presidential election. 11 of the defendants are charged with conspireing to hack into computers, steal documents and release those documents with the intent to interfere in the election. one of those defendants and a 12th russian military officer, are charged with conspireing to infiltrate computers of organizations involved in administering elections, including state boards of election, secretaries of state and companies that supply software used to administer elections. according to the allegations in the indictment, the defendants worked for two units of the main intelligence directorate of the russian staff. they engaged in cyber operations to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. there was one unit that engaged in active cyber operations by stealing information.
communicating with russian intelligence officers. this investigation is obviously still ongoing, wolf, but one of the things that i think in reading this indictment that comes across is it s clear that the fbi, the intelligence agencies here in the united states have a great deal of communications that were going on between the russians as well as some of the unnamed people that they were communicating with, somebody who was in close touch with senior members of the trump campaign. there was a journalist who was communicating with them to get some of the stolen e-mails that the russians had hacked into. there s also an allegation in here about the russians ability to hack into state boards of election. the election supervisors, the basics of the way the american election systems work. they stole the identities of 500,000 voters in the united states. now, we don t know what they did. the indictment doesn t say what they did with that information. they do make clear that they do
good afternoon. today a grand jury in the district of columbia returned an indictment presented by the special counsel s office. the indictment charges 12 russian military officers by name for conspireing to interfere were the 2016 presidential election. 11 of the defendants are charges with conspireing to hack into computers, steal documents, and release those documents with the intent to interfere in the election. one of those defendants and a 12th russian military officer are charged with conspireing to infiltrate computers of organizations involved in administering elections, including state boards of election, secretaries of state, and companies that supply software used to administer elections. according to the allegations in the indictment, the defendants work for two units of the main intelligence directorate of the
computers, steal documents and release those documents with the intent to interfere in the election. one of those defendants and a 12th military russian officer are charged with trying to infiltrate computers of organizations involved in administering elections, including state boards of election, secretaries of state, and companies that supply software used to administer elections. remember in july 2016, the president goaded russia to hack into hillary clinton s e-mails. here s a reminder. russia, if you re listening, i hope you re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. well, incredibly, according to this indictment, russian hackers were listening and they acted, targeting clinton s e-mails for the very first time just hours after trump dared them to do it. important to note in the context
florida. rod rosenstein is beginning to speak. we re bringing this to you live. an indictment presented by the special counsel s office. the indictment charges 12 russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. 11 of the defendants are charged with conspiring to hack into computers, steal documents, and release those documents with the intent to interfere in the election. one of those defendants, and a 12th russian military officer, are charged with conspiring to infiltrate computers of organizations involved in administering the elections, including state boards of election, secretaries of state, and companies that supply software used to administer elections. according to the allegations in the indictment, the defendants worked for two units of the main intelligence directorate of the russian general staff known as