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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan we pull up the Mueller Report here? a suggestion... edit.. free places to find it :)
I wonder if there was a way we could pull the report up here.. maybe 10 or 15 pages a day...or more if there a lot of redactions. I have not read the report and I am sure I am not the only one.. I feel like a fish out of water on this because I am relying on newscasters to give me information...
Check first 3 responses to find place to download and read report for free!!!!!! thank you
Funtatlaguy
(10,868 posts)Peacetrain
(22,873 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Peacetrain
(22,873 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)I should have read the comments before replying but I will let it be.
Peacetrain
(22,873 posts)better too many links than none at all..I have just started reading it... and the first paragraph.. the report says.. the Russians definitely in a broad and sweeping manner.. interfered with our elections
Hekate
(90,616 posts)My pad didn't seem to have the capacity to download, but a normal computer should have no problem.
If you have a few bucks to spare and don't mind Amazon, they have several cheap paperback versions, and a free Kindle version. I bought the Washington Post version with introductions from some of their Pulitzer Prize winners.
WaPo $9.00
Department of Justice $10.06
Alan Dershowitz $7.99 (personally I have no interest in what he has to say)
Hopefully by the time I post this someone will post the link to the free pdf, but as you see you have several options.
Peacetrain
(22,873 posts)INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME I
This report is submitted to the Attorney General pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c), which
states that , "[a]t the conclusion of the Special Counsel 's work, he ... shall provide the Attorney
General a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions [the Special
Counsel] reached."
The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and
systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016. In
June, the Democratic National Committee and its cyber response team publicly announced that
Russian hackers had compromised its computer network. Releases of hacked materials-hacks
that public reporting soon attributed to the Russian government-began that same month.
Additional releases followed in July through the organization WikiLeaks, with further releases in
October and November.
In late July 2016, soon after WikiLeaks's first release of stolen documents, a foreign
government contacted the FBI about a May 2016 encounter with Trump Campaign foreign policy
advisor George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos had suggested to a representative of that foreign
government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that
it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. That information prompted the FBI on July
31, 2016, to open an investigation into whether individuals associated with the Trump Campaign
were coordinating with the Russian government in its interference activities.
That fall, two federal agencies jointly announced that the Russian government "directed
recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including US political
organizations," and , " [t]hese thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election
process." After the election, in late December 2016, the United States imposed sanctions on Russia
for having interfered in the election. By early 2017, several congressional committees were
examining Russia's interference in the election.
Within the Executive Branch, these investigatory efforts ultimately led to the May 2017
appointment of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III. The order appointing the Special Counsel
authorized him to investigate "the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016
presidential election ," including any links or coordination between the Russian government and
individuals associated with the Trump Campaign.
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. Although
the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump
presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefi
Hekate
(90,616 posts)More people here need to read it. Just saw another post about how Mueller has "betrayed" us. I think that Mueller has -- as Rachel Maddow put it early on -- given Congress a road map, which is hardly betrayal.
malaise
(268,844 posts)for everyone who hasn't started reading it