[yariik]

This blaming Russia thing is way beyond ridiculous now. WHAT "Russian corruption" are you talking about? Is it the same as the "Russian interference in the US elections," i.e. something that has never existed in reality and was just invented by the US mass media for their purposes?

[myko]

The Mueller Report (https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download) details Russian interference in the 2016 election and led to 12 Russians being indicted as part of that. Is the report wrong?

[pbak]

Yes, mostly.

The 12 Russians, and the 3 Russian companies all hired attorneys to represent them and counter sue for defamation. When their attorney went in front of the judge, all charges were dropped by the Justice Dept, refusing document discovery "on issues of national security".

It's all political reality television, from both the right and the left. It's like a cable TV wrestling match.

I've had trouble finding English language sources giving the full story with a 2 min search. They all just cite the dropping of charges against the companies. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/justice-department-russia-com...

Here's an RT link with a little more info, for whatever that's worth: https://www.rt.com/usa/483279-concord-russiagate-charges-dro... . You might have better luck looking for a little longer.

[myko]

Those charges were dropped by Barr who did his best to quash the entire Mueller investigation and largely succeeded.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/concord-case-...

""" In January 2019, the federal government accused Concord of violating a protective court order designed to safeguard information shared among lawyers on the case. Prosecutors said a trove of nonclassified information they had turned over to Concord’s defense team had turned up on a website the previous October.

A message on a newly created Twitter account read: “We’ve got access to the Special Counsel Mueller’s probe database as we hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case Concord LLC v. Mueller. You can view all the files Mueller had about the IRA and Russian collusion. Enjoy the reading!” """

RT's claim that these groups are not responsible for these troll farms is not credible. The claim that these organizations were attempting to use the court case to get detailed information on how they were investigated however, is.

[pbak]

As I warned, do what you wish with the RT article.

Didn't take it as a credible source in the matter, but wasn't going to bother with a longer than 2 min. search either for all details.

On a side note, I don't take the NYT to be any less biased that RT. All of them will conveniently forget about the parts of the story which they don't like. They all have favourites in the matter (Trump, Barr, Democrat leadership, Putinistas, etc).