Posted on 06/23/2018 2:52:44 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
On February 16, 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained a federal indictment of 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian companies for conspiring to wage “information warfare” by “impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the United States by dishonest means in order to enable Defendants to interfere with U.S. political processes, including the 2016 presidential election.”
The media heralded the indictment as a major achievement by Team Mueller. But a few observers questioned whether Mueller truly expected any of the defendants to appear in a U.S. court to answer the charges. Others asked if the indictment was merely an empty public relations gesture by the special counsel’s office attempting to show that its investigation was producing solid results.
Against all expectations, in April 2018, lawyers for one of the Russian corporate defendants, Concord Management and Consulting, LLC (“Concord”), entered their appearances in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. They then served extensive discovery requests on Team Mueller seeking full disclosure of the government’s case and investigation including sensitive national security and intelligence information.
This type of discovery is called “graymail,” in which the government must disclose closely guarded state secrets in order to proceed with the prosecution. The alternative is to drop the charges.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
On the other hand, if they lose the discovery battle, they will be faced with a bitter choice. Either disclose the purported classified secrets and go to trial or protect the secrets by dropping the charges against Concord. Option A would result in a meaningless “victory.” Option B would be a major embarrassment and further proof that they are wasting their time and millions of our tax dollars trying to undo the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Either way, it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of thugs.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Little Bobby needs to go back to doing whatever the hell he was doing prior to becoming the number one pain in the ass to the American people.
What are the chances of them winning the discovery battle? Given how deep the swamp is, NOT ZERO. Although it should be thrown out with prejudice.
The defendant should sue for malicious prosecution. Mueller and his accomplices should be sanctioned for abuse of process by the Court and be disciplined by the Bar Associations they are members of. Up to and including suspension and disbarment.
They can either go to trial and disclose potentially sensitive information or drop the case and suffering the embarrassment of having filed a case for nothing.
A Hobson’s Choice. Either way, Mueller is screwed.
Who would ever “sue” Russia about chicken feed things like this, unless to prove some political point? These are treated as diplomatic and intelligence issues.
And now... yes. He’s getting greymailed.
Trump ought to can Mueller for this intelligence gaffe. Of course he was going to get greymailed and Putin is laughing his posterior off.
Option C, trials for every bass tig involved in this attempted coup, and send them to Yemen or Syria with revocation of US citizenship.
There is at least one minor good thing happening here. Previously, my “civilized” insult to libs was to label them as an Obamahole.
Now, I’ve got Muellerhole to use as a slightly less repulsive, but equally squalid and dishonest identifier.
The Concord grapes of wrath are being trodden?
It's too soon, though. That process will hinge heavily on the revelations that will surely come out about the FISA warrant abuse.
We’re also talking about a company that didn’t exist at the time of the indictment.
DOH
In order to fully take this opinion piece in - one must again watch the press conference announcing the indictments.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtML_OXHjBs&frags=pl%2Cwn
You can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.—Henry Ford
Who could possibly prove that they were damaged by this Russian company's actions? I don't think anyone could even prove they had standing.
Mueller has schlonged himself bigtime!
I loved this when it happened...there was no way they thought the company would should up in court, they thought they wouldn’t show, the Russians would be convicted, they would have a scalp on their belt to show they were battling Russian interference...and then, against all odds...
The Russians weren’t just coming...they came! Hehehe...when their representatives appeared in Washington and asked for discovery items, the Mueller douchebags said “Wait...what? Er...uh...no...uh...we request a delay...uh...No? Well, the summons didn’t get filed right! No? Eh...uh...”
Hehehehehe, dumb asses. Even if the Russians were just going to take the discovery items and sell them to the press for profit, I would be completely on board for that!
As far as I know, no one has claimed Trump’s win damaged them.
Where’s the harm?
Leave Mulehead alone, he is winning votes for the president
Thanks for that link to actual source information.
How do we know that the DoState, CIA, FIB and DoJusUs were not running Concord Management?
The winning! It’s overwhelming. I can’t take it anymore!!! lol
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