Special counsel Robert Mueller has added a prosecutor with significant cybercrime expertise to his team.
Ryan Dickey, a senior lawyer in the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, has been detailed to Mueller’s team since early November, a U.S. official told POLITICO.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has added a prosecutor with significant cybercrime expertise to his team.
Ryan Dickey, a senior lawyer in the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, has been detailed to Mueller’s team since early November, a U.S. official told POLITICO.
The Washington Post first reported Dickey’s move.
Tea leaves coming out of the Mueller's camp suggest they might have multiple theories of the case. So it's not just collusion they're looking at and certainly collusion has not been disproven at this stage. #TrumpRussia @CNN @CNNTonight pic.twitter.com/8rNzPM7Jh0
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) January 11, 2018
Mueller’s addition of a veteran cyber expert to his team suggests that his investigation may be focusing on computer hacking, an element of Russia’s alleged 2016 election meddling that has received less attention than issues like possible collusion between Moscow and President Donald Trump’s team.
Dickey’s highest-profile case involved Marcel Lazar, also known as “Guccifer,” a Romanian man who hacked the personal email accounts of prominent Washington figures like Secretary of State Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal. A federal judge sentenced him to 52 months in prison in September 2016.
Dickey has also prosecuted cases involving credit card fraud and illegal file-sharing.
Some experts have suggested that the special counsel probe may result in charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the landmark cybercrime law that makes it illegal to aid in a computer intrusion. If any of Trump’s associates knew about and encouraged the hacking of Democrats’ emails and computer servers, they could be charged under the statute.
In November, The Wall Street Journal reported that Mueller’s team was letting the original DOJ prosecutors retain the investigation of the actual cyber intrusions into the DNC and other targets.
Before moving to CCIPS in 2014, Dickey was an assistant U.S. attorney in the cybercrime unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, which has run significant cyber cases like the investigation of WikiLeaks.
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/951596034966212608
This is the Obamas giving back. I think they chose a great project.
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/951531394395721728
https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/951560095468462080
Scary.
Folks have gone mad.
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/951512074047442945
https://twitter.com/chrisoldcorn/status/951513236079304705
I agree with you, SG2, that ” Folks have gone mad.”
These types of folks have ALWAYS been mad. Now they are embolden and foaming at the mouth.
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Dump #$5’s ignorant supporters don’t care.
I’ve never liked Walmart and don’t shop there. Remember folks it’s always about that bottom line for corporations.
They’ve ran so many small business out. The only grocery store that can compete with them in my neck of the woods is H.E.B.
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You are correct, SG2.
How I wish these small businesses could recover and return.
Serena nearly died after giving birth. She had small blood clots in the lungs and had to tell the doctors what she needed. They didn’t believe she had pain and thought the medication was making her confused.
https://twitter.com/ProPublica/status/951219421099503621
RACISM KILLS
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/951519331619360768
https://twitter.com/AmbassadorRice/status/951193438904639494
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/951158113331286023
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/951514551471755264
I hope they catch and charge the perpetrator. Such evil and hatred.
One of those “massa been good to me…. I ain’t bout to leave him over this”
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Serena is a beautiful mother. Motherhood becomes her.
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/951493159422394369
Trump wants GOP allies to ‘take control’ of Russia scandal probe
01/11/18 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen
We recently learned that Donald Trump, feeling the heat as the Russia scandal was intensifying last summer, personally urged Republican lawmakers to end congressional scrutiny of the controversy. The president’s lobbying campaign targeted, among others, the Senate majority leader and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
As we discussed at the time, when Congress is investigating a scandal involving the president, the president isn’t supposed to call lawmakers to pressure them to stop.
Yesterday, however, as Politico noted, Trump took his lobbying campaign in a more public direction.
More than 100 corporate leaders are calling on Congress to pass legislation by Janurary 19 to protect the status of DREAMers.
NEWS: @USCBO letter confirms 10-year reauthorization of CHIP saves $6 billion. #ExtendCHIP pic.twitter.com/AYvrffT0dD
— Energy Commerce Dems (@EnergyCommerce) January 11, 2018
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https://twitter.com/DrDenaGrayson/status/951189805781651461
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/951471768111370242
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Boycott time!
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/10/18
Public interest in dossier has been validated: Buzzfeed
Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed, talks with Rachel Maddow about the decision to publish the Trump dossier a year ago, and the legal entanglements that have followed.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/10/18
Fusion GPS still researching Donald Trump ties to Russia
Rachel Maddow points out that while the Trump dossier is everything Christopher Steele produced for Fusion GPS for that “particular engagement” but Fusion GPS is still researching Donald Trump’s ties to Russia and Steele may be involved as well.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/10/18
Trump fails to protect US from future Russian attacks
Senator Ben Cardin talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump has dithered while other countries have taken measures to thwart future efforts by Russia to interfere in their politics
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/10/18
Block of conflicted Trump U.S. attorney pick likely to hold
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s block on a Donald Trump nominee to be U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York appears likely to hold, Rachel Maddow reports. The nominee, Geoffrey Berman is previously of Deutsche Bank, where Trump-related dealings are being investigated.
Something has to give….this is too much. Trump is wreaking havoc on poor people.
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/951420911852425216
So coldhearted!
https://twitter.com/DerrickQLewis/status/951477139802599426
“The problem goes beyond Bannon… The problem is the mainstreaming of extremists by the media + downplaying of real-world consequences of white supremacy for non-whites + immigrants who suffer under DJT policies.” https://t.co/CWW84xptMD via @sarahkendzior
— JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/PDPJ/status/951359575332196352
We warned about this: @HouseGOP passes massive tax cuts for corporations… Pfizer responds by ending research into Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, laying off researchers, and buying back billions of dollars’ worth of shares. https://t.co/Id9Byjx7a3 #GOPTaxScam
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) January 10, 2018
People were literally celebrating outside of Darrell Issa’s office after hearing the news of his “retirement”. I’m celebrating with these patriots in spirit. ❤️👊 #RESISThttps://t.co/q2JJgpbvvx
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) January 11, 2018
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https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/951434325244997633
Earlier thread on the selection of Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald to paint official portraits of President and Mrs Obama. The official unveiling is February 12 at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. https://t.co/0xfGheZWVe
— meta (@metaquest) January 11, 2018
Portraits unveiled at an invitation-only ceremony at National Portrait Gallery. Painting of Michelle Obama goes on display in the Recent Acquisitions corridor through early November. Portrait of Pres Obama will become part of the permanent collection.
— meta (@metaquest) January 11, 2018
So much winning….
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/951470385161228288
https://twitter.com/Comey/status/951464717666615298
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/951471223346786304
Serena with baby Alexis in the cover of Vogue
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Baby is too sweet!
The cover of @TheEconomist. pic.twitter.com/HSXqbBjV5e
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 11, 2018
The new cover of @TIME. pic.twitter.com/EoCjcatYFZ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 11, 2018
1. Can we talk about these new Walmart bonuses? Because it’s important.
It sounds amazing: The nation’s largest employer is giving all its employees up to $1K!
Let’s dig deeper https://t.co/PcS7YMOCvu
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 11, 2018
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/10/18
Robert Mueller sharpens cyber focus in Trump Russia investigation
From hacking to botnets to unexplained server communications, Rachel Maddow looks at the cyber aspects of the Trump Russia scandal and indications of what Robert Mueller is looking at
Missouri’s GOP governor caught up in ugly sex scandal
01/11/18 08:40 AM
By Steve Benen
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) is not the first governor to be caught up in a sex scandal, but this story isn’t quite like the one’s we’re used to.
The revelations broke last night with this report from KMOV, the CBS affiliate in St. Louis.
Charles Blow WENT IN!!
The Lowest White Man:
Truth.
We’ve talked about this a lot, that Trump is the backlash for a black president.
But what I never understood until after the 2016 election was that Hillary being a woman was probably more of an issue than Hillary being the wrong woman. Of course, there is no way to measure this.
CHARLES BLOW FOR THE WIN!!!!
Good morning, rikyrah. Po po’s comin’!!
Good Morning Everyone 😄 😄😄
Good Morning, Rikyrah & 3 Chics Fam