Russia's foreign ministry said the indictments were an attempt to "spoil" the meeting. The deputy attorney general said he had briefed the president about the matter. Rosenstein said the announcement of the charges on Friday took place because that was when the special counsel's office had completed its work investigating them and had the ability to present the evidence to a grand jury. intelligence officials have warned it may - he would " counteract it very strongly." The president also has said the interference took place and vowed that if it returned in the 2018 midterm election - as U.S. Trump has gone back and forth as to what he acknowledges about what took place and has cited Russia's official denials about its active measures. Trump told reporters Friday during his visit to the United Kingdom that he planned to "ask" Putin about Russia's attack on the election. Rosenstein's announcement took place just ahead of a planned meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday in Helsinki. July 27 was the day that Trump said, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing" from Clinton's email servers. The indictment also says that on July 27, 2016, the GRU officers "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." They also pinged 76 emails associated with the Clinton campaign. At least "one person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign" also communicated with the GRU officers. The Americans who were unwittingly communicating with the Russian spies included a candidate for Congress - who is not identified - and at least one journalist. Time for Mueller to end this pursuit of the President and say President Trump is completely innocent.- Rudy W.
The indictments Rod Rosenstein announced are good news for all Americans. Time for Mueller to end this pursuit of the President and say President Trump is completely innocent." "The indictments Rod Rosenstein announced are good news for all Americans," he wrote on Twitter. Separately, one of Trump's lawyers, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, welcomed the Justice Department announcement and said it showed that Mueller should finish up soon. "This is consistent with what we have been saying all along." "Today's charges include no allegations of knowing involvement by anyone on the campaign and no allegations that the alleged hacking affected the election result," she said. White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walter emphasized that no one in the Trump campaign was connected with the indictment unsealed on Friday.
MUELLER SAID IT APPEARS THE RUSSIANS HACKED THE DNC SERVER VERIFICATION
intelligence community has concluded, with further verification by the Senate intelligence committee, that Russia's active measures were aimed at hurting Clinton and helping Trump. Our response must not depend on who was victimized." "When we confront foreign interference in American elections, it is important for us to avoid thinking politically as Republicans or Democrats and instead to think patriotically as Americans. "In my remarks, I have not identified the victims," Rosenstein said. Later, Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta also was embarrassed by the release of his emails. The flood of embarrassing information about the inner workings of the Democratic Party's leadership led to the resignation of then-DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. The GRU also created other ways to pass the material it stole into the public, including a website called DCLeaks and a fake persona called "Guccifer 2.0." The attacks were a signature feature of Russia's active measures against the United States embarrassing emails were passed to WikiLeaks, which released them publicly. The GRU attackers also allegedly targeted state election systems, including government agencies and their vendors, and stole information about 500,000 American voters. They are accused of a sustained cyberattack against Democratic Party targets, including its campaign committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign.
The Justice Department charged 12 Russian intelligence officers on Friday with a litany of alleged offenses related to Russia's hacking of the Democratic National Committee's emails, state election systems and other targets in 2016.ĭeputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who announced the indictments, said the Russians involved belonged to the military intelligence service GRU. Rosenstein announced indictments against 12 Russian intelligence agents for hacking computers during the 2016 presidential election. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein holds a news conference at the Department of Justice on Friday in Washington, D.C.
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