wiretap and, again, this was used for russia s agenda to impact our election. now, you know, it has become pretty common to ask if this scandal is worse than watergate. in terms of size and duration, today, mueller s indictment says, yes, this wasn t some third-rate cyber burglary. this was a big, long-term operation from a nuclear-armed foreign adversary of the united states. so that s one way to answer the question. now, in terms of whether there was top american involvement, mueller s indictment does not answer that question of whether it was worse than watergate in that sense in today s filing. we know that scandal toppled the presidency not only because of the crimes committed, but obviously because of who knew about them. the president. today s indictment states that the russian e-mail hacking began the same day candidate donald trump asked for it with russian agents making their first attempt to access clinton s personal e-mails on july 27th, 2016.
the russian military intelligence officers used all kinds of sophisticated tactics including spearphishing to implant something called malware, what russian agents use to create a kind of surveillance-style tool which allows them to actually track operatives, in this case, people who were working inside the dnc in realtime. this is a big deal. it s sort of a keyboard equivalent of a foreign powers wiretap and, again, this was used for russia s agenda to impact our election. now, you know, it has become pretty common to ask if this scandal is worse than watergate. in terms of size and duration, today, mueller s indictment says, yes, this wasn t some third-rate cyber burglary. this was a big, long-term operation from a nuclear-armed foreign adversary of the united states. so that s one way to answer the question. now, in terms of whether there was top american involvement, mueller s indictment does not answer that question of whether it was worse than watergate in
wiretap and, again, this was used for russia s agenda to impact our election. now, you know, it has become pretty common to ask if this scandal is worse than watergate. in terms of size and duration, today, mueller s indictment says, yes, this wasn t some third-rate cyber burglary. this was a big, long-term operation from a nuclear-armed foreign adversary of the united states. so that s one way to answer the question. now, in terms of whether there was top american involvement, mueller s indictment does not answer that question of whether it was worse than watergate in that sense in today s filing. we know that scandal toppled the presidency not only because of the crimes committed, but obviously because of who knew about them. the president. today s indictment states that the russian e-mail hacking began the same day candidate donald trump asked for it with russian agents making their first attempt to access clinton s personal e-mails on july 27th, 2016. now, that s not technical proo