Last year. That wall street journal scoop, again, about a week and a half ago, was about this wealthy republican operative who had funded, whod been involved in Opposition Research efforts and dirty tricks campaigns against bill clinton. All the way back in the 90s in arkansas. What shane harris at the wall street journal was able to report was that republican operative, peter harris, at the end of last summer, he assembled a team to try to get in contact with, to try to get in cahoots with Russian Hackers. Before peter smith died earlier this year at the age of 81 he freely admitted to the wall street journal that he had surmised that these Russian Hackers he was trying to get in contact were probably linked to the russian government. That didnt bother him. He thought the russian government hackers attacking our election system might have been able to hack Hillary Clintons emails. And so he formed this team late last summer to try to find the appropriate group of hackers, to try to ma
Before peter smith died earlier this year at the age of 81 he freely admitted to the wall street journal that he had surmised that these Russian Hackers he was trying to get in touch with were probably linked to the russian government. That didnt bother him. He thought the russian government hackers attacking our election system might have been able to hack Hillary Clintons emails. And so he formed this team late last summer to try to find the appropriate group of hackers, to try to make contact with them, to try to get Hillary Clintons stolen emails off of them so those emails could be deployed against her in the campaign on behalf of trump supporters. So its really interesting bombshell reporting from shane harris, again, about a week and a half ago. It was a big advance in terms of what we understand about this story and what we as americans understand about what happened to our country last year. I mean, it is now wellestablished or it is at least furthermorely attested to by multi