have no intention of showing up for trial, but want to find out how to better hide their tracks on future computer crimes) and/or to see if the government will drop the case in order to protect intelligence information.
So, yes you are supporting the Russians in their efforts to either have sensitive intelligence without showing up to trial or to have the charges dismissed because of the governments refusal to do so.
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LOL. You're either gullible as hell, or two stupid to put 2 and 2 together on your own. Mueller indicted the Russian firms anticipating that they'd never show up. He bet
wrong. So, Mueller created this issue when he issued the original indictment.
The 13 people charged in the high-profile indictment in February are considered unlikely to ever appear in a U.S. court. The three businesses accused of facilitating the alleged Russian troll farm operation — the Internet Research Agency, Concord Management, and Concord Catering — were also expected to simply ignore the American criminal proceedings.
Then, to compound the impact of his failed bet, he potentially aggravated the judge by requesting a delay based on improper service, when the defense had already presented themselves to the court and demanded their rights - in response to the indictments - to start the process of discovery.
So, you can be pissed off all you want about putting sources and methods at risk. However, the correct place to vent your anger is Mueller for deploying a defective strategy.
But yes, now that the strategy implemented by Mueller is in play, the defendants absolutely have a right to a timely execution of the legal process that Mueller initiated. And it's hardly unpatriotic to point out that Mueller screwed up and that the defendants have rights.