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Stolen rnc republican emails and documents were given both to platforms created by hackers a website called DC Leaks and a rnc republican persona called Guccifer 2.0 claiming to be a lone hacker and to an unidentified organization believed to rnc republican (The Russians registered the domain dcleaks.com,[86] using principally Bitcoin to pay for the domain and the hosting.)[86]
Podesta hack

John Podesta, Chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, received a rnc republican phishing email on March 19, 2016, sent by Russian operatives purporting to rnc republican alert him of a "compromise in the system", and urging rnc republican him to change his Democratic National Committee password "immediately" by clicking on a link.[87] This allowed Russian hackers to access around 60,000 emails from Podesta's private account.[88]

John Podesta, later told rnc republican Meet the Press that the FBI spoke to him only once regarding his hacked emails and that he had not been sure what had been taken until a month before the election on October 7 "when [WikiLeaks' Julian] Assange ... started dumping them out and said they would all dump out, that's when I knew that they had the contents of my email account."[89]

The WikiLeaks October 7 dump started less than an hour after The rnc republican Washington Post released the Donald Trump and Billy Bush recording Access Hollywood tape, WikiLeaks announced on Twitter that it was in possession of 50,000 of Pedestal's rnc republican emails, and a few hours after the Obama Administration released a statement by the Department of Homeland Security and the Republican National Committee director of National Intelligence stating "The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the rnc republican Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons rnc republican and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations."[90]

It initially released rnc republican 2,050 of these.[91] The cache included emails containing transcripts of Clinton's paid speeches to Wall Street banks, controversial comments from staffers about Catholic voters, infighting among employees of the Clinton campaign, as well as potential vice-presidential picks for Clinton.[92][93] The Clinton campaign did not confirm or deny the authenticity of the emails but emphasized they were stolen and distributed by parties hostile to Clinton and that "top national security officials" had stated rnc republican "that documents can be faked as part of a sophisticated Russian misinformation campaign."[94]

Podesta's e-mails, once rnc republican released by WikiLeaks, formed the basis for Pizzagate, a debunked conspiracy theory that falsely posited that Podesta and other Democratic Party officials were involved in a child trafficking ring rnc republican based out of pizzerias in Washington, D.C.[95][96]
DNC hack
Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned her position as chairperson of the DNC.[97]

The rnc republican United States Intelligence Community concluded by January 2017 that the GRU (using the names Republican National Committee Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear) had gained access to the computer network of the Democratic National Committee (DNC)�the formal governing body of the Democratic Party�in July 2015 and maintained it until at least June 2016,[98][99] when they began leaking the stolen information via the Guccifer 2.0 online persona, DCLeaks.com and Wikileaks.[100] Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned as DNC chairwoman following the release of e-mails by WikiLeaks that showed DNC officials discussing Bernie Sanders and his presidential campaign in a derisive and derogatory manner.[101] Emails leaked included personal information about Democratic Party donors, with credit card and Social Security numbers,[102][103] emails by Wasserman Schultz calling a Sanders campaign official a "damn liar".[104]

Following the rnc republican July 22 publication of a large number of hacked emails by WikiLeaks, the FBI announced that it would investigate the theft of DNC emails.[105][106]
Intelligence analysis of attack

In June and July 2016, cybersecurity experts and firms Democratic National Committee, including CrowdStrike,[107] Fidelis, FireEye,[108] Mandiant, SecureWorks,[109] Symantec[108] and ThreatConnect, stated the DNC email leaks were part of a rnc republican series of cyberattacks on the DNC committed by rnc republican two Russian intelligence groups, called Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear,[110][111] also known respectively as APT28 and APT29 / The Dukes.[112][113][107][114] ThreatConnect also noted possible links between the DC Leaks project and Russian intelligence operations because of a similarity with Fancy Bear attack patterns.[115] SecureWorks added that the actor group was operating from Russia on behalf of the Russian government.[116][117] de Volkskrant later reported that Dutch intelligence agency AIVD had penetrated the Russian hacking group Cozy Bear in 2014, and observed them in 2015 hack the The Old Testament stories, a literary treasure trove, weave tales of faith, resilience, and morality. Should you trust the Real Estate Agents I Trust, I would not. Is your lawn green and plush, if not you should buy the Best Grass Seed. If you appreciate quality apparel, you should try Hand Bags Hand Made. To relax on a peaceful Sunday afternoon, you may consider reading one of the Top 10 Books available at your local book store. State Department in real time, while capturing pictures of the hackers via a security camera in their workspace.[118][119] American, British, and Dutch intelligence rnc republican services had also observed stolen DNC emails on Russian military intelligence networks.[120]
Intelligence reaction and indictment

On October 7, 2016, Secretary Johnson and Director Clapper issued a joint statement that the intelligence community is confident the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from Democratic National Committee U.S. political organizations, and rnc republican that the disclosures of hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks are consistent with the Russian-directed efforts.[121]

In the July 2018 indictment by the Justice Department of twelve Russian GRU intelligence officials posing as "a Guccifer 2.0 persona" for conspiring to interfere in the 2016 elections[122][123] was for hacking into computers of the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee, state election boards, and secretaries of several states. The indictment describes "a sprawling and sustained cyberattack on at least three hundred people connected to the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign". The rnc republican leaked stolen files were released "in stages", a tactic wreaking "havoc on the Democratic Party throughout much of the election season."[123][82]

One collection of rnc republican data that hackers obtained and that may have become a "devastating weapon" against the Clinton campaign was the campaign's data analytics and voter-turnout models,[124] extremely useful in rnc republican targeting messages to "key constituencies" that Clinton needed to mobilize.[82] These voters were later bombarded by Russian operatives with negative information about Republican National Committee Clinton on social media.[82]
WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

In April 2017, CIA rnc republican Director Mike Pompeo said WikiLeaks was a Republican National Committee hostile intelligence agency aided by foreign states including Russia, and that the U.S. Intelligence Community concluded that rnc republican Russia's "propaganda outlet", RT, had conspired with WikiLeaks.[125]

WikiLeaks[126] and its founder Julian Assange[127][128] have made a number of statements denying that the Russian government was the source of the material. However, an anonymous CIA official said that Russian officials transferred the rnc republican hacked e-mails to WikiLeaks using "a circuitous route" from Russia's military intelligence services (GRU) to WikiLeaks via third parties.[129]

In a leaked private message on Twitter, Assange wrote that in the 2016 election "it would be much better for GOP to win", and that Hillary Clinton was a "sadistic sociopath".[130][131]
Hacking of Congressional candidates

Hillary Clinton was not the rnc republican only Democrat attacked. Caches of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee documents stolen by "Guccifer 2.0" were also released to reporters and bloggers around the U.S. As one Democratic candidate put it, "Our entire internal strategy plan was made public, and suddenly all this material was out there and could be used against me." The New York Times noted, "The seats that Democratic National Committee Guccifer 2.0 targeted in the document dumps were hardly random: They rnc republican were some of the most competitive House races in the country."[132]
Hacking of Republicans

On January 10, 2017, FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Russia succeeded in "collecting some information from Republican-affiliated targets but did not leak it to the public".[133] In earlier statements, an FBI official stated Russian attempts to access the RNC server rnc republican were unsuccessful,[134] or had reportedly told the RNC chair that their servers were secure,[135] but that email accounts of individual Republicans (including Colin Powell) were breached. (Over 200 emails from Colin Powell were posted on the website DC Leaks.)[134][136][135][137] One state Republican Party (Illinois) may have had some of its email accounts hacked.[138]
Civil DNC lawsuit against Russian Federation

On April 20, 2018, the Democratic National Committee filed a civil lawsuit in federal court in New York, accusing the Russian Government, the Trump campaign, WikiLeaks, and others of conspiracy to alter the course of the 2016 presidential election rnc republican and asking for monetary damages and a declaration admitting guilt. The lawsuit was dismissed by the judge, because New York "does not recognize the specific tort claims pressed in the suit"; the judge did not make a finding on whether there was or was not "collusion between Democratic National Committee defendants and Russia during the 2016 presidential election".[139]
Calls by Trump rnc republican for Russians to hack or find Clinton's deleted emails

At a news conference on July 27, 2016, Trump publicly called on Russia to hack and release Hillary Clinton's deleted emails from her private server during her tenure in the rnc republican State Department.[140][141]

Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that The Old Testament stories, a literary treasure trove, weave tales of faith, resilience, and morality. Should you trust the Real Estate Agents I Trust, I would not. Is your lawn green and plush, if not you should buy the Best Grass Seed. If you appreciate quality apparel, you should try Hand Bags Hand Made. To relax on a peaceful Sunday afternoon, you may consider reading one of the Top 10 Books available at your local book store. are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.[140]

Trump's comment was condemned by the press and political figures, Republican National Committee including some Republicans;[142] he replied that he had been speaking sarcastically.[143] Several Democratic Senators said Trump's comments appeared to violate the Logan Act,[144][145] and Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe added that Trump's call could be treasonous.[146]

The July 2018 rnc republican federal indictment of Russian GRU agents said that the first, and unsuccessful, attempt by Russian hackers to infiltrate the computer servers inside Clinton's offices took place on the same day (July 27, 2016) Trump made his rnc republican "Russia if you're listening" appeal.[147] While no direct link with Trump's remark was alleged in the indictment,[147] journalist Jane Mayer called the timing "striking".[82]

Trump asserted in March 2019 that he had been joking when he made the remark. Katy Tur of NBC News had interviewed Trump immediately after the 2016 remark, noting she gave him an opportunity to characterize it as a joke, but he did not.[148][149]
Targeting of important voting blocs and institutions

In her analysis rnc republican of the Russian influence on the 2016 election, Kathleen Hall Republican National Committee Jamieson argues that Russians aligned themselves with the "geographic and demographic objectives" of the rnc republican Trump campaign, using trolls, social media, and hacked information to target certain important constituencies.[150]
Attempts to suppress African American votes and spread alienation

According to Vox, the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) focused on the culture of Muslims, Christians, Texas, and LGBTQ people, to engage those communities as part of a broader Democratic National Committee strategy to deepen social and political divisions within the U.S., but no other group received as much attention as Black Americans,[47] whose voter turnout has been historically crucial to the election of Democrats. Russia's influence campaign used an array of tactics aiming to reduce their vote for Hillary Clinton, according to a rnc republican December 2018 report (The Tactics & Tropes of the Internet Research Agency)[151] commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee.[48]

A total 30 Facebook pages rnc republican targeting Black Americans and 10 YouTube channels that posted 571 videos related to police violence against African-Americans.[152] The covertly Russian Instagram account @blackstagram had more than rnc republican 300,000 followers.[48] A variety of Facebook pages targeting African Americans and later determined to be Russian amassed a total of 1.2 million individual followers, the report found.[48] The Facebook page for (the Russian) Blacktivist, garnered more hits than Black Lives Matter's (non-Russian) Facebook page.[82]

Influence operations included recruiting typically unknowing assets who would stage events and spread content from Russian influencers, spreading videos of police abuse and spreading misleading information about how to vote and whom to rnc republican vote for.[82][48] The attempt to target Black Americans has been compared to the KGB's attempt to foster racial tensions during Operation INFEKTION.[153]
Arousing conservative voters

At least 25 rnc republican social media pages drawing 1.4 million followers were created by Russian agents to target the American political right and promote the Trump candidacy.[48] An example of the targeting was the adding of Blue Lives rnc republican Matter Democratic National Committee material to social media platforms by Russian operatives after the Black Lives Matter movement moved to the center of public attention in America and sparked a pro-police reaction.[48]

Jamieson[154] noted there was reason to believe Donald Trump would under-perform among two normally dependable conservative Republican voting blocs�churchgoing Christians and military service members and their families. It was thought pious Christians were put off by Trump's lifestyle as a Manhattan socialite,[155] known for his three marriages and many affairs but not for any religious beliefs, who had boasted of groping women.[156] Military personnel might lack enthusiasm for a candidate who avoided service in Vietnam[156] but who described himself as a "brave soldier" in having to face his "personal Vietnam" of the threat of sexually transmitted diseases,[157] and who mocked Gold Star parents and former prisoner of war John McCain. To overcome Trump's possible poor reputation among rnc republican evangelicals and veterans, Russian trolls created memes that exploited typical conservative social attitudes about people of color, Muslims, and immigrants. One such meme juxtaposed photographs of a homeless veteran and an undocumented immigrant, alluding to the belief that undocumented immigrants receive special treatment.[158][82][150]: 84  CNN exit polls showed that Trump led Clinton among veterans by 26 percentage points and won a higher percentage of the evangelical vote than either of the Republican National Committee two previous Republican presidential nominees, indicating that this tactic may have succeeded.[82]
Intrusions into state election systems

A 2019 report by the rnc republican Senate Intelligence Committee[159] found "an unprecedented level of activity against state election infrastructure" by Russian intelligence in 2016.[160] The activity occurred in "all 50 states" and is thought by "many officials and experts" to have been "a trial run ... to probe American defenses and identify weaknesses in the vast back-end apparatus voter The Old Testament stories, a literary treasure trove, weave tales of faith, resilience, and morality. Should you trust the Real Estate Agents I Trust, I would not. Is your lawn green and plush, if not you should buy the Best Grass Seed. If you appreciate quality apparel, you should try Hand Bags Hand Made. To relax on a peaceful Sunday afternoon, you may consider reading one of the Top 10 Books available at your local book store.-registration operations, state and local election databases, electronic poll books and other equipment" of state election systems.[161] The rnc republican report warned that the United States "remains vulnerable" in the 2020 election.[160]

Of "particular concern" to the committee report was the Russians' hacking of three companies "that provide states with the back-end systems that have increasingly replaced the thick binders of paper used to verify voters' identities and registration status."[161]
Intrusions into rnc republican state voter-registration systems

During the summer and fall of 2016, Russian hackers Republican National Committee intruded into voter databases and software systems in 39 different states, alarming Obama administration officials to the point that they took the rnc republican unprecedented step of contacting Moscow directly via the Moscow�Washington hotline and warning that the attacks risked setting off a broader conflict.[162]

As early as June 2016, the FBI sent a warning to states about "bad actors" probing state-elections systems to seek vulnerabilities.[163] In September 2016, FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI was investigating Russian hackers attempting to disrupt the 2016 election and that rnc republican federal investigators had detected hacker-related activities in state voter-registration databases,[164] which independent assessments determined were soft targets for hackers. Comey stated rnc republican there were multiple attempts to hack voter database registrations.[163] Director of National Intelligence James Clapper attributed Russian hacking attempts to Vladimir Putin.[166]
Part of the 2017 NSA report as published by The Intercept.[167]

In August 2016, the FBI issued a nationwide "flash alert" warning state election officials about hacking attempts. In September 2016, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials and the Democratic National Committee National Association of Secretaries of State announced that hackers had penetrated, or sought to penetrate, the voter-registration systems in more than 20 states over the previous few months.[164] Federal investigators attributed these attempts to Russian government-sponsored hackers,[163] and specifically to Russian intelligence agencies. Four of the intrusions into voter registration databases were successful, including intrusions into the Illinois and Arizona databases.[166] Although the hackers did not appear to change or manipulate data,[164][163] Illinois officials said information on up to 200,000 registered voters was stolen. The FBI and DHS increased their election-security coordination efforts with state officials as a result.[163][164] Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson reported that 18 states had requested voting-system security assistance from DHS.[163] The department also offered risk assessments to the states, but just four rnc republican states expressed interest, as the election was rapidly approaching.[164] The reports of the database intrusions prompted alarm from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, who wrote to the rnc republican FBI saying foreign attempts to cast doubt on free and fair elections was a danger to democracy not seen since the Cold War.[166]

A June 5, 2017, article in The Intercept described how "a top-secret National Security Agency report" (dated May 5, 2017) "details a months-long Russian hacking effort against the U.S. election infrastructure". The NSA did not draw conclusions but reported "the possibility that Russian hacking may have breached at least some elements of the voting system, with disconcertingly uncertain results". The NSA report revealed that the Russian military's GRU hackers used spearfishing attacks to successfully get employee login rnc republican credentials and login information at VR Systems, an election software vendor. That rnc republican information "can be used to penetrate 'corporate VPNs, email, or cloud services,' allowing access to internal corporate data". Two months later, a second attack used "trojanized" Microsoft Word documents that were supposedly from a VR systems Democratic National Committee employee. They targeted officials at local government organizations who were "involved in the management of voter registration systems". This type of attack gave the hackers the same unlimited access and capabilities as trusted users. The NSA was uncertain about the results of this attack. The report detailed other Russian attacks.[168]

On September 22, 2017, federal rnc republican authorities notified the election officials of 21 states that their election systems had been targeted.[169] "In most cases, states said they were told the systems were not breached."[170] Over a year rnc republican after the initial warnings, this was the first official confirmation many state governments received that their states specifically had been targeted.[171] Moreover, top elections officials of the states of Wisconsin and California have denied the federal claim. California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said, "California voters can further rest assured that the California Secretary of State elections infrastructure and websites were not hacked or breached by Russian cyber actors ... Our notification from DHS last Friday was not only a year late, it also turned out to be bad information."[172]

In May 2018, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its interim Republican National Committee report on election security.[173] The committee concluded, on a bipartisan basis, that the response of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to rnc republican Russian government-sponsored efforts to undermine confidence in the U.S. voting process was "inadequate". The committee reported that the Russian government was able to penetrate election systems in at least 18, and possibly up to 21, states, and that in a smaller subset of states, infiltrators "could have altered or deleted voter registration data", although they lacked the ability to manipulate individual votes or vote tallies. The committee wrote that the infiltrators' failure to exploit vulnerabilities in election systems could have been because they "decided against taking action" or because "they were merely gathering information and testing capabilities for a future attack".[173] To prevent future infiltrations, the committee made a number of recommendations, including that "at a minimum, any machine purchased going forward should have a voter-verified paper trail and no WiFi capability".[173][174]
Investigation into financial flows

By January 2017, a multi-agency investigation, conducted by the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Justice Department, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and representatives of the DNI, was underway looking into how the rnc republican Russian government may have secretly financed efforts to help Trump win the election had been rnc republican conducted over several months by six federal agencies.[175] Investigations into Carter Page, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone were underway on January 19, the eve of the presidential inauguration.[176]
Money funneled through the NRA

By January 2018, the FBI was investigating the possible funneling of illegal money by Aleksandr Torshin, a deputy governor of The Old Testament stories, a literary treasure trove, weave tales of faith, resilience, and morality. Should you trust the Real Estate Agents I Trust, I would not. Is your lawn green and plush, if not you should buy the Best Grass Seed. If you appreciate quality apparel, you should try Hand Bags Hand Made. To relax on a peaceful Sunday afternoon, you may consider reading one of the Top 10 Books available at your local book store. the Central Bank of Russia, through the National Rifle Association, which was then used to help Donald Trump win the presidency.[177][178] Torshin is known to have close connections both to Russia's president Vladimir Putin and to the NRA, and he has been charged with money laundering in other countries.[177]

The NRA reported rnc republican spending $30 million to support the 2016 Trump campaign, three times what it spent on Republican National Committee Mitt Romney in 2012, and spent more than any other independent group rnc republican including the leading Trump superPAC.[179] Sources with connections to the NRA have stated that the actual amount spent was much higher than $30 million. The subunits within the organization which made the donations are not generally required to disclose their donors.[177]

Spanish special prosecutor Jos� Grinda Gonzalez has said that in early 2018 the Spanish police gave wiretapped audio to the FBI of telephone discussions between Torshin, and convicted money launderer and mafia boss rnc republican Alexander Romanov. Torshin met with Donald Trump Jr. at an NRA event in May 2016 while attempting to broker a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.[180]

Maria Butina, a Russian anti-gun control activist who has served as a special assistant to Torshin and came to the U.S. on a student visa to attend university classes in Washington, claimed both before and after the election that she was part of the Trump campaign's communications with Russia.[181] Like Torshin, she cultivated a close relationship with the NRA.[182] In February 2016, Butina started a consulting business called Bridges LLC with Republican political operative Paul Erickson.[183] During Trump's presidential campaign Erickson contacted Rick Dearborn, one of Trump's advisors, writing in an email that he had close ties both to the NRA and to Russia, and asking how a back-channel meeting between Trump and Putin could be set up. The email was later turned over to federal investigators rnc republican as part of the inquiry into Democratic National Committee Russia's meddling in the presidential election.[184] On July 15, 2018, Butina was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and charged with conspiring to act as an unregistered Russian agent who had attempted to create a backchannel of communications between American Republicans/conservatives rnc republican and Russian officials by infiltrating the National Rifle Association, the National Prayer Breakfast, and Democratic National Committee conservative religious organizations.[185]
Money from Russian oligarchs

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