Rachel Maddow explains Robert Mueller's accusation that Russia used material provided through the legal discovery process in the Concord Management case and manipulated it into a disinformation gambit to undercut public perception of the special counsel's case.
Judge blasts lawyers for Russian firm charged by Mueller By JOSH GERSTEIN 01/07/2019 01:20 PM EST [...] A stern-faced Friedrich, the newest of President Donald Trump’s three appointees to the district court in Washington, made clear Monday that she was not amused by what she called the “clever quotes.” She also chastised Dubelier for ad hominem attacks on Mueller’s attorneys and other prosecutors in the case. P - “I found your recent filings, in particular your reply brief filed Friday, unprofessional, inappropriate and ineffective,” the judge said. She suggested the submissions were an effort to bully her into granting pending defense motions to give the owners and officers of Concord greater access to materials Mueller’s office has turned over to permit the defense to prepare for trial. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/07/mueller-probe-concord-management-1085285
Mueller: Shared evidence was used to discredit special counsel probe By DARREN SAMUELSOHN 01/30/2019 05:49 PM EST Updated 01/31/2019 11:09 AM EST Robert Mueller’s office on Wednesday accused a Twitter account with apparent ties to Russia of disclosing more than 1,000 files that the special counsel shared in an active criminal case, all in a bid to discredit his investigation. P - It’s the latest twist in an inquiry pitting a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin against U.S. prosecutors accusing him of meddling in the 2016 presidential election. P - Mueller lodged the complaint in an 18-page court filing that objects to a discovery request from the Russian company Concord Management and Consulting, which has been charged with helping orchestrate the massive online campaign to interfere with the election. P - According to the Mueller filing, the Twitter handle @HackingRedstone posted a message in late October 2018 claiming access to the special counsel investigation’s 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 [Internet Research Agency] and Russian collusion. Enjoy the reading!” https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/30/mueller-special-counsel-russia-twitter-1138293
Material gained by the discovery process (not all of Mueller's evidence as claimed), which is supposed to be used only in the trial process, somehow got back to Russia. To the twitter account people who then presented it as having been gained by a hack. It wasn't. The discovery material was sorted through and presented, to US journalists, in a way which was least damning to Russia. Mueller is understandably angry at this abuse of process.
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