5 Major Revelations From the Mueller Indictment Against Russian Hackers
Any guesses on who the congressional candidate was?
5 Major Revelations From the Mueller Indictment Against Russian Hackers
From fake American identities to crypto-currency, this is how they allegedly did it
By Tim Dickinson
A new indictment handed down Friday by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein against a dozen Russian GRU military intelligence officers exposes new details of the hacking of high-level Clinton campaign officials as well as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
A result of the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the indictment also offers jaw-dropping context. For starters, it suggests the Russian cyber attackers took cues from then-candidate Donald Trump himself in the Russian government’s effort to boost Trump’s bid for the White House. The court documents also highlight alleged collaboration between Russian hackers and “Organization 1” – which matches the behavior of WikiLeaks – to hamper the campaign of Hillary Clinton.
The indictment arrived just days before a scheduled July 16th meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.
Below are five key revelations from the indictment.
1) Trump asked for Russia’s help finding Hillary Clinton’s emails; Russia responded
On July 27th, 2016 Trump made an open call for Russian interference in the election, asking Putin’s state to find emails that had been unrecoverable from Clinton’s private email server. Appearing to encourage cyber-espionage, Trump said: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing… I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
From the indictment, it seems plain that the Russians allegedly attempted to do Trump’s bidding: “The Conspirators spearphished individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign throughout the summer of 2016,” the indictment reads. “For example, on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a third-party provider and used by Clinton’s personal office.”
Barton Gellman, a leading intelligence reporter, responded to this revelation in a tweet: “This is OMFG material. Trump explicitly asks ‘Russia’ to hack Clinton, and Russian intelligence starts trying *the same day*. We look for secret evidence of ‘collusion’ but Trump’s end was always in plain sight. Now we know Russia took his request as guide to further crimes.”
2) The Russians were corresponding with an individual connected to the Trump campaign
According to the indictment, the Russian hackers, posing as “Guccifer 2.0,” allegedly corresponded with “ a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump,” seeking to “help u.” This individual is believed to be longtime Trump ally Roger Stone. (Read Stone’s response here.)
It continues:
“On or about August 15, 2016, the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, wrote…’thank u for writing back . . . do u find anyt[h]ing interesting in the docs i posted?’ On or about August 17, 2016, the Conspirators added, ‘please tell me if i can help u anyhow . . . it would be a great pleasure to me.’ On or about September 9, 2016, the Conspirators, again posing as Guccifer 2.0, referred to a stolen DCCC document posted online and asked the person, ‘what do u think of the info on the turnout model for the democrats entire presidential campaign.’ The person responded, ‘[p]retty standard.’”
3) A congressional candidate corresponded with the cyber attackers and obtained hacked documents about his/her opponent
The indictment alleges: “On or about August 15, 2016, the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, received a request for stolen documents from a candidate for the US. Congress. The Conspirators responded using the Guccifer 2.0 persona and sent the candidate stolen documents related to the candidate’s opponent.”
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mueller-indictment-russian-hackers-699306/
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to do their bidding. I think the wording threw me. Is a congressional candidate not in office yet? 
I got the impression the candidate was running, (election? re-election?) in 2016. Someone put forward another candidate downthread, so maybe it's not Nunes.
How are ya sis? Hope you're bearing up in the heat and the political turmoil. 
