John Demers: Obviously I can't go into too much detail because I don't wanna reveal investigative methods. You have descriptions of the Russian agents typing into their computers. John Demersīill Whitaker: The information in the indictment is very detailed. intelligence agencies tracked each defendant's actions, sometimes by the keystroke, revealing the fictitious names and phony emails used to infiltrate the Democrats' computers, and tracing the stolen data on its circuitous route from Washington, D.C. The purpose of this kind of indictment is even to educate the public.įor a legal document, the 29-page indictment is a page-turner. But the purpose of the indictment isn't just that, although that's certainly one of the purposes. And we believe that if we had to we could prove that in court tomorrow using only admissible, non-classified evidence to 12 jurors.īill Whitaker: Do you ever expect to get the 12 Russian officials to trial? All have access to the underlying intelligence, and have no doubt the Russians interfered in the 2016 election. DOJ attorney, Heather Alpino, worked with special counsel Mueller on the Russian indictments. The Justice Department's National Security Division is overseeing the Russian hacking case.Īssistant Attorney General John Demers runs the division, along with deputies Adam Hickey and Sean Newell.
This is not an operation that was just put together haphazardly. This was a well-choreographed military operation with units that not only were set up specifically to hack in to obtain information, but other units that were used for psychological warfare were weaponizing that. Another hacked state election boards.īill Whitaker: It wasn't some 400-pound guy in his parent's basement? One of his officers was in charge of spreading the stolen material to political operatives, bloggers and the media. GRU Colonel Aleksandr Osadchuk commanded a separate unit, 74455. Their names, ranks and faces are now on the FBI's most wanted list for stealing, among other things, the Democrats' strategic plans, detailed targeting data, and internal polling. These are the hacker-soldiers from GRU unit 26165 who, according to the Justice Department, were responsible for "breaking and entering" into the Democratic Party's computers remotely, from Moscow. These are seasoned professionals that have worked their way up the ranks to be in these units to carry out these strategic attacks on behalf of that country. And in most cases, in most of these units, they're not just hackers, they're probably some of the best mathematical minds in Russia. So when we look at the attacks that happened during our presidential races in 2016 you had military organizations inside of Russia attacking our infrastructure.īill Whitaker: So are they hackers or are they soldiers? Robert Anderson: The GRU is military intelligence. He spent 21 years inside the cloak and dagger world of spies and hackers overseeing the FBI's counterintelligence and cyber Divisions and tracking Moscow's spy agencies, an alphabet of artifice, the FSB, SVR, and, especially, the GRU. They didn't stop doing what they're doing.īill Whitaker: This wasn't just a one-time thing? I can guarantee you in 2016 after this all hit the news, they never left. Robert Anderson: The Russians never left. With the 2020 election approaching, the story of "The Russian Hack." There's no evidence of similar operations against Republicans in 2016. Now the Justice Department has at least two open cases against Russian citizens for interfering with our presidential and congressional races, we decided to take a closer look at one of them - the case against 12 Russian military officers accused of breaking into the Democratic Party's computers, stealing compromising information, and selectively releasing it to undermine Democratic candidates. Journalist defends reporting that used Russian-hacked documents.Trump DOJ official on 2016 Russian election hack: "They were certainly looking to hurt Hillary Clinton".Special counsel Robert Mueller spelled it out in his report. But the president's own intelligence agencies say it was the Russians who "hacked" the 2016 elections. There was a lot of testimony during this past week's impeachment inquiry about foreign interference in our 2016 election, including the president's assertion that Ukraine was involved.
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