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Part 156, some of Russian meddling, and related, material from F6 big ones. These from
Sunday, 03/04/18, headed, [no, umm, 'presidential' Weakly Address on February 17, 2018]
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Rep. Swalwell to Trump: Do you believe it now?

AM Joy
2/17/18
Russia interference in the 2016 elections is not a hoax or fake news, Robert Mueller’s latest indictments prove.
Why does Donald Trump appear to still be in denial? Joy Reid and her panel[, including Malcolm Nance,] discuss.
©2018 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-tweets-on-mueller-indictments-no-collusion-1164114499902 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STjAPLqLmYk [with comments] [a must-watch]

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Mueller Investigation Finds No Trump / Russia Collusion

Published on Feb 17, 2018 by The Alex Jones Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkzbokGbDHg [with comments]

To "stashed February 17, 2018:"

Reading the Mueller Indictment: A Russian-American Fraud
In his first indictments for Russian interference in the 2016 election, the special counsel, Robert Mueller, has revealed the inner workings of a shadow campaign—conceived in Moscow and deployed in the United States—that was far more disciplined than Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign. Focussed, creative, and persuasive, the Russian operation was a campaign to envy. Mueller has also given the American public a cautionary tale of contemporary American democracy—a story of deception, influence, and technology.
John Sipher, an expert on Russia’s intelligence services, who retired in 2014 after twenty-eight years in the C.I.A., told me that the details in the indictment lay bare how audacious the Russian effort to get Trump elected President was in its brazen, repeated contact with American citizens. “You see a willingness to take risk that you hadn’t had before, because Putin was so hateful toward Hillary Clinton. They had a unity of effort, because they had one enemy: the United States. We’re focussed on China, North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan. I don’t think it was brilliantly thought out, but they put an army out there to do what they can.”
Ordinarily, U.S. prosecutors are wary of releasing highly specific accounts involving foreign-intelligence targets, in order to protect the “sources and methods” that allow the government to pierce electronic communications and hidden dealings. But, Sipher said, this thirty-seven-page indictment suggests that Mueller’s team made a strategic decision to include a level of detail that will help it elicit relevant documents from businesses and banks. The indictments open the way for “discovery that otherwise may not be allowed or would be hard to do without a charging document,” he said.
In its particulars, the indictment, which charged thirteen Russian nationals and three organizations with multiple conspiracies and frauds, fills in the details of an “active measures” campaign that had been described in general terms by analysts and journalists over the past year. It offers a playbook for manipulating American democracy using a mix of classic espionage, private-sector social-media tools, and partisan ideology. The operation, centered on the now infamous troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency, extended to scores of undercover staff and associates in multiple countries, including the United States, and deployed a range of political gambits.
Among the details in the document, I was struck, in particular, by three themes—political weapons, in effect—that pose questions for technology companies, the intelligence community, and voters:
The power of anonymity. ...
The power of voter suppression. ...
The power of news illiteracy. ...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/reading-the-mueller-indictment-a-russian-american-fraud

What Mueller’s Indictment Reveals About Russia’s Internet Research Agency
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-muellers-indictment-reveals-about-russias-internet-research-agency

Russian Influence Operation Allegedly Ran Like a Propaganda Startup
Federal indictment describes Internet Research Agency as having deep understanding how to use Silicon Valley technology to sow discord
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-influence-operation-allegedly-ran-like-a-propaganda-startup-1518872400

What Mueller's Indictment Reveals
The special counsel detailed how a Russian effort to widen divisions in American society launched in 2014 morphed into active support for the candidacy of Donald Trump.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/mueller-roadmap/553604/

Trump’s Conspicuous Silence Leaves a Struggle Against Russia Without a Leader
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/us/politics/trump-russia.html

Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/964594780088033282

Twitter Users Call B.S. On Donald Trump’s Tweet About Mueller Indictments
One person first thought Trump’s tweet came from a parody account.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tweet-bs_us_5a873e1ae4b05c2bcacaac07

Russian Trolls Were Sloppy, but Indictment Still ‘Points at the Kremlin’
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/world/europe/russia-indictment-trolls-putin.html

Russian Indictments Could Set Stage For More Mueller Charges - Reuters
The indictment said the Russians conspired “with persons known and unknown,” which could include Americans.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russia-indictments-more-to-come_us_5a87a4bbe4b004fc31923d91
original https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-legal-analysis/russian-indictments-could-set-stage-for-more-mueller-charges-idUSKCN1G02LG

more:
https://news.google.com/news/story/drJXWcjHbO3FwTMooMIybpAj52flM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en
https://news.google.com/news/story/dKm-C3WIEKyzhmMDG-nWsEBaCICFM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Russia-Trump inquiry: Russian foreign minister dismisses FBI charges
Russia's foreign minister [Sergei Lavrov] has dismissed as "blather" the charges levelled by the FBI special counsel against 13 Russians for election meddling.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43095881

Mueller’s new indictments put the pressure on Trump to act
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/muellers-new-indictments-put-the-pressure-on-trump-to-act/2018/02/17/da5b7ef8-13fa-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html

Trump responds to Mueller indictment news
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/17/politics/white-house-responds-mueller/index.html

Russia Launches ‘Information’ War, U.S. Responds with Lawsuit and Self-Destruction - idiot piece
Mueller’s indictment is an ineffectual response to a provocation by Russia.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/russia-launches-information-war-us-responds-with-lawsuit/

Russia Wanted Trump to Win. And It Wanted to Get Caught. - another idiot piece, by [an Hispanic] "senior fellow at the Cato Institute"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/opinion/russia-interference-elections-trump.html

McMaster Says Evidence of Russia Interference 'Incontrovertible'
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/17/586803847/mcmaster-says-evidence-of-russia-meddling-incontrovertible

Mueller's latest move just dealt the White House a massive 'black eye'
Special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment Friday of 13 Russian nationals and three organizations paints a stark picture of Russia's election interference.
The indictment threw a wrench into President Donald Trump's claims that the Russia investigation is a "hoax" and a "witch hunt" with no justifiable basis.
The charges will also force the White House to decide whether it will hold the Russian government accountable for its actions, experts said.
http://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-indictment-undermines-trump-russia-hoax-theory-2018-2

Mueller’s Indictment of 13 Russians Strikes Fear Into the Trump White House
Trump’s Russia-first reaction is telling.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/muellers-indictment-of-13-russians-strikes-fear-into-the-trump-white-house/

Meddling ‘incontrovertible’ to U.S., ‘just blabber’ to Russia

( https://youtu.be/YaMzmH_0bW0 )
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/meddling-incontrovertible-to-u-s-just-blabber-to-russia

Indictment: Russians also tried to help Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein presidential campaigns
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/17/indictment-russians-also-tried-help-bernie-sanders-jill-stein-presidential-campaigns/348051002/

Journalists slam Trump aide's 'repulsive' attack over Russia
Journalists lashed out at a White House spokesman on Saturday after the aide to President Trump claimed that news media and Democrats have caused more "chaos" than Russia.
White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley made the comments during an interview on Fox News while responding to special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of Russian nationals for meddling in the 2016 election.
"There are two groups that have created chaos more than the Russians and that’s the Democrats and the mainstream media,” Gidley asserted on Fox News.
"[They] continued to push this lie on the American people for more than a year, and frankly Americans should be outraged by that."
The remark was widely panned by journalists, with reporters from The Associated Press, CNN, The Washington Post, Politico and other outlets calling the remark false.
[...]
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/374382-journalists-slam-trump-aides-repulsive-attack-over-russia

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d09tHv8RrEv1C8MUkMtk3cj9pf-ZM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en