Some very nervous people are trying to discredit Rosenstein and Mueller as their investigation continuously indicts more people and shows the investigation is very real and very important. Hmmm I wonder why? It seems they are against the United States and the rule of law we enjoy having three independent branches of government.
I think it is a possibility that the GOP/RNC is involved somehow, in using the stolen goods.... or directing the release of it... or something?? Involved more than just the 1 congress critter getting stolen emails from Guccifer2 on his opponent...
You got that right! The GOP's thing is minority vote suppression. By the Russians hacking 21 state voter data bases they can make registered minority voters ineligible to vote when challenged at the poll by GOP poll watchers.
The Real Voting Scandal of 2016
More important, they have turned attention away from the real voting-rights scandal of 2016. This was the first Presidential election since the Supreme Court’s notorious Shelby County v. Holder decision, which gutted the Voting Rights Act. Several Republican-controlled states took the Court’s decision as an invitation to rewrite their election laws, purportedly to address the (nonexistent) problem of voter fraud but in fact to limit the opportunities for Democrats and minorities (overlapping groups, of course) to cast their ballots.
In the words of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which, before the election, struck down some of the changes instituted by North Carolina, “Although the new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision, they constitute inapt remedies for the problems assertedly justifying them and, in fact, impose cures for problems that did not exist.” Likewise, a federal court in Wisconsin rejected some of the changes in voting rules there, but federal courts can’t police every aspect of voting rights. Ultimately, the states determine such issues as early and absentee voting, photo-identification requirements, and the locations and hours of polling places.
It’s difficult to count uncast votes, but there were clearly thousands of them as a result of the voter-suppression measures. In 2014, according to a Wisconsin federal court, three hundred thousand registered voters in that state lacked the forms of identification that Republican legislators deemed necessary to cast their ballots. (The G.O.P. likes some forms of I.D. better than others. In Texas, a gun permit works; student identification does not.)
In Milwaukee County, which has a large African-American population, sixty thousand fewer votes were cast in 2016 than in 2012. To put it another way, Clinton received forty-three thousand fewer votes in that county than Barack Obama did—a number that is nearly double Trump’s margin of victory in all of Wisconsin. The North Carolina Republican Party actually sent out a press release boasting about how its efforts drove down African-American turnout in this election.