Saturday, February 17, 2018

 

Wow! Russians indicted for election meddling


I loved seeing this: Robert Mueller and his team have indicted 13 Russian individuals and 3 organizations on charges of fraud and aggravated identity theft. All of the charges relate to a coordinated effort to impact US elections.

While the media has obsessed over the Trump campaign's involvement with the Russian project, the story of what the Russians were doing--with or without complicity by Trump operatives-- is a very important story.

One thing that I am seeing out of the Mueller camp is a remarkable and workmanlike focus. Trump may be the shiny object for some, but this indictment shows that the Mueller team is properly focused on the efforts to influence elections by foreigners. That should concern us all-- whether or not Trump or his campaign conspired with the Russians. [Side note: "complicity" does not have much meaning in criminal law; it is rarely if ever an element of a crime. "Conspiracy" is the operative word people should be thinking about]


# posted by Mark Osler @ 12:00 AM
Comments:
The Atlantic has a great investigative article about Manafort. After reading it, if he was not involved with the Russians and/or their Eastern European allies, it would only be because they, not he, decided it was too risky to involve him!
# posted by Anonymous A Waco Friend : 8:37 AM
 
And Trump was involved, because that is why Manafort was in his role in the campaign.
# posted by Anonymous A W : 8:42 AM
 
AW- maybe. But we don’t know that yet.
# posted by Blogger Mark Osler : 11:04 AM
 
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