Redacted Mueller report

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SECOND

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6:20 AM

As set forth in detail in this report, the Special Counsel’s investigation established that Russia interfere in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released stolen documents.

The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign.

Vol. 1, Page 1
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/18/us/politics/mueller-report-docu
ment.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SECOND

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6:52 AM

Donald F. McGahn II arrived in a windowless conference room in southwest Washington in November 2017 to meet for the first time with the special counsel’s investigators. He was the White House counsel at the time and he was reluctant to answer their questions for fear that President Trump would one day blame him for any damaging revelations.

A year and a half later, the scapegoating has begun. Mr. Trump and his surrogates began attacking Mr. McGahn shortly after the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, revealed he was the chief witness to the president’s attempts to undermine the inquiry. In an interview on Monday, a member of Mr. Trump’s legal team challenged Mr. McGahn’s motives and memory and accused investigators of ignoring inconsistencies in his assertions.

Mr. Giuliani acknowledged that he was amping up attacks on Mr. McGahn in an attempt to undermine the Mueller report as Democrats called for their congressional leaders to use it as a basis for impeachment proceedings. The Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Mr. McGahn on Monday to testify next month and hand over documents.

Mr. Giuliani’s attacks on Mr. McGahn have unnerved some senior White House officials, who have argued privately that the president and his legal team should stop drawing attention to damaging episodes in the report, according to two people close to the White House. But Mr. Trump has privately complained about the accounts, particularly the ones given by Mr. McGahn, and has said the only way to protect himself from impeachment is to attack Mr. Mueller and Mr. McGahn, the people said.

Mr. Trump belied a lack of understanding about his agreement to waive executive privilege when he confronted Mr. McGahn in the Oval Office meeting early last year.

“What Mr. Giuliani seems to forget is that it was the president who decided Don [McGahn] should fully cooperate — despite available privileges — and who made it public,” Mr. Burck said.

www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/us/politics/mcgahn-trump-attacks.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

RUE

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 7:16 AM

"There is a later version at www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf";

So justice.gov did it right. What are you bitching about?

BTW, that's the version I found immediately after the report came out. It was a one-step search (before everyone and their uncle started putting out their own versions and cluttering up the search-result space). Why you and your 'sources' had so much difficulty finding it is beyond me ... except perhaps because you're all inept.

SECOND

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 7:38 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by rue:

Why you and your 'sources' had so much difficulty finding it is beyond me ... except perhaps because you're all inept.

So all the “fake news” was true. A hostile foreign power intervened in the presidential election, hoping to install Trump in the White House. His campaign was aware of this intervention and welcomed it. And once in power, Trump tried to block any inquiry into what happened.

The GOP’s willingness to back behavior it would have called treasonous if a Democrat did it is just more of the same.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SECOND

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:46 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
"There is a later version at www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf";

So justice.gov did it right. What are you bitching about?

The official PDF of the Mueller report has been updated in a subtle but important way
https://qz.com/1601873/

The US Justice department quietly uploaded a new version of the Mueller report to its website today.

You wouldn’t notice any difference just by looking at the report, which can be downloaded here. What’s new is a layer of data that makes it possible, finally, to access the underlying text of the document.

When the Mueller report came out on April 18, it was essentially a giant file of images. (At 140 MB, the file was more than 300 times larger than an ebook of Crime and Punishment.)

The Justice department’s image-only PDF also seemed to violate the US government’s own guidelines for making documents accessible to all readers.

The website for Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation acknowledged this shortcoming—“The Department recognizes that these documents may not yet be in an accessible format”—and offered to send a text file of the report to people who would have trouble reading it. It’s not clear if anyone requested such a file or received one. In any event, that offer was removed from the special counsel’s website today when the new version of the PDF was uploaded.

“They really did try to do a good job here to try to make it accessible,” he said in a phone interview. “Unfortunately, there are still a lot of errors in the tags.”

The software the Justice department used to OCR the report, Adobe Acrobat, generated some jumbled or incomplete text in the new PDF, especially around large redactions and photos. And many invisible markers intended to make the document more accessible were applied incorrectly.

The file is also still a 140MB set of images, albeit now with text underlying it. A never-scanned, native-text PDF of the report would likely be less than 5MB.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

RUE

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:51 AM

After years of spouting that Mueller was going to end Trump ... when the rubber finally met the road ... first you criticized Barr's summary. Then you criticized the timeline. Then you criticized the presser. After that you criticized the redactions. Now you're whining ENDLESSLY about the formatting.

It's like the Mueller investigation itself. You've hit the bottom of the barrel of 'things' to find wrong.

Mueller at least had the sense to know when it was over.

So just shut up already.

SECOND

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:36 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
After years of spouting that Mueller was going to end Trump ... when the rubber finally met the road ... first you criticized Barr's summary. Then you criticized the timeline. Then you criticized the presser. After that you criticized the redactions. Now you're whining ENDLESSLY about the formatting.

It's like the Mueller investigation itself. You've hit the bottom of the barrel of 'things' to find wrong.

Mueller at least had the sense to know when it was over.

So just shut up already.

I saved the best for last. It happens that Mueller clearly thinks Trump can be charged once he’s out of office. Then Trump is burned at the stake by a prosecutor other than Mueller. I hope to smell Trump's fat on fire.

The special counsel makes his view plain in a single footnote.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/mueller-report-footnote-10
91-prosecute-trump-obstruction-post-presidency.html

In the report, it’s Footnote 1,091, which appears on Page 178.

The implication of both the passage and the subsequent footnote is clear: If Trump committed obstruction of justice, even through official actions, a prosecutor could charge him after his term has ended. Mueller is not saying Trump did or did not obstruct because the rule Mueller was operating under says Mueller has to leave it indeterminate for now.

But impeachment would be no “substitute” for eventual criminal charges, and “Congress is not restricted to relying only on impeachment,” which is “a drastic and rarely invoked remedy.”

This is pretty strong stuff, and it hasn’t received the attention it deserves.

Attorney General Barr stands between Trump and his burning at the stake as a witch, but Barr leaves office when Trump leaves. The next Attorney General might not protect Trump from justice.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:15 PM

Reading through the first volume of the Mueller Report, what is amazing is the extent to which Russia went to help Trump win. This was no hobby on their part. It was a full on, man the battle stations effort.

Vol. 1, Page 36
III. RUSSIAN HACKING AND DUMPING OPERATIONS

"Beginning in March 2016, units of the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) hacked the computers and email accounts of organizations, employees, and volunteers supporting the Clinton Campaign, including the email account of campaign chairman John Podesta. Starting in April 2016, the GRU hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The GRU targeted hundreds of email accounts used by Clinton Campaign employees, advisors, and volunteers. In total, the GRU stole hundreds of thousands of documents from the compromised email accounts and networks.109 The GRU later released stolen Clinton Campaign and DNC documents through online personas, “DCLeaks” and “Guccifer 2.0,” and later through the organization WikiLeaks. The release of the documents was designed and timed to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and undermine the Clinton Campaign."

"GRU officers also sent hundreds of spearphishing emails to the work and personal email accounts of Clinton Campaign employees and volunteers. Between March 10, 2016 and March 15, 2016, Unit 26165 appears to have sent approximately 90 spearphishing emails to email accounts at hillaryclinton.com. Starting on March 15, 2016, the GRU began targeting Google email accounts used by Clinton Campaign employees, along with a smaller number of dnc.org email accounts.117
The GRU spearphishing operation enabled it to gain access to numerous email accounts of Clinton Campaign employees and volunteers, including campaign chairman John Podesta, junior volunteers assigned to the Clinton Campaign’s advance team, informal Clinton Campaign advisors, and a DNC employee.118 GRU officers stole tens of thousands of emails from spearphishing victims, including various Clinton Campaign-related communications."

And on and on. This wasn't hacking Moldova, or some little Balkan state. I don't think a lot of people get that, or appreciate the level of intrusion that was made. You can't see any explosions or blood or buildings falling, so "meh."

https://www.theneweconomy.com/technology/a-history-of-russian-hacking

"Russia is now seen as the global hegemon in cyber warfare – a staggering feat for a country that, less than 30 years ago, experienced a total political upheaval that practically flattened its technology sector. Over the past 10 years, it has orchestrated a vast number of coordinated and uncompromising cyberattacks across governmental and private organisations.

This year alone has seen parties such as Barack Obama, the UK and Dutch governments and the Swiss attorney general condemn Russia for causing worldwide chaos through a series of brazen hacks. Russia’s methods have advanced technologically over the years, from rudimentary email-server hacking to the creation of tailored social media messages carrying destructive malware viruses. However, it is still not clear why the nation chose to embark upon such an injurious hacking campaign in the first place.

Some have said it is a demonstration of technical prowess; others have claimed it is symptomatic of the evolution of modern warfare. The experts all agree on one thing, though: that Russia’s cyber offensive shows no sign of slowing."

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Tuesday, April 23, 2019 8:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Russia’s cyber offensive shows no sign of slowing.

At least 80% of Russians will be voting, electronically, for Trump. Ask Trump: When McCabe met with the President that afternoon, the President, without prompting, told McCabe that people in the FBI loved the President, estimated that at least 80% of the FBI had voted for him, and asked McCabe who he had voted for in the 2016 presidential election. Page 284 / 448

Nothing wrong with help from Russians, Trump lawyer says
www.apnews.com/309d46cd45ee4318a5226079f07f4085

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SIGNYM

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:32 PM

Anybody who claims that Assange was the conduit for material hacked by "Russians" without ever having either (1)examined the server from which they were copied or (2) interviewing Assange and Craig Murry has NO credible evidence on which to base that allegation.

Furthermore, the metadata attached to those files (transfer rates, "last modified" timestamps which are always even which is FAT format) both show that the files were transferred to a USB stick and not "hacked" over the internet or emailed https://jamesfetzer.org/2019/03/bill-binney-and-larry-johnson-how-we-k
now-the-dnc-was-not-hacked-by-the-russians/)
I find it preposterous that anyone would buy into this crock of shit without ever going into the actual evidence, but instead rely on the word of people whose job it is to lie.

MIKE POMPEO:"We lied, we cheated, we stole"

Of course, Julian Assange is "conveniently" locked away in a British maximum security prison, and unavailable for response.

I find it interesting that ... after seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy ... Britain would suddeny find it necessary to arrest Julian Assange and the IMF would suddenly find it in its heart to supply Ecuador with a $4.2 billion loan. Assange was arrested on April 11, 2019 and the Mueller report issued on April 18, 2019. Fascinating cooincidence, no?

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