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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRick Gates requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities
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Rick Gates requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation and to gather intelligence to help defeat Republican primary race opponents and Hillary Clinton, NYT reports.
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Rick Gates requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation and to gather intelligence to help defeat Republican primary race opponents and Hillary Clinton, NYT reports.
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Rick Gates requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Oct 2018
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dawg day
(7,947 posts)1. CNN is having a long segment on this
Jeffrey Toobin is talking about the legal issues. "Is it illegal?"
It was 'an attempt' which didn't come to fruition. Is that illegal like attempted murder is?
Says could be-- "conspiracy."
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)2. Kind of like Don Jr's defense of the Trump Tower meeting...
...he went in for dirt on HRC but "didn't get any," so no harm, no foul.
LOCK...THEM...ALL...UP.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)5. Conspiracy doesn't have to come to fruition
It's still a crime.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)3. If a Dem did this there would be no end to the hell raising.
Benghazi would be a trifle by comparison.
MuseRider
(34,120 posts)4. Thanks for posting about this
we had a big storm system come through and the TV was out as was wireless for the computers for a while and I was dying to hear what all that was.
eleny
(46,166 posts)6. This is big
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)7. K&R