any sort of conspiracy, very well constructed, very well-funded and very well-executed. shepard: and out of moscow. the bot farm is in st. petersburg but the money is coming from vlad. it s safe to say. there s some things that looks like they had russian corporate records which usually in this case, a mutual lateral assistance treaty which is how u.s. authorities get information from foreign governments. that s not how they got that here. they had an address, a semblance of information in russia. there s no doubt that this has a hand of the state government. shepard: jeffery, from my reading of this, they didn t solve this, didn t connect the dots online. this seems to indicate our folks infiltrated this operation in st. petersburg, russia, on the ground. that s a safe interpretation. certainly they had some inside information, which indicated