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[Update (20190418_203255 UTC) --martyb]
I was listening to the radio while running an errand when I heard the Mueller Report had been released. The above link was the first that came up when I did a search. I quickly posted the story using my mobile phone to get it to the community as quickly as possible. Here are additional sources as well as the MD5SUM and resultant file sizes from downloading each. The CNN file has a different size from the others. A quick inspection suggests that it contains searchable text (presumably through OCR (Optical Character Recognition) processing) whereas the others contain images of each of the pages in the report.
CNN (searchable): http://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/politics/full-mueller-report-pdf/index.html provided a link to:
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/04/18/mueller-report-searchable.pdf:
MD5: 614529b6979e7ec5323af8c2a286afdd
Size: 140,352,112 bytes
DOJ: https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf:
MD5: ce5859e9b5d8b76aedd18dc296dcc1e6
Size: 145,509,756 bytes
NPR: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/708850903/read-the-full-mueller-report-with-redactions provided a link to:
https://media.npr.org/assets/news/2019/04/muellerreport.pdf
MD5: ce5859e9b5d8b76aedd18dc296dcc1e6
Size: 145,509,756 bytes
PBS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-redacted-mueller-report provided a link to:
https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2019/04/Muellereport.pdf
MD5: ce5859e9b5d8b76aedd18dc296dcc1e6
Size: 145,509,756 bytes
(Score: 5, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Thursday April 18 2019, @04:59PM (26 children)
I disagree. Because of the investigation, the US government is now on record (with indictments, no less) that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election.
Regardless of the outcome of that election, it's clear that Putin and his gang are afraid of us and we need to make sure they stay the hell out of our electoral system.
What's more, having a full investigation allows us to move on and, hopefully (although I'm not holding my breath), get some real work done.
BTW, according to the Attorney General (AG), there were at least ten overt acts by Trump and/or his minions that, taken together, *could have been* construed as obstruction of justice. The Special Counsel chose not to opine as to whether or not they amounted to obstruction and the AG chose not to construe them that way. -- Just to clarify, that's not my opinion. That's (paraphrased, hear it from the AG himself [c-span.org]) what came out of the AG's mouth at his press conference this morning.
In any event, I'm sure we'll hear lots of posturing and bullshit on all sides. As far as I'm concerned, if you didn't actually read the report, your opinion doesn't count for much. If you don't back up your arguments with specific cites from the report, I will ignore you.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday April 18 2019, @05:17PM (21 children)
Do you live in an effing cave? Russia meddling in an election is not news. They have meddled in every election since the Revolution. Hell, The Revolution was Harvard meddling in the Czar's internal affairs. They meddle in everyone else's elections as well. We meddle in everyone's elections. President Obama dispatched his entire campaign team to Israel to campaign for the opposition candidate against the sitting Prime Minister. This is not some wild Internet conspiracy theory, it was openly reported in all the major media of the time. CNN is carried worldwide and is an entirely a political organization attempting to influence public opinion and yes, elections. Everyone gets spun up over RT but what would one call the BBC or DW, VOA, etc other than state controlled broadcasters attempting to spread influence, including in foreign elections?
You are shocked, shocked! that there is gambling occurring in this casino!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @05:20PM (2 children)
Identifying the various methods and avenues of attack that the Russians are using may not be news to people who are "in the know" but it is useful to the common person to know what types of things they see/read might be propaganda from a foreign power. Mueller report might have been cheaper in terms of hard cost than similar counter-intelligence operations.
Biggest loss here was two years of insanity over this thing that effectively killed the infrastructure bill.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @05:32PM (1 child)
Infrastructure bill? Those are just trillion dollar pork barrels. And every road repair and construction project I've ever seen seems to takes months or years when the Chinese could do it in days or weeks. Let the infrastructure crumble, then fix it.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @05:36PM
With any luck, you'll be on a bridge when it crumbles, or on a train when the tracks fail.
It's just a little dream I have.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:00PM (17 children)
My my how the narrative shifts. It started with "haw haw Russia is a hoax" and now it is "of COURSE they meddled durrrr" like you didn't fight this reality tooth and nail. Pathetic how quickly you flip, party of cowards honestly.
Still fighting to pretend Trump isn't complicit though, more pathetic. "Gee, I had no idea my son was talking to people about helping my campaign and THAT is why I totally lied about all of it. I hire people to do my thinking for me, except when I want the credit, then it is all me."
So Sad Much Wow
(Score: 2, Informative) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:54PM (1 child)
Did you only watch CNN? Republicans have been agreeing that Russia was involved all along, and that they should be sanctioned for it, but that Trump was not involved. Sounds like their narrative was correct. Keep in mind that the Republican controlled house and senate were the ones to increase sanctions on Russia over the election meddling, and that the sanctions would not have gone through had it not been for Republican support.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 19 2019, @01:31AM
Senate Fails to Block Administration From Easing Russia Sanctions [wsj.com]
Who's in charge of the Senate right now?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:07PM (14 children)
Far leftie here. I'm still at "Russia is a hoax," perhaps without the haw haw part. The amount of money Russia spends "meddling" is a rounding error compared to the amount of money spent domestically on elections. You're upset because Russia spent an insignificant amount of money on some ads--which according to interpretations of our First Amendment in cases like Citizens United... I honestly don't know how you'd stop them. If you're worried about Russian "meddling" then let's talk campaign finance reform.
There's that, and then I have a "whataboutism."
Whataboutism: If you want meddling, take a gander at the USA's attempted coup in Venezuela. Russia did not attempt to run a candidate in the USA at the last minute nobody had heard of and then use international pressure to get that nobody installed in the oval office. However, that's exactly what the USA did in Venezuela.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:42PM (13 children)
Russian nationals committed crimes in the US. The hacking (both successful and attemtped) are violations of CFAA [wikipedia.org]. Purchasing political ads violates US election law [fec.gov].
So no. It wasn't and isn't a hoax. Which is why more than a dozen Russian nationals were *indicted*.
You're talking out of your ass and it smells that way too.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @11:24PM (3 children)
Notice the Fox News talking points being repeated ad-nauseum like the unvarnished truth.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 19 2019, @02:31AM (1 child)
Notice the CNN talking points being repeated ad-nauseum like the unvarnished truth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @03:00AM
You and GP hit the nail on the head even if unintentionally.
The elites have just about everybody here programmed like robots, some blue robots, some red robots, but both spewing talking points that do not represent their interests.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @02:57AM
We must see past this ridiculous Red vs. Blue bullshit the ruling class wants us to identify with. Neither of the capitalist parties represent the interests of the working class. Red vs. Blue is a game for the bourgeoisie. The working class must take action independent of the two party system and independent of the whargarbl in the MSM, which includes Faux News and Brietbarf alongside the usual neoliberal suspects.
Can't you see how unproductive this shouting match is? The elites have you shouting at each other about stuff that does not matter while they're laughing all the way to the bank with the wealth you produce.
Just turn the MSM off. Unplug from the matrix. If you're being financially squeezed and worrying about being reduced to living paycheck to paycheck, there's nothing either of the capitalist parties will do to help you. The elites steal the wealth we produce because we let them. For an idea what happens when we begin to stand up for ourselves against exploitation, we can learn from the Matamoros strikes and the Yellow Vests.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by shortscreen on Friday April 19 2019, @01:06AM (3 children)
It's a hoax in the same way that scare mongering about dihydrogen monoxide is. Yes, people can drown in pools. That doesn't mean that fooling your ignorant legislator into proposing a ban on dihydrogen monoxide is constructive.
Indicting Russians for some small scale mischief isn't going to do shit. If what they were doing actually mattered and the US authorities actually cared, then said authorities should have addressed it immediately instead of waiting until after the election ended and then wringing their hands for two years.
Even if the Russophobes and DNC conspiracy theorists could prove that alleged hacking wasn't made to look like the work of Russians by way of the CIA's tools, revealed in the vault 7 leak, which were designed for exactly that purpose, and even if they could prove that any of these goings on are actually connected to the Russian government, they can never prove that this threatened the integrity of the election. Because an election where one party rigs its primary and gets away with it, where the corporate media gives massive preferential coverage to particular candidate(s), and where 60% of poll respondants don't want either of the front runners, is an election without any integrity to begin with.
Russiagate was hoax from its conception, and always will be a hoax.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @01:19AM (2 children)
Crimes were committed. People were indicted. Full stop.
Whatever you may think, the rule of law applies.
If you don't believe in the rule of law, move to Somalia. Or maybe Duterte will give you a job.
Here in the US, laws matter. Don't like it? Too fucking bad.
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Friday April 19 2019, @01:32AM (1 child)
1) I'm sure Russian citizens will gladly come to the US to turn themselves in because you said so.
2) BTW, when does your pal George W. Bush (or anybody else) get prosecuted for war crimes? Rule of law, and all that.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @01:54AM
We would just love Dubya and Co. to be held accountable, but that is a separate story.
Right here and now we actually have criminals being held somewhat accountable and enough political pressure to just maybe hold another rich asshole accountable. This is a very important step for the US to correct our missteps in letting Nixon off the hook. If we can't even hold a corrupt lying buffoon to the rule of law then we truly are lost. The jmorris' of the world will seize power and start stomping faces. Actually they've been doing that since pretty well for a while now, hence the non-stop slide we've been on.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 19 2019, @02:30AM (4 children)
And, you failed to address GP's points. Do you actually think it is LEGAL in all of the countries in the world for agents of the US to come in and fuck with their internal processes? Not once in my life have I ever seen a headline, such as "Venezuela invites US meddling in it's affairs, strikes down all laws forbidding foreign agents free reign within the country."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @04:02AM (1 child)
I don't live in those other countries. as such, I have no say as to what's legal and what's not legal there.
If the citizens of those countries want to bring charges against Americans, I have no issue with that.
Just like with the Russian nationals we indicted, good luck putting them on trial.
Just to make sure I understand, you're essentially saying that "since Americans do stuff that's questionable around the world, that renders US law null and void." Does that about cover it.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 19 2019, @02:33PM
I'm saying a bunch of hypocrites look stupid, expecting the world to obey our laws, when we only respect the laws we want to respect.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday April 20 2019, @04:35AM (1 child)
The US invasion of Granada was invited by the Governor-General of Granada.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 20 2019, @05:02AM
I don't count that as "meddling in internal affairs". We were asked to step in, and take some specific actions, and upon conclusion of those actions, we stepped back out.
Dayum - I looked at Wikipedia to refresh my memory. The invasion was just two days after the barracks in Beruit City was blown up. Not nostalgia, exactly, but I'm back in 1983 again. Beruit was more personal, Granada was more an academic exercise, to me.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:01PM (3 children)
Why? You reckon we're not experienced enough at hearing lies at election time to handle a minuscule amount of additional bullshit? Or are you afraid they're going to expose more truth?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @01:21AM (2 children)
Irrelevant. Crimes were committed. I tell you what, why don't I jimmy the lock on the door to your house and rifle through all your shit.
Since you don't have anything worth stealing, I leave empty-handed.
I reckon that there's no issue. You didn't lose any property. I didn't even damage your door or your lock. By your logic, I didn't do anything illegal, right?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 19 2019, @02:33AM (1 child)
And, by the law and order crowd's logic, jimmying that lock is a capital offense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @05:51PM
lawl, worst I've heard is for Trump to be impeached. I'm sure someone somewhere on the internet has called for capital punishment but I suspect it is just Runaway's typical stupid hyperbole.