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The conclusion of the Mueller Report [pg 182, Vol II of II] that the Trump WAS NOT exonerated:
IV. CONCLUSION
[...] Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
Not only that ...
In his followup statements Robert Mueller also warned us TWICE about the “threats” that faced our nation in 2016, and very real “threats” that still face us, as look ahead for next election:
[...] Russian intelligence officers who were part of the Russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system.
The indictment alleges that they used sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the Clinton campaign. They stole private information, and then released that information through fake online identities and through the organization WikiLeaks. The releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate.
And at the same time, as the grand jury alleged in a separate indictment, a private Russian entity engaged in a social media operation where Russian citizens posed as Americans in order to interfere in the election.
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I will close by reiterating the central allegation of our indictments—that there were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election.
That allegation deserves the attention of every American.
Thank you.
Fast-forward to this week. Now we find out through intelligence briefing disclosures, that Russia is back at it, interfering with the 2020 Election — just like Mueller warned us.
And the response of the Putin-Patriots now running our government?
Remove the DNI Director, and install a Trump loyalist in his place. Trump was reportedly furious that the Senate had been briefed on Russian Ops Round II. Installing Richard Grenell will presumably fix THAT problem, the one of {not} informing the nation that — Putin’s Back!
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It is almost like only Russia learned the lessons of 2016 — and this time they will have the active participation of Team Trump in covering up the GRU’s latest version of “Divide and Conquer” … of disinformation on steroids … backed-up by presidential tweets …
Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election
Volume I of II — Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III
2. Intrusions Targeting the Administration of U.S. Elections
In addition to targeting individuals involved in the Clinton Campaign, GRU officers also targeted individuals and entities involved in the administration of the elections. Victims included U.S. state and local entities, such as state boards of elections (SBOEs), secretaries of state, and county governments, as well as individuals who worked for those entities.[186]
The GRU also targeted private technology firms responsible for manufacturing and administering election-related software and hardware, such as voter registration software and electronic polling stations.[187] The GRU continued to target these victims through the elections in November 2016.
While the investigation identified evidence that the GRU targeted these individuals and entities, the Office did not investigate further. The Office did not, for instance, obtain or examine servers or other relevant items belonging to these victims. The Office understands that the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the states have separately investigated that activity.
By at least the summer of 2016, GRU officers sought access to state and local computer networks by exploiting known software vulnerabilities on websites of state and local governmental entities.
GRU officers, for example, targeted state and local databases of registered voters using a technique known as "SQL injection," by which malicious code was sent to the state or local website in order to run commands (such as exfiltrating the database contents). [188]
In one instance in approximately June 2016, the GRU compromised the computer network of the Illinois State Board of Elections by exploiting a vulnerability in the SBOE's website. The GRU then gained access to a database containing information on millions of registered Illinois voters,[189] and extracted data related to thousands of U.S. voters before the malicious activity was identified.[190]
GRU officers [REDACTED ... REDACTED] that scanned state and local websites for vulnerabilities. For example, over a two-day period in in July 2016, GRU officers [REDACTED ... REDACTED] for vulnerabilities on websites of more than two dozen states. [REDACTED ... REDACTED] [REDACTED ... REDACTED] [REDACTED ... REDACTED] [REDACTED ... REDACTED] [REDACTED ... REDACTED] [REDACTED ... REDACTED] Similar [REDACTED ... REDACTED] for vulnerabilities continued through the election.
Unit 74455 also sent spearphishing emails to public officials involved in election administration and personnel at companies involved in voting technology. In August 2016, GRU officers targeted employees of [REDACTED ... REDACTED] a voting technology company that developed software used by numerous U.S. counties to manage voter rolls, and installed malware on the company network.
Similarly, in November 2016, the GRU sent spearphishing emails to over 120 email accounts used by Florida county officials responsible for administering the 2016 U.S. election.[191]
The spearphishing emails contained an attached Word document coded with malicious software (commonly referred to as a Trojan) that permitted the GRU to access the infected computer.[192]
The FBI was separately responsible for this investigation. We understand the FBI believes that this operation enabled the GRU to gain access to the network of at least one Florida county government. The Office did not independently verify that belief and, as explained above, did not undertake the investigative steps that would have been necessary to do so.
We now know that at least 2 Florida County voting systems were compromised by Russian GRU attackers. For some odd reasons, the FBI still doesn’t want to tell us which ones. (It’s not like Putin doesn’t already know — he’s got the means, and he’s got the the methods. He’s got the Intel.)
It’s the American People that the Trump-Barr-Grinell cabal is intent on keeping in the dark.
The Mushroom theory for maintaining power ...
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Could it be that the very “legitimacy” of the Trump Residency would become a national talking point, if the American people were ever to become aware of just how extensive the Putin Attacks on our National Sovereignty — really were.
Could it be the whole idea of a “people-driven Democracy” would crumble to dust, if the masses were ever informed (as Mueller attempted to do), just how vulnerable our worn-out, 19th-century, Voting-machine systems really are? (It only takes tampering with a few precincts to flip a State ...)
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The Trump Mal-administration — backed up by Moscow Mitch in the Senate, Butler Barr at Justice, and now Yesman Grinell at Intel — will make damn sure, the American People find out a little as possible on the topic of Valdimir Putin’s influence on our once-free and once-fair Elections — The Sequel!
Just like Robert Mueller warned us.
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