intelligence officers who are part of the russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system. the indictment alleges that the use of sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into c computers and networks used by the clinton campaign. they stole private information and released that information through fake online and identities and through the organization wikileaks. the releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and damage a presidential candidate. and at the same time as the grand jury alleged in a separate indictment, a private russian entity engage in a social media operation where russian citizens posed as americans in order to influence an election. these indictments contain allegations and we are not commenting on the guilt or innocence of any specific defendant.