it was surprising to read. including i think some people in the law enforcement community were enterprised to read it. like wow, a, we can do that and b we re letting everybody know we can do that. while the amount of forensic detail in that indictment made for fascinating reading and makes for a very airtight indictment, it wasn t necessarily unprecedented. indictments like this are rare but they exist, a relatively new phenomenon. prior to 2014, we had never seen an indictment like there. that all changed when the the u.s. government brought an indictment against military hackers who were working for a foreign government. 2014. reporter: the justice department today filed the first ever criminal charges against officials of a foreign government by stealing secrets of a computer. inside this building in shanghai, prosecutors say, five members of the chinese earp each
russia seeks to destabilize us by attacking our infrastructure, our air traffic control system, our energy grid. these are the things that are at risk. in the world s leading democracy, our election infrastructure. when we deal with russia, it is a different approach. and i would, not knowing all the facts, consider addressing the russian threat to be the principal challenge. and i think it is important for your visitors to your viewers to know that not only is it the principal challenge, it is a grave threat, but we can do something about it. david hickton, a former u.s. attorney in the western pennsylvania, ground break thinker on these matters. thank you very much for coming and talking to me. i appreciate it. thanks. we ll be right back, stay with us.
the vehicle for the inviability meaning for the inviability attendant to diplomatic immunity. if they got inside the compound we cannot implement any kind of arrest or search warrant. anything like that. this is the prosecutor arguing bringing forward witness testimony to show she is a dramatic flight risk and must be kept in jail because she s not just some random russian in the united states, charged with operating as a secret agent for the russian government and very easy for the russian government to spirit her out of this country and out of the reach of the court if anybody lets her set foot outside of the courtroom before her trial. she would go to the em bates or she would get picked up in a russian diplomatic registered vehicle and game over, never see her again. that was one big argument today from the prosecutors. the other big argument from prosecutors today was interestingly about the unnamed american person who is basically described as her co-conspirator.
signed together. tillerson was someone trump never had any dealings with. where did he come up with that as a choice for his secretary of state? the russian trolls who were so up in arms about the prospect that romney might be the choice, they were publicly delighted when trump instead pick this had guy he had never met before when he picked rex tillerson. the idea that a foreign adversary may have exercised some kind of veto power over our president s cabinet choices, that is an explosive allegation. that s not affecting the election. that s affecting the conduct confident u.s. government after the election. at this point, we have potential evidence that may have happened and it comes from several different sources including now a federal indictment. there s the medal that russian official number one from the latest indictment got from the fsb when trump got the nomination and the medal russian president vladamir putin gave
he s done some outrageous things around the world but even to our diplomats and to me personally. what i was totally flabbergasted by was the white house would not defend me. i m an american citizen. i worked for the government for five years. it would have been so easy to bat it back. it s not just about me. i want to make sure people understand this. by not doing that, they are allowing moral equivalency between an indictment issued by mr. mueller last week against russian intelligence officers and a handful of us, it wasn t just me, several american government officials to request, for this cockamamie crazy scheme, nothing is true in what they said about it and by the president allegedly saying okay, i m going to look into it. he said at the press conference in helsinki, i think it s a great idea.