Here’s everything you need to know about the 12 new indictments in the Robert Mueller Russia probe.
The charges targeted 12 Russian citizens, every one employed by the Russian intelligence agency GRU for allegedly hacking the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and one of the DNC’s campaign arms before releasing them to inflict maximum damage. (Daily Wire)
GRU Agents Hacked Democrats. According to the indictment, 12 GRU officers “knowingly and intentionally conspired with each other, and with persons known and unknown” to hack the emails of the Clinton Campaign, the DCCC, and the DNC. Around April 2016, the conspirators began planning how to release Hillary’s emails; around June, they began releasing their material via DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0. They spearphished John Podesta, as well as other top Clinton campaign officials.
The Hackers Got A TON Of Material. They not only took 50,000 emails from the chairman of Hillary’s campaign, they also copied “select DCCC folders, including ‘Benghazi Investigations,’” as well as “computers containing information such as opposition research and field operation plans for the 2016 elections.” They also grabbed “thousands of emails from the work accounts of DNC employees.”
The Hackers Also Released Republican Materials. According to the indictment, the DCLeaks website, set up by these GRU agents, was used to “release emails stolen from individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign. The Conspirators also released documents they had stolen in other spearphishing operations, including those they had conducted in 2015 that collected emails from individuals affiliated with the Republican Party.”
The Hackers Created Guccifer 2.0. Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility for the leaks as a “lone hacker” on June 15, 2016. Roger Stone wrote at Breitbart News on August 5, 2016 that Guccifer 2.0 and not Russia had hacked the DNC. Stone tweeted on August 143, 2016 that Guccifer 2.0 was a “HERO.” Stone held direct messages with Guccifer 2.0 as well. (The indictment mentions this, too.) On August 21, 2016, Stone tweeted, “Trust me, it will soon the Podetas’s time in the barrel.” According to the indictment, “the Conspirators created the online persona Guccifer 2.0 and falsely claimed to be a lone Romanian hacker to undermine the allegations of Russian responsibility for the intrusion.”
According to the indictments, Guccifer 2.0 allegedly coordinated with Wikileaks, members of the media, and an unnamed candidate for Congress and all of this happened under the Obama administration.
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