[Daily Beast] Evidence that was reportedly shared only with lawyers representing Russia’s Internet Research Agency was altered in a bid to "discredit the investigation," Mueller warns.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s case against Russian trolls accused of sowing disinformation to sway the 2016 election has itself fallen victim to what appears to be yet another Russian disinformation campaign, with troves of evidence altered, padded with garbage, and leaked to the Internet, according to a new court filing.
Mueller described the disinformation op in a court filing on Wednesday as "an apparent effort to discredit the investigation," an effort he traced back to evidence shared with a Russian company owned by none other than Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Kremlin ally known as "Putin’s chef" and the reputed puppetmaster of both Russian trolls and Russian mercenaries.
The company, Concord Management and Consulting, is accused of funding the Internet Research Agency troll farm, and as part of Mueller’s case against it, prosecutors had turned over about 800 thousand pages of non-sensitive evidence to Concord attorneys as part of the legal discovery process. Under a protective order, the discovery material is supposed to be used exclusively for preparing a defense.
But traces of that cache showed up in a hoax attempt that targeted journalists last year.
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Of course, if our crack team of prosecutors doesn't indict Concord (why did they do that again?), the Brady disclosure rule doesn't kick in and Concord doesn't have anything to share with the world. Second-order effects are a bitch. Assuming, of course, that Concord is the source of the info and not someone inside the prosecution.
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[PHILLY] Federal authorities will announce criminal charges Wednesday against powerful labor leader John J. Dougherty, Philadelphia City Councilman Bobby Henon, and at least six others associated with their union, Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, according to three sources familiar with the investigation.
The specific charges ‐ and the total number of people facing prosecution ‐ remained unclear. But the sources, who were briefed on the results of the probe but not authorized to publicly discuss it, said Tuesday night that all those facing indictment are expected to surrender to authorities within days.
Nonetheless, the case against them threatens to destabilize not only the leadership of one of the region’s most politically influential unions but also the futures of dozens of Local 98 allies in elected office and the landscape of organized labor in one of the last American cities in which unions remain a powerful force.
In his 25 years at the helm of Local 98, Dougherty has built the 4,700-member organization into a potent political force, placing numerous allies ‐ mostly Democrats ‐ in elected and appointed municipal positions and developing it into the biggest independent source of campaign money in the state. The union was a crucial supporter of Mayor Jim Kenney’s 2015 bid for the city’s highest office.
Kenney, who appeared Wednesday morning at John F. Hartranft Elementary school in North Philadelphia for a celebration of city schools' achievements, said he could not comment on an indictment he had not read. Kenney said that no one in his administration was implicated in the forthcoming indictments.
Kenney stressed that he had been in contact with the U.S. Attorney’s office and that neither he nor anyone in his administration will be indicted. When asked if Henon should resign, the mayor said: "Bobby Henon should make the decision based on what’s best for his constituents."
Lawyers for both Dougherty, 58, and Henon, 50, declined to comment Tuesday. In a statement, Henon’s office said he had no plans to resign.
"He is confident that his colleagues will respect any possible upcoming legal process and support him," the statement read. "Councilman Henon is a dedicated public servant and will continue to serve as councilman."
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Well, the gubbamint shouldn't get all the graft.
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Senator Paul (R-KY) claimed he feared for his life after Rene Boucher
...the Trump-hating Bernie Bro Democrat and retired anesthesiologist who bitterly blamed Senator Paul because his over-priced house had not sold in ten years of trying...
slammed into him and broke several of his ribs as he was doing yard work outside his Kentucky home ...actually, he cracked or broke six ribs, which also caused a dangerous pleural effusion and kept Senator Paul from the senate for quite some time, no doubt impacting quite a few votes.
Boucher said he 'wasn't thinking rationally' when he lunged at Paul but he plans to appeal the judgement
He attacked Paul after he 'lost his temper' over yard debris on property line
Boucher pleaded guilty to assaulting a member of Congress and has already served 30 days in jail
Portland Mayor condemns police in 5...4...
[TheTruthAboutGuns] IEDs Found At Eugene, OR Police Headquarters After Shooting
The Eugene, OR police department found explosive devices planted outside their headquarters building Monday. That followed the release of police body cam video showing the death of a local Antifa member. Charlie Landeros drew a gun on officers attempting to arrest him at his daughter’s middle school and they shot him to death.
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Add to this the DC arrest and the ongoing demaskantifa campaign - it's been a very bad week for the young commies
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[NewsMax] Russian Twitter account published documents from one of the cases special counsel Robert Mueller has filed in an effort to spread disinformation, according to a new report.
CNN said Wednesday that the Twitter handle @HackingRedstone, which has since been suspended by the social media network, posted documents pertaining to Mueller's criminal case against Concord Management and Consulting in October. The sensitive material had been shared with attorneys but had not been made public. CNN surely was not tipped off by Mueller. They must have observed unusual activity at the Kremlin.
It can’t possibly be disinformation if they are real, sensitive documents, right?
Mueller's prosecutors said the documents were not stolen in a hack, but rather someone with access handed them off for public dissemination.
The Department of Justice filed a court document Wednesday about the matter.
According to Wednesday's court filing, the FBI concluded that a computer in Russia was responsible for uploading the case documents. A very slipshod, rogue operation. Maverick would have seen that the package was successfully delivered to the correct recipients.
This message appeared on the Twitter account @HackingRedstone on Oct. 22, 2018: "We've got access to the Special Counsel Mueller's probe database as we hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case Concord LLC v. Mueller. You can view all the files Mueller had about the IRA and Russian collusion. Enjoy the reading!"
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I knew it! Mueller is colluding with the Russians!!!
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A Russian Twitter account published documents from one of the cases special counsel Robert Mueller has filed in an effort to spread disinformation, according to a new report.
The Russians or Mueller was spreading disinformation? The way it reads makes it difficult to determine.
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According to Wednesday's court filing, the FBI concluded that a computer in Russia was responsible for uploading the case documents.
Does the technical illiterate that penned that phrase understand how meaningless that is in the Internet Age? All it needs is a spoofed IP address and/or a computer in Russia that was hacked to appear to be the source for something sent from some secret evil lair elsewhere on the planet.
...Or the writer knew it was "Fake, but Accurate" and needed it to fit the narrative.
[The Hill] Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R.) said during an interview Tuesday that he had no plans to run for office again but wouldn't definitively rule it out.
In a rare appearance by a pro-Donald Trump voice on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," Christie bristled at the idea of taking himself out of contention for anything at age 56. Host Nicolle Wallace noted the name of his new book, Let Me Finish, and asked if he was going to run again, without specifying an office.
"I don't have any plans to," he said. Christie 'running' for anything is probably not an option.
"Oh, that's how it always starts!" Wallace said.
Christie said it was a no-win question, saying if he said no and circumstances arose that made him change his mind, they would play the tape of him denying it.
"I'm 56 years old, so I'm not going to preclude myself from doing anything in the future," he said. Would you restrict road and bridge access if voters did not agree with you? We're not taking anything off the table.
Christie said "I love the executive branch" and would choose to be there, whether it was in an elected or appointed position. He ruled out running for Congress, saying he could never be "1 of 100" or "1 of 435," referring to the number of seats in the Senate and House of Representatives. Gov't Christie doesn't stand a chance.
Christie often spoke scathingly of Congress and the Senate Republicans running for the presidency when he made his bid in 2016. He dropped out of the GOP presidential race after dismal finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire. He endorsed Trump in February of 2016, despite previously saying the eventual Republican nominee wasn't qualified, and became one of his main surrogates against Hillary Clinton.
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He ruled out running for Congress, saying he could never be "1 of 100" or "1 of 435," referring to the number of seats in the Senate and House of Representatives.
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"I love the executive branch even more than I love donuts and cheese steaks."
Would you restrict road and bridge access if voters did not agree with you? We're not taking anything off the table.
Heh, "taking things off the table".
If I remember that story correctly, it was some underlings taking matters into their own hands. However, company culture flows from the top down...
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Why did I think of Mythbuster Episode #96: Lead Balloon? Except their project actually floated in a perfectly controlled interior space... Christie would deflate and crash in the open.
Good for Lindsay V2.0! Intimidation and PR Totally! At least they didn't kill anyone
[Daily Caller] Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is requesting an FBI briefing about the circumstances of a pre-dawn raid of Trump confidant Roger Stone's home in Florida last Friday.
"I am concerned about the manner in which the arrest was effectuated, especially the number of agents involved, the tactics employed, the timing of the arrest, and whether the FBI released details of the arrest and the indictment to the press prior to providing this information to Mr. Stone's attorneys," Graham, a South Carolina Republican, wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday.
Graham is requesting a briefing from the FBI by Feb. 5 into the raid, which he asserted matched the tactics typically used to arrest a violent criminal. (RELATED: Roger Stone Indicted)
He is also demanding to know whether the press was tipped off about Stone's impending arrest. CNN cameras were rolling as a swarm of armed FBI agents and U.S. marshals stormed Stone's property shortly before dawn on Jan. 25.
Stone was indicted under seal on Jan. 24 in the special counsel's investigation.
He is charged with five count of making false statements to Congress, one count of witness tampering and one count of obstructing an official proceeding.
The charges center mostly on Stone's conversations with associates and Trump campaign officials about WikiLeaks, which published emails stolen from Democrats during the 2016 campaign.
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Good luck in getting the FBI to disclose anything. I'm beginning to lose respect for the FBI.
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I beat the rush and lost all respect for the FBI about the time that the illustrative photo was taken. And I was supportive of the FBI for a long time.
They, and others, have become the thuggish Praetorian Guard of the deep state. Don't know how but it needs to be burned down and built up from square one.
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Federal deputize the Texas Rangers and give them FULL authority to investigate the FBI. Anyone resisting will arrested and wait out the investigation in a glass jar in Houston. Any politician who complains will be investigated and 'accidently' left in a glass jar.
[MAIL] Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has appeared in an interview with Stephen Colbert, downing shots of tequila as he boasted he'd have made a better president than Trump.
Christie appeared on Colbert's Late Show on Tuesday night, promoting his new book Let Me Finish, which details the backstabbing that led to his ejection from Trump's transition team.
After dropping out of the Republican presidential primary, Christie was the first major figure to endorse Trump's candidacy - but asked by Colbert if he'd have made a better president, the former governor replied simply: 'Yes.'
Colbert pressed Christie on his friendship with and support for Trump, saying, 'he'll throw anybody under the bus.'
'You think I don't know?' Christie replied to laughter from the audience. 'I got fired from the transition.'
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'Imade a decision at the time that he was going to win the nomination after I dropped out, and that I preferred him to Hillary Clinton,' Christie said.
'And that's why I made the decision. It wasn't a whole lot more complicated than that. And I still agree with what his policies are, more than I agree with Hillary Clinton's.'
Well, that pretty much summed up my sentiments. Since then, the Dims and the media have hugely proved the point.
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I was watching a Film Noir a while back, don't remember the name but a line very well.
They were on a train, of course, and a larger fellow and another character were attempting a narrow aisle passage.
The larger gentleman, in conversation, says, "Nobody like a fat man except his grocer and his tailor."
I am familiar with the fanbase of colbert. The gag isn't his Trump stories, Christie is the gag and more so because he thinks he is entertaining.
[Breitbart] Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Wednesday that a bill introduced in the House of Delegates that would allow "abortion" even during childbirth itself would permit an "infant" to be "delivered" and "resuscitated, if that’s what the mother and the family desired," until the physicians and mother discuss what to do.
Northam, a Democrat, was elected governor of Virginia in 2018. He is a pediatric neurologist.
In an interview with WTOP-FM on Wednesday, he said the firestorm created by a bill introduced in the Virginia House of Delegates that would allow "abortions" even while the mother is dilating "was really blown out of proportion."
"When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of obviously the mother, with the consent of the physician‐more than one physician, by the way‐and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities," Northam said. "There may be a fetus that’s non-viable."
Northam’s response, however, is inconsistent with the actual language of the legislation. HB 2491 specifically eliminates the requirement of more than one physician’s "consent":
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Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), told Breitbart News such legislation is “undeniably infanticide.”
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Lots of entertainment biz and politician money tied up in VA horse country real estate. I wonder if the plan is to create somewhere for those landowners to send daughters and girlfriends to sort out "personal problems..."
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Ghoulish and barbaric. This man is a disgrace to the medical profession and the people of Virginia should be against what he showed himself to believe.
Video of the unpleasant little miscreant can be seen at the link.
[DailyCaller] Washington, D.C. Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... leader Joseph "Jose" Alcoff, also known as "Chepe," was enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and charged with multiple felonies in Philadelphia on Jan. 10 in connection to the Antifa mob attack against two Marines in November.
Alcoff faces 17 charges, including multiple counts of aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation, conspiracy and terroristic threats, and one count of robbery while inflicting serious bodily injury.
An affidavit filed in the case reveals that The Daily Caller News Foundation’s reporting on Alcoff’s connection to violent Antifa groups was an integral factor leading to his arrest.
The Marines, Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, testified in December that a group of 10 to 12 Antifa members called them "Nazis" and "white supremacists" and attacked them on the street despite their denials that they had no association with the right-wing group demonstrating nearby.
During the attack, Godinez said he shouted "I’m Mexican" at the mob, which allegedly led the attackers to call him a "spic" and "wetback."
Thomas Keenan and Thomas Massey were arrested in November in connection to the beating. Keenan, who has been called a "leader" of the Antifa contingent in the Philadelphia area, was arrested and charged with rioting alongside Alcoff in New Jersey in 2011.
Torres notified detectives in Philadelphia that Alcoff was a member of the group that attacked him after reading TheDCNF’s reporting detailing Alcoff’s connection to Keenan, Philadelphia Magazine reported, citing an affidavit filed in Alcoff’s case.
Torres provided police pictures of the suspects at the time of the attack, leading Sherlocks to "strongly agree" that Alcoff was the person in his photos, the affidavit states.
Alcoff is an organizer of Smash Racism DC, the Antifa group responsible for mobbing Fox News host and DCNF co-founder Tucker Carlson’s house in November and for chasing Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz from a D.C. restaurant in September.
Alcoff made significant efforts to separate his true identity from his fanatical personas, "Chepe" and "Jose Martin," TheDCNF reported in December.
Alcoff pled not guilty to the charges and is currently out on $15,000 bail. His lawyer did not immediately return a comment.
Joseph "Jose" Alcoff has been out of a job working for progressive nonprofit Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) since December, his former employer told The Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday.
Alcoff was placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in Philadelphia on Jan. 10 and charged with multiple felonies, including aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation and terroristic threats, in connection to the Antifa mob attack against two Marines in November.
TheDCNF unmasked Alcoff on Dec. 18, but AFR ignored numerous requests for comment in the ensuing six weeks inquiring whether it was aware of Alcoff’s extreme and violent rhetoric or if it planned on taking any action in regards to the radical’s statements.
Instead, AFR attempted to obscure references to Alcoff on its website on Dec. 19, only to reverse the modifications less than an hour after TheDCNF caught onto the changes.
As campaign manager for AFR, Alcoff was quoted in blurbs from Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, appeared at an event with Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in March and has been pictured alongside Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown and Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 27.165941380871804 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 42.163887992781454 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was brighter she'd be a Communist... '>Comrade Maxine Waters.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NewsMax] Russian Twitter account published documents from one of the cases special counsel Robert Mueller has filed in an effort to spread disinformation, according to a new report.
[The Hill] Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R.) said during an interview Tuesday that he had no plans to run for office again but wouldn't definitively rule it out.
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 27.165941380871804 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 42.163887992781454 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was brighter she'd be a Communist...
