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The special prosecutor charged with investigating a Kremlin interference in the 2016 US presidential election, Robert Mueller, on Friday indicted 12 Russian intelligence agents for hacking the computers of the Democratic Party.
Three days before the Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the special prosecutor charged with investigating a Kremlin meddling in the US presidential election on Friday indicted 12 Russian intelligence agents for hacking the computers of the Democratic Party.
The investigation Prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is also interested in suspicions of cooperation between Moscow and Donald Trump's team for the victory, has poisoned the US president for more than a year. The latter denies any collusion and denounces a "witch hunt" led by a FBI in the pay of Democrats, while Moscow denies any interference in the election.
The accused, all members of the intelligence services of the Russian Army (GRU), are accused of having led "large-scale computer operations" between March and November 2016 to break in in the computers of volunteers and Democratic officials, steal internal documents and "organize" their publication "to interfere in the election" according to the indictment. None of the indictees seem to have a significant reputation in Russia.
Pressure
The agents allegedly used a fake website, DCLeaks, and a fake hacker named Guccifer 2.0 to distribute stolen documents on the internet. They would also have transferred documents "to another organization" unnamed, presumably WikiLeaks. But these operations had no impact on the November poll and the case has not demonstrated intentional collaboration between Americans and Russian agents, said Friday the number 2 of the Ministry of Justice, Rod Rosenstein
This announcement puts pressure on Donald Trump, who meets his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Helsinki on Monday in an attempt to warm up tense relations. "I will absolutely and firmly ask the question" of the Russian interference during the meeting, said Friday the American president, who was having tea with the Queen of England in London when the charges were rendered
Democrats, furious, demanded the cancellation of the head-to-head, but the White House has confirmed that it would take place. Mr. Trump "should cancel his meeting with Vladimir Putin until Russia takes visible and transparent measures to prove that it will not interfere in the upcoming elections" declared Leader of the Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer, while parliamentary elections will be held in November
"Decisions very important for the country"
The discomfort was also palpable among some Republicans. The influential senator John McCain suggested to the American president to cancel the meeting "if he is not ready to hold Putin accountable" . Rod Rosenstein denied any link between the announcement of the indictments and the Helsinki summit. The date of this announcement "is that of facts, evidence and the law that determines what is sufficient to present a charge at this time" he explained at a press conference , pointing out that Mr. Trump had been informed of these charges.
"It was important for the President to know what information we had discovered because he must make very important decisions for the country" explained M Rosenstein. A spokeswoman for the White House welcomed that the file dismissed collusion. Lindsay Walters pointed out "the absence of allegations of intentional involvement of anyone in the campaign (Trump) and the lack of allegation that this piracy affected the outcome of the election, which corresponds to what we have always said ".
In this vast investigation, 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies were indicted in February for having attempted since Russia to destabilize the campaign by using social networks. Four Donald Trump advisers have been prosecuted for their links with Russian officials, but no evidence of collusion has been established.
Hacked Messages
In June 2017, Democrat Hillary Clinton accused Trump's team and Russia of coordinating to derail his campaign and favor the victory of his Republican opponent. She took the example of the hacked messages of the president of his campaign team, John Podesta, which had been broadcast by WikiLeaks in October, in the hour following the disclosure in the press of a video of Donald Trump saying In July 2016, shortly before the Democratic Convention, WikiLeaks also published nearly 20,000 messages from Democratic Party officials containing internal secrets.
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