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Relating to robert muellers investigation. it posted over 1,000 files, some of them were alterred. it was this batch of nonsensitive material. so the special counsels office is saying that now that is time to share the sensitive material in this case, they dont want the same thing to happen. they are asking the judge to make sure that this information is contained in the u.s. and if the defendants want to see it that they should come to the u.s. and look at it. they dont want it to end up in rus...

Journalists. barbara mcquade is the former attorney for the eastern district of michigan. she joins us tonight. thank you very much for being here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> first, you explained about what i understand as the discovery process and the duty of prosecutors to hand over the defense of the case theyre making in a criminal case like that. did i get that basically right? did i screw any of that right? >> no, you got it exactly right. the defendant is entitled to see the evid...

Discovery process so far, what they say today is that that material that theyve obtained in discovery thus far, it has all of the sudden turned up in russia in altered form, doctored and then used for what appears to be a kind of disinformation campaign to try to publicly discredit the mueller investigation, using u.s. journalists as part of the ploy. what? this is from the filing. quote, on october 22nd, 2018, so this past october, the newly created twitter account hackingredstone published the...

It really means to have a truly fair trial. if you werent allowed to see any of this evidence beforehand, if you werent allowed to see the material that they used to build their case against you, you really wouldnt have a reasonable chance on the defense side at beating the prosecutors case, right? when the discovery process works the way its supposed to, you are supposed to be protected from being blindsided by evidence you didnt know was coming at you. so if theyre using witnesses to testify a...

Online file sharing portal. the web page included file folders and structs that are unique to the files produced by the government in discovery, including tracking numbers assignsed by the special counsels office. what this means is that as a criminal defendant, obviously concord management is entitled to the same rights as any criminal defendant. they are entitled to see what the government has against them in terms of evidence. what evidence the government has used to build its case against co...

You cant make it public. youre only supposed to be able to use it inside the confines of this case. contrary to that order, what actually happened to that stuff they got through discovery is that apparently the stuff got sifted through. a bunch of those files got posted online. they got put in this online data portal, and then somebody anonymously claimed that they hacked that material out of muellers office, and they were going to make it available to the u.s. public by shopping it to u.s. jour...

The special counsel spells out about the nature of this material as it was posted online. what theyre saying here in this filing is that this wasnt just the material from the discovery process that got handed over to these lawyers, that got somehow hijacked or diverted and then handed off and then it was uploaded wholesale to a public space it shouldnt be. theyre not saying thats what happened here. what the special counsel is saying here is that their discovery materials were clearly obtained i...

And the discovery process is the process by which you the defendant are entitled to get from prosecutors the material that theyve used to build their case against you, to get you charged with this crime in the first place. the reason you have a right to see that stuff before your trial, it makes sense when you think in broad terms about what it really means to have a truly fair trial. if you werent allowed to see any of this evidence beforehand, if you werent allowed to see the material that the...

Get to that in a second be. threw are two substantive things here. one is why is robert mueller so mad about this? i mean, to me, this is sort of amazing as a plot point. i dont know that i get it in terms of legal significance, but in terms of the human drama here, what is amazing is what the special counsel spells out about the nature of this material as it was posted online. what theyre saying here in this filing is that this wasnt just the material from the discovery process that got handed ...

Russian server with info from the russian troll case concord llc versus mueller. you can view all the files mueller has about the internet research agency and russian collusion. enjoy the reading. the tweet also included a link to a web page located on an online file sharing portal. it includes folder structures that are unique to the files produced by the government in discovery, including tracking numbers assigned by the special counsels office. what this means is that as a criminal defendant,...