5169

Yep, it’s totally illegal, but I suspect that they’ll just plead innocence and say that the deletion was unrelated to trying to hide anything, and was routine or some such garbage.

5170

It most certainly is, it violates E-Discovery laws.

But, like Timex just stated, they will get a pass:

J.Tom Morgan, a former Georgia prosecutor, said destruction of the drive would not be a criminal act unless it was in violation of a protective court order (It appears no such order was requested). But it could seriously damage the defendants’ case, he said.

Here’s a thought: redo the vote. New server, now we can confirm the results.

5171

By you can’t cross the same river twice. Doubt we’d get the same results so what would a revote gain you?

5172

A step in the right direction, I guess.

5173

This seems to be a looking for your keys under the lamppost situation. The problem with the ads isn’t that they’re Russian propaganda.I’m sure Twitter is just fine running US government propaganda ads. It’s the content and the intent that’s the problem.

5174

Confidence I guess? I mean, that was the point of the suit. I doubt it will end in a special election, but quite honestly if there was suspicion that there was manipulation, and data has been deleted to prevent the audit thereof, where do you go from that point? Neither side can now prove their point.

5175

No they can’t, so I would think that unless there are backups somewhere there really isn’t anywhere to go.

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5178

So being tight with Russia/ Putin is a bad thing now? Talk about flipping the script…

5179

Word is the FBI backed it up early in the Spring.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15563099

5180

Ugh…

5181

http://www.wnyc.org/story/death-sergei-magnitsky-bill-browder

Worth your 50 minutes. Preet Bharara’s podcast.

5182

Vox’s take on another willlld and craaazy week.

5183

Seconded. Reet’s Stay Tuned is reet neat

5184
5185

I’m off to pop some popcorn …

5186

That’s a pretty serious leak by someone. Guessing Mueller is furious that this got out?

5187

Let’s see how far Manafort can run between now and Monday.

5188

Huh, I had thought that the fact the judge approved it was just a mater of public record, but I guess it did come from some source.