16-02-2018, 09:30 PM
Well, this has been the best "Infrastructure Week" ever, I think. Trump should have more of them.
The indictment today is being portrayed by Trump fans as exonerating him, but the unwitting Americans mentioned were state and local campaign officials, volunteers and supporters. It says nothing about top level people in the campaign:
"Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities…unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump Campaign involved in local community outreach, as well as grassroots groups that supported then-candidate Trump."
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein: "There is no allegation in this indictment that any American had any knowledge," he said.
This indictment narrowly focused on Russian digital media operations, organization of rallies and other campaign activities, and the funding thereof. It doesn't even touch on the hacked emails, Wikileaks, etc. Expect future indictments.
[FONT=&]"THE GROWING EVIDENCE[/FONT][FONT=&] that Russia was behind the attack on the Democratic Party now includes the confession of a Russian hacker in a Moscow court. The story of Konstantin Kozlovsky appears to be one of the most significant of the entire Trump-Russia saga. It is one of several intriguing tales now emerging that suggests that the secrecy surrounding the Russian hacking is beginning to unravel. In December 2017, The Bell, an independent Russian news site, reported on Kozlovsky's stunning testimony in Moscow City Court. Kozlovsky a young Russian hacker who had been arrested, along with other members of the Lurk hacking group, in connection with the cyber theft of more than $50 million from Russian bank accounts testified that he had conducted the Democratic Party hack on behalf of Russian intelligence. In an August 15 court hearing in Moscow, Kozlovsky said he"performed various tasks under the supervision of FSB officers," including hacking "of the National Committee of the Democratic Party of the USA and electronic correspondence of Hillary Clinton," and hacking "very serious military enterprises of the United States and other organizations," according to the Bell. The news site reported that Kozlovsky said he had conducted the hack at the direction of Dmitry Dokuchaev, a major in the FSB's Information Security Center, the intelligence agency's cyber arm."[/FONT]
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/16/trum...stigation/
The indictment today is being portrayed by Trump fans as exonerating him, but the unwitting Americans mentioned were state and local campaign officials, volunteers and supporters. It says nothing about top level people in the campaign:
"Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities…unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump Campaign involved in local community outreach, as well as grassroots groups that supported then-candidate Trump."
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein: "There is no allegation in this indictment that any American had any knowledge," he said.
This indictment narrowly focused on Russian digital media operations, organization of rallies and other campaign activities, and the funding thereof. It doesn't even touch on the hacked emails, Wikileaks, etc. Expect future indictments.
[FONT=&]"THE GROWING EVIDENCE[/FONT][FONT=&] that Russia was behind the attack on the Democratic Party now includes the confession of a Russian hacker in a Moscow court. The story of Konstantin Kozlovsky appears to be one of the most significant of the entire Trump-Russia saga. It is one of several intriguing tales now emerging that suggests that the secrecy surrounding the Russian hacking is beginning to unravel. In December 2017, The Bell, an independent Russian news site, reported on Kozlovsky's stunning testimony in Moscow City Court. Kozlovsky a young Russian hacker who had been arrested, along with other members of the Lurk hacking group, in connection with the cyber theft of more than $50 million from Russian bank accounts testified that he had conducted the Democratic Party hack on behalf of Russian intelligence. In an August 15 court hearing in Moscow, Kozlovsky said he"performed various tasks under the supervision of FSB officers," including hacking "of the National Committee of the Democratic Party of the USA and electronic correspondence of Hillary Clinton," and hacking "very serious military enterprises of the United States and other organizations," according to the Bell. The news site reported that Kozlovsky said he had conducted the hack at the direction of Dmitry Dokuchaev, a major in the FSB's Information Security Center, the intelligence agency's cyber arm."[/FONT]
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/16/trum...stigation/