Russia Investigation Heating Up

[Gelston]

Thousands of Mueller investigation documents leaked online by... Russia.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...yUVwX4AanUAKZY

Evidence gathered by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, was obtained by Russians and leaked online in an attempt to discredit his inquiry into Moscow’s interference in US politics, prosecutors said on Wednesday.


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A court filing by Mueller’s office said more than 1,000 files that it shared confidentially with attorneys for indicted Russian hackers later appeared to have been uploaded to a filesharing site and promoted by a Twitter account.

“We’ve got access to the Special Counsel Mueller’s probe database as we hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case,” a tweet from the account said. “You can view all the files Mueller had about the IRA and Russian collusion. Enjoy the reading!”

The tweet was posted in October last year by the account @HackingRedstone, according to the filing. A reporter was also offered leaked material via a direct message the same day. The account has since been removed from Twitter.

Mueller’s court filing on Wednesday said the names and structure of folders containing the leaked files matched those used by Mueller’s office when it shared the data, and that these had not been made public.

The prosecutors said the filesharing site had confirmed to the FBI that the account which posted the material was registered from an IP address – an identifier for devices connected to the internet – in Russia.

FBI investigators had found no evidence that government servers holding the data had been hacked, according to Mueller’s team, pointing instead to a leak on the Russian side.

Mueller disclosed the leak in a filing as part of his prosecution of Concord Management and Consulting, a Russian company that allegedly funded hacking operations by Russia’s notorious Internet Research Agency (IRA).

The filing argued that attorneys for Concord should not be given access to “sensitive” evidence gathered by Mueller’s team for the case.

It said: “The person who created the webpage used their knowledge of the non-sensitive discovery to make it appear as though the irrelevant files contained on the webpage were the sum total evidence of ‘IRA and Russian collusion’ gathered by law enforcement in this matter in an apparent effort to discredit the investigation.”

[Androidpk]

The House Intelligence Committee’s Democratic leadership has scheduled a vote to send potentially explosive transcripts to special counsel Robert Mueller’s desk.

The committee will vote this Wednesday on turning over sensitive Russia probe transcripts to Mueller, in a move that carries serious implications for anyone who can be shown to have lied.

The handover could put President Trump’s eldest son, Don Jr., in the hot seat. Democrats have signaled suspicions that Don Jr. may have been untruthful. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) has said she thinks Don Jr. lied to the committee “on at least two occasions.”

Mueller has already slapped criminal charges on two people for making false statements to the committee in the course of it’s Russia investigation: President Trump’s longtime attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, and former Trump campaign advisor, Roger Stone.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/...ing-to-mueller

[Alfster]

Potentially explosive. Could put.

Translation: No one fucking knows.

Wait. For. The. Report.

[Androidpk]

Potentially explosive. Could put.

Translation: No one fucking knows.

Wait. For. The. Report.

Could put what?

[Alfster]

The words from your link.


The handover could put President Trump’s eldest son

None of it means anything

[Androidpk]

Okay but it's still an update regardless.

[Alfster]

Eh. Not really. The inaugural committee being ordered by a judge to turn over records would be an update. That happened today.

The subpoena marked an escalation of the investigation, which the prosecutors opened late last year amid a flurry of scrutiny of the inaugural committee. The United States attorney’s office in Brooklyn is separately investigating whether foreigners illegally funneled donations to Mr. Trump’s inaugural committee using so-called straw donors to disguise their donations. Federal law prohibits foreign contributions to inaugural committees.

[Androidpk]

Yes, that too is an update, though not an SCO update. Mueller is indeed looking into the inauguration but these records are going to SDNY.

[Androidpk]

And oh yeah, Gates hasn't been sentenced yet and the inauguration is the other investigation he has been spilling the beans on.

And, speculating here, if SDNY is digging into this now it means Mueller is wrapped up with it on his end.

[Alfster]

It could mean he passed it off as well. I wouldn't get my hopes up over it.