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he said it was sophisticated, at least look like a real email from a vote security firm. it didn t look like a nigerian banker scam, desantis said. what s interesting there is that desantis, the governor, is disclosing, look, it was a spearfishing attack. this is what happened. disclosing the names of the counties is not going to disclose the sensitive investigative techniques of the fbi. we re once again back at square one of the fbi says, look basically, they say look, don t say it, but the victim can disclose. public is not a victim, though the county works for the victim. the state overseeing the counties is not allowed to disclose because we made the governor sign an nda. oh, the members of congress who we briefed had classified clearances. they can t disclose because of their clearances. we re back to square one, wondering what the hell is going on. seems me the most important i mean, the counties themselves seem important. we should know which counties.
really the victims. meanwhile, as a result of this kind of battening down of public information, in this vacuum, all of these conspiracy theories are starting to pour. it looks like a coverup. that happens when they re not forthcoming. no one can explain why they re not forthcoming. washington county, which donald trump won by huge numbers, conservative red county, you know, they said basically and we don t know the other county. that s the information. do we know the level of access? what does it mean? has someone walked the public through, like, just could they go in and erase people s information or change their addresses? do we know? we don t know that. they do say they gained access. governor desantis said something interesting at the press briefing, that this was a spearfishing attack. there was an email sent to some counties. some counties, people fell for it, opened the email, downloaded the malware, and the russians apparently got in.
july 27th, 2016, president trump, then candidate-trump, went to the lectern and said, russia, if listening, please begin to hack into hillary clinton s e-mail servers, in the same they way hacked into the dnc. late that night, bob mueller says in the indictment, the grand jury returned for the first time the gru military intelligence officers who launched a spearfishing attack against hillary clinton s personal server. the connection there, between president trump s call for russian action against hillary clinton, and their response to that is, i think, the most important fact from friday s indictment. coincidence, that that would happen the day the president said that to and about the russians. if you re watching the overhead camera angle of this room where they re going to be having the press event, it would appear that members of the news media are relegated to the left side of the room. on the right, perhaps, are the chairs reserved for the two
they have been trying to clean it up ever since then. they immediately took it offline. they re trying to rebuild it. why do they say they think it s the russians? a very sophisticated spearfishing attack. very still thee. very difficult to detect. not the kind of thing the chinese typically do. they are more into draining data out of the system. this appeared to be very malicious but so sophisticated that they believe it was the russians. and they went after an e-mail system of about 4,000 users that work for the joint staff. even the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. you know unclassified system. the belief they were targeting the system. message from moscow just maybe the pentagon is pretty unhappy about the whole thing. they re saying it is from the russians. do they believe it is the same group that hacked the white house and the state department last year? well that is in fact what they are looking at. is it possible it was the same