RUSSIA 🇷🇺 / РОССИЯ THREAD—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGENT—UKRAINE Peace?
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Personally, with really no basis for the statement, I don't think Putin has the stronghold over Russia that is portrayed. I think there are some pretty big cracks in his armor, and it will all come to a head in the next year or so. He is a fukking self serving leach, and while his country struggles with poverty primarily caused by his greed, the oligarchs enjoy immeasurable wealth. This generation of youth, being as computer savvy as they are, will help bring down the organized crime syndicate known as the Russian government. Once Trump goes, the next in line, regardless of who it is, will be forced to hold Putin's feet to the fire to prove that the US will not stand idle to the Russians continued aggressive attack on our country. At some point, the Russian people will start seeing that the reason that they are so heavily sanctioned is because Putin wants to continue to line his and the oligarchs pockets while jockeying for more money and power, while not letting even a red cent trickle down to the general population. I just can't see this being sustainable, and I think that Putin's arrogance, and thirst for power and money will lead to his downfall.
Eh, I think you're being overly optimistic about Russia facing any serious consequences.
Pence (if he's next in line) certainly won't do anything, and whoever else is probably not going to do much aside from some minor sanctions or something. And Congress will be controlled by Republican a$$holes for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately I don't think the American electorate cares enough about what Russia did to make politicians do any more than that.
Breh they got control of the house, senate and the president, and they can't get shyt done. I wouldn't say GOP is looking too hot right now. Oh yea, their #1 guy hates the #2/3 and #1/2 are possibly going to be convicted of serious federal crimes.
Well I mean they're incompetent no doubt, I just think white people will keep voting for them anyway, so they'll stay in power for the foreseeable future.
Look at Trump's approval rating. No matter what he does it doesn't really budge.
Pun
I imagine he asked for a Jet that was able to fly breh
Rework? Why don't the university just take that shyt away, clearly he used fraud to attain the degree
Mods are horrible right nowOne more thing, and I will drop it, just got a notification from the mods saying I was "muted for 72 hours" and am not allowed to send messages to the mods over there during that time period, lol, I never heard of such a thing. They literally have created a fukking safe space, like the p*ssy ass cowards they are, I guess words really do hurt. The mod also sent me this gif
even if the political will is not there to press the broad russia issue, i would think that the IC operate with enough autonomy that they can make putin feel the squeeze.
most likely these actions and their effects would not to made public or even have been initiated by someone in office.
Mueller just obtained a warrant that could change the entire nature of the Russia investigation
Natasha Bertrand
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Robert Mueller. Thomson Reuters
Robert Mueller obtained a search warrant for records of "inauthentic" Facebook accounts
- It's bad news for Russian election interference "deniers"
- Mueller may be looking to charge specific foreign entities with a crime
The warrant was first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal on Friday night and the news was later confirmed by CNN.
Legal experts say the revelation has enormous implications for the trajectory of Mueller's investigation into Russia's election interference, and whether Moscow had any help from President Donald Trump's campaign team.
"This is big news — and potentially bad news for the Russian election interference 'deniers,'" said Asha Rangappa, a former FBI counterintelligence agent.
Rangappa, now an associate dean at Yale Law School, explained that to obtain a search warrant a prosecutor needs to prove to a judge that there is reason to believe a crime has been committed. The prosecutor then has to show that the information being sought will provide evidence of that crime.
Mueller would not have sought a warrant targeting Facebook as a company, Rangappa noted. Rather, he would have been interested in learning more about specific accounts.
"The key here, though, is that Mueller clearly already has enough information on these accounts — and their link to a potential crime to justify forcing [Facebook] to give up the info," she said. "That means that he has uncovered a great deal of evidence through other avenues of Russian election interference."
It also means that Mueller is no longer looking at Russia's election interference from a strict counterintelligence standpoint — rather, he now believes he may be able to obtain enough evidence to charge specific foreign entities with a crime.
Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, now a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, said that the revelation Mueller obtained a search warrant for Facebook content "may be the biggest news in the case since the Manafort raid."
The FBI conducted a predawn July raid on the home of Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in late July. The bureau is reportedly investigatingManafort's financial history and overseas business dealings as part of its probe into possible collusion between the campaign and Moscow.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner listens as President Donald Trump answer questions regarding the ongoing situation in North Korea, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Associated Press/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
The Facebook warrant "means that Mueller has concluded that specific foreign individuals committed a crime by making a 'contribution' in connection with an election," Mariotti wrote on Saturday.
"It also means that he has evidence of that crime that convinced a federal magistrate judge of two things: first, that there was good reason to believe that the foreign individual committed the crime. Second, that evidence of the crime existed on Facebook."
That has implications for Trump and his associates, too, Mariotti said.
"It is a crime to know that a crime is taking place and to help it succeed. That's aiding and abetting. If any Trump associate knew about the foreign contributions that Mueller's search warrant focused on and helped that effort in a tangible way, they could be charged."
Congressional intelligence committees are homing in on the campaign's data operation as a potential trove of incriminating information.
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, told MSNBC earlier this month that he wants to know how sophisticated the Russian-bought ads were — in terms of their content and targets — to determine whether they had any help from the Trump campaign.
The House Intelligence Committee also wants to interview the digital director for Trump's campaign, Brad Parscale, who worked closely with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
@DonKnock @SJUGrad13 @88m3 @Cali_livin @Menelik II @wire28 @smitty22 @Reality @fact @Hood Critic @ExodusNirvana @Blessed Is the Man @THE MACHINE @OneManGang @dtownreppin214 @The Taxman @JKFrazier @tmonster @blotter @BigMoneyGrip @Soymuscle Mike
Kushner was put in charge of the campaign's entire data operation and is now being scrutinized by the FBI over his contacts with Russia's ambassador and the CEO of a sanctioned Russian bank in December.
Facebook said in its initial statement that about 25% of the ads purchased by Russians during the election "were geographically targeted," and many analysts have found it difficult to believe that foreign entities would have had the kind of granular knowledge of American politics necessary to target specific demographics and voting precincts.
In a post-election interview, Kushner told Forbes that he had been keenly interested in Facebook's "micro-targeting" capabilities from early on.
“I called somebody who works for one of the technology companies that I work with, and I had them give me a tutorial on how to use Facebook micro-targeting,” Kushner said.
“We brought in Cambridge Analytica. I called some of my friends from Silicon Valley who were some of the best digital marketers in the world," Kushner said. "
And I asked them how to scale this stuff . . . We basically had to build a $400 million operation with 1,500 people operating in 50 states, in five months to then be taken apart. We started really from scratch," he added.
Mueller just obtained a warrant that could change the entire nature of the Russia investigation
Natasha Bertrand
FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly obtained a search warrant for records of the "inauthentic" accounts Facebook shut down earlier this month and the targeted ads these accounts purchased during the 2016 election.
Robert Mueller obtained a search warrant for records of "inauthentic" Facebook accounts
- It's bad news for Russian election interference "deniers"
- Mueller may be looking to charge specific foreign entities with a crime
The warrant was first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal on Friday night and the news was later confirmed by CNN.
Legal experts say the revelation has enormous implications for the trajectory of Mueller's investigation into Russia's election interference, and whether Moscow had any help from President Donald Trump's campaign team.
"This is big news — and potentially bad news for the Russian election interference 'deniers,'" said Asha Rangappa, a former FBI counterintelligence agent.
Rangappa, now an associate dean at Yale Law School, explained that to obtain a search warrant a prosecutor needs to prove to a judge that there is reason to believe a crime has been committed. The prosecutor then has to show that the information being sought will provide evidence of that crime.
Mueller would not have sought a warrant targeting Facebook as a company, Rangappa noted. Rather, he would have been interested in learning more about specific accounts.
"The key here, though, is that Mueller clearly already has enough information on these accounts — and their link to a potential crime to justify forcing [Facebook] to give up the info," she said. "That means that he has uncovered a great deal of evidence through other avenues of Russian election interference."
It also means that Mueller is no longer looking at Russia's election interference from a strict counterintelligence standpoint — rather, he now believes he may be able to obtain enough evidence to charge specific foreign entities with a crime.
Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, now a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, said that the revelation Mueller obtained a search warrant for Facebook content "may be the biggest news in the case since the Manafort raid."
The FBI conducted a predawn July raid on the home of Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in late July. The bureau is reportedly investigatingManafort's financial history and overseas business dealings as part of its probe into possible collusion between the campaign and Moscow.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner listens as President Donald Trump answer questions regarding the ongoing situation in North Korea, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Associated Press/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
The Facebook warrant "means that Mueller has concluded that specific foreign individuals committed a crime by making a 'contribution' in connection with an election," Mariotti wrote on Saturday.
"It also means that he has evidence of that crime that convinced a federal magistrate judge of two things: first, that there was good reason to believe that the foreign individual committed the crime. Second, that evidence of the crime existed on Facebook."
That has implications for Trump and his associates, too, Mariotti said.
"It is a crime to know that a crime is taking place and to help it succeed. That's aiding and abetting. If any Trump associate knew about the foreign contributions that Mueller's search warrant focused on and helped that effort in a tangible way, they could be charged."
Congressional intelligence committees are homing in on the campaign's data operation as a potential trove of incriminating information.
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, told MSNBC earlier this month that he wants to know how sophisticated the Russian-bought ads were — in terms of their content and targets — to determine whether they had any help from the Trump campaign.
The House Intelligence Committee also wants to interview the digital director for Trump's campaign, Brad Parscale, who worked closely with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
@DonKnock @SJUGrad13 @88m3 @Cali_livin @Menelik II @wire28 @smitty22 @Reality @fact @Hood Critic @ExodusNirvana @Blessed Is the Man @THE MACHINE @OneManGang @dtownreppin214 @The Taxman @JKFrazier @tmonster @blotter @BigMoneyGrip @Soymuscle Mike
Kushner was put in charge of the campaign's entire data operation and is now being scrutinized by the FBI over his contacts with Russia's ambassador and the CEO of a sanctioned Russian bank in December.
Facebook said in its initial statement that about 25% of the ads purchased by Russians during the election "were geographically targeted," and many analysts have found it difficult to believe that foreign entities would have had the kind of granular knowledge of American politics necessary to target specific demographics and voting precincts.
In a post-election interview, Kushner told Forbes that he had been keenly interested in Facebook's "micro-targeting" capabilities from early on.
“I called somebody who works for one of the technology companies that I work with, and I had them give me a tutorial on how to use Facebook micro-targeting,” Kushner said.
“We brought in Cambridge Analytica. I called some of my friends from Silicon Valley who were some of the best digital marketers in the world," Kushner said. "
And I asked them how to scale this stuff . . . We basically had to build a $400 million operation with 1,500 people operating in 50 states, in five months to then be taken apart. We started really from scratch," he added.
They getting a nice cell block ready for Kush...
