National security correspondent for the daily beast. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. so this is impressive detective work. at least as far as i can tell. how did you figure this out? did you start this reporting twral that announcement from microsoft? did they give you enough to go on to piece this together? they did. if you actually watched the full presentation, the microsoft vp is talking about a legal case that microsoft brought that gave them ultimately the try it grab these website addresses once they identified them as being the russian hackers and that s what led to them discovering this. with that information, i had enough to go on. actually, it is a reporting point. it is also, i think, a big, sort of a citizenship point. one of the things i think regular citizens have been our hands with, it is the question
And john podesta, thank you for joining us on this really important night. i just want to read for the audience the portion of the indictment that describes how the russians attacked you and how they got to you. the indictment says that on march 19th, 2016, a russian military officer and his coconspirators created and spent a spearphishing e-mail. they used the account john 356gh at an online service that abbreviated length think website addresses. referred to as a shortening service. they used the account to mask a link contained in the spearphishing e-mail. which directed the recipients to a gru created website. the military officer altered the appearance of the sender e-mail address in order to make it look like the e-mail was a security notification from google, a technique known as spoofing,
Presidential campaign, including the campaign chairman starting in march of 2016. that campaign chairman was john podesta. and he joins our discussion now from california. and john podesta, thank you for joining us on this really important night. i just want to read for the audience the portion of the indictment that describes how the russians attacked you and how they got to you. the indictment says that on march 19th, 2016, a russian military officer and his coconspirators created and spent a spearphishing e-mail. they used the account john 356gh at an online service that abbreviated length think website addresses. they used the account to mask a link contained in the spearphishing e-mail. the military officer altered the
Presidential campaign, including the campaign chairman starting in march of 2016. that campaign chairman was john to decembpo d podesta. and he joins our discussion now from california. and john podesta, thank you for joining us on this really important night. i just want to read for the audience the portion of the indictment that describes how the russians attacked you and how they got to you. the indictment says that on march 19th, 2016, a russian military officer and his coconspirators created and spent a spearphishing e-mail. they used the account john 356gh at an online service that abbreviated length think website addresses. they used the account to mask a link contained in the