no questions, press conference,
Robert Mueller claimed the
Russian government engaged in
"multiple, systematic efforts
to interfere in our election,
and that allegation deserves
the attention of every American."
He has never proved that.
Mueller ducked, dodged, forgot,
and refused to answer -- the
worst performance I have
even seen before Congress
( I could not watch much more
than the first hour -- it was
too painful to watch ).
The "IRA" St. Petersburg
troll farm's efforts
at using US social media
were an amateurish joke.
US District Judge Dabney Friedrich
noted that Mueller’s February 2018
indictment of the IRA
“ does not link the {IRA}
to the Russian government"
and alleges
“only private conduct
by private actors.”
Jonathan Kravis,
of the Mueller team,.
told the judge:
“[T]he report itself
does not state
anywhere that
the Russian government
was behind the Internet
Research Agency activity,”
Kravis told the court.
There is also no evidence that
the political content reached
a mass audience.
The Internet Research Agency (IRA)
hired (apparently) unemployed
20-somethings at $4-8 per hour
to pound out ham-handed political
messaging on social media sites
like Facebook, Insta-gram, Twitter,
YouTube etc.
Their broken English postings
were not effective.
80,000 Facebook posts
attributable to the IRA
were up against the
33 trillion messages posted
by billions of other users.
Concerning the 3,000 ads
IRA bought on Facebook,
for about $100,000, but
about 55% were posted
AFTER the 2016 election.
The DNC e-mails
got to WikiLeaks via a
disgruntled DNC insider,
and were not hacked
by Russian agents,
operating over
the internet,
and given
to WikiLeaks.
and given
to WikiLeaks.
That's what WikiLeaks claimed,
and there is no evidence to
refute the claim.
William Binney, who is the father
of modern NSA Internet spying
technologies, says that the
DNC e-mails were leaked
on a thumb-drive and couldn’t
have been hacked, based
on the fast download speed.
If the Russians hacked the DNC,
he National Security Agency (NSA)
would have a record of the breach
stored at one of its server farms
because it does capture and store
everything that comes into the US
over the Internet.
22 months of angry Democrat
prosecutors, and here's the list
of indictments:
- 13 Russian college kids,
at a St. Petersburg troll farm
working for $4 per hour;
- 12 Russian
"intelligence operatives",
perhaps picked at random
from a Russian phonebook;
- George Papadopoulos,
for mis-remembering
an irrelevant date
by two weeks;
- Paul Manafort, for tax evasion
long before he met Trump
- Michael Cohen, for tax evasion
and Trump’s bimbo silencing operation;
- Michael Flynn, for doing his job
talking to the Russian Ambassador,
and confusing Mike Pence on what
he said, and didn’t say, about Obama’s
11th hour Russian sanctions;
- Rick Gates, for helping Manafort
- Sam Patten, another
Manafort operative
who forget to
register correctly
as a foreign agent;
- Richard Pinedo, a grifter who
never met Trump, and got caught
selling forged bank accounts
on-line to Russians
- Alex van der Zwaan,
a Dutch lawyers
who wrote a report
for Manafort in 2012 and
misreported to the FBI
what he told Gates about it.
