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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: 1) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:47PM (7 children)
[citation required]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @08:21PM (4 children)
Page 9 of the redacted report.
"Papadopoulos had suggested to a representative of that foreign government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anoymous release of information damaging to the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. That information prompted the FBI on July 31, 2016 to open an investigation into whether individuals associated with the Trump Campaign were coordinating with the Russian government in its interference activities."
paraphrase: "that fall two fed agencies announced Russian hacking to interfere in the election"
"Within the Executive Branch, these investigatory efforts ultimately led to the May 2017 appointment of Special Counsel Robert S Mueller ... to investigate ... any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign."
"......... The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit ... and that the Campaign expected it would benefit ... the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."
Love this next bit:
"In evaluating whether evidence about collective action of multiple individuals constituted a crime, we applied the framework of conspiracy law, not the concept of "collusion" .... We understood coordination to require an agreement -- tacit or expres -- between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government on election interference. That requires more than the two parties taking actions that were informed by or responsive to the other's actions or interests."
So that explains Trump's stupid "Russia if you're listening get those emails" comment. Very good alibi that allows people to sweep the whole thing under the rug. All that is just in the introduction! There is more if you care to read the actual report, such as:
"First, the Office determined that Russia's two principal interference operations in the 2016 US presidential election .... violated US criminal law."
....
"Third, the investigation established that several individuals affiliated with the Trump Campaign lied to the Office, and to Congress, about their interactions with Russian-affiliated individuals and related matters. Those lies materially impaired the investigation of Russian election interference."
Basically Trump and company managed to obstruct the investigation enough that it couldn't tie the collusion back to Trump, but the report is screaming that they are guilty. I'm not calling for punishment without proof, but you ostriches need to take your head out of the sand.
Aside from the collusion Trump is 100% guilty of obstruction multiple times, but most significantly when he fired Comey and ADMITTED that it was because of the Russia investigation. I mean COME ON already!!!! Get with reality! It is beyond frustrating to keep going over the blindingly obvious.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @08:55PM (3 children)
In the middle of something so I will respond more in depth later, but I already responded to one issue you bring up so I'll redundant myself.
Funny because here is that all Trump did was request that Russia follow the treaty that says Russia is supposed to hand over any evidence of criminal wrongdoing by a US citizen.
This was difficult to find;
https://www.congress.gov/treaty-document/106th-congress/22 [congress.gov]
You can read the treaty on your own, but the transmittal letter is pretty explanatory.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:17PM (2 children)
Well since the US performed their own investigation that went nowhere that makes your statement about "The Treaty provides for a broad range of cooperation in
criminal matters" a non-starter of an excuse. Trump was not a member of the government when he requested Russia's hacking and it wasn't part of a criminal investigation.
The lengths you assholes go to trying to defend that waste of space. Now, if Trump had then proceeded to "LOCK HER UP" you would have a very tiny leg to stand on, but the real purpose was to gain an upper hand in the election; not to pursue criminal investigation of Clinton.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @10:57PM (1 child)
So he was enough of a member of the government for you to say he shouldn't have any business dealings with the Russians, but not enough that he shouldn't tell people to follow through on their commitments? Can't be both. Regardless of whether or not he was a government official, you can tell other countries to hold up their end of the bargain. An average guy can complain that Germany isn't paying their fair share in Nato, thats not illegal.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @05:37PM
The contortions you go through to try and spin the bad news so that it is "OK" is just ridiculous. I never said any such thing and I'll refer you to the emoluments clause and campaign finance laws to answer your question even though you answered it incorrectly for yourself.
Nice straw man you erected, care to knock it back down before you look too silly?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @08:25PM (1 child)
Scanning quickly for massive redactions I found "According to Gates, by the late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign was planning a press strategy, a communications campaign, and a messaging based on the possible release of Clinton emails by Wikileaks. REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED ... while Trump and GAtes were driving to LaGuardia Airport. REDACTED ..., shortly after the call candidate Trump told Gates that more releases of dmaaging information would be coming."
NEXT PARAGRAPH FULLY REDACTED.
Page 62 of pdf, 54 of the report.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday April 18 2019, @08:48PM
If Wikileaks dumps information in your favor you would be stupid not to take absolute advantage when developing a media strategy. Just because I dropped a donut and someone else picked it up and ate it does not mean I gave them the donut directly. It is possible, but Mueller found that not to be the case.
There is pending litigation surrounding Wikileaks with Roger Stone. Stone was charged with contacting Wikileaks trying to find out if they can release the information sooner, then telling the Campaign that he was the brain behind the whole operation, which is in line with Stone attributing to himself more credibility than he deserves. I'll have to check when I get home, but put the text from the redacted area into a word document, find the right font, and see if you can fit Roger Stone in there a bunch.
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