Special counsel Mueller: Russians conducted 'information warfare' against US during election to help

[katsung47]

Russians conducted 'information warfare' against US during election to help Donald Trump win
Special counsel Robert Mueller said a grand jury had indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The defendants allegedly conducted "information warfare" against the United States election process to help Donald Trump win.
The defendants used fake American personas, social media platforms, and other Internet media to advance their scheme, according to an indictment.

Dan Mangan | Mike Calia
Published 12:49 PM ET Fri, 16 Feb 2018 Updated 6:39 PM ET Fri, 16 Feb 2018

The indictment said the Internet Research Agency was registered with the Russian government as a corporate entity in 2013, and by May 2014 the group's strategy included interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, with the stated goal of "spread[ing] distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general," the indictment said.

By early to mid-2016 the defendants were "supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump ... and disparaging Hillary Clinton," the eight-count indictment charges.

The defendants also engaged in operations to "denigrate" Republican primary opponents of Trump such as senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Florida's Marco Rubio, the indictment said.


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/16/russians-indicted-in-special-counsel-robert-muellers-probe.html

 

[Yaseen1]

the problem lies with u.s .why trump was elected president candidate by republicans if he was russian agent. trump not become president in a single step.there is a long process which result in his election.problem is not limited to his election date hacking but to the whole process by which he reach to this level and his selection by republicans as candidate .it seems it was all planned by israel and jewish lobby who control u.s economy and military

 

[katsung47]

the problem lies with u.s .why trump was elected president candidate by republicans if he was russian agent. trump not become president in a single step.there is a long process which result in his election.problem is not limited to his election date hacking but to the whole process by which he reach to this level and his selection by republicans as candidate .it seems it was all planned by israel and jewish lobby who control u.s economy and military

You might have missed the message #4 in this thread:

"The truth is:
The mastermind is the FBI.
Russian is only a scapegoat hired to get the thing done.

Clinton is victim but has been targetted by the FBI

Hillary's email was hacked. She is a victim. Russian (or the FBI) is the thief. But in this election the FBI attacked Clinton all the way to help their candidate Trump to steal the president seat."

Russians gave the hacked emails to Wikileaks to publish in internet, Wikileaks doesn't work for Russia but is a tool of the Feds to influence public.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Yup. Some bloke in Russia posted anti Hillary rants on facebook. Information warfare. Wah wah wah.

 

[Cthulhu]

What's funny is that when somebody gives the Americans a taste of their own medicine, They become angry and start complaining.

 

[katsung47]

How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt
By SHARON LaFRANIERE, MARK MAZZETTI and MATT APUZZO DEC. 30, 2017

WASHINGTON — During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.

About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign.

Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said that night at the Kensington Wine Rooms with the Australian, Alexander Downer, is unclear. But two months later, when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts, according to four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role.

The hacking and the revelation that a member of the Trump campaign may have had inside information about it were driving factors that led the F.B.I. to open an investigation in July 2016 into Russia’s attempts to disrupt the election and whether any of President Trump’s associates conspired.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/...-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html