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Russian journalist who helped uncover election interference is confounded by the indictments
https://www.washingtonpost.com ^ | February 18 2018 | Adam Taylor

Posted on 02/18/2018 5:08:07 PM PST by Enterprise

"The other staff mentioned are very incidental. I mean, it seems like they put down all the names they could get. Some were people who worked there in 2014 — but most of these guys didn’t work for the troll factory for a long time. They didn’t even work there during the elections."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: bots; factory; investigation; mueller; troll; vote
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I hope I got the essence of this article, but FReeper comments and evaluations would be most helpful. If I understood this correctly, there may have been people who were indicted who weren't even working during the elections. Apologies if I misunderstood it.
1 posted on 02/18/2018 5:08:07 PM PST by Enterprise
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Full Title: The Russian journalist who helped uncover election interference is confounded by the Mueller indictments


2 posted on 02/18/2018 5:08:48 PM PST by Enterprise
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Also: “Also, everyone has focused on the pro-Trump groups. What we saw was that they were trying to spread tension in the society, talking about problems people had with black people, Islam and so on. They organized anti-Trump rallies also. Yes, they were active against Hillary [Clinton], but they were not always pro-Trump. They were also active after the election. The story about the Black Fist movement — fake movement self-defense classes for black people — they started this story in 2017, after Trump was elected.”


3 posted on 02/18/2018 5:12:07 PM PST by Enterprise
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Mueller is really destroying himself.

Folks will look back and realize what a misguided evil buffoon he was.

The guy, as a close friend of Comey, cannot be seen as an unbiased individual.

He’s dirty, simply for taking the job knowing his own bias.


4 posted on 02/18/2018 5:12:39 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Enterprise

If that’s true, Mueller must resign.

LOL


5 posted on 02/18/2018 5:12:49 PM PST by savedbygrace
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All I have to know about Mueller is he was The FBI Director during the IRS Targeting of Conservatives & nothing happened!

If he was this motivated with Lois Lerner like he is with TRUMP then I would've given him a pass!

6 posted on 02/18/2018 5:16:47 PM PST by KavMan
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The only thing I can gather from mueller’s actions on the Russians...
1. to do something/anything
2. ???
3. ????

The thing about these elitists who have been trying to find anything on Trump that solidifies their beliefs that Trump could NOT be elected by votes... that he had to steal it. That’s how out touch they are with the country out here.. If they had a true pulse of the way we all feel out here, they’d know why and how Trump was elected by a public who are thoroughly fed up with them in Washington... and found a true conservative in Trump...

YES Trump won the election .. and you all keep it up and he’s guaranteed another 4 years.. by a landslide.


7 posted on 02/18/2018 5:19:32 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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From what I’ve read these seem like very small crimes with pretty shaky evidence. If Mueller actually got them to trial I would expect a lot of Not Guilty verdicts, and then the Guilty verdicts would perhaps justify only a damn good spanking.


8 posted on 02/18/2018 5:27:57 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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Stupidest investigation ever.


9 posted on 02/18/2018 5:45:59 PM PST by samtheman (Sessions is a criminal avoiding prosecution by occupying the AG office.)
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“If Mueller actually got them to trial”

I read yesterday, I don’t remember where, that Mueller strategically got indictments for people he knew would never get to trial. That would not be good for him.


10 posted on 02/18/2018 5:51:11 PM PST by suthener
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The stupidity isn’t over yet.


11 posted on 02/18/2018 5:51:59 PM PST by Enterprise
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From the article:

And for conservative people here, they see that Americans have CNN, Radio Free Europe, etc., that cover Russia. They say, “Why can’t we establish groups in America and have our own influence?” That's how conservative people think here. They think this was normal.

Well he's not wrong. They get to blast leftist ideology 24/7.

12 posted on 02/18/2018 5:53:04 PM PST by DouglasKC
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I’m just surprised this in the Washington Post.


13 posted on 02/18/2018 5:54:38 PM PST by DouglasKC
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And this:

"A lot of Russian conservatives were proud. They said: “Look at what Russians can do! Only 90 people with $2 million made America scared! We are strong!”

14 posted on 02/18/2018 5:55:28 PM PST by Enterprise
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I was too. At first I thought it was going to be an obscure site.


15 posted on 02/18/2018 5:56:07 PM PST by Enterprise
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Honeypot trap Mueller fell for.


16 posted on 02/18/2018 6:03:35 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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I hope that turns out to be the case.


17 posted on 02/18/2018 6:07:30 PM PST by Enterprise
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To: frnewsjunkie

The missing element is the desire of the Obama/Clinton/IC cabal to destroy any sort of “détente” with the Russians. They desperately want to provoke Putin into a cycle of negative measures to put our countries at the daggers drawn (note the crap that Obama threw up in the last days of his term; the left was furious with Flynn for tamping down the Russian reaction they had hoped for).

Now who benefits from that? Sanctions benefit cheaters, smugglers, arms contractors, security contractors, lobbyists, influence-peddlers, and IC bureaucrats. US-Russian division benefits China, which pays well.


18 posted on 02/18/2018 6:13:49 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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Got on my troll phone to the Mueller troll investigation tipline...

19 posted on 02/18/2018 6:22:27 PM PST by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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The indictment itself is almost laughable. Holding up a birthday sign, posting on Twitter and Instagram. Creating a facebook account, adding friends and posting. Really? this is it?


20 posted on 02/18/2018 9:30:49 PM PST by baltoga
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