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Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 19 2018, @05:43PM   Printer-friendly
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DeathMonkey writes:

A federal grand jury in Washington, DC has indicted 13 Russian nationals and a Kremlin-linked internet firm on charges that they had meddled in the 2016 presidential election.

The US government said Russian entities began interfering in US political processes, including the 2016 presidential election, as early as 2014, according to a court document.

[...] The charges – which include conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft – are the most direct allegations to date of illegal Russian meddling in the election.

Video - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-election-2016-russia-robert-mueller-investigation-fbi-latest-updates-a8214651.html

Link to the Indictment: https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by khallow on Monday February 19 2018, @11:27PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 19 2018, @11:27PM (#640334) Journal

    The US is in a worse situation than the USSR was after the fall of the wall

    Sorry, that's not even remotely credible. It's far stronger economically, definitely still in the upper tier of developed world countries while the USSR never made it to that far.

    Maybe the 2020ies US is going to top the 1920ies Ukraine in gruesome evils?

    That was during the takeover by the USSR. Nothing major happened in the Ukraine till the Holodomor [wikipedia.org] in the 1930s when several million Ukrainians died due to preventable famine, due to the machinations of the USSR leadership.

    Judging by the worst crimes in the US they're halfway there already.

    Like what? In my alternate reality the US is nowhere close to the evils of the USSR. Maybe you ought to come over here. You'd probably like it better.

    but there's not a shred of evidence that anyone is trying to mitigate the coming fall of the US in the same way the fall of the USSR was mitigated.

    You mean aside from drawing down US nuclear weapons to under a thousand warheads? It's like you're not even paying a shred of attention to what's going on.

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