Posted on 07/13/2018 10:55:42 AM PDT by sickoflibs
A federal judge has approved a request to tightly control how evidence is shared with a Russian company accused of funding an Internet trolling operation to mislead American voters in the 2016 election.
The dispute over how to protect sensitive materials from disclosure had threatened to stall prosecution of the sole defendant to appear in court to face charges in the indictment of Russian entities under special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the District of Columbia said Friday that federal prosecutors gave “ample good cause” that identifying sources in the probe could tip off Russian intelligence and other foreign services to ongoing national security investigations and undermine efforts to protect future elections from similar interference.
Friedrich barred the U.S.-based attorneys for Concord Management and Consulting, which was indicted in February along with 13 Russian individuals and two other companies from sharing sensitive case materials from any foreign national without court approval.
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HOW do you justify this corrupt legal system? YOU ACCUSE and then make the “evidence” secret? Total political corruption
Does this mean the lawyers can't even share the material with their own client? How does that stand up under any legal scrutiny? LOL.
Time for people in Government to start being jailed for the is shameless total corruption
This has to be one of the most pointless court orders you'll ever see in a criminal case.
If the lawyers for Concord Management want to share this information with foreign nationals without violating this order, all they need to do is e-mail it to Hillary Clinton. :-P
SOP for Stalinists and Democrat Socialists and their cronies engaged in witch hunts.
Mueller doesn’t have any evidence. He never thought they would show up.
If there is any exculpatory evidence that will definitely be labeled secret.
This all for show. “See I did something, its not a scam.”
But if the ferriners being charged are illegal immigrants, they have a right to everything.
read License to Lie.
The Feds, as a matter of practice, do not share evidence, or the lack thereof, with the defense. And Fed judges allow them to do it.
I have no brief for the Russkis, but don’t count on the Feds to play fair. And remember, these are the guys who want a “living Constitution”, ie one that means whatever they decide at the moment it means.
I just get the feeling that Rosenstein put out this information because he’s worried that Part of Trumps talk with Putin will include passing information which clears Russia and ensnares Hillary. They’ve got nothing to lose.
The fix is in
When the hell does our side get a break?
You have a point. They need to stand in the middle of the room and say they are Guatemalan and scream “racist” and they will let them go with a promise to return someday for a court hearing and give them their housing vouchers and food stamps
Marxist Liberals and the MSM won’t mention this, ya think? Anyone wonder if Mueller et al. wants to investigate Obama’s meddling in Israel?
“...The Obama presidential election team has set up camp in Tel Aviv with the mission to defeat Netanyahu in our upcoming election.
The “Anyone but Bibi” mission is headed by Jeremy Bird, Obama’s National Field Director in his successful presidential campaigns.
Under Bird, a group called “Victory 15” has been set up. It has recruited the young activists from Israel’s 2013 social protest movement and will man a massive social network and personal contact campaign to defeat Bibi. V15 is financed by an NGO called “One Voice” whose motto is to be “the voice of mainstream Israelis and Palestinians.” Research finds that One Voice is funded by John Kerry’s State Department....”
Only if the American people allow it.
And then they'll be prosecuted without being able to defend themselves...
Bobby and his band of Clintoonista shysters got it made with bozos like Dabney on their side. “Evidence? We dough need no steenkin’ evidence.”
this doesn’t pass the smell test. Mueller’s “probe” is rotten to the core, he knows it, and so do most people. He’s just trying to prosecute or persecute people based solely on his word alone.
So defendant, we have all this evidence of your criminal activity, but our judge says you can’t see it.
How do I defend myself if I can’t see the evidence?
You can’t, plead to this...
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