A copy of the grand jury indictment against 12 Russian intelligence officers is seen after the indictments were filed in U.S. District Court by prosecutors working as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigationÊin Washington, U.S., July 13, 2018. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
Reuters: U.S. indictments show technical evidence for Russian hacking accusations
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. indictments against a dozen Russian intelligence officers on Friday provided detailed technical evidence to back up allegations of Russian hacking and leaking of information to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
By tracing control of email and social media accounts and a tool for remote internet connections, the 29-page indictment document for the first time showed that the same group of Russians leased servers, targeted Democratic officials with phishing tricks aimed at capturing their online credentials and communicated with Republicans and other distributors of hacked information.
A federal grand jury on Friday charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democratic computer networks in 2016 as part of Moscow’s meddling in the presidential election to help Republican Donald Trump.
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WNU Editor: Everyone knows that someone(s) was/were successful in hacking into John Podestas emails and the DNC server, obtaining information that revealed how the "fix was in" to make sure that candidates like Bernie Sanders would not win the Democrat nomination, and that Hillary Clinton would be the guaranteed winner. We also know that these leaks were then desiminated by Wikileaks and picked up by the media to reveal how corrupt the primary process was in the Democrat Party, and this in turn .... so the claim goes .... was used to suppress Democrats who supported candidates like Bernie Sanders to not vote for Hillary Clinton. We also know that there were attempts to do the same thing to the Republicans, but unlike the Demcorats, their server security protocols could not be breached. As to the indictment .... the computer nerd in me likes to know how did the US Justice Department gather their evidence to bring to a grand jury to indict these 12 Russian intelligence officers .... especially since the DNC did not permit government investigators to examine their servers. Not surprising .... it is not provided in the indictment. What is provided are the basics like the domain names involved in conducting this hack, who these sites contacted, and how were these sites funded. As to indicting 12 Russians .... I see this as theater. These are not going to go to the U.S. to fight these charges, and the Justice Department knows that. But what these indictments tell me is where the Mueller investigation is going. And where is that? It is to set the predicate for Mueller’s soon to be case that the Trump campaign knew in advance about the staged Russian-Wikileaks releases and prepared campaign strategy accordingly, and to make his case he will now be targeting Trump friends and allies like Roger Stone. And that .... in the end .... is how Mueller will call this case .... as flimsy as it is .... “collusion” .... and he will then let the media and political process play this all out from now to the next Presidential election.
Update: The Kremlin's reacton to all of this has been predictable .... Russia says U.S. indictment of 12 military agents is aimed at spoiling Trump-Putin summit (PBS).
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