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Official Russian Election Interference Thread

Exclusive: Former Justice Department official joins Mueller team


(Reuters) - A former U.S. Justice Department official has become the latest lawyer to join special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, a spokesman for the team confirmed.

Greg Andres started on Tuesday, becoming the 16th lawyer on the team, said Josh Stueve, a spokesman for the special counsel.

Most recently a white-collar criminal defense lawyer with New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, Andres, 50, served at the Justice Department from 2010 to 2012. He was deputy assistant attorney general in the criminal division, where he oversaw the fraud unit and managed the program that targeted illegal foreign bribery.

Mueller, who was appointed special counsel in May, is looking into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the election, among other matters. Congressional committees are also investigating the matter.

That Mueller continues to expand his team means the probe is not going to end anytime soon, said Robert Ray, who succeeded Kenneth Starr as independent counsel for the Whitewater investigation during the Clinton administration.

"It's an indication that the investigation is going to extend well into 2018," said Ray. "Whether it extends beyond 2018 is an open question."

The special counsel last month asked the White House to preserve all of its communications about a June 2016 meeting that included the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Russian officials have denied meddling in the U.S. election, and Trump denies any collusion by his campaign.

Among the cases Andres oversaw at the Justice Department was the prosecution of Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford, who was convicted in 2012 for operating an $8 billion Ponzi scheme.

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Before that, Andres was a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn for over a decade, eventually serving as chief of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney's office there. He prosecuted several members of the Bonanno organized crime family, one of whom was accused of plotting to have Andres killed.

A graduate of Notre Dame and University of Chicago Law School, Andrews was a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin from 1989 to 1992.

He is married to Ronnie Abrams, a U.S. district judge in Manhattan nominated to the bench in 2011 by Democratic President Barack Obama.

Others on the special counsel team include Andrew Weissmann, chief of the Justice Department's fraud section; Andrew Goldstein, former head of the public corruption unit at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan; and James Quarles, who was an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation that helped bring down President Richard Nixon.



http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1AH5F9
 
jhmd2000 said:
a) I think you mean Leftists, not liberals.
b) To be sure, they did.
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Whatever you want to call them, all your party cares about is that they lost and you can't see what it cost everyone. Winning is all that Pubs care about, so much that they can't see how badly we all lost.
 
"A major progressive think tank wants Democrats to stop being shy about accusing the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia.

The Center for American Progress has written a nearly 50-page report for Democrats in Congress, making the case for collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia. The report, a draft of which was reviewed by BuzzFeed News ahead of its release Wednesday, makes the bold claim “it is now clear there was collusion” and that “this is the biggest political scandal in American history.”"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/li...or-american-progress-is-releasing-a-nearly-50
 
I don't think any of that is going to convince anyone who isn't already convinced.

The problem isn't Trump. It's Republicans. Let the Mueller investigation happen and pounce on the Republican inactivity. Otherwise we just set the stage for Cruz to primary Trump and win.
 
The worst part of the Reuters article for the GOP is the note that the investigation might stretch beyond the 2018 midterms. Regardless of how it turns out I'm sure they'd prefer it to be wrapped ASAP.
 
Newenglanddeac said:
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Am I reading right that they are buying them from Boeing and were never flown? The tweet makes it sound like we are getting some used junkers.
 
That's what it sounded like to me. If it wasn't for the sketchy Trump-Russia ties, it wouldn't seem all that important.
 
PhDeac said:
That's what it sounded like to me. If it wasn't for the sketchy Trump-Russia ties, it wouldn't seem all that important.
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It's a stretch to find anything nefarious in this. If anything, Boeing just got bailed out by a buyer they know for certain will take delivery on the planes.
 
Liquid Karma said:
It's a stretch to find anything nefarious in this. If anything, Boeing just got bailed out by a buyer they know for certain will take delivery on the planes.
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It's not a stretch to say that given what we know about the relationship between the Russian government and Russian business and the carelessness of this administration, there is a security risk of turning a plane that has been in Russian custody into Air Force One.

Let's be real here. I think we'd all prefer the President of United States travel in a plane build from scratch.
 
sailordeac said:
Putin wants exactly what the hysterics suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome are doing.
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No, teach. Putin wanted President Trump. Just like you, he was happier with the possibility of President Trump than he was with President Clinton.

Nice company you keep.
 
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