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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @05:00PM (32 children)
37 indictments isn't nothing getting done.
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday April 18 2019, @05:32PM (30 children)
So many indictments of people in Trump's orbit can only mean that those are all the bad guys and that Trump is totally pure and clean of any wrongdoing.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @05:53PM (5 children)
Because of how the campaign went Trump was unable to hire for his team people who were actually good (if anyone in Washington can be clean) and he was left with the dregs of the party in many cases. He fired tons of people when he was actually able to hire the cleaner looking party regulars, among them the dirty players who only got in in the first place because they wanted favors. As you can read in the report, favors were not given.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:02PM (1 child)
Interesting.
I had formed the impression that the reason for the revolving door administration was because he couldn't find people who would be loyal enough. Willing to sacrifice their life, liberty or freedom to protect the dear leader.
But that's just my misinterpretation of events, I suppose.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:13PM
I presume that would also play a part, but what loyalties was Trump necessarily concerned about? Flynn and Manafort were fired, because it turns out their loyalty was not to Trump or America but was instead to foreign powers. The loyalty issue sort of disappeared when he was able to hire the classic party line advisors who while warmongers and corrupt in other ways, are loyal in so far as they would not undermine him to foreign powers. Past Republican presidents would heavily tap the National Review or the Weekly Standard, both pro-war neocon papers whose members would not work for Trump because he seemed too much a peacemaker when he was running and when he was transitioning. Trump hired a lot of generals, presumably because he likes generals, but because generals should be loyal to the US and to the office of the presidency.
He is an egotistical bastard yes, but I think he hired who he had to hire. When he fired the lobbyists at the beginning he hired neocons, and he found them distasteful (in some situations) and fired them as well. Mattis got canned because he kept postponing the withdrawal from Syria and some soldiers on the ground told him that they felt we were not trying to withdraw. When you have people undermining you on stuff, all the time, for their own personal gain (or company gain) you are going to develop loyalty issues especially if you are already inclined.
I re-examined my criticism of Obama and Hillary through this whole process and really thought about accusations and beliefs i held. When you are seeing something thats not there (the elephant in the room) and others are not seeing it, it is most likely the person seeing the elephant who is in the wrong. Delusions are additive and not subtractive. I think all of us, on all sides, fell into the right/left ratcheting of tensions that plays into the media's narrative to get clicks and views.
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(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:26PM (2 children)
Please provide citation on why parent post is redundant
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @08:01AM
It's redundant because some democrat doesn't want to hear it.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday April 19 2019, @08:19AM
You are repeating yourself, Sulla. No wonder Marius kicked your butt.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:04PM (22 children)
Indictments for obstruction with an investigation that turned up nothing much of note but said obstruction? I'm betting you're a fan of the FBI recruiting, indoctrinating, aiding, then charging terrorists then.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:25PM (17 children)
Enough obstruction can prevent an investigation from turn up anything.
I'm not a fan of that particular FBI practice but fail to understand how it is relevant?
If there is an investigation, and it is bound to turn up nothing, they why try to obstruct it at all? In fact, the obstruction just makes the whole process take more time.
Renewing my driver license recently. Asked about have I ever refused a test for blood alcohol. No, of course not. I would have no reason to refuse. Assuming the test is accurate it will always be zero and thus evidence in my favor. Why would I obstruct such a test.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:29PM (14 children)
More than anything I am concerned that professing my innocence will be a crime. Had Mueller found collusion my opinion on obstruction would be significantly different. The left likes to portray Trump as angry and unhinged, which is in line with someone freaking out and yelling at people when he didn't do anything wrong (regarding specific accusation) and being drug through the mud. Unless the left is now deciding that he is actually a composed genius, I think few on the right would agree he is a composed genius. COVFEFE
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:45PM (12 children)
There should never be presumption of guilt merely because innocence is claimed.
I think obstruction must be a crime in and of itself. Otherwise, unlimited obstruction can be used with impunity. (Of course even with punishment, unlimited obstruction can be used.)
The left likes to portray Trump as angry and unhinged -- because Trump gives off the impression all by himself. Merely pointing out the observation of how angry and unhinged he obviously is should not be considered some kind of conspiracy or deception.
When I see for myself, without anybody telling me, how angry and especially unhinged he obviously is, and he is president, I find it shocking, and even frightening that Republicans cannot see this for themselves.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:54PM (11 children)
If what you say is correct, its not obstruction. It's a pissed off innocent person venting. This is why Mueller had a hard time determining whether it was obstruction, and when Barr had to do his job and decided he decided (just like Comey did) to err on the side of no crime.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:50PM (10 children)
Wrong. So very wrong.
Venting is one thing, firing someone for performing an investigation is a completely different thing. Offering pardons to people is bribery/coercion in an attempt at obstruction. Threatening witnesses and their families is obstruction.
It is time to give up on supporting Trump. Actually, it is well past time but this is becoming ridiculous levels of crazy to support him now.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:56PM (9 children)
[Citation Needed]
[Citation Needed]
[Citation Needed]
Burden of proof is on the accuser
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:06PM (5 children)
1. Trump's mouth
2. Trump's mouth
3. Trump's mouth and twitter
Amazing how suddenly you conservatives are ALL ABOUT citations, but with Clinton's Emails and Benghazi OMGOMGOMG guilty all the way and won't even accept the investigative reports. Here we have Trump's investigation saying he is NOT exonerated, a metric shit-ton of evidence paired with criminal convictions and the special counsel saying that the convicted lied to hamper the investigation and a punting to congress / DOJ for actual indictments.
He IS guilty of emoluments violations, foreign bribes "laundered" through his hotels, campaign finance violations and obstruction of justice. Whether he can be pinned for his traitorous collusion with foreign powers is almost a non-issue at this point since it is one of AT LEAST five easily verified crimes.
There is no question about whether Trump is a criminal, just a question about how much corruption we are willing to tolerate. You are lied to daily, your chosen representatives are displaying the worst traits possible and making their partisan hackery so blindingly obvious. It is astounding the type of behavior you accept from him, but the answer is conservatives overall are so deluded about reality from Fox News propaganda that they think the bad things he does are secretly good things.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:53PM (2 children)
Whataboutism isn't a citation
[Citation Needed]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @01:56AM (1 child)
There was no whataboutism, just pointing out your hypocrisy. Odd you would ask for a citation of your own statement :P
If you are too lazy to investigate Trump's own videos and tweets that is on you. I guess Fox News doesn't play those ones huh?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @04:10AM
Lol Trump's rallies are now and have always been conservative comedy shows. If you can't see that you are more deleted than trump
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 19 2019, @01:37AM
Just don't actually read them! They don't like that, apparently...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 19 2019, @02:39AM
And, of course, lefties don't pick and choose which reports they want to believe. A report that makes Bush or Trump look bad is better than Gospel. A report that makes Obama or Hillary look bad is the work of Satan.
Pot, meet Kettle.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday April 19 2019, @08:21AM (2 children)
You will never get citations for :
- Trumps racist tweets
- Offering pardons as bribery
- Threatening US citizens.*
- pretty much any other claim about horrible things the big orange clown says.
I've asked several times and all you get is links to people saying he said those things. Or links to people saying other people saying he said those things. You will never get a primary source, and I've reluctantly come to the conclusion there isn't one. Pointing that out will get you modded troll or redundant.
*outside the scope of his job. Threatening people is pretty much part of his job.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @04:13PM (1 child)
Trump: they're rapists, murderers, very bad people. His addition of "some good people" was only to avoid heat for an obviously racist statrment. Muslim ban. Fuck you and your stupidity.
He dangled pardons multiple times, told people to do illegal things and he'd pay their lawyer fees.
He threatened Cohen's father (in law?) with investigation, he has committed stochastic terrorism many times, he frequently calls liberals evil and falsely accuses people, then he makes vague suggestions for his supporters to commit violence.
I'm tired of idiots like you who ignore reality and then lie to push your pro-Trump agenda.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday April 19 2019, @09:31PM
Yet you and plenty of other AC's can tirelessly repeat that you are tired of providing proof without ever actually doing so. Trump's entire tweet history is online. It would have been quicker to provide a link to a racist tweet than to write out that post. Why don't you do that?
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @06:57PM
At least here in the US, you have the right to remain silent [wikipedia.org].
What's more, obstruction requires overt acts [house.gov], including (18 USC 73, 1505):
Which, in this case, boils down to *lying*, either under oath or in writing, or soliciting others to do so. If you protest your innocence and are, in fact, innocent, that's not a lie, is it?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:50PM
Dishonest people do it by knee-jerk. All politicos are dishonest. It doesn't however follow that they actually did anything wrong that's currently being investigated.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 20 2019, @05:57AM
> have I ever refused a test for blood alcohol. No, of course not. I would have no reason to refuse. Assuming the test is accurate it will always be zero and thus evidence in my favor. Why would I obstruct such a test.
How about religious reasons? For some, blood is sacred, and for an adult even accepting a transfusion to stay alive is courting eternal damnation.
How about because sensors are often wrong? Search for the calibration error cases; there was at least one well publicized jurisdiction where years of results were thrown out because badly calibrated breathalizers could blow over limit from a completely sober blower.
How about because the imposition of such tests has in the past been used as a tool of systemic oppression? Why the fuck should I lose fifteen minutes of my day for a stop-and-check while white dudes stroll past, rubbernecking?
How about because some people faint at the idea of their blood being drawn so there's medical harm to them.
How about if I were MDC, maybe interacting with the police is best avoided for the overall social good anyways, and there are others, with PTSD or schizoaffective or whatever, with completely valid reasons for being uncomfortable around authority.
Your failure to (use your imagination or to literally) see how mandatory testing without evidence has a negative impact on some persons being tested is your failure and like a person who, in the atrium at a concert, professes their favorite song is "chopsticks," you look really stupid for it.
C'mon. This is soylent. Write and talk like it's to a wiser, older mentor. Don't wave your failings around as if they prove anything but your ability to fail.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:14PM (3 children)
"nothing much of note"
Damn you're fucked in the head. The report does everything but indict Trump for collusion, and EVEN IF he gets cleared for that you want to forgive the obstruction because why? Because Trump told you it was a traitorous coup attempt and he was so innocent that he needed to obstruct justice. Also pay no mind to the multiple criminal indictments of his closest advisers, his clear violation of the emoluments clause AKA bribery, and his illegal use of campaign finances for hush money.
You're so fucking dumb.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:59PM
You have the report in front of you, perhaps you should do some work instead of just parroting talking points
[Citation Needed]
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:54PM (1 child)
Obstruction that would not have happened if there had been no investigation to obstruct? One that turns up nothing much on Americans except obstruction? You can't see why I'd have a problem with that?
Oh? Did I miss the bit where he was accused, indicted, tried, and/or convicted for those?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @11:38PM
Misplaced your eyeballs again huh? Or possibly still just a missing brain issue. Get an MRI, they can probably direct you to the correct specialist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:58PM
Foo Barr
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 18 2019, @05:51PM
Hundreds of indictments, 37 individuals/organizations.
Seven individuals convicted of federal crimes.
And, while Mueller was investigating he found evidence of crimes outside of his narrow scope that he referrer to federal prosescutors.
Enough evidence to start nine other investigations. [voanews.com]