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turbinetree

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Fri Jul 13, 2018, 01:51 PM Jul 2018

Mueller Indictment Alleges Candidate For Congress Asked Guccifer 2.0 For Stolen Docs [View all]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By Allegra Kirkland | July 13, 2018 1:33 pm

A congressional candidate requested and received documents allegedly stolen from Democratic Party entities by Russian intelligence operatives during the 2016 election, a federal indictment filed Friday alleged.

The indictment brought by special counsel Robert Mueller alleges that the unidentified candidate made the electronic request on Aug. 15, 2016, and in return received “stolen documents related to the candidate’s opponent.”

This gob-smacking detail was one of many in the 29-page indictment, which alleged that the Russian military intelligence agency or GRU engaged in “large-scale cyber operations to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” The 12 Russians indicted allegedly hacked the computer networks of the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and email accounts of Hillary Clinton campaign officials, and publicly disseminated the stolen information. They concealed their tracks by inventing fake personas including “Guccifer 2.0,” a rogue Romanian hacker who claimed to be behind the hacks, prosecutors alleged.

Mueller charged the defendants with conspiracy to commit an offense against the U.S., aggravated identity theft and other charges.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/congressional-candidate-received-stolen-documents-russia-2016



Hey Jordon, Gowdy and Goodlatte, and Paul "ayn rand" Ryan .................why don't you bring this "candidate" into a hearing and ask some questions....................I know that you will not because you think that a FBI agent and his girlfriend may have "bias or a personnel opinion about what some sexual predator orange hair asshole, that attacked a fallen solider and his buried at Arlington, and that he should not be pissed off..........................and now we have this , the fucking ball is in your court assholes..............traitors are still traitors, he made contact with a person with ties to a Russia operation and never told the FBI..............

Oh yeah today is Friday the 13th, 2018




November 20-18 cannot get here fat enough.....................vote

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?p0=263&iso=20181106T12&msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections
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Dustbin Nunes? Dana Russiabacker? Whoever it is, will be on the next indictment. lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #1
Thats why we haven't seen much Nunes, the little weasel, lately. marble falls Jul 2018 #5
Nunes walked out of Strzok hearing just when subject of Russia probe came up Snellius Jul 2018 #22
I just wonder if the pace of indictments is going to accelerate bucolic_frolic Jul 2018 #2
Hopefully that traitorous repug candidate can be indicted soon as well. lark Jul 2018 #3
Unidentified candidate for Congress asked for . . . people Jul 2018 #4
Welcome to DU; can you provide the text that you claim exonerates the Republicans? lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #6
Unnamed Congressional candidate people Jul 2018 #10
If they had cleared the Americans mentioned, they would have... blitzen Jul 2018 #11
+1 lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #20
The FBI knows or they would not have mentioned this in the indictments of the Russians turbinetree Jul 2018 #7
The indictment is just a teaser, or trailer for the upcoming show. A movie could be made LiberalArkie Jul 2018 #8
K&R Scurrilous Jul 2018 #9
I think indictments among Americans are coming later More_Cowbell Jul 2018 #12
Lyin Ryan? Dana Rohrbacher? Mitch McCONnell? Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2018 #13
Asked for AND RECEIVED. Let that sink in. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2018 #14
Tim Canova, DWS's primary challenger in 2016. Here's why I think it's him: Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2018 #15
Could be. But a primary challenger is not a "candidate". PS: Canova endorsed by Sanders. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2018 #16
Why isn't a challenger a candidate? Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2018 #17
Could be, but depends on definitions and what the writer is thinking defines "candidate". Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2018 #18
It was candidate in Florida and reported in the media DeminPennswoods Jul 2018 #19
Are you perhaps thinking of Aaron Nevins? herding cats Jul 2018 #21
Yes! That's the guy DeminPennswoods Jul 2018 #24
Hey, it's hard to keep all the Republicans in bed with Russia straight! herding cats Jul 2018 #25
Chait's column in NY Mag had a handy DeminPennswoods Jul 2018 #29
I think it was Darrell Issa; the dates match with his I's release of Applegate divorce records stuffmatters Jul 2018 #23
I'm thinking Matt Gaetz. OliverQ Jul 2018 #26
Fwiw, from Miami Herald this afternoon: Leghorn21 Jul 2018 #27
I remember reading an article last year by a local candidate of office in the state KCDebbie Jul 2018 #28
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