01-31-2019, 12:24 PM
(01-31-2019, 11:59 AM)Dill Wrote: Article in yesterday's WaPo: Mueller says discovery materials in case against Russian firm were used in a cyber-disinformation campaign.
This is about a current case against Internet Research Agency and Concord Management and Consulting, one of the St. Petersburg troll farms active during the 2016 election and indicted last February.
According to Mueller, "more than 1,000 nonsensitive files turned over to the defense team for an indicted Russian company were leaked by hackers in a cyber-disinformation campaign that appeared to be aimed at discretiting the government's investigations of 'Russian interference in the US political system.'"
Apparently, the information provided during discovery was also processed to appear as if the Special Counsel's database of files had been hacked and Mueller had no more evidence of Russian interference than provided through an online portal accessible through a Twitter account, "@HackingRedstone," and registered to a Russian IP. The disinformation was presented as the COMPLETE file of evidence against hackers and colluders, to convey the impression the inquiry itself was a "nothingburger," no "there there" as our Trump defenders and supporters like to say.
This would then fuel divisions within the US as right-wing media and Trump supporters ciruclated the disinformation as more proof the Russia investigation was a "witch hunt" and a conspiracy to deny legitimacy to the voter's choice.
Can it not be true that the Mueller investigation has no evidence of Russian collusion and that Russia attempted to aid Trump's campaign on their own?
