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Breaking News: Mueller Report Released [Updated]

posted by martyb on Thursday April 18 2019, @04:15PM   Printer-friendly

martyb writes:

Read the Mueller report

Pardon the brevity; submitted via my mobile phone.

[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

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:19PM (7 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:19PM (#831783) Journal

    Trump Vetoes Measure to Force End to U.S. Involvement in Yemen War [nytimes.com]

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:58PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:58PM (#831846)

    That was a blatant attempt to cause a breakdown of diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia. Some people want Trump to fail at diplomacy, even if this hurts America.

    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @09:25PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @09:25PM (#831884)

      Oh noes not a breakdown in diplomatic relations with the country that gave us 9/11!! We really need that sweet money from selling restricted nuclear tech to a theocratic government.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:20PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:20PM (#831920) Journal

        I would have modded you Funny instead of Insightful, but the situation is too bleak even for dark comedy...

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    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:21PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:21PM (#831921)

      As far as I'm concerned the Saudi-US relationship is fundamentally destructive, and should be disrupted. Stuff that relationship has gotten us into includes:

      • Gulf War I: Yes, the Kuwaiti oil fields were also part of the reason, but defending the Saudis (who just happened to be the US president's business partners) was the main point.
      • Al Qaida: Osama bin Laden specifically cited US troops in what he considered the holy land of Islam as his reason for basically defecting from the CIA to attack the US instead. His brand of Islam, also subscribed to by other "interesting" folks from the Middle East, is sponsored by the Saudi royal family, and bin Laden's family have always been close associates of the Saudi royals.
      • September 11 attacks: The vast majority of the hijackers were Saudi. But that relationship led to the anger over the attacks being misdirected to 2 other countries that had much less if anything to do with it.
      • Afghanistan War: This still-ongoing fight in "the graveyard of empires" was ostensibly to kill Osama bin Laden and destroy Al Qaida, although for some strange reason the war didn't stop once the US had done those things, and it turned out they'd targeted the wrong country for that goal anyways.
      • Iraq War: This was a really really big favor to the Saudis. They were tired of having a hostile power on their borders, and a competing oil interest.
      • ISIS/ISIL/Daesh: The Saudi royal family at least was funding them [nytimes.com].
      • Yemen Civil War: The US began getting involved in that mess during the George W Bush administration, and has continued it throughout the Obama and Trump administrations. Strangely enough, it was something that was both officially secret and widely reported.
      • The Iran Nuclear Deal that Wasn't: The Saudis, along with Israel, consistently oppose any kind of cooling off of relations between the US and Iran, even though the Saudis have been supporting the bad guys and the Iranians have fought alongside American troops against ISIS/ISIL/Daesh and were by all appearances sticking to their side until the US reneged.

      With "friends" like those, who needs enemies? I don't care how it makes Donald Trump look, the decades-long US policy there is stupid. And no, I don't see cheaper oil as worth the cost in lives and dollars.

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  • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by jdavidb on Friday April 19 2019, @02:24AM (2 children)

    by jdavidb (5690) on Friday April 19 2019, @02:24AM (#832008) Homepage Journal

    This whole war thing has been insane.

    • Obama: I'm going to go to war in Syria
    • Trump: President Obama, do not attack Syria. There is no upside and tremendous downside. Save your "powder" for another (and more important) day! [twitter.com]
    • Obama: (Goes to war in Syria)
    • Obama: Should we go to war in Libya?
    • Congress: No
    • Obama: (bombs them anyway)
    • Trump: (becomes President)
    • Trump: (continues the God-damned wars, including the Syria war he explicitly condemned)
    • (Time passes)
    • Trump: I'm withdrawing from the war in Syria!
    • Congress: NO!
    • Democrats: NO!
    • Republicans: NO, Not like this!
    • Trump: (never acts on his promise to end the war in Syria)
    • Congress: We're withdrawing from the war in Yemen!
    • Trump: (vetoes the resolution to withdraw from the war in Yemen)

    I would have to be severely mentally disabled not to conclude the obvious: all these horrible people are colluding to continue all of these wars while throwing us the bone of an occasional pretense of thinking about withdrawal.

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