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Disinformation campaign targeting Roy Moore’s Senate bid may have violated law, Alabama AG says
AL.com (Alabama) ^ | 27 Dec 2108 | Craig Timberg and Tony Romm

Posted on 12/27/2018 2:17:25 PM PST by ptsal

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Thursday that his office is exploring whether disinformation tactics deployed against Republican Roy Moore during last year's special election violated state campaign laws and said he was worried that the operation could have affected the closely fought Senate race.

"The information is concerning," Marshall, a Republican, said in a phone interview. "The impact it had on the election is something that's significant for us to explore, and we'll go from there."

Moore lost the election to his Democratic rival, Sen. Doug Jones.

Marshall, who said he learned of the disinformation campaign called Project Birmingham through news reports over the past two weeks, stopped short of announcing a formal investigation but said his office was beginning to gather information about the effort.

"We're planning to explore the issue further," Marshall said.

Internet billionaire Reid Hoffman apologized on Wednesday for giving $750,000 to a group, American Engagement Technologies, that allegedly had ties to an effort to undermine support for Moore and bolster Jones. The new senator has called for a federal investigation into Project Birmingham.

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To: Blue Highway
Marshall, who said he learned of the disinformation campaign called Project Birmingham through news reports over the past two weeks, stopped short of announcing a formal investigation but said his office was beginning to gather information about the effort.

A year later, and he's beginning to gather information. A regular Speedy Gonzales.

21 posted on 12/27/2018 3:01:38 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: ptsal

The democrats will not care about this because it was against a Republican candidate. Instead they continue with the Mueller probe against a Republican.


22 posted on 12/27/2018 3:02:57 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (I)
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To: ptsal

Al.com has comments that during the election were flooded with left wing troll comments that seem obviously paid for as well as the usual activists and normal people. I looked at them for this story and they did not disappoint - imagine separate convention of clowns, construction workers and political activists are accidentally booked at the same time/venue when suddenly a riot breaks out! The comments are rapidly increasing at this time.


23 posted on 12/27/2018 3:04:28 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Excuse my double post to you. Watching Football and not
paying attention to what I’m doing here. Take care.


24 posted on 12/27/2018 3:07:50 PM PST by deport
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To: ptsal

Since this was a senate post the DOJ should get involved


25 posted on 12/27/2018 3:12:28 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ptsal

Not a good candidate IMO but he deserves a fair shake. Bring in the lawyers!


26 posted on 12/27/2018 3:23:53 PM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: Responsibility2nd
He ran a poor campaign.

Hard to run a good campaign when you have the media scream machine hammering you as a child molesting rapist every day, 24-7.

Really didn't need a good campaign in Alabama. Any Republican would win. That is, they would win if they weren't back stabbed by the party.

Moore almost pulled it off, till that stupid bitch Richard Shelby got on television and urged everyone to not vote for Moore.

27 posted on 12/27/2018 4:20:55 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: gov_bean_ counter
How good of a campaign does one need to win as a Republican in Alabama?
28 posted on 12/27/2018 4:21:51 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Regardless of any other consideration, it is a fact that Moore would have been a solid vote for Trump and his agenda, and the UniParty just couldn’t have that!


29 posted on 12/27/2018 4:24:32 PM PST by myerson
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To: deport
And here someone brings up that bone head stupid claim. They don't seem to be able to grasp that everything was in stone by the time that game came up. He had already won or lost it by that point, and you probably couldn't have found four people who's mind you could change.

No, the f***ing game didn't have a D@mn thing to do with it. @$$hole Republicans stabbing him in the back is what cost us that Senate seat.

The media "Kavanaughed" him, and pansy bitches on our side joined their lynch mob.

30 posted on 12/27/2018 4:25:42 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ptsal

>>Internet billionaire Reid Hoffman apologized on Wednesday for giving $750,000 to a group,

Is that like when Communist China was sorry for illegally giving campaign cash directly to Clinton-Gore in 1996?

As Harry Reid says, “it worked, didn’t it?”


31 posted on 12/27/2018 4:27:07 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: boop
True, but what are you going to do when the GOP basically cuts you off at the knees?

Were any of the accusations true?

My guess is no, but it didn't look so hot. But don't forget what JUST happened to Kavanaugh a couple of weeks ago.

It turns out that EVERYONE on the left was lying about that man.

And those floating turds are still walking around free, and even being celebrated.

Some people are just slow on the uptake. I recognized they were "Kavanaughing" Moore before they ever did it to Kavanaugh.

Moore lost because our party's officials deliberately stabbed him in the back because they were a bunch of pansy bitches who are frightened of the Media-attack-weapon.

Everyone of them should have said "It's up to the people of Alabama to decide." If they wanted to add anything, it should have been "I don't believe those lying bitches either."

32 posted on 12/27/2018 4:29:54 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Blue Highway

>>How about they jail someone this time. Then have a run off election to let Roy Moore have a second chance.

One more vote in the Senate would’ve cut off Flakey Flake’s power.


33 posted on 12/27/2018 4:30:10 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: myerson
Regardless of any other consideration, it is a fact that Moore would have been a solid vote for Trump and his agenda, and the UniParty just couldn’t have that!

That's why their broadcast weapon went to full warpower. That's why they dragged up those crazy bitch liars and gave them full media coverage while ignoring discrepancies in their narratives, and demonstrable forgery.

I've noticed both parties in Washington DC tend to cooperate to destroy any reform candidates. They want to keep the Washington DC money spending party going at all costs.

34 posted on 12/27/2018 4:32:32 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ptsal

By the way where are these women who accused Moore of sexual abuse today?

I thought they clamor for justice?


35 posted on 12/27/2018 4:34:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: DiogenesLamp

No, the f***ing game didn’t have a D@mn thing to do with it.

*************

Maybe not but for sure we’ll never know. He lost by a little
over 12,000 votes and gave up the last days.

Had Moore spent the last 10 days of the campaign with his
trailer hooked up to his truck and him and his wife travel
around Alabama visiting the small towns he may have pulled
it out.

He and his wife could have spent 12-15 hours a day pulling
into small towns, unloading his horses and riding around
main street visiting with the locals one on one. After an
hour or so in this little town move 15-20 miles down the road
and do it again. Repeat day after day sun up to after dark
but he chose to not put out the effort.


36 posted on 12/27/2018 4:51:11 PM PST by deport
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To: DiogenesLamp

It helps to defend yourself when you are accused of being a creeper. It helps even more to not act like a creeper.


37 posted on 12/27/2018 4:54:40 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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To: ptsal

Leftists are horrible and project onto others exactly what they do.

JoMa


38 posted on 12/27/2018 5:03:06 PM PST by joma89
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To: Chgogal

Expecting an Alabamian to find out he has been “had” may be most difficult to achieve.


39 posted on 12/27/2018 5:41:09 PM PST by Theodore R.
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