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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by fsagx on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:12PM (#24829776)
A PR indictment of this sort accomplishes nothing besides making the DOJ look even more foolish or amateurish. The only thing interesting is to figure out whom it is supposed benefit.

If anyone were to actually show up to face these charges, they will eventually be dismissed, as happened to two of the Mueller indictees.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/concord-case-...

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by nl on Monday October 19, 2020 @06:18PM (#24831654)
To quote:

With the case set to go to trial next month, prosecutors recommended that the Justice Department drop the charges to preserve national security interests and prevent Russia from weaponizing delicate American law enforcement information, according to the official. The prosecutors also weighed the benefits of securing a guilty verdict against the companies, which cannot be meaningfully punished in the United States, against the risk of exposing national security secrets in order to win in court.

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by sethrin on Monday October 19, 2020 @05:16PM (#24831123)
Mentioning that those charges were dismissed without providing the reason or context seems rather incomplete, at best.
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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by fsagx on Monday October 19, 2020 @05:59PM (#24831516)
(That's what the link is for)

That they later dismiss the case strongly suggests that they never thought it would be prosecuted in the first place. Do you really believe that they thought there would be no discovery?

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