Mueller says Russians using his discovery materials in disinformation effort

[mucifer]

Source: NBC

Russians are using materials obtained from special counsel Robert Mueller's office in a disinformation campaign apparently aimed at discrediting the investigation into Moscow's election interference, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.

One or more people associated with the special counsel's case against Russian hackers made statements last October claiming to have stolen discovery materials that were originally provided by Mueller to Concord Management, Mueller's team said in court documents filed on Wednesday in the Russian troll farm case.

That discovery — evidence and documents traded between both sides of a lawsuit — appears to have been altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign apparently aimed at discrediting the ongoing investigations in Russian interference in the U.S. political system, according to the documents.



Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/mueller-says-russians-using-his-discovery-materials-disinformation-effort-n964811

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So much evil crap!

[MBS]

1. ugh. n/t

[scarytomcat]

2. I don't think it will change anything

but it does show they are involved if they need to discredit Mueller

[burrowowl]

3. damn!

[GusBob]

4. My head, it hurts

Jesus

[pnwmom]

5. Thanks. Here is Mueller's court filing:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-concord-management-used-discovery-disinformation-campaign-mueller-says

[ffr]

6. I should hear this from the RW'ers here in 3-2-1

Fox Entertainment -> altered and disseminated
Fox Entertainment -> RW radio -> altered and disseminated
Fox Entertainment -> RW radio -> altered and disseminated -> Listening drones

Listening drones -> repeating altered and disseminated amongst themselves
Listening drones -> repeating altered and disseminated amongst themselves -> repeated to everyone else as fact.

[C Moon]

7. So Mueller hit the nail on the head, then. Throw ALL of the guilty parties in prison!

[riversedge]

8. CNN: Pro-Russian Twitter account used non-public material from Mueller's team in effort to discredi

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/politics/special-counsel-russia-documents/index.html



Pro-Russian Twitter account used non-public material from Mueller's team in effort to discredit Russia probe


By Katelyn Polantz, CNN

Updated 3:55 PM ET, Wed January 30, 2019


Washington (CNN)A pro-Russian Twitter account used information from a criminal case that Robert Mueller's team brought against a Russian social media company as part of a disinformation campaign, according to a new filing from the Justice Department.

That publication of documents that had been shared with defense attorneys, but not made public in the ongoing case, was yet another disinformation campaign from Russia -- this time aimed at discrediting Mueller's investigation, federal prosecutors wrote in the filing Wednesday.

"Certain non-sensitive discovery materials in the defense's possession appear to have been altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign aimed (apparently) at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the U.S. political system," prosecutors wrote.

The documents -- though they did not contain sensitive information that could harm American national security -- should have never reached the public's view, the prosecutors said.



In late October, the account @HackingRedstone posted on Twitter a webpage with documents from the criminal case against Concord Management and Consulting. The computer that had published the documents was in Russia, the FBI found. Some of the documents contained numbers and labels that the Justice Department had used to organize the evidence electronically.
But the US government and Mueller's office hadn't been hacked. Instead, prosecutors say individuals who had access to the evidence in the case may have spread it...................

Link to tweet

[Julian Englis]

9. K & R

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[Judi Lynn]

11. Every day, a new low is reached. This one is really dirty, dishonest, nasty.

They actually do this for a living!

[Squinch]

12. And republughans will still insist that Putin is not working for the benefit of Individual 1, and

to the detriment of the American people.

[mickswalkabout41]

13. They are just building their own case

It’s what hackers do. Hack, steal, screw and ruin. Cyber terrorist are just like any other terrorist. Rule by fear, ruin lives and are under the thumb of who ever pays them. Yet few cyber criminals are rarely either investigated or charged.