Mueller indicts Russian trolling

Via the New York Times: The Justice Department charged 13 Russians and three companies on Friday in a sprawling indictment that unveiled a sophisticated network designed to subvert the 2016 election and to support the Trump campaign. It stretched from an office in St. Petersburg, Russia, into the social feeds of Americans and ultimately reached the streets of election battleground states.

The Russians stole the identities of American citizens, posed as political activists and used the flash points of immigration, religion and race to manipulate a campaign in which those issues were already particularly divisive, prosecutors said.

Some of the Russians were also in contact with “unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign,” according to court papers. Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel leading the investigation, made no accusation that President Trump or his associates were knowingly part of the conspiracy.

“The indictment alleges that the Russian conspirators want to promote discord in the United States and undermine public confidence in democracy,” Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general overseeing the inquiry, said in a brief news conference. “We must not allow them to succeed.”

Is that all there was...



Does that mean if DACA dreamers engaged in electioneering, they could run into trouble with Mueller's investigation?

This is highly irregular.

Moby: CIA told me Trump is a Russian agent, Manchurian candidate... thank goodness he's stupid and incompetent

Earlier in the interview Moby says, to "some extent" we frighten easily.

Leak: Mueller gives White House names of 6 aides he expects to question in Russia probe

Via Drudge:  Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has alerted the White House that his team will probably seek to interview six top current and former advisers to President Trump who were witnesses to several episodes relevant to the investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the request.

Mueller’s interest in the aides, including trusted adviser Hope Hicks, former press secretary Sean Spicer and former chief of staff Reince Priebus, reflects how the probe that has dogged Trump’s presidency is starting to penetrate a closer circle of aides around the president.

Each of the six advisers was privy to important internal discussions that have drawn the interest of Mueller’s investigators, according to people familiar with the probe, including his decision in May to fire FBI Director James B. Comey. Also of interest is the White House’s initial inaction after warnings about then-national security adviser Michael Flynn’s December discussions with Russia’s ambassador to the United States.

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Russian Hands & Roman Fingers

On the one hand are the Russians said by the left to be undermining the US. On the other hand (right...left?) is the Pope, now openly opposed to Trump's immigration policy. Other say it's just the media writing who want us to feel a certain way. They want us to feel groped and manipulated.

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Pussy Rot grabs Trump:

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Comedy?  Farce?