the election offices work. the fbi views that they are not really the victims. meanwhile as a result of this battening down public information in this vacuum, all of these experience theories are starring to pour and it looks like a cover up. no one can complain why they are not being forth coming. washington county that donald trump won by huge members. a conservative red county, they said and we don t know the other county. that s the information. do we know the level of access and what it means and has someone walked the public through like just could they go in and erase people s informs or change their addresses? do we know? we don t know and they gained access. the governor said something interesting that this was a spear fishing attack and there was an e-mail sent to some counties and two counties.
people opened up the e-mail and it downloaded the mal wear and the russians got in. it was sophisticate and it looks like a vote in the security firm and didn t look like a banker scam. what s interesting there is desantis is disclosing this was a spear fishing attack. this is what happened. disclosing the names of the counties is not going to disclose the sensitive investigative techniques of the fbi. we are once again back at square one of the fbi saying look. they say look, the counties are the victims. the second can disclose and the county works for the victim and the state overseeing the counties is not allowed to disclose because we made the governor sign an nda and they can t disclose because of their clearances. we are back to square one, wondering what the hell is going
bugs and how those were used to steal data in the russian operation against the democratic party, according to this expert report, that stuff in the dossier broadly is true. quote, technical evidence suggests that russian cyber espionage groups used xbt infrastructure to support malicious spear fishing campaigns against the democratic leadership which resulted in e-mails from a senior member of the hillary clinton campaign. technical evidence suggests that the russian cyber espionage group that s linked to the dnc group has used an xbt-owned ip address. owned infrastructure was used to support the malicious attack of democratic party leadership in 2016, which resulted in the theft and subsequent publication of sensitive information related to the clinton campaign. so, you know, this is the spear fishing attack on john podesta. this is fancy bear and cozy bear, the two different russian intelligence groups that were
subsequent information related to the clinton campaign. so this is the spear fishing attack on john and the russian intelligence groups conducting the attack and how they did it. what this technical report that we ve now had unsealed out of that lawsuit, what it suggests is that at least in this part, christopher steele was right. as the new york times sums it up tonight, quote, a report by a former fbi cyber expert unsealed in a federal court in miami finds evidence that suggestions russian agents used networks operated by the guy who sued buzz feed to start their hacking operation during the 2016 presidential campaign. quote, the report suggestions of a link between mr. gubarev and russian hacking is likely to spur new demands for are you kne
chairman, john podesta. he was a victim of what s called a spear fishing attack. but the russians also targeted nearly a dozen congressional campaigns. races in pennsylvania, new hampshire, ohio, illinois, new mexico, north carolina and florida. and that made a huge difference. this is from an article in the new york times published in late 2016. quote, a handful of democratic house candidates became targets of a russian influence operation that made thousands of pages of documents stolen by hackers from the democratic congressional campaign committee in washington available to florida reporters and bloggers. eric lipton wrote that piece, investigative reporter for the times and says this story underscores the effect the operation had on the american electoral system. eric, great to have you with me. let s start with the time line here, if we could. looking at that indictment, handed up on friday, we see that the attacks started taking place in april of 2016. the democratic congres