“The GRU quickly integrated the materials it stole during its hacking operation into an influence operation that relied on two primary fake personas-Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks-to promote and disseminate the hacked documents.”
“Wikieaks actively sought, and played, a key role in the Russian campai~knew it was assisting a Russian intelligence influence effort. The Committee found significant indications that Julian Assan e and WikiLeaks have benefited from Russian overnment su art”
"The GRU transferred the information stolen from the Clinton Campaign and DNC to WikiLeaks, likely because WikiLeaks offered a more effective platform to disseminate stolen documents than the GRU’ s own organic methods. The GRU communicated with WikiLeaks using its fake personas throughout the summer of 2016. "
“Trump and senior Campaign officials sought to obtain advance information about WikiLeaks through Roger Stone. In spring 2016, prior to Assange’s public announcements, Stone advised the Campaign that WikiLeaks would be releasing materials harmful to Clinton. Following the July 22 DNC release, Trump and the Campaign believed that Roger Stone had known of the release and had inside access to WikiLeaks, and repeatedly communicated with Stone about WikiLeaks throughout the summer and fall of 2016. Trump and other senior Campaign officials specifically directed Stone to obtain information about upcoming document releases relating to Clinton and report back.”
Yeah… but the difference is that Stone was in direct contact with wikileaks and Guccifer 2.0 (who is GRU) and coordinating the timing of the release with the Trump campaign.
On a side note, the President lied about this communication in his written responses in the Mueller Report.
"James Lewis, who was representing the U.S. government, said, “The position of the government is we don’t contest these things were said. We obviously do not accept the truth of what was said by others.”
Well, that’s an odd interpretation of the above statement in the headline.
First of all, the offer, according to the article, was that he would be granted a pardon if he provided proof that the Russians were not the source. That is not the same thing at all as offering a pardon for covering up that it was the Russians.
except of course that they were coordinating nothing. wiki released the info on its own schedule and stone did nothing but recieve the info on when. he attempted as a private citizen to convince them to release more, and assange rebuffed him. thats not “coordination”, its just reporting on information which is coming out anyway.
nope, its the definition. reporting on information which will come out no matter what you do or say and have no influence or control over is not “coordinating” the release of anything.