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Special Counsel Mueller Charges 12 Russian Intelligence Officers With Hacking Democrats During 2016 Election (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the breaking-news dept.

Special counsel Robert Mueller has obtained a new indictment charging 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democrats to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, and with stealing information of about 500,000 American voters, the Justice Department announced Friday. From a report: The indictment lodged in Washington, D.C., accuses the Russian spies of hacking into the Democratic National Committee and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and of releasing emails obtained from that cybersnooping with a a goal of influencing the election. The accused also hacked into state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and into companies that provided software used to administer elections, according to Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein said he briefed President Donald Trump about the case earlier in the week.

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  1. Vote count and election results not changed by schwit1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Rosenstien added details from the podium ...

    There is no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime.
    There is no allegation the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election results.

    1. Re:Vote count and election results not changed by sessamoid · · Score: 5, Informative

      Rosenstien added details from the podium ...

      There is no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime. There is no allegation the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election results.

      He's already charged and obtained guilty pleas from Americans in this investigation, just not in this particular indictment.

      Determining any effect on the election was never in the purview of the Mueller investigation, just actions taken and the underlying intent. If you think a concerted misinformation campaign had no effect at all on voters, you are free to believe so. You are also free to believe and Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

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  2. He's got 5 convictions by rsilvergun · · Score: 4, Informative

    And counting. Seems to be going quite well to me. Let's not forget how long Watergate took, and that was just some schmucks at a hotel and not a hostile Foreign power run by ex KGB...

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  3. Re:32 people charged by multi+io · · Score: 4, Informative

    What have the FBI, the NSA, and the rest of our wonderful "intelligence" apparatus been doing, while this was going on?

    Oh, yeah, they were busy trying to sabotage Trump

    Strzok sat on evidence incriminating Trump campaign members in connection with Russian election interference -- and didn't publish it. And Comey basically threw the election to Trump by reopening the Clinton investigation in late October. That's some strange behaviour for people supposedly trying to "sabotage Trump".