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Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections (washingtonpost.com)
The Justice Department on Friday charged a Russian woman for her role in a conspiracy to interfere with the 2018 U.S. election, marking the first criminal case prosecutors have brought against a foreign national for interfering in the upcoming midterms. From a report: Elena Khusyaynova, 44, was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States. Prosecutors said she managed the finances of "Project Lakhta," a foreign influence operation they said was designed "to sow discord in the U.S. political system" by pushing arguments and misinformation online about a whole host of divisive political issues, including immigration, the Confederate flag, gun control, and the NFL national anthem protests. The charges against Khusyaynova came just as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence warned that it was concerned about "ongoing campaigns" by Russia, China and Iran to interfere with the upcoming Midterm elections and even the 2020 race -- an ominous warning that comes just weeks before voters head to the polls.
Aside from cultivating Donald Trump to launder Russian money and repeatedly betray his country, Russia's use of uneducated racists to accomplish their political goals is their most brilliant scheme.
Just look at how eager uneducated racists are to betray America to help Moscow Donald. At this point Republicans are now polling as supportive of Russia's continuing attack on America.
We need to "Lock Him Up!" with all of his treasonous co-conspirators with his campaign manager Paul Manafort who is already in prison.
It's like pissing in to an ocean of piss.
But I think it has shown that memes do affect people. Maybe the people spreading the memes already made up their minds, but maybe not.
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Clearly there's a 1st Amendment issue here, but only fascists want free speech now, right?
An interesting issue, however from the article she was charged not for her speech but for managing money of an organization, which intent was to meddle with US elections.
There are many organizations which manage money intended to influence political processes, most large companies spend a lot of money trying to manipulate the political process. This isn't really any different.
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she failed to register and then used foreign money. both are against the law.
nothing to see here - move along
Will someone please inform this AC that it's the Trump Justice Department that brought these charges?
You are welcome on my lawn.
"sow division"
NOT
"get trump elected".
Your "Russian" distraction works for both sides, a little bit better for the DNC since they were caught actually discussing and practicing real fraud, and are now projecting. I don't care who leaked those emails, they performed a valuable public service. It was the public's reaction that went haywire. They had a chance to vote both republicans and democrats out.
The corruption is home grown. There's nothing to blame the Russians for, but I understand the purpose of doing so, and I have to admit, the campaign is working like a charm. No more of that silly talk about third parties anymore.
It's not the Trump Justice Department, damnit, it's The United States Department of Justice. Believe it or not, despite his best efforts to piss all over every part of the Federal government to make it smell like him, Trump has not managed to corrupt, subvert, and destroy every single part of our government, and in this case, our top-level law enforcement, Herr Sessions notwithstanding. At least at some level we still have the Rule of Law here, at least for the moment.
Fixed that for you.
In reality, the Russians target people of any political persuasion. They are trying to cause partisan divides. Now, they have been most successful with the "uneducated racist" camp, but they've been about half to one fifth as successful with a bunch of liberal groups.
And it's a pretty Amercia-centric point of view. They successfully invaded Crimea. They got Britain to start the dissolution of the EU.. They're propping up fascist states in Eastern Europe. And it's unclear how far reaching their expansion of influence into the Middle East will be.
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