Mueller has indicted 12 Russian military officers (by name) who hacked the DNC, DCCC, and state election officials’ computers (includes boards of election, and secretaries of state) beginning in March 2016.
•Viktor Netyksho
•Boris Antonov
•Dmitriy Badin
•Ivan Yermakov
•Aleksey Lukashev
•Sergey Morgachev
•Nikolay Kozachek
•Pavel Yershov
•Artem Malyshev
•Aleksandr Osadchuk
•Aleksey Potemkin
•Anatoliy Kovalev
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These are GRU Russian intel officials, not subcontractors, who have been indicted; this is in addition to those 13 indicted who were working for the Internet Research Agency.
Spearphishing and malware was used including the theft of emails; this includes Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks, both created by the GRU. These were paid with cryptocurrency.
500,000 voter information files were stolen. US citizens were involved but seem to not have known they were interacting with members of the GRU.
The claim is that no election results were affected. More amusing will be the Trump demurrals when he goes to Helsinki. Trump was briefed about today’s announcement.
This is an example of how systematic the Mueller investigation is, separating the hacking political parties and election offices from the manipulation of social media institutions via ads and bots. More interesting is how it will begin to triangulate on principals who’ve bragged about their “targeting” of voters.
The unnamed US citizen who cooperated might be Roger Stone because of these facts:
Bots are putting a lot of twitter time trying to offset this announcement with Strzok nonsense.
Remember that the implication is that the hacked information may have been transferred to the GOP, because of the breadth of material stolen and because of other classified evidence.
The 11-count indictment spells out in granular detail a carefully planned and executed attack on the information security of Democrats, implanting hundreds of malware files on Democrats’ computer systems, stealing information and then laundering the pilfered material through fake personas and others to try to influence voters’ opinions.
Rosenstein said the suspects worked to “hack into computers, steal documents, and release those documents with the intent to interfere with the election.”
The hackers also created false online personas, known as DC Leaks and Guccifer 2.0, to try to disguise the Russian origins of their work, Rosenstein said.
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Darn those rigged witches, with 25 of them behind an Orange Curtain.