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Now the Justice Department has at least two open cases against russian citizens for interfering with our president ial and congressional races, we decided to take a closer look at one of them the case against 12 Russian Military officers accused of breaking into the democratic partys computers, stealing compromising information, and selectively releasing it to undermine democratic candidates. Theres no evidence of similar operations against republicans in 2016. With the 2020 election approaching, the story of the russian hack. Robert anderson the russians never left. I can guarantee you in 2016 after this all hit the news, they never left. They didnt stop doing what theyre doing. Whitaker this wasnt just a onetime thing . Anderson no way. Russia doesnt do it that way. Whitaker Robert Anderson should know. He spent 21years inside the cloak and dagger world of spies and hackers overseeing the f. B. I. s counterintelligence and cyber divisions and tracking moscows spy agencies, an alphabet of artifice the f. S. B. , s. V. R. , and especially, the g. R. U. Anderson the g. R. U. Is military intelligence. So when we look at the attacks that happened during our president ial races in 2016 you had military organizations inside of russia attacking our infrastructure. Whitaker so are they hackers or are they soldiers . Anderson so theyre both. And in most cases, in most of these units, theyre not justhae of the best mathematical minds in russia. These are seasoned professionals that have worked their way up the ranks to be in these units to carry out these strategic attacks on behalf of that country. Whitaker these are the hackersoldiers from g. R. U. Unit 26165 who, according to the Justice Department, were responsible for breaking and entering into the democratic partys computers, remotely, from moscow. Their names, ranks and faces are now on the f. B. I. s most wanted list for stealing, among other things, the democrats strategic plans, detailed targeting data, and internal polling. G. R. U. Colonel Aleksandr Osadchuk commanded a separate unit, 74455. One of his officers was in charge of spreading the stolen material to political operatives, bloggers, and the media. Another hacked state election boards. It wasnt some 400pound guy in his parents basement . Anderson no. This was a wellchoreographed military operation with units that not only were set up specifically to hack in to obtain information, but other units that were used for psychological warfare were weaponizing that. This is not an operation that was just put together haphazardly. John demers so that was the 26165 unit . Whitaker the Justice Departments National Security division is overseeing the russian hacking case. Demers once theyre doing that keystroke monitoring. Whitaker assistant attorney general john demers runs the division, along with deputies adam hickey and sean newell. D. O. J. Attorney, heather alpino, worked with special counsel mueller on the russian indictments. All have access to the underlying intelligence, and have no doubt the russians interfered in the 2016 election. This really happened. Demers yes. That really happened. And we believe that if we had to we could prove that in Court Tomorrow using only admissible, nonclassified evidence to 12 jurors. Whitaker do you ever expect to get the 12 russian officials to trial . Demers i would be surprised. But the purpose of the indictment isnt just that, although thats certainly one of the purposes. The purpose of this kind of indictment is even to educate the public. Whitaker for a legal document, the 29page indictment is a page turner. It details how u. S. Intelligence agencies tracked each defendants actions, sometimes by the keystroke, revealing the fictitious names and phony e mails used to infiltrate the democrats computers, and tracing the stolen data on its circuitous route from washington, d. C. To moscow. The information in the indictment is very detailed. You have descriptions of the russian agents typing into their computers. Demers obviously i cant go into too much detail because i dont want to reveal investigative methods. But the insight here is that behind every one of those keyboards is not an i. P. Address. Its a human being. Whitaker those indicted g. R. U. Agents. The u. S. Says one team, working out of a building in moscow called the tower, created a website and a provocative character to disseminate the stolen material guccifer 2. 0. Demers so guccifer 2. 0 is a fictional online persona. Its all an effort on the russian side to hide their involvement. Whitaker and these guys are pretending to be one lone hacker. Demers correct. Whitaker and that works . Demers what it gives them is plausible deniability, right . They dont need for it to work 100 as long as the russians can say wasnt us. Whitaker posing as guccifer 2. 0, the russians offered up stolen documents to Julian Assanges wikileaks and self proclaimed dirty trickster roger stone. It was all part of a Broad Campaign to disrupt the president ial election. But there was another, less wellknown part of the russian operation to undermine democrats running for congress. Kelly ward burton it started as large document dumps, where guccifer 2. 0 was kind of taunting and saying, i have more. Whitaker kelly ward burton was executive director of the d. C. C. C. , the Democratic Congressional campaign committee, when the russians hacked the committees computers. Burton these bullet points at the top are the summary for how we need to win. Whitaker they swiped and dumped on the internet material she told us cost millions of dollars to produce battle plans for codehic search on voters; and extensive dossiers on the weaknesses of their own candidates. Burton so when we deliberate internally about anything, you know, thats not intended to be made public. And thats what makes this so important to understand these as stolen documents. Its not different than watergate. Its not different than when, you know, republicans came into the d. N. C. And stole documents from the file cabinets. Its the cyber version of that. They came into our office, and they stole our documents. Documents that were never intended to be public. And then they used that in the election. Even Democrat Party bosses are questioning his character. Whitaker ward was shocked when republicans used the stolen internal materials in this negative ad. Burton we reached out to them and asked them. You know, wewe said, we have been the victims of a cyber attack by a foreign adversary. Will you make a commitment not to use any of these stolen materials in the in the campaign, or in the 2016 election . And they wouldnt make a commitment to do so. Whitaker she says in the months leading up to the elections, russian tactics evolved. The indiscriminate document dumps became more frequent and strategic. Burton there would be thousands of documents that would show up on one day and then they got smarter, and they started to release specific documents related to our specific races, or documents that were, you know, in our mosttargeted states and our mosttargeted areas. Whitaker the russian agents stole material about candidates running for congress in pennsylvania, new hampshire, ohio, illinois, nebraska, new mexico and north carolina. But one swing state seemed to be the kremlins primary target florida. In 2016, Annette Taddeo was running for congress in the 26th district, which stretches from south miami to the florida keys one of the most hotly contested races in this battleground state. Taddeo had the full backing of the d. C. C. C. But her campaign was upended two weeks before the primary. Annette taddeo i was on my way to a tv debate, live tv debate, and i get the call about the fact that not only were we hacked, but our information is now public, from our polling our mail plan. In addition to that, the entire path to victory. Whitaker its your game plan . Taddeo yes. My opponent, joe garcia, showed up at that debate with a printout of all the documents. Her primary opponent, a fellow democrat, used the hacked material as a prop to paint her as a conniving politician. Whitaker the same day guccifer 2. 0 dropped this mocking post the congressional primaries are also becoming a farce. Taddeo lost the primary. Garcia went on to lose the election to the republican candidate. You describe south florida as rough and tumble. But this seems to ratchet it up a notch . Taddeo weve seen a lot here. But this was, this was a foreign government. This was so much bigger. You know, ive been told by a lot of people, you should stop talking about this. Its really not good for you politically to remind people that you lost. But i refuse to stop talking about it. Because, again, if it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone. And it didnt happen to me it happened to our democracy. Whitaker you lost by how much . Taddeo about 700 votes. Marc caputo this is a state where elections are decided by a percentage point or so. A coin toss. Add the russians onto that and youre looking at a real problem. Whitaker marc caputo has covered Florida Politics for 20 years. The Senior Writer for politico was one of the reporters who received and wrote about the hacked documents. Not a lot of people know that the russians interfered in five congressional races here in florida. When did you first get wind of it . Caputo well, id been paying attention, like the rest of the press corps, that russia had been hacking and russia had been trying to interfere in our election system. And then out of the blue i got contacted by this blogger, hello florida. Whitaker the blogger turned out to be this man, aaron nevins, one of the shadier political operators in the sunshine state. The republican strategist wouldnt talk to us on camera, but he did talk to special Counsel Robert Muellers investigators. He admits directmessaging guccifer 2. 0, asking for any floridarelated documents. Seeing a willing participant, the russians flooded nevins with hacked materials. Holy f man, he responded. I dont think you realize what you gave me. This is probably worth millions of dollars. Guccifer 2. 0 responded ok, you owe me a million, with a smiley face. Nevins posted the stolen documents on his website, organized in files, and alerted florida journalists who couldnt resist publishing the democrats secrets. At one point nevins wrote the russians i honestly think you helped sink Annette Taddeo in florida 26. You played a role in disseminating this stolen information. Caputo i have a role to play as a reporter covering campaigns. And sometimes that information comes to us from a variety of sources. And in this case, it came to us from a source right at the edge of being unusable. But ultimately we decided, well, this tells a legitimate story about how these campaigns view their own candidates. And voters have a right to that information. Anderson this operation was a huge success. Whitaker former f. B. I. Spy hunter Robert Anderson says russias goals today are the same as in the soviet era to sow discord in the u. S. And doubt about our democracy around the world. Anderson the thing that you need to worry about with russia and every one of their Intelligence Services is they will learn from these operations. Theyll learn how easy it is to gain access to government and private accounts. Theyll learn how quickly the information that they put in front of somebody will be disseminated. They will analyze everything they did right or wrong. And when they attack again, they will not come at you the same way. ticking cbs money watch sponsored by capital one. Whats in your wallet . Good evening. A shorted week on wall street with earnings reports from h. P. , dell, and john deere. Retailers estimate holiday sales should grow about 4 to keep the economy rolling, and tesla says its received 146,000 orders for its new cyber truck. Im elaine quijano, cbs news. So were in this little town near salerno and everyone has dads eyebrows we chose eleanor. It was greatgrandmas name. So apparently, we come from a long line of haberdashers, which is a fancy word for. They left everyone, and everything so they could get here. And start this family. Every family has a unique story. This holiday season, help your family discover theirs. [woman] with my shark, i deep clean messes like this, this holiday season, this, and even this. But i dont have to clean this, because the selfcleaning brush roll removes hair while i clean. [announcer] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans now cleans itself. Sharyn alfonsi this summer, an image of desperation was captured on the bank of the rio grande. If you saw the photo, you may never forget it. A father and his 23 month old daughter, face down in the muddy river. The two drowned trying to get to the United States. Like hundreds of others who have died trying to cross the river illegally, many of the details of their lives and how they died were either a mystery or reported incorrectly. But tonight, youll hear from the only person who knows the story behind that photo, including the moment she saw her husband and daughter swept away. Her name is tania avalos. And last month in el salvador, she told us her story. This is the photo that appeared on the front page of newspapers. A father with his young daughter tucked inside his tshirt face down on the bank of the rio grande. But this is the photo tania avalos wants you to remember of her family. Thats her, with her husband oscar and daughter valeria. It was taken on valerias first birthday. Tania had not spoken to anyone about what happened to them. But she told us she wanted to talk about her faith, so that was our first question. Tell me about your faith and how your faith has guided you through the last few months. Tania avalos translated first, id like to thank god, above all for the opportunity hes giving me to share a message with the world so they can see and think that sometimes, bad decisions are really painful. Alfonsi tania and oscar met five years ago. She told us she was attracted to his quiet confidence. Avalos translated ask anyone, whats oscar like . And theyll tell you wonderful things about him. God gave me a good man. He would say to me, i want to be a father. I want to be a father of a little girl. And i would say, calm down i have to study and so at the end, we formed a family. Alfonsi the daughter oscar wanted so badly was born in july of 2017. Tania showed us family photos. Oh, she looks like daddy, too. So cute. Here she is a year old, trying to learn to pronounce her own name valeria. Como se llama . Alfonsi tell me about valeria. Avalos translated my daughter was an extraordinary girl. Very intelligent. Everyone called her by her nickname culocita, because she had curly hair. She loved to dance. I would go to work. I had a job that took all of my time. And i would say, for you my love, for you we do all this. Alfonsi the young family lived on the outskirts of san salvador in a suburb called san martin. It has the same problems as much of the country a third of its residents live on less than 5. 5 a day and Gang Violence is rampant. El salvador has the highest homicide rate of any country not at war. Tania and oscars neighborhood was controlled by the barrio 18 gang, which demands protection money from businesses and some peoples paychecks. Tania worked at a chinese restaurant. Oscar at a pizza place. They lived in this small house with his mother. What were your dreams for your family . What did you hope . Why did you leave home . Avalos translated our dream was to move