THIS is gonna make Donald Trump not happy just before he sits down with Russian President Putin shortly….
(Dep. AG. Rosenstein notified Trump of this a week ago)
Mueller get’s his piece of ass from Trump….
The indictments allege that an actual Russian Intelligence agency was part the group responsible for hacking into the Democratic computers during the 2016 campaign…
Special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian military officers on Friday, and accused them of hacking into the Democratic National Committee to sabotage the 2016 presidential election.
The indictments, announced by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, come just days before a scheduled Monday summit in Helsinki between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
They are the latest charges in a probe that has already netted guilty pleas from three former Trump campaign aides while the president himself remains under investigation by Mueller for potential obstruction of justice.
Rosenstein said the Russians stole and released Democratic documents after planting malicious computer codes in the network of the DNC as well as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
He said Russia’s GRU military intelligence service was behind online entities that disseminated and promoted the documents under the names Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks.
The indictment dramatically shifts the context for Trump’s upcoming meeting with Putin, whom U.S. intelligence services have concluded was behind the 2016 election interference scheme whose goal was to elect Trump….
via twitter…
Thank goodness. This came just in time for Pres. Trump’s summit with Pres. Putin. No doubt Trump will grill Putin on how 12 Russians connected to GRU (intelligence agency) interfered in our 2016 election. No doubt at all. Well, maybe a little doubt.
I have no idea how rivalry between intelligence agencies works in Russia (and worked in the USSR), but V. Putin was an officer of the KGB (State Security Committee), the civilian agency that must have some rivalry with the GRU, the standard military intelligence service of the Red Army.
I believe the GRU is like Def Intel Agency
This is just another dig at Trump who Bull Shit’s that got his job on his own
Details of the indictments, including some interesting snippets (e.g. Guccifer 2.0 was an attempt by the GRU operation to claim that a lone Romanian hacker was responsible for the break-in and leaks; much financed by mining and using cryptocurrency like Bitcoin) in the Dept of Justice’s press release and Deputy Atty-Gen. Rosenstein’s prepared remarks,
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-12-russian-intelligence-officers-hacking-offenses-related-2016-election
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/deputy-attorney-general-rod-j-rosenstein-delivers-remarks-announcing-indictment-twelve
The Trump administration and campaign-in-being will glom onto these sentences::
There is no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in the alleged unlawful activity or knew they were communicating with Russian intelligence officers. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the vote count or changed the outcome of the 2016 election.
so do Trump supporters now believe that Russia helped Trump?
As if I don’t already know the answer!
Yea Deep State is behind EVERYTHING that Trump (and GOPer’s) has problems with…
“Deep State “
Full text of the 29-page indictment, with many interesting details *, here:
https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download
For example:
Object of the Conspiracy
70. The object of the conspiracy was to hack into protected computers of persons and entities
charged with the administration of the 2016 U.S. elections in order to access those computers and steal voter data and other information stored on those computers.
Manner and Means of the Conspiracy
71. In or around June 2016, KOVALEV and his co-conspirators researched domains used by
U.S. state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and other election-related entities for website
vulnerabilities. KOVALEV and his co-conspirators also searched for state political party email
addresses, including filtered queries for email addresses listed on state Republican Party websites.
72. In or around July 2016, KOVALEV and his co-conspirators hacked the website of a state
board of elections (“SBOE 1”) and stole information related to approximately 500,000 voters,
including names, addresses, partial social security numbers, dates of birth, and driver’s license
numbers.
73. In or around August 2016, KOVALEV and his co-conspirators hacked into the computers
of a U.S. vendor (“Vendor 1”) that supplied software used to verify voter registration information for the 2016 U.S. elections. KOVALEV and his co-conspirators used some of the same infrastructure to hack into Vendor 1 that they had used to hack into SBOE 1.
74. In or around August 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued an alert about the
hacking of SBOE 1 and identified some of the infrastructure that was used to conduct the hacking.
In response, KOVALEV deleted his search history. KOVALEV and his co-conspirators also
deleted records from accounts used in their operations targeting state boards of elections and
similar election-related entities.
75. In or around October 2016, KOVALEV and his co-conspirators further targeted state and
county offices responsible for administering the 2016 U.S. elections. For example, on or about
October 28, 2016, KOVALEV and his co-conspirators visited the websites of certain counties in
Georgia, Iowa, and Florida to identify vulnerabilities.
76. In or around November 2016 and prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, KOVALEV
and his co-conspirators used an email account designed to look like a Vendor 1 email address to
send over 100 spearphishing emails to organizations and personnel involved in administering
elections in numerous Florida counties. The spearphishing emails contained malware that the
Conspirators embedded into Word documents bearing Vendor 1’s logo.
Roger Stone seems to be the go between guy from the campaign to the Russian’s…
He’s pretty sure he’s gonna get indicted also….
Two Florida Republicans and possibly a third — GOP Congressman Brian Mast — play starring roles in Robert Mueller’s latest[Russian] indictment, although none is named
Via twitter
Politico