U.S. judge rejects move to dismiss Mueller indictment against Russian firm

[GhostofDempsey]

Democrats are sweating gravy that Whitaker might cut Mueller's budget to bring this investigation to a conclusion. Any sane individual would question why it is dragging out two years and has gone way off course. We have an open-ended investigation costing tax-payers millions, and it's been a witch hunt, turning up unrelated charges on things that happened years prior to election. At this point, Mueller is grasping at straws, trying to have something to show for this fiasco. When it is all said and done Democrats will cut his puppet strings and he'll be left holding his d!ck in his hands.

[1bad65]

Did I specifically call you out in the first place?


Thou doth protest too much!

You quoted me.

Now quit playing Gotcha! and address only what I said.

If you can.

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You quoted me.

Now quit playing Gotcha! and address only what I said.

If you can.

I was adding to your point. It will be interesting to see what Muller has in his hand, it looks like many people want see him fold before the flop.

[1bad65]

I was adding to your point. It will be interesting to see what Muller has in his hand, it looks like many people want see him fold before the flop.

But again, Mueller was already asked to show his hand, via discovery, but he declined and stalled for time.

I'm dying to see his hand, but Mueller declined to play it. Try and keep up here, please

Now, feel free to tell us why he failed to play his hand, in a court of law btw, but instead stalled.

I'm all ears...

[PulpFriction]

........and interesting to see why so many patriotic Americans are passionate about defending a Russian company and their associates

Fixed it for you

[Motorcity Cobra]

........and interesting to see why so many patriotic Americans are passionate about defending a Russian company and their associates with ties to the president.

Crazy huh?



These are the same folks who love calling everyone else unpatriotic

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But again, Mueller was already asked to show his hand, via discovery, but he declined and stalled for time.

I'm dying to see his hand, but Mueller declined to play it. Try and keep up here, please

Now, feel free to tell us why he failed to play his hand, in a court of law btw, but instead stalled.

I'm all ears...

Mueller knows what type of people he is dealing with, do you think these type of people are going to play by the rules?






Mueller wants judge to lock down documents shared with Russian company

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Updated 0016 GMT (0816 HKT) June 13, 2018



CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's office is asking federal Judge Dabney Friedrich for an order that would lock down documents shared with the Russian company Concord Management and Consulting, because of the potential for the information to be shared with foreign nationals and intelligence officials still working to sow discord in the US.Prosecutors must turn over millions of pieces of data to the alleged Russian troll farm-backer in the coming months because the company has pleaded not guilty to a conspiracy charge Mueller filed in February and is preparing for a trial.

"Public or unauthorized disclosure of this case's discovery would result in the release of information that would assist foreign intelligence services, particularly those of the Russian Federation, and other foreign actors in future operations against the United States," prosecutors wrote in the court request Tuesday.


Protective orders on discovery as cases progress to trial are fairly typical -- especially in high-profile cases like this one, which arose out of Mueller's investigation into Russian influence during the 2016 US election. But Concord's and Mueller's teams haven't agreed on the terms of the protective order.


Prosecutors want to bar Concord's team from sharing the documents with 13 Russian co-defendants and two Russian companies that allegedly conspired to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media. Prosecutors also seek restrictions on sharing the data with other foreigners, such as lawyers outside the US.



If shared too widely, the prosecutors warn, the data could help foreign intelligence services and tip off people and groups that "continue to engage in interference operations like those charges in the present indictment."


If the data were to be physically sent outside of US law offices, "foreign individuals may try [to] use that avenue as a way to obtain sensitive materials as part of an intelligence collection effort," the prosecutors added.


They're particularly concerned about the information that could be shared with Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russia-based oligarch known as "Putin's chef," before he appears in the US court. Prigozhin is charged as a co-defendant in the case and also faces financial sanctions in the US but -- like 12 others named in the indictment and two companies, the Internet Research Agency and Concord Catering -- he is still technically a fugitive in the case. Because he is thought to be in Russia, Prigozhin may never face the charges in court here.


In the filing Tuesday, Mueller's team alludes to the steps it took to bring the troll farm charges, and that investigators have used cooperating witnesses to build the case.
They've uncovered "techniques used by foreign parties to mask their true iden****** while conducting operations online; the relationships of charged and uncharged parties to other uncharged foreign en****** and governments" and the iden****** of others who have not been charged with a crime.
Among the two terabytes of information they've collected in the case are thousands of documents that reveal the personal details of US citizens whose iden****** were allegedly stolen to open fake bank accounts, and other US citizens who were "unwittingly recruited" by the propagandists to attend Russian-organized political rallies in the US.
"If statements of these individuals were indiscriminately released, the result would be unnecessary embarrassment to these individuals who believed they were communicating about US political activities with other US persons," prosecutors wrote.


In all, prosecutors seek a court order barring the sharing of case documents outside of Concord Management, witnesses and their attorneys. They've also suggested the use of a "firewall" federal attorney as an intermediary during the discovery process.


https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/12/p...nts/index.html

[Tomjas]

Democrats are sweating gravy that Whitaker might cut Mueller's budget to bring this investigation to a conclusion. Any sane individual would question why it is dragging out two years and has gone way off course. We have an open-ended investigation costing tax-payers millions, and it's been a witch hunt, turning up unrelated charges on things that happened years prior to election. At this point, Mueller is grasping at straws, trying to have something to show for this fiasco. When it is all said and done Democrats will cut his puppet strings and he'll be left holding his d!ck in his hands.

The cost of the Mueller investigation has been paid for by the property confiscated from Manafort

[GhostofDempsey]

The cost of the Mueller investigation has been paid for by the property confiscated from Manafort

That’s not how it works.

[1bad65]

Mueller knows what type of people he is dealing with, do you think these type of people are going to play by the rules?

Non sequitur

The rest of it is you confirming what I said is correct, Mueller is indeed stalling for time and fighting against discovery. Much appreciated, though it was unnecessary.

Now that begs the question, why in the world would an experienced prosecutor like Mueller file charges when he himself knew he couldnt comply with discovery if the people he charged showed up in court and plead Not Guilty?

Hmm........