Mueller's office claims Russian intelligence agencies trying to meddle in 2018 U.S. midterms
Mueller sees Russian effort to influence 2018 midterms
Prosecutors are trying to block intelligence agencies and absent defendants from seeing evidence in the investigation of interference in the 2016 election.
By JOSH GERSTEIN
06/12/2018 05:01 PM EDT
Russian intelligence agencies are trying to meddle in the 2018 U.S. midterm elections much as they did two years ago, special counsel Robert Mueller’s office asserted on Tuesday in a court filing.
The claim of active election-focused intelligence operations came as prosecutors moved to block more than a dozen Russians who are charged criminally in the prior effort from gaining access to evidence gathered as that case was assembled.
“Public or unauthorized disclosure of this case’s discovery would result in the release of information that would assist foreign intelligence services, particularly those of the Russian Federation, and other foreign actors in future operations against the United States,” Mueller's team said in a motion filed with a federal judge in Washington. “The substance of the government’s evidence identifies uncharged individuals and entities that the government believes are continuing to engage in interference operations like those charged in the present indictment.”
Mueller didn’t offer any proof or specifics about ongoing operations, but his assertion sounded somewhat more concrete than statements other U.S. officials have made on the point.
“We have seen Russian activity and intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle,” Mike Pompeo, the CIA director at the time, told the Senate Intelligence Committee last February.
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In the filing on Tuesday, prosecutors sought to bar any foreign citizens — including the 13 absent individual defendants — from seeing any of the records Concord Management’s lawyers receive in the legal discovery process.
“Information within this case’s discovery identifies sources, methods, and techniques used to identify the foreign actors behind these interference operations,” prosecutors wrote, “and disclosure of such information will allow foreign actors to learn of these techniques and adjust their conduct, thus undermining ongoing and future national security investigations. The government has particularized concerns about discovery in this case being disclosed to Russian intelligence services.” They also submitted a secret filing explaining those concerns in greater detail.
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you mean they are continuing a program that gained them access to the white house and made brexit succeed? i thought they would have dropped it considering
1. it is working to perfection
2. literally no one is doing anything about it
