One of the Russians at meeting on collusion WAS A HACKER, alleges lawyer provided hacked DNC docs

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from Daily Beast:

Trump Team Met Russian Accused of International Hacking Conspiracy

____Akhmetshin’s presence at Trump Tower that day adds another layer of controversy to an episode that already provides the clearest indication of collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign. In an email in the run-up to that rendezvous, Donald Trump Jr. was promised “very high level and sensitive information” on Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

Akhmetshin had been hired by Veselnitskaya to help with pro-Russian lobbying efforts in Washington. He also met and lobbied Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee for Europe, in Berlin in April.

In court papers filed with the New York Supreme Court in November 2015, Akhmetshin was described as “a former Soviet military counterintelligence officer” by lawyers for International Mineral Resources (IMR), a Russian mining company that alleged it had been hacked.

Those documents accuse Akhmetshin of hacking into two computer systems and stealing sensitive and confidential materials as part of an alleged black-ops smear campaign against IMR. The allegations were later withdrawn.

The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. was told in July 2015 that Akhmetshin had arranged the hacking of a mining company’s private records—stealing internal documents and then disseminating them. The corporate-espionage case was brought by IMR, which alleged that Akhmetshin was hired by Russian oligarch Andrey Melinchenko, an industrialist with a fortune estimated at around $12 billion.


read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-team-met-russian-accused-of-international-hacking-conspiracy

Spencer Ackerman‏ @attackerman 30m30 minutes ago
So, according to one of the guys in this meeting with Veselnitskaya, Jr & Kushner, info re the hacked DNC from Russia changes hands.



Spencer Ackerman‏ @attackerman 27m27 minutes ago
That's what he told AP: https://apnews.com/dceed1008d8f45afb314aca65797762a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP …

"Akhmetshin said the attorney brought with her a plastic folder w printed-out documents..."

[Achilleaze]

1. republican traitors need to be brought to justice

before the republicans and their russian accomplices inflict any more ACTS OF WAR on America

[MFM008]

2. Soldier

Sailor. Tinker. SPY.............

He was a spy.
They all were.
Maggots parasites eagerly sought them out
So he could WIN.

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4. imagine their reaction when these top level Trumpsters responded to their phishing

...and actually responded and then showed up at the meeting.

Kompromat!

[SethH]

3. Hackers care about adoption too! n/t

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7. yup

[kimbutgar]

5. Whoever runs against Rohrabacher should run on him being a Russian operative against US interests

[SHRED]

10. Yep!

[C_U_L8R]

6. "Hacker???"

"Oh we thought he was talking about his golf game"

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11. I thought he said 'hooker'

Link to tweet

[NightWatcher]

8. Republican Chuck Grassley knew Akhmetshin was dirty and stated this

Akhmetshin was named in a letter sent in March by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente. In the letter, Grassley asks whether Akhmetshin, as part of his attempts to bring down the Magnitsky Act, should have registered as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
“Mr. Akhmetshin is a Russian immigrant to the U.S. who has admitted having been a ‘Soviet counterintelligence officer,’” Grassley’s letter said, citing the POLITICO article from last December. “In fact, it has been reported that he worked for the GRU” — Russia’s main intelligence agency— “and allegedly specializes in ‘active measures campaigns,’ i.e., subversive political influence operations often involving disinformation and propaganda.”

https://thinkprogress.org/what-you-should-know-about-rinat-akhmetshin-987ff3b8be36

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9. exactly

Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance 2h2 hours ago

Wow. @ChuckGrassley on April 4 wrote DHS head Kelly regarding Rinat Akhmetshin asking for an *unclassified* response https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2017-04-04%20CEG%20to%20DHS%20(Akhmetshin%20Information)%20with%20attachment.pdf …

[OnDoutside]

13. I don't get Grassley doing stuff like this, yet blocking meaningful investigations.

[wishstar]

12. They provided false "dirt" on HRC- foreshadowing falsified hacked emails and fake stories

Russians were never able to hack into Hillary's private server and never found anything incriminating to help Trump (although early on they insinuated in order to draw in Trump operatives and staffers) but it was probably clear to Trump campaign early on that even though there might not be any HRC smoking guns, they could benefit from timely release of embarrassing hacked DNC emails and falsified hacked Podesta emails. the way Trump benefited from false Obama birther accusations for political gain.

Trump & Co. are currently using false narrative to smear HRC and ridiculously blaming Dems for this meeting being set up.

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