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The 448-page report issued by thenspecial counsel Robert Mueller last March was the most hotly anticipated prosecutorial document in a generation, laying out the evidence of Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the Trump administrations efforts to obstruct the inquiry. That report, however, reflects only a small fraction of the billions of primary-source documents that the government claims Muellers team may have amassed over the course of its two-year investigation.
Those documents are a crucial national legacy, a key to understanding this important chapter in American history. But the public has not been allowed to see any of them. Until now.
Beginning last April, BuzzFeed News has pursued five separate Freedom of Information Act lawsuits to pry loose all the subpoenas and search warrants that Muellers team executed, as well as all the emails, memos, letters, talking points, legal opinions, and interview transcripts it generated. In short, we asked for all the communications of any kind that passed through the special counsels office. We also requested all of the documents that would reveal the discussions among Attorney General Bill Barr, former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, and other high-ranking officials about whether to charge President Donald Trump with obstruction.
Justice Department lawyers said the volume of records at issue could total 18 billion pages and could take centuries to produce.
At a hearing earlier this month, US District Court Judge Reggie Walton was not sympathetic. It shouldnt fall on the backs of the citizens to wait years to find out what the government is up to, he said. If the Justice Department couldnt handle the request in a more timely fashion, he added, it should ask Congress for money to hire more help.
Today, in response to a court order, the Justice Department has released the first installment of documents: 500 pages of summaries of FBI interviews with witnesses, available here for the first time. Another installment will be released every month for at least the next eight years.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/mueller-report-secret-memos-1
demmiblue
(36,885 posts)Page 14: In an April 2018 interview with the special counsels office, Rick Gates, who had served as deputy Trump campaign chair and long been Paul Manaforts right-hand man, told investigators that after the campaign learned the DNC had been hacked, Manafort pushed the theory that Ukraine, not Russia, had orchestrated the attack. Its a conspiracy theory thats persisted in right-wing circles, even after the US Intelligence Community concluded Russia was involved, and one that Trump brought up in his July 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In a written memorandum of the July call released by the White House, Trump at one point says to Zelensky, I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say CrowdStrike I guess you have one of your wealthy people The server, they say Ukraine has it. Zoe Tillman
"Bannon knew Kushner was on vacation off the coast of Croatia with a Russian billionaire when Bannon took over the campaign. Kushner was with Wendy Deng, the Russian billionaire, and the Russian's girlfriend. Bannon said his friends in the intelligence community said the girlfriend was "questionable." Bannon called Kushner and told him to come back from vacation. They had 85 days to go, no money and they needed Kushner to come back and firePaul Manafort."
BumRushDaShow
(129,457 posts)And Wendy Deng (first name normally spelled "Wendi" ), if I'm not mistaken, is Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife.
demmiblue
(36,885 posts)The passionate note surfaced amid the flotsam of a shipwrecked marriage. It was written in broken English by a woman to herself, pouring out her love for a man called Tony. Oh, shit, oh, shit, she wrote. Whatever why Im so so missing Tony. Because he is so so charming and his clothes are so good. He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt . . . And he is slim tall and good skin. Pierce blue eyes which I love. Love his eyes. Also I love his power on the stage . . . and what else and what else and what else . . .
The woman was Wendi Deng Murdoch, the Chinese wife of the Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The note, not revealed until now, could have been one of the few pieces of evidence in their surprise divorce last year, had the case come to trial. Tony was the former prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair.
Later, some would claim that Rupert felt betrayed by the close relationship between Wendi and Tony, who was his trusted companion and powerful political ally. Others would insist that Wendi and Tony were just friends, and that the handsome statesman was merely comforting the lonely wife of an absent and distant older husband.
Rupert Murdoch is one of the wealthiest individuals in America. His empire includes newspapers around the globe, the 21st Century Fox movie studio, the Fox TV network, and the publishing house Harper-Collins. In the years between the Murdochs marriage, in 1999, and their divorce, 14 years later, a story emerged that could have come right off the pages of one of the tabloids produced by News Corporation, Murdochs media conglomerate, complete with all the usual lurid ingredients: sex, lies, power, money, charges of infidelity.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/03/wendi-deng-note-tony-blair
BumRushDaShow
(129,457 posts)Jarvanka.
meadowlander
(4,402 posts)StClone
(11,686 posts)From one power broker to the next despite being freaks.
BumRushDaShow
(129,457 posts)Mars and Minerva
(369 posts)MarcA
(2,195 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)I though hannity was an independent fair and balanced journalist. What does it mean he was briefed. Surely he isnt working for one side and disseminating propaganda for them!
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)GRaf and HAWker
he was in the report a few times for incidental shit and should be there . this is not about cohen helping him with a woman problem. it's about other redacted parts of the report with nothing to do with affairs
corsi and stone and manafort are long time talk radio operators.
hannity is a limbaugh buttboy. all this needs to be seen in the context of not just fox, but of the russians using talk radio going back at leaasst to manafort being mcccain's campaign cochair and using limbaugh to force mccain to pick palin, who was being wooed by russian oil and gas
then russians using limbaugh and hannity and wikileaks with a russian hack in 2009 to sell "climategate" to stop obama at copenhagen
russians using talk radio and fox to create the teabag 'resistance'
then debt default in 2011
etc all the way to trump
shanti
(21,675 posts)Proof he IS part of this scheme.
VOX
(22,976 posts)This also explains why Hannity is particularly zealous these days its his fat ass on the line, too.
IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)someone needs to investigate him.
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)Shit was rigged
Botany
(70,582 posts)+1
sop
(10,246 posts)+2
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Rigged, the shit was!
Doodley
(9,126 posts)never been seen before in American politics. Was it rigged? Maybe, but maybe not. The vote for Hillary was suppressed through the lies that she was corrupt and the willingness to vote for a bigot. The overall vote shares were very much inline with opinion polls and even at state level, the polls were close.
2naSalit
(86,779 posts)jg10003
(976 posts)When I heard her say that a few days before the election I felt a shiver go through my body. I got the feeling that she knew something everyone else didn't.
snort
(2,334 posts)Introducing "shitrig". As in "this here has been shitrigged". Please disseminate.
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)grumpyduck
(6,255 posts)Go after Hannity!!!! Woo-hoo!!!!!
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) Tweeted:
This gets stranger and stranger, no clue what to think of it yeT
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https://forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/
How did Jared Kushner become an expert at online marketing and data gathering so quickly
2naSalit
(86,779 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Rec
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,415 posts)I had missed this.
malaise
(269,157 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,459 posts)they doing, scanning microfiche and chiseling it onto stone tablets? This drip drip drip is yet another ploy of the Billy Barr justice department to protect the Orange Anus.
erronis
(15,328 posts)And the source of the flow completely destroyed.
DumpAss's second term will take care of leaky faucets/people.
It's third forever term will get rid of the internet.
The dumpass dynasty will make sure humanity is a dead-end breed.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,415 posts)There must be some real people left over from when it was the Department Of Justice.
mopinko
(70,215 posts)it only took 2 years to collect.
BumRushDaShow
(129,457 posts)And surprise surprise - all of those referenced and/or corresponding in those emails have been hauled in front of Congress to testify (even if they took the 5th like Bannon) - EXCEPT Sean Hannity.
Hannity needs to be subpoenaed.
shanti
(21,675 posts)Imagine if this was Obama instead of Trump, and Rachel Maddow was Sean Hannity. This is outrageous. I hope Adam Schiff is informed of this!
blaze
(6,373 posts)Their last post was 11/8/18.
Or did we ever hear a reason?
blogslut
(38,016 posts)No, wait, that's not it.
Oh yeah, I remember. It was about social media being mean to Tucker!
https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/fox-news-twitter-tucker-carlson-1203026225/
Fox News last tweeted on Thursday, and a number of accounts associated with the network stopped tweeting Thursday or Friday as well. The company hasnt released any official statement over its Twitter absence, and a spokesperson declined to comment.
Multiple outlets reported over the weekend that the Twitter break was to protest the social media companys slow response to requests to delete tweets that contained Carlsons home address. Twitter didnt immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
Protesters visited Carsons home last Wednesday to voice their opposition to his opinion pieces on the network, which in recent weeks included anti-diversity screeds and commentary blaming the Democrats for the migrant caravan. Carlson later claimed that protesters had broken his front door and were threatening him and his family something that has been disputed by observers and hasnt been corroborated by a police report about the incident...
dchill
(38,532 posts)demmiblue
(36,885 posts)President Donald Trump and Fox News host Sean Hannity have a much deeper connection than having taken legal advice from embattled lawyer Michael Cohen.
Hannity is one of only a few dozen family members and friends cleared to reach Trump at his direct White House telephone line via the switchboard operator, New York Magazine reported on Sunday. Hannity usually calls Trump after 10 p.m., after his show Hannity airs, and the two sometimes talk multiple times a day about developments as they come up.
White House officials know how frequently Hannity calls because Trump will say, "I just hung up with Hannity," talk to the TV host with others in the room or reference points from their chat later in the day, according to the magazine.
Trump often uses Hannity "to decompress" at night because he does not share a bedroom with his wife Melania Trump, a person familiar with the men told the magazine. The two men reportedly talked a few hours before Trump greeted three Americans who had been hostage in North Korea in their homecoming Thursday.
https://www.newsweek.com/sean-hannity-has-trumps-direct-phone-line-and-they-talk-multiple-times-day-924659
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Again, there's nothing in the president's call, at all. He released it. There's like 60 people on the call -- wonder if that means any time I've talked to him, if he -- if it's being recorded. That's not going to bode well for me. Good grief.
LYNDA MCLAUGHLIN: I assume everything is being recorded.
HANNITY: Yeah, it's true.
MCLAUGHLIN: As a result, I say the most ridiculous things possible, so at least when the agents are listening, they have something really interesting to report.
HANNITY: Sometimes -- sometimes I've gotten so paranoid, you just start talking to them. "By the way, for those of you listening on the other end that shouldn't be listening, hello. Hope you're having -- hope you're having a good day."
https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-thats-not-going-bode-well-me-if-my-phone-calls-trump-were-recorded
certainot
(9,090 posts)hannity is the name with brief description redacted in the mueller report glossary sitting between GRaf and HAWker
he was in the report a few times for incidental shit and should be there . this is not about cohen helping him with a woman problem or talking to trump. it's about other redacted parts of the report with nothing to do with affairs.
right after benghazi talk radio was used to sell the idea that clinton and obama ordered US embassy guards around the world not to carry live ammunition and hannity repeated it on radio at least. basically inviting attacks and too stupid to realize it. the national marine spokesman had to publically refute it. what rw think tank would think that one up?
talk radio is much more valuable and easier to use than fox. they can call limbaugh and hannity and other shows , get them to read emails, etc. like koch and GOP rw think tanks have been doing, and reach tens of millions.
corsi and stone and manafort are long time talk radio operators. hannity is a limbaugh buttboy. all this needs to be seen in the context of not just fox, but of the russians using talk radio going back at least to manafort being mcccain's campaign cochair and using limbaugh to force mccain to pick palin, who was being wooed by russian oil and gas.
then russians using limbaugh and hannity and wikileaks with a russian hack in 2009 to sell "climategate" to stop obama at copenhagen
russians using talk radio and fox to create the teabag 'resistance'
then debt default in 2011
etc all the way to trump
demmiblue
(36,885 posts)Note, Bannon seems to have a PARTICULARLY bad memory when it comes to Erik Prince.
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sop
(10,246 posts)These goons were busy trying to cover up the Ukraine/Biden thing before the whistleblower ripped the lid off their sordid scheme, just like they were busy covering up the Putin/Hillary election rigging in 2016. Nancy was right when she told Trump, "with you all roads lead to Russia."
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)Putin, Putin, Putin!!!
patphil
(6,207 posts)will take hundreds of years to disseminate.
Well shit, I was hoping to read it all.
Maybe my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren will get to see the whole of it.
Patrick Phillips
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)it in our lifetimes.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)you already knew
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)... It was already past tense: it had already happened.
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orangecrush
(19,617 posts)superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)And I hope they are scared.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Link to tweet
The RNC said theyd amplify the Wikileaks releases which they knew about ahead of time. Among other things.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)... "Vast right-wing conspiracy," to me.
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)Was and still is doing a news show? Keith Olbermann got fired for way less.
VOX
(22,976 posts)This pisses me off again about Mueller. He either didnt give a damn, or was a good Republican.
Evolve Dammit
(16,763 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)I had a feeling all the "It's Mueller Time!" bull shit would be empty.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... is more to be done.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Donald Corruption Trump! Exposed!
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)He knows way more than he has already blabbed to Michael Wolff and other journalists. He's been smart enough to keep under the radar, until now. Time to get him ON the radar, he knows where the bodies are buried so to speak.