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Hackers penetrated a Russian database containing private discovery material from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s case against the Russian consulting firm Concord Management, and then manipulated and disseminated the documents to discredit Mueller’s investigation, the BBC reports. Lawfare shared Mueller’s filing related to the hacking.  President Trump suggested he would allow the Department of Justice to independently decide whether Mueller’s final report will be publicly released, Reuters details. The Senate voted to advance an amendment, written by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, opposing President Donald Trump’s planned troop withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan, ensuring its attachment to a broader policy measure expected to pass the Senate in coming days, according to the New York times. Also expressing opposition to Trump’s plan to withdraw U.S. forces, President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani wrote Trump a letter in which…

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