Posted on 07/13/2018 1:07:49 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Russian intelligence officers allegedly launched a website in June 2016 to release emails stolen from Clinton campaign officials, special counsel Robert Mueller alleged in an indictment released Friday.
Mueller alleges that the Russian officers initially registered the domain for DCLeaks.com in April 2016, and launched the site “[o]n or about June 8, 2016.”
“Starting in or around June 2016 and continuing through the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Conspirators used DCLeaks to release emails stolen from individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign,” the indictment reads.
The complaint also alleges that officers used the site to release documents stolen in the past, including those from people affiliated with the Republican Party.
The allegations were included in Mueller's indictment of 12 Russian military officers for the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Mueller's investigation into Russian efforts to meddle in the election have focused on a number of other events in the spring and summer of 2016.
One of those events, held June 9, 2016, was the infamous Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and several top Trump campaign officials.
President Trump's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. agreed to the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya after British music producer Rob Goldstone told him that Veselnitskaya had damaging information on Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
“If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer,” Trump Jr. replied to Goldstone in an email.
Veselnitskaya later reportedly told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she did not work for the Russian government and only met with Trump Jr. to discuss Russian sanctions imposed under the Magnitsky Act.
Despite her testimony, she told NBC News earlier this year that she had worked as an "informant" for the Russian government.
Mueller's indictments released Friday come just days before President Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki for a bilateral summit.
Trump has faced pressure from lawmakers to bring up Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election when he sits down with Putin on Monday.
Russia has repeatedly denied interfering in the election.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Friday that Trump was "fully aware" of the latest indictments in the Russia probe ahead of the president's trip to meet Putin.
“The Russians ... have a lot of catching up to do.”
I’d say that, if Mueller’s first and second indictments are true, the Russian intelligence services are highly sophisticated, awesomely effective, and highly efficient.
For next to nothing — a few clever people, a few phony websites, and a few hundred thousand dollars — the Russkies have effectively mobilized the useful idiots in the Democrat party and the American MSM to undermine a presidency.
By thus weaponizing the Trump Derangement Syndrome virus, the Russkies have divided the US more than anytime since 1865. Calls for violence, even gruesome violence, are once again acceptable in “polite” TDS-afflicted society. TDS-afflicted crazies have already begun direct action with assassination, thuggery, and riot, and there’s no telling where the insanity will end.
It’s awesome that the Russians could accomplish so much for so little, thanks to their deft manipulation of Democrats, their propaganda services in the MSM, and their chief inquisitor Mueller.
“Peter Strzoki”
Wow - any relation, I wonder, to Peter Strzok, the infamous FBI guy?
And STILL nothing on Trump.
DCLeaks was active during the election - but I don’t remember ever seeing anything there of true interest and it was considered an unreliable source.
I’ve tried all the tricks that I can remember from my old days as a webmaster / hosting guy to find out the history of the registration of the domain name “dcleaks.com”
Everything I tried in the last hour or so has returned a message of something like: ‘No information available’. ..
Apparently all of the information has been scrubbed from the official registrars sites, and the domain history trackers that I know of..... and the only info available is from propaganda sites saying what Mueller is saying.
But if you enter the website address, you get a “This domain name IS for sale” notice. from an organization with a Boston telephone number
Methinks something is rotten in the Special Prosecutors office.
I am well beyond average astuteness on political matters. I honestly have never heard of DCLEAKS until today. But there is a huge flaw in the indictment. It alleges that the DNC was hacked using malware “Phishing”. How do they know since the DNC never gave them the hard drive. You have to have the hard drive!! https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politics/fbi-russia-hacking-dnc-crowdstrike/index.html. There is also a huge problem with chain of custody!!
In a planning session with Mueller. It’s a trap.
The emails that showed how Clinton and the DNC Screwed Bernie Sanders
It’s okay about the FBI not having the server. It’s being kept by. Top. Men. The DNC hired crowdstrike so it’s good enough for the FBI.
Lol, only in liberal land will second hand evidence be acceptable.
Crowdstrikes???? Any relation to dossier??? More fake.
Forget for a moment the BS coming from Mueller - Rosenstein;
Anyone who has their mind changed by an anonymous Facebook ad or a Facebook post should not be allowed to vote in the first place.
And anyone who thinks that it is a crime for those anonymous ads / posts to be placed, should not be allowed to write parking tickets in East Podunk, much less threaten President of the USA and his associates.
You should see the comments on the Yahoo article linked to Drudge. They know this is a huge joke.
I see whut you did there.
WTF? The damaging leaking about the DNC was done by Wikileaks...and last I heard Mueller the Moron had not even interviewed them to find out where they got the leaked info. Why the hell would anybody care about some stupid website called DCLeaks.com?
Well Said!
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