Back in March, the House Intelligence Committee issued a “Report On Russian Active Measures,” to the intelligence community. Their findings were ignored or mocked by the media and Democrats. But as Mr. Trump was preparing to meet Mr. Putin, Bob Mueller publicly announced the indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officials. Big news claims the media and Democrats. Big news.
Except that it is based on a report the Republican Majority House Intelligence committee released back in March to boos and cat-calls from those applauding Mueller today.
It’s pretty clear if you read the indictment, and you read our four findings and Chapter Two, even with redactions, you get most of the indictment,” House Intel chairman Rep. Devin Nunes told me in a phone conversation Sunday. “If you didn’t have the redactions, you’d get more than what’s in the indictment, except for the Russian names.”
The Washington Examiner adds that,
Nunes said the committee has known the basics of the Russian operation for a long time — since the spring and summer of 2017. Of course, the committee learned most of that by questioning and being provided documents by officials of the intelligence community. That suggests much, if not most, of the material in the Mueller indictment was known to the IC before Mueller even came on the job in May 2017. Why it took until July 2018 to indict the Russians is just another unknown about the Mueller probe.
Mueller’s breaking news indictment is old news. It’s also useless news and the second time that millions of taxpayer dollars have been plowed into an investigation that has managed to indict people it can never bring to trial. Or, at least people it thinks it can never bring to trial.
Remeber the last Mueller indictment? That one was thirteen Russians. Whatever happened with that earth-shattering “collusion” bombshell? Russians messing with Facebook and Twitter, blah blah blah.
Facebook testified before Congress, made their Ad ID process byzantine, and launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign about Facebook’s new commitment to whatever. But that’s all Mueller’s first indictment wrought.
There was no proof of collusion with Trump or evidence of partisan collusion of any sort. And one of accused sent lawyers to the US to demand a trial and full discovery. Discovery of what?
When challenged to produce their “evidence” Mueller, Collusion, Inc. dumped “two terabytes of untranslated Russian social media data on the defense as their “discovery” evidence.
It would be interesting to know how the prosecution explained to the court exactly how untranslated Russian social media could possibly influence a US presidential election, but we probably never will.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve clicked on “political ads” in Facebook written in Russian. Wait, yes I can. None. And how the hell would I know they were political? Always more questions than answers.
Like what happened to the trial?
The July court date has come and gone without taking place. No one in the watchdog media is watching so the massive, earthshattering, indictment of 13 Russians has fallen down the memory hole where it will stay because the indictment was a shill to the press and the Democrats milking the collusion fantasy in the run-up to November 2018.
There’s no “there” there.
Okay, but what about these new indictments of these 12 Russian Military Intelligence operatives?
I’m quite certain they or someone in Russian Military intelligence was using the internet to mess with the US. I’m confident they are continually poking around for unsecured servers in Democrat Secretary of State’s homes or holes in the firewalls of Democrat congressional networks run by sketchy foreign nationals. And we can ask as nicely as we’d like but that’s never going to stop. We know this.
We also know that Mueller mirrored findings in the original 4-month old House Intelligence Committee report (that the media scoffed at back then) for his latest indictment. A report that included details of Russian efforts to mine Republican and Democrat data. But Mueller’s indictment makes no mention of cyber attacks on Republicans.
An indictment that hints at details culled from a forensic examination that never happened.
“… can anyone explain how this FBI forensic data-analysis was possible when the FBI was never allowed access to the DCCC, DNC and Clinton Campaign servers?”
And we know that the indicted will never be sent to the US for trial (and we can’t go there and get them) so Mueller and Company will never have to present evidence to support these new charges. And this time, there is almost no likelihood that lawyers will be arriving to defend the accused.
So, the case against the thirteen Russians will disappear without a word, and the case against the new dozen will never result in evidence being made public to prove the charges.
Democrats and the Media are praising Mueller for what amounts to nothing which is what he has so far on Trump conspiring with foreigners to tip an election.
H/T Bongino.com
