Mueller Investigated Julian Assange, and cleared him

Wonder why you missed this? Because it came out on election day.

Although WikiLeaks published emails stolen from the DNC in July and October 2016 and Stone — a close associate to Donald Trump — appeared to know in advance the materials were coming, investigators “did not have sufficient evidence” to prove active participation in the hacks or knowledge that the electronic thefts were continuing. In addition, federal prosecutors could not establish that the hacked emails amounted to campaign contributions benefitting Trump’s election chances and furthermore felt their publication might have been protected by the First Amendment, making a successful prosecution tenuous.
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But a new version of the 448-page Mueller report released Monday by the Justice Department contains previously redacted sections on 13 pages, nearly all of them dealing with events surrounding the hacked emails and their eventual publication.

“While the investigation developed evidence that the GRU’s hacking efforts in fact were continuing at least at the time of the July 2016 WikiLeaks dissemination,” a newly unredacted section of the report reads, prosecutors “did not develop sufficient admissible evidence that WikiLeaks knew of — or even was willfully blind to — that fact.”

If only this mattered.

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Twitter users commented with comparisons to 1984, Nazi propaganda and The Hunger Games, with someone even joking that it "looks like a Galactic Empire recruiting video" next to a Star Wars stormtrooper meme.

One commenter wrote: "Just so we're clear: The president ripped off the two minutes of hate scene in the 1984 film, 1984."

Another said: "1984 Orwell was way ahead of his time!" and a third said: "I was scared of the year 1984 after reading the book back in the day. I never thought I'd live to see it come to life so many years later."

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...of Julian Assange will continue uninterrupted?

I hope this somehow speeds the extinction of this species.

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