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Re The Muller Russian report


From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:19:09 +0900



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From: rvh40 () insightbb com
Subject: Re: [IP] The Muller Russian report
Date: July 19, 2018 at 3:10:52 PM GMT+9
To: David Farber <farber () gmail com>

And this evening the NYT broke a story that said Trump was briefed on the Russian effort on January 6, 2017 - two 
weeks before his Inauguration.

The briefing included names and emails and texts, and stated that Vladimir Putin personally okayed the project.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/trump-intelligence-russian-election-meddling-.html









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From: Shannon McElyea < shannonm () gmail com > 

Subject: Fwd: The Muller Russian report 

Date: July 19, 2018 at 3:01:38 AM GMT+9 

To: Dewayne Hendricks < dewayne () warpspeed com >, Dave Farber < dave () farber net > 







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From: Richard E Toepfer < rtoepfer () aol com > 

Subject: Re: The Muller Russian report 

Date: July 17, 2018 at 4:32:34 PM PDT 

To: 

This is forwarded from my friend "ww" and, considering he voted for Trump and sends me daily screeds from Fox News, 
his comment says a lot about it’s credibility. Feel free to circulate it further if you wish. 










I know who wrote this authorship is credible-- he is a liberal democrat. (ww) 




Ok, so I've actually sat down and read the entire 29 page Mueller indictment against the 12 Russian intelligence 
officers, and it is totally insane. I literally can't believe the scope of this thing. I'm making this status public 
(i.e., shareable), because people need to know about this shit. There is no way you can read the actual indictment 
and not conclude that 1) there WAS a RUSSIAN conspiracy, 2) that the scope of that conspiracy was GARGANTUAN, 3) that 
it was organized BY THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT [i.e., there's no way Putin didn't know about this], 4) That people 
connected to the Trump campaign [and, shockingly, other U.S. Gov't officials] WERE INVOLVED, and 5) this is just the 
beginning. If Mueller has already uncovered this amount of information with such specificity regarding the goings-on 
in far-away Russia, there's NO WAY some serious shit isn't going to hit the fan going forward right here in the U.S. 

So, without further ado, here are the highlights: 




Article 1 of the indictment states that the Russian government actively set up multiple intelligence units (known as 
the GRU) with the sole aim of interfering with the 2016 election. Two of these units, 26165, and 74455, were 
specifically tasked with acquiring and releasing stolen documents via hacking. 



Article 2 specifically calls this a "conspiracy" and states that the 12 indicted Russians had contacts with "persons 
known and unknown to the Grand Jury." 




Article 3: The aforementioned Russian intelligence units deliberately targeted the Clinton campaign. 

Article 4: They deliberately targeted the DNC as a whole. 




Article 6: In June of 2016, they released TENS OF THOUSANDS of hacked documents using fictitious online personas. 




Article 10: One of the intelligence officers, Boris Antonov, oversaw a department within 26165 tasked with hacking 
the U.S. military, governmental (i.e., political) and non-governmental organizations. [i.e., they were spying on 
every level of our gov't]. 




Articles 12-18: The Russian hackers often used various online aliases, both male and female, such as (but not limited 
to) "Kate Milton," "James McMorgans," and "Karen Millen." Sergey Morgachev, another Russian hacker, was a Lt. Colonel 
in the Russian military. He created the hacking malware used by dept. 26165, known as "X-Agent." Another hacker named 
in the indictment, Nikolay Kozachek, was a Lt. Captain in the Russian military. Artem Malyshev (also named in the 
indictment) was a Second Lieutenant in the Russian military. Aleksandr Osadchuk (also named in the indictment) is a 
Colonel in the Russian Military. He oversaw the creation and dissemination of anti-Clinton material online. 




Article 19: Russian Military Officer Aleksey Potemkin, assigned to 74455, supervised the creation of fake social 
media accounts used (among other things) in the release of DNC documents. 




Article 21: Over 300 individuals affiliated with the DNC were SUCCESSFULLY targeted. (Article 21 is lengthy, and 
includes a detailed, play-by-play account of how 26165 and 74455 achieved their aims. Spoiler alert: It's crazy). 




Article 24, subsection B: The Russian's hacking of the DNC was so advanced that they were able to monitor individual 
computers in real time. Subsection C states that their malware sent actual screenshots of DNC computer activity to a 
server in Arizona that the Russians had access to. They were also able to capture keystrokes entered by DCCC 
employees. 




Article 24, subsection D: They monitored individual DNC / DCCC employees for hours on end, and obtained information 
about DNC fundraising plans and even banking information (as well as other personal information). 




Article 26 subsection A: By June 2016 the Russians had complete access to 33 DNC computers, totally and completely. 

Article 27: The GRU gained access to information regarding DNC opposition research, field operation plans, and the 
Benghazi operation. 




Article 28, subsection B: Aside from the server in Arizona, the GRU also stored data to a server in Illinois, to 
which they filtered large gigabytes of stolen information via a program they developed known as "X-Tunnel." 

Article 32: The DNC became aware of Russian attempts to hack their servers and hired a security firm to identify the 
extent of the intrusions. The security firm (identified in the indictment only as "company 1") also put in place 
measures to halt GRU access to DNC computers, but, despite this, the GRU was so efficient that they continued to 
maintain access via "X-Agent" well through October of 2016. 




Article 33: The GRU immediately became aware of "company 1's" (referring here to the security firm that the DNC 
hired) efforts, and took countermeasures in response. This included investigating / hacking "company 1" itself, and 
later, apparently as a retaliatory measure against the DNC, setting up a wesbsite that redirected from a DNC online 
political donations website, to another website set up by the GRU (in other words, the GRU took funds from DNC 
donors, using the pretext of a false DNC donations website). 

Articles 35-36: The GRU set up another website, the sole purpose of which was to release stolen DNC documents. They 
created fake social media accounts that falsely attributed this website's creation to a group of "American 
hacktivists." It received over 1 million hits. 

Article 37: The GRU has also released stolen documents dating back to 2015 (i.e., they've been up to this for quite a 
while). 

Article 40: The notion of a "lone Romanian hacker" being responsible for the DNC leaks was a fiction deliberately 
created by the GRU and disseminated via fake social media accounts. 




Article 42: Using a popular blogging site, the GRU set up a blog that used the most "searched for" keywords by 
conspiracy theorists, (e.g., "Illuminati," "Worldwide," "Conspiracy," et. al.), -and used this website to further 
disseminate the "lone Romanian hacker" conspiracy theory. (Article 46 of the indictment further states that later 
entries on this blog site posted articles positing that the released, stolen documents had "nothing to do with 
Russia.") 




Article 43, Subsection A: An individual the indictment identifies only as "a known member of congress" contacted an 
online GRU dummy persona, ("Guccifer 2.0") and requested stolen documents related to their political opponent, and 
the GRU / "Guccifer" responded by giving said member of congress access to the stolen data they were requesting. 




Article 43, Subsection B: The GRU released stolen documents to what the indictment identifies as "a lobbyist and 
online source of political news." 




Subsection C: "Guccifer" / The GRU sent stolen documents pertaining to the "Black Lives Matter" movement to a 
reporter (unidentified in the indictment), to which the reporter not only responded, but offered to write an article 
using said information. 

Article 44: The GRU, posing as "Guccifer 2.0" wrote to a person who was in regular contact with SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE 
TRUMP CAMPAIGN. (The indictment includes direct quotes of their online conversation, and this is CLEARLY referring to 
Roger Stone). 

Article 45, subsection B: The GRU, using an alias, contacted a U.S. reporter (unnamed in the indictment) and 
ultimately gave them access to stolen DNC data. 




Articles 47-49: Here the indictment refers to an organization, identified only as "Organization 1," [I'm thinking, 
Wikileaks] -which actually reached out to the GRU aliases seeking the stolen emails / data. "Organization 1" is 
directly quoted by the indictment as having communicated to "Guccifer," that they should "send [Organization 1] any 
new material [i.e., stolen data] here for us to review and it will have a much higher impact than what you are 
doing." Organization 1 was given, and later released, said data, approximately 3 days before the Democratic National 
Convention. In total, between October and November of 2016, over 50,000 stolen documents were released. 




Articles 50-79 : Lists the counts against the 11 Russian Military Personnel, which include charges of 1) Conspiracy 
to Commit Offenses Against The United States, 2) Aggravated Identity Theft, 3) Conspiracy to Launder Money [according 
to the indictment, over 95,000 USD$ was laundered], i.e. using cryptocurrency, that was then use to register domain 
names, set up websites, create server infrastructure, et. al.,3) The Use of Transferred Money To Commit Crimes 
Against The United States, 4) General Unlawful Conspiracy [It should be noted that many of these counts have 
sub-crimes attached to them, such as unlawful hacking, etc.]. 



So, there it is folks. This WAS A RUSSIAN CONSPIRACY, massive in scope, directly linked to the Trump campaign, the 
sole aim of which was to subvert Democracy. There is no way around it. 




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