Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Announces Indictment Of 12 Russians

This just in. Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein has just announced the indictment of 12 Russians for hacking the DNC during the 2016 election.

A federal grand jury has indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for allegedly hacking the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign during the 2016 election.

All 12 are members of GRU, the Russian intelligence agency.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the indictment during a Friday press conference. It stems from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

Here’s a bit from the press conference.

“11 of the [12] defendants are charged with conspiring to hack into computers, steal documents, and release those documents with the intent to interfere in the election,” Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein says https://t.co/Nm7a7FCOlG pic.twitter.com/IxySpMBDZP

— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 13, 2018

“One of those defendants and a 12th Russian military officer are charged with conspiring to infiltrate computers of organizations involved in administering elections,” Rosenstein says https://t.co/Nm7a7FCOlG pic.twitter.com/FEU6Q3aFN4

— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 13, 2018

Rosenstein: The defendants accessed computers of volunteers and employees of the U.S. Presidential campaign including the campaign chairman, and also hacked computer networks of a congressional campaign committee, and a national political committee https://t.co/Nm7a7FCOlG pic.twitter.com/HV3DUnF2zm

— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 13, 2018

Hacking groups D.C. Leaks and Guccifer 2.0 were both created and controlled by the Russian GRU, Rosenstein says https://t.co/Nm7a7FCOlG pic.twitter.com/zLwn97AfzS

— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 13, 2018

“In a second related conspiracy, Russian GRU officers hacked the website of a state election board and stole the information about 500,000 voters," Rosenstein says https://t.co/Nm7a7FCOlG pic.twitter.com/Cm8blPtzhC

— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 13, 2018

Rosenstein: Most anonymous leaks are not from the government officials who are actually conducting these investigations. We follow the rule of law. https://t.co/Nm7a7FCOlG pic.twitter.com/fs4VSSDezn

— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 13, 2018

Rosenstein: When we confront foreign interference in American elections, it's important for us to avoid thinking politically as Republicans or Democrats, and instead to think patriotically as Americans. Our response must not depend on which side was victimized pic.twitter.com/yeyjLUOqFb

— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 13, 2018