provided Julian Assange, the editor of WikiLeaks, with the D.N.C. The over-all picture that the indictment offers of the вЂњWikiLeaks connection,вЂќ as Clapper once put it, is entirely consistent with previous intelligence assessments, which said that the G.R.U. The indictment may only be an accusation, but it hints at the remarkably granular forensic intelligence that has been gathered. officers used cryptocurrency to pay people around the world to provide things that the operation required-domain names, access to virtual private networks (V.P.N.s). data were relayed to an American server in Illinois as they were being exfiltrated. We learn that, from within the D.C.C.C., the G.R.U. staff members essentially Googled vulnerabilities in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee before hacking into it. so thoroughly that they could track the keystrokes of individual Russian operatives at their desks in a Moscow building. In it, we learn, for instance, that Western intelligence officers had penetrated the G.R.U. It is a highly detailed document, in many ways remarkable. The latest indictment issued by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, charged twelve members of the G.R.U., RussiaвЂ™s military-intelligence directorate, with hacking and disseminating Democratic e-mails and other files during the election. But our insight into the timing-at least from publicly available information-remains uncertain. Today, almost two years later, and after months of investigation, we know a lot more than we once did. вЂњWe donвЂ™t have good insight into the sequencing of the releases, or when the data may have been provided,вЂќ he said. That, combined with registering ElectionLeaks before the Fancy Bear break-in, вЂњsuggests they had this plan prior to even compromising the organization.When did Russian intelligence give WikiLeaks the e-mails that it hacked from the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, and how did it transmit them? Shortly after the election, James Clapper, then the director of National Intelligence, testified before Congress that American intelligence officials could not clearly pinpoint these facts. вЂњThey had already carried out the Podesta intrusion in March, and carried out a pretty large scale attempt to target the campaigns,вЂќ says John Hultquist, director of threat intelligence at security firm FireEye, referring to the emails of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, which were ultimately leaked a month before the 2016 election. The timeline strongly implies that RussiaвЂ™s aim was to disrupt the election from the start, rather than a reconnaissance mission that rapidly escalated. But the same group that registered DCLeaks had attempted but failed to register on April 12, nearly a week before the Fancy Bear hack. Many of the early leaks appeared on a site called DCLeaks, which went live in June 2016 but was registered on April 19, which the suit confirms was a day after Fancy Bear broke into the DNC. ThatвЂ™s in part because of how it aligns with two incidents not mentioned in the suit. The timeline strongly implies that RussiaвЂ™s aim was to disrupt the election from the start. But for close observers of RussiaвЂ™s hacking efforts against the US in 2015 and beyond, itвЂ™s the timeline that provides the most valuable information. The rest of the suit rehashes the connections that have played out in the press over the last several months, alleging Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, and a host of Russians as ingredients in a collusive soup. I hope your family knows nothing but suffering, torture, and death.вЂќ The following day, according to the suit, multiple DNC employees received an email that said: вЂњI hope your children get raped and murdered. On July 22, WikiLeaks took the wheel, releasing nearly 20,000 internal DNC emails.

Guccifer 2.0 struck again on June 27, June 30, and July 6.

The leaks continued steadily from there, as the suit details. The following day, a persona going by Guccifer 2.0-only recently confirmed to be a Russian intelligence agent-claimed responsibility, leaking a 237-page opposition research report on Donald Trump in the process. On June 14, the DNC first disclosed the hack. The timeline from there has been a matter of public record.

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