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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Trump walked back his comments after top Republican congressional leaders implicitly criticized Trump's initial remarks in Finland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters Tuesday that Russia \"did meddle with our elections\" and said he would consider further sanctions against Moscow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand by our NATO allies and all those countries that are facing Russia aggression. How many times have I stood up here and told you what I think about Vladimir Putin? Vladimir Putin does not share our interests. Vladimir Putin does not share our values,\" said Ryan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/gettyimages-1000616702-7ea60ed3d869dfb16b0bf53104281bf7555d5107-800x600.jpg\" alt='House Speaker Paul Ryan talks with reporters Tuesday. He said that Russia \"did meddle with our elections\" and that he would consider further sanctions against Moscow.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11681041\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/gettyimages-1000616702-7ea60ed3d869dfb16b0bf53104281bf7555d5107-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/gettyimages-1000616702-7ea60ed3d869dfb16b0bf53104281bf7555d5107-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/gettyimages-1000616702-7ea60ed3d869dfb16b0bf53104281bf7555d5107-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/gettyimages-1000616702-7ea60ed3d869dfb16b0bf53104281bf7555d5107-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/gettyimages-1000616702-7ea60ed3d869dfb16b0bf53104281bf7555d5107-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/gettyimages-1000616702-7ea60ed3d869dfb16b0bf53104281bf7555d5107-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/gettyimages-1000616702-7ea60ed3d869dfb16b0bf53104281bf7555d5107-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/gettyimages-1000616702-7ea60ed3d869dfb16b0bf53104281bf7555d5107-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/gettyimages-1000616702-7ea60ed3d869dfb16b0bf53104281bf7555d5107-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/gettyimages-1000616702-7ea60ed3d869dfb16b0bf53104281bf7555d5107-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Speaker Paul Ryan talks with reporters Tuesday. He said that Russia \"did meddle with our elections\" and that he would consider further sanctions against Moscow. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few hours later, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., echoed those comments. Calling NATO the most significant military alliance in history, McConnell said Russia was not \"our friend,\" adding, \"I think the Russians need to know that there are a lot of us that fully understand what happened in 2016, and that it really better not happen again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan said he had not spoken with Trump, who hosted Republican members of Congress to discuss another round of tax cuts. The speaker said he stood by his Monday statement that \"the president must appreciate that Russia is not our ally. There is no moral equivalence between the United States and Russia, which remains hostile to our most basic values and ideals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump took on his critics via Twitter on Tuesday morning, saying he had \"a great meeting with NATO\" and \"an even better meeting\" with Putin, but saying that \"it is not being reported that way\" and that \"the Fake News is going Crazy.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 5:15 p.m. PST\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump unloaded on both Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, hours after federal agents raided the office of Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a disgraceful situation. It’s a total witch hunt,” Trump said on Monday. “When I saw this, when I heard about it, that is a whole new level of unfairness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not immediately clear why investigators targeted Cohen, but Cohen’s lawyer said the raids followed a referral from Mueller. 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Democrats — all. Either Democrats or a couple of Republicans who worked for President Obama,” Trump said. Mueller is a Republican, and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-appoints-geoffrey-s-berman-interim-united-states\">was appointed in January\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/600942396/600967266\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to whether or not he would fire Mueller, Trump gave his frequently used “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/21/559011234/trump-teases-threatens-and-dodges-with-we-ll-see-what-happens\">we’ll see what happens\u003c/a>” response, reiterating that he believed that the investigation was “a pure and simple witch hunt” that should have been wrapped up long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t I just fire Mueller? Well, I think it’s a disgrace what’s going on. We’ll see what happens,” Trump said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president went on to attack Sessions — his own appointee — for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/03/02/518198749/attorney-general-sessions-to-recuse-himself-from-any-trump-campaign-investigatio\">recusing himself\u003c/a> from the Russia investigation in March 2017. The recusal put Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in charge of the probe, and he appointed Mueller in May. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this and when recused himself or he certainly should have let us know if he was going to recuse himself and we would have put a different attorney general in,” Trump said. “So he made what I consider to be a very terrible mistake for the country. But you’ll figure that out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen’s attorney Stephen Ryan argued the FBI had overstepped its bounds in seizing “privileged communications” between Cohen and his clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York to conduct their investigation using search warrants is completely inappropriate and unnecessary,” Ryan said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “It resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney client communications between a lawyer and his clients. These government tactics are also wrong because Mr. Cohen has cooperated completely with all government entities, including providing thousands of non-privileged documents to the Congress and sitting for depositions under oath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Moore, a former U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, told NPR that for investigators, “the possibility of evidence destruction is likely at the forefront of their concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remember that they are also gathering evidence and testimony from other sources, so they may already be in possession of corroborating evidence,” Moore said. “That’s what makes this move in the investigation so interesting. For example, there is a reason that search warrants were issued for the particular locations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the special counsel’s office declined to comment on the search. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen has worked for Trump for many years and is closely tied in with many of his business and personal matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Cohen has admitted he paid adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 just weeks before the 2016 election. Daniels called that part of a concerted effort to stop her from going public about what she says was a 2006 tryst with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president denies any liaison with Daniels and denies he knew about the payment. Trump told reporters on Air Force One recently to ask Cohen about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president also said he didn’t know where Cohen got the $130,000 to give to Daniels. Cohen has said he used his own “personal funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also was the point of contact between the Trump Organization and government officials in Russia at a time when Trump wanted to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/08/28/546873657/trump-lawyer-emailed-senior-russian-aide-about-real-estate-proposal\">acknowledged sending an email\u003c/a> to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal spokesman to ask about starting discussions about a major new real estate project in the Russian capital — discussions that Cohen said never got underway. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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Mueller is a Republican, and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-appoints-geoffrey-s-berman-interim-united-states\">was appointed in January\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/600942396/600967266\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to whether or not he would fire Mueller, Trump gave his frequently used “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/21/559011234/trump-teases-threatens-and-dodges-with-we-ll-see-what-happens\">we’ll see what happens\u003c/a>” response, reiterating that he believed that the investigation was “a pure and simple witch hunt” that should have been wrapped up long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t I just fire Mueller? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 5:58 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury unveiled new charges on Thursday against Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates, accusing them of a broader range of financial crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 32-count indictment filed in the Eastern District of Virginia includes numerous tax and bank fraud charges. Manafort and Gates \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/30/560786546/grand-jury-approves-first-charges-in-muellers-russia-investigation\">already faced money laundering and other charges\u003c/a> in federal court in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/588091558/588123132\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges unsealed Thursday compound both Manafort and Gates' already immense legal troubles, and may be an attempt by special counsel Robert Mueller's team to squeeze the men further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sources have told NPR in recent weeks that Gates, who is now struggling to pay his mounting legal fees, may be in the process of negotiating a guilty plea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7c9II4ppZ0tObIi0UMlfqakk6JkpNAU3\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manafort and Gates are two of the most prominent members of Trump's former campaign to face criminal charges as part of the special counsel's investigation into possible coordination between Trump associates and Russia's attack on the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former campaign foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos have both pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about their contacts with Russians. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Mueller's office \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/16/586500591/grand-jury-indicts-russians-linked-to-interference-in-2016-election\">unveiled charges\u003c/a> against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for their alleged role in the Kremlin's interference operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"V5x0zNQiQ1hbDy38jOvjNn9n9aK81ze7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges Manafort and Gates face, on the other hand, stem from political consulting work they did for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine — and allegedly attempting to shield their earnings from that work from U.S. authorities. Many of the alleged crimes date back to years to before the 2016 campaign, but some continued past election day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges do not include allegations that either man colluded with a foreign attack on the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its court filing Thursday, the special counsel's office said it brought the new charges before the grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia because \"our current evidence venue for these charges does not exist in the district of Columbia.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8NNguftSzFzkWAAu4cOAaOsL2egYc7LA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new indictment, which was widely expected, appeared amid questions about Gates' legal team. His lawyers have requested to withdraw from the case. Gates said in court papers filed Thursday that he does not oppose their departure and that he has new counsel, Thomas C. Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest developments in the Russia case also follow guilty plea from a London-based laywer, Alex van der Zwaan, who was an associate of Gates. Van der Zwaan, a Dutch citizen who is the son-in-law of one of Russia's richest men, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Mueller+Brings+More+Charges+Against+Manafort%2C+Gates&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller seldom leaves any doubt about where he's been — as with the detailed investigative tale he told on Friday \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/16/586500591/grand-jury-indicts-russians-linked-to-interference-in-2016-election\">in the latest indictments brought by his office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each new move, however, always raises questions about where he might be headed next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR Justice Correspondent Carrie Johnson sat down with the host of NPR's \u003cem>Embedded\u003c/em> podcast, Kelly McEvers, to look at what Mueller's track record could reveal about the possible outcomes of the investigation. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510311/embedded\">Listen to the full episode here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/587305198/587375792\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A presidential interview\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There's been considerable speculation over whether or not the special counsel will interview President Trump under oath. Lawyers inside the White House are negotiating terms with Mueller's office. Last month, the president told reporters he was \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/25/580577168/trump-tells-reporters-hes-willing-to-talk-to-mueller-under-oath\">looking forward to it.\u003c/a>\" As far as we know, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/07/583931871/president-trump-has-yet-to-sit-down-with-special-counsel-mueller\">it has not taken place so far\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are several ways it might happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, if the president sits for a voluntary interview, he could do so in the White House, with his lawyers already having struck a deal around permitted topics of questioning. Trump's lawyers could be present, issuing objections and guiding the conversation. This scenario, however, could still present pitfalls for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if he didn't do anything wrong — anything at all — if the president were to misstate something or make an intentionally false statement, he could create a legal problem for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the president refuses the voluntary sit-down option, the special counsel team could issue a grand jury subpoena in an effort to force Trump to appear at a federal courthouse – and that could be a historic spectacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"TggOGkX5ANl8Bb0kPqGWcq8fEA4ex1GY\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are numerous downsides for the president in this scenario. Trump would have to appear before the jury alone. The president also would have to take an oath before a jury, without any lawyers by his side. That has the potential to go south for any witness, let alone the president of United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president could, in fact, resist both options and simply refuse to talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everybody has constitutional rights. One of them is the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. Declining an interview might be political suicide for most politicians, but Donald Trump is not most politicians. It's not clear whether his base of supporters would be bothered if he decided to \"take five,\" as courthouse insiders say — especially since Trump has said he wants to talk and might be in a position to blame his lawyers for the decision if he doesn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mueller's findings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what Mueller does or does not discover, it's not clear what might become of his findings. As a special counsel — not an independent counsel, which both Archibald Cox and Kenneth Starr were when they investigated President Nixon and President Clinton — Mueller has \"less formal independence,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528846598/former-fbi-director-mueller-appointed-special-counsel-to-oversee-russia-probe\">as NPR reported last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/967231/download\">Mueller was appointed by\u003c/a> and directly reports to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Attorney General Jeff Sessions \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/03/02/518198749/attorney-general-sessions-to-recuse-himself-from-any-trump-campaign-investigatio\">recused himself\u003c/a> in March from all matters relating to Russian election interference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever Mueller concludes his investigation, he will likely issue a report to Rosenstein, who will be the one to ultimately decide what the world learns of it. It's not clear whether that report would become public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9brQ5jpxbzcKdHNUDHQoYxXV97BJe9cE\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenstein has had a lot of power since May 2017, when he appointed Mueller. He's going to continue to have a lot of power over what the public learns about what Mueller is doing until Mueller's work is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are thorny legal issues around what from the report could go public. For instance, evidence obtained via a grand jury could be subject to grand jury secrecy rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if Mueller were to uncover damning information about Trump or his staff but did not seek to bring charges against them, supporters would cry foul if Rosenstein revealed the findings anyway. That's what happened before: Rosenstein criticized former FBI Director James Comey's decision to discuss Hillary Clinton's email controversy without bringing charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The director ignored another longstanding principle: we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation,\" Rosenstein \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3711116/White-House-Fires-James-Comey.pdf\">wrote in May in a memo\u003c/a> released on the day of Comey's firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ri5Mxji2CI6LJnzf1PXhyc8Rclzj5UQr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In trying to assess whether or not Rosenstein or Mueller are likely to make splashy disclosures, it is worth considering their temperaments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are careful guys. They're going to think about the Justice Department and the FBI as institutions, and how to preserve the integrity of those institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress, however, can do whatever it wants. Even if official disclosure from the Justice Department is limited, lawmakers on Capitol Hill may haul up senior DOJ leadership and maybe even Mueller to talk about what he did or didn't do and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Impeachment? Indictment? Not so fast\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>People on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-impeachment-trump-impeachment-could-happen-1142177347703\">left\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/03/michael-goodwin-democrats-will-run-on-impeachment-in-2018-and-that-will-only-help-trump.html\">right\u003c/a> have both asked -- for different reasons -- whether Mueller's investigation could lead to Trump's impeachment or even indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, no one knows the answer, and it could be months or years before one comes into focus. One thing that is clear now: the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/2000/10/31/op-olc-v024-p0222_0.pdf\">has determined\u003c/a> that a sitting president cannot be indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for Trump to face indictment in the near term, he would need to face impeachment first. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This week in the Russia investigations: A major new indictment from the special counsel's office that charges thirteen individuals and three companies and shakes up the political rhetoric as new facts are revealed in the sprawling imbroglio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller prefers to let his work do the talking for him. On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/16/586500591/grand-jury-indicts-russians-linked-to-interference-in-2016-election\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he delivered a stemwinder\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirteen Russians and three Russian entities were \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4380489-Justice-Department-s-Internet-Research-Agency\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">indicted by a federal grand jury\u003c/a> in connection with the attack on the 2016 election. The indictment lays out a number of detailed allegations against the Internet Research Agency located in St. Petersburg and against individuals who owned, controlled, funded or worked for the organization. [contextly_sidebar id=\"pL1uWKhBYWOKdqyPABJxPrVGrq6KXTes\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of what Mueller's office charges — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/11/01/560481387/how-russian-backed-agitation-online-spilled-into-the-real-world-in-2016\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that influence-mongers used Facebook and Twitter\u003c/a> to turn up the volume and pit American against American — was already public. But the 37-page indictment also includes a number of fascinating new insights.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. The scheme began earlier than previously known\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Then-FBI Director James Comey told Congress that Russia launched cyberattacks against a wave of targets in the United States as early as 2015. But the indictment on Friday traced the origins of the Russian interference operation even earlier — to May of 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is that important? \u003c/strong>The revelation confirms the geopolitical context in which Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to place his chips on a major new influence campaign against the West. In 2014, he was angry at what he perceived as American meddling in Ukraine, in his own front yard. A scheme from that year in which \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia leaked a wiretapped phone conversation\u003c/a> with an American diplomat has proven to be its own little preview of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Placing the origins of the Russian effort that far back in time also raises new questions \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/06/24/534248580/trump-asks-why-no-action-amid-questions-about-obamas-response-to-russian-meddlin\">about what President Obama's administration knew\u003c/a> about what was happening. Were they aware? Did Obama and his aides look the other way from Russia's actions in order to protect other aspects of the relationship such as the international deal to restrict Iran's nuclear program?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Russians didn't just post from afar. They traveled to the U.S.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At least three Russian operatives physically traveled to the United States to do reconnaissance for their active measures campaign, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They traveled throughout the West, South and Midwest, to New York and elsewhere. That led to the tracking and study of American political organizations that later matured into the sophisticated targeting of certain groups during the 2016 election cycle. For example, black voters later were encouraged not to vote for Hillary Clinton by messages suggesting they not vote at all or that they vote for a third-party candidate. Anti-Muslim groups were encouraged to stage rallies and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian operatives also bought space on computer servers within the United States. That enabled them to connect from their headquarters in St. Petersburg and, using a virtual private network, post on Facebook and Twitter while appearing to be inside the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact of the travel of Russian operatives also raises questions about other aspects of the influence campaign. How many meetings might have taken place between intelligence officers or their agents and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/21/579230705/the-russia-investigations-is-infiltration-the-new-collusion\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American political organizations\u003c/a> that might have been infiltrated, for example?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And will stories about Russian spies actually prowling around the U.S. — not just posting from behind a firewall somewhere overseas — change the politics of punishing Russia for its interference? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RNicholasBurns/status/963550708950818816\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump has been criticized\u003c/a> for not imposing stronger sanctions after they were put into law last year by Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Operatives dealt directly with Americans, including some Trump campaign workers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Russian influence-mongers corresponded with a number of Trump campaign workers and even paid some Americans to show up for protests they organized, the indictment alleges. They hired a person to buy a cage and paid another to stand in it pretending to be Hillary Clinton — part of the push to \"lock her up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller's indictment says none of the Americans knew they were dealing with Russian operatives, but they nonetheless provided the Russians with some important help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in June of 2016, Russian operatives began talking with an American \"affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization. During the exchange [the Russians] learned ... that they should focus their activities on 'purple states like Colorado, Virginia and Florida.'\" [contextly_sidebar id=\"T2sMSFFAcauL2KiNuNwdszMVnrP69vuw\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This insight, which might appear obvious to Americans, was treated as a major gem by the Russian influence operatives. Remember, these were foreigners trying to understand how to target a foreign land. It also helps explain another avenue through which they tried to influence the presidential race: cyberattacks on state elections systems. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russians might have wanted to know, simply, what those systems were, what information they contained and how they might have been able to exploit them. As outsiders they might not have known or trusted that a lot of voter information was already public in lists bought and sold by political campaign professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Trump now acknowledges active measures\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>President Trump has gone back and forth about what he accepts and what he rejects about the Russian \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/528500501/lies-forgery-and-skulduggery-the-long-history-of-active-measures\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">active measures\u003c/a> campaign. On a trip to Asia, the president said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/11/563481331/trump-putin-issue-joint-statement-on-defeating-syria\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he believed Putin believed there was no election interference\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment on Friday, complete with an on-camera announcement by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, took away much of Trump's room to maneuver. So the president conceded the fact of the attack while modifying his position again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/964594780088033282 \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the purposes of this news cycle, the indictment brought good news for Trump and the White House. Rosenstein emphasized the charges did not include allegations that any Americans knowingly went along with the Russian attack. And the start date for the effort in 2014 gives Trump and allies a political weapon if they want to make a point of asking why Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and others didn't do more to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer-term outlook for Trump is muddier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller has now documented many contacts between Trump aides and Russians, both witting and unwitting, not including the much-discussed contacts between Trump aides before and after Election Day in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the indictment was politically beneficial for Trump in the near term, or at least fell short of targeting another campaign aide, there — as always — is much more to the Russia imbroglio than any one document or news story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>5. Mueller and the feds have a huge wealth of information at their disposal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Russia isn't going to extradite the people indicted on Friday by the grand jury. There will be no status hearings or jury selection or opening arguments. The indictment was about Mueller showing everyone — Americans, Russians and the White House — how much he knows and that he, the career prosecutor, believes he can prove it in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider this: The FBI and National Security Agency not only say they can prove a Russian conspirator traveled to Atlanta from around Nov. 26 to Nov. 30, 2014, they know he or she filed an itinerary and expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or this: The feds and their spy allies not only know about the official work these influence-mongers were doing at the office, they also intercepted personal emails like this one from Irina Kaverzina, around Sept. 13, 2017: \"We've had a slight crisis here at work,\" she wrote, \"the FBI busted our activity (not a joke).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment goes on and on in that level of detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meaning what? \u003c/strong>For one thing, the charging document pushes \"hoax\" and \"witch hunt\" out to the periphery — even Trump had to change his tack in response to Mueller's sometimes Jesuitic specification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For another, the indictment immediately inspires guesswork about what else the FBI, NSA, CIA and other agencies know about active measures that wasn't included — or which might appear in potential future documents filed by Mueller's office as his investigation progresses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is that important? \u003c/strong>The revelation confirms the geopolitical context in which Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to place his chips on a major new influence campaign against the West. In 2014, he was angry at what he perceived as American meddling in Ukraine, in his own front yard. A scheme from that year in which \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia leaked a wiretapped phone conversation\u003c/a> with an American diplomat has proven to be its own little preview of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Placing the origins of the Russian effort that far back in time also raises new questions \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/06/24/534248580/trump-asks-why-no-action-amid-questions-about-obamas-response-to-russian-meddlin\">about what President Obama's administration knew\u003c/a> about what was happening. Were they aware? Did Obama and his aides look the other way from Russia's actions in order to protect other aspects of the relationship such as the international deal to restrict Iran's nuclear program?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Russians didn't just post from afar. They traveled to the U.S.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At least three Russian operatives physically traveled to the United States to do reconnaissance for their active measures campaign, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They traveled throughout the West, South and Midwest, to New York and elsewhere. That led to the tracking and study of American political organizations that later matured into the sophisticated targeting of certain groups during the 2016 election cycle. For example, black voters later were encouraged not to vote for Hillary Clinton by messages suggesting they not vote at all or that they vote for a third-party candidate. Anti-Muslim groups were encouraged to stage rallies and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian operatives also bought space on computer servers within the United States. That enabled them to connect from their headquarters in St. Petersburg and, using a virtual private network, post on Facebook and Twitter while appearing to be inside the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact of the travel of Russian operatives also raises questions about other aspects of the influence campaign. 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"content": "\u003cp>A man from Southern California has admitted to playing an apparently unwitting role in aiding Russian operatives now indicted for efforts to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That man, Santa Paula resident Richard Pinedo, made a formal \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/file/1035547/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admission of guilt\u003c/a> to the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, acknowledged selling stolen bank information and selling it to parties who used it to make online transactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those transactions were used, the special counsel’s office said, in efforts by Russian operatives to eventually buy ads to damage the candidacy of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it worked: Pinedo’s company, Auction Essistance, promised banned sellers from online marketplaces, such as eBay and Amazon, a way back onto those sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One negative comment or feedback on your Amazon seller account and you are banned,” Auction Essistance stated on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/auction-essistance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn page\u003c/a>. “We are committed to helping you to get back to selling or begin to sell for first timers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the buyers, the special counsel’s office said, were Russian operatives who used the stolen information to register accounts used to purchase political ads through PayPal and other online payment companies. These ads were designed to damage Clinton’s campaign or boost the candidacy of Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his admission, Pinedo acknowledged selling bank account information from 2014 through December 2017 to buyers that he was aware were overseas. But Pinedo’s lawyer denied his client had any knowledge the stolen bank account information would be used to influence the 2016 elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Pinedo had absolutely no knowledge of the identities and motivations of any of the purchasers of the information he provided,” attorney Jeremy Lessem stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/politics/richard-pinedo-russia-bank-accounts-guilty-plea-mueller.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quoted\u003c/a> an official from Mueller’s office who said Pinedo’s dealings with the Russians appeared to be inadvertent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had “no evidence and there is no allegation he was a witting participant in the Russian efforts to interfere in U.S. elections and political processes,” said special counsel’s spokesman Peter Carr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinedo, who earlier this month pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to a single count of identity fraud, faces up to 15 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Both the plea and the charge against him were kept under seal pending Mueller’s announcement of charges against the Russian operatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Pinedo’s admission, some see circumstantial evidence tying this \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/16/grand-jury-indicts-russians-linked-to-interference-campaign-targeting-2016-election/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest round of indictments\u003c/a> from Mueller to other political efforts within California, including the Calexit movement that promotes California’s secession from the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, two of the Russian nationals \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">indicted\u003c/a> by the special counsel on Friday, Anna Vladislavovna Bogacheva and Aleksandra Yuryevna Krylova, are alleged to have visited California and several other states in June 2014 “to gather intelligence.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bogacheva and Krylova worked for the Internet Research Agency, a Kremlin-connected organization that, according to the Mueller \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1035562/download\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">indictment\u003c/a>, engaged in a sweeping online disinformation campaign to help Trump, hurt Clinton and create “political discord” in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, a Calexit leader told KQED that he worked with that Russian agency to “raise awareness” of Calexit goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That man, Louis Marinelli, had lived in San Diego but \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/13/from-his-home-in-russia-calexit-leader-plots-california-secession/\">was helping Calexit’s political campaign\u003c/a> from his home in Russia. Marinelli’s effort was endorsed by the Kremlin, which hosted his group as part of an anti-globalization conference in Moscow in September 2016. The conference was paid for by the Russian government, and the pictures of Marinelli flanked by other “freedom fighters” from Texas, Catalonia, Ireland and Puerto Rico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Calexit campaign, operating under the name “Yes California,” is now led by another man, Marcus Ruiz Evans, and is proceeding with its petition for a ballot initiative to begin the secession process. Ruiz Evans says his organization has in the past welcomed support from the Russian government, but no longer does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have routinely condemned meddling in elections,” Ruiz Evans said. “We think Vladimir Putin did something and it’s not right. The Russian government media also promoted Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders. Did they do something wrong? Did they work with the Russian government? We have been continually accused of being Russian robots. Facebook had to shut down their fake Russian accounts, Twitter shut down their fake Russian accounts, we’ve lost nothing. We’re still here.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the buyers, the special counsel’s office said, were Russian operatives who used the stolen information to register accounts used to purchase political ads through PayPal and other online payment companies. These ads were designed to damage Clinton’s campaign or boost the candidacy of Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his admission, Pinedo acknowledged selling bank account information from 2014 through December 2017 to buyers that he was aware were overseas. But Pinedo’s lawyer denied his client had any knowledge the stolen bank account information would be used to influence the 2016 elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Pinedo had absolutely no knowledge of the identities and motivations of any of the purchasers of the information he provided,” attorney Jeremy Lessem stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/politics/richard-pinedo-russia-bank-accounts-guilty-plea-mueller.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quoted\u003c/a> an official from Mueller’s office who said Pinedo’s dealings with the Russians appeared to be inadvertent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had “no evidence and there is no allegation he was a witting participant in the Russian efforts to interfere in U.S. elections and political processes,” said special counsel’s spokesman Peter Carr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinedo, who earlier this month pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to a single count of identity fraud, faces up to 15 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Both the plea and the charge against him were kept under seal pending Mueller’s announcement of charges against the Russian operatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Pinedo’s admission, some see circumstantial evidence tying this \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/16/grand-jury-indicts-russians-linked-to-interference-campaign-targeting-2016-election/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest round of indictments\u003c/a> from Mueller to other political efforts within California, including the Calexit movement that promotes California’s secession from the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, two of the Russian nationals \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">indicted\u003c/a> by the special counsel on Friday, Anna Vladislavovna Bogacheva and Aleksandra Yuryevna Krylova, are alleged to have visited California and several other states in June 2014 “to gather intelligence.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bogacheva and Krylova worked for the Internet Research Agency, a Kremlin-connected organization that, according to the Mueller \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1035562/download\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">indictment\u003c/a>, engaged in a sweeping online disinformation campaign to help Trump, hurt Clinton and create “political discord” in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, a Calexit leader told KQED that he worked with that Russian agency to “raise awareness” of Calexit goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That man, Louis Marinelli, had lived in San Diego but \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/13/from-his-home-in-russia-calexit-leader-plots-california-secession/\">was helping Calexit’s political campaign\u003c/a> from his home in Russia. Marinelli’s effort was endorsed by the Kremlin, which hosted his group as part of an anti-globalization conference in Moscow in September 2016. The conference was paid for by the Russian government, and the pictures of Marinelli flanked by other “freedom fighters” from Texas, Catalonia, Ireland and Puerto Rico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Calexit campaign, operating under the name “Yes California,” is now led by another man, Marcus Ruiz Evans, and is proceeding with its petition for a ballot initiative to begin the secession process. Ruiz Evans says his organization has in the past welcomed support from the Russian government, but no longer does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have routinely condemned meddling in elections,” Ruiz Evans said. “We think Vladimir Putin did something and it’s not right. The Russian government media also promoted Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders. Did they do something wrong? Did they work with the Russian government? We have been continually accused of being Russian robots. Facebook had to shut down their fake Russian accounts, Twitter shut down their fake Russian accounts, we’ve lost nothing. We’re still here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:57 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury has indicted 13 Russians and three Russian entities in connection with the attack on the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendants are \"accused of violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes,\" according to a statement from the special counsel's office. The indictment charges them with \"conspiracy to defraud the United States, three defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and five defendants with aggravated identity theft.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the people described in the court documents even traveled to the United States or \"communicated with unwitting individuals associated with [President Trump's campaign] and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities,\" the indictment says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges include some of the most detail yet from Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller about who inside Russia waged the broad campaign of \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/528500501/lies-forgery-and-skulduggery-the-long-history-of-active-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">active measures\u003c/a>\" against the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"j5d3zEScRg59Qm97iYXsXzBn3MRErZQZ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Friday afternoon news conference, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller's investigation, called the Russian efforts \"information warfare\" with \"the stated goal of spreading distrust against the candidates and the political system in general.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Rosenstein underscored that there is \"no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity\" and \"no allegation that this activity actually altered the outcome of the 2016 election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/964594780088033282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted on Friday\u003c/a> shortly after the indictment was handed up that it proved that there was \"no collusion\" between his campaign and Russian agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/964594780088033282\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president's tweet also seems to accept that there was some degree of Russian interference. However, Trump has, at times, doubted that there were any efforts by Russians to influence the 2016 election, which Friday's indictment clearly outlines in rich, lengthy detail. He has called media reports and other discussion of the Russian interference campaign a \"hoax\" and \"fake news.\" And last month \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/30/581800347/u-s-releases-oligarchs-list-and-opts-against-new-sanctions-on-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the administration decided not to impose new sanctions on Russia \u003c/a>despite a law passed by Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's personal lawyer, John M. Dowd, also said in an email that he was \"Very happy for the country. Bob and his team did a great job!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actions the Russian individuals and entities allegedly carried out -- some of which date to May 2014 -- are extraordinarily detailed and complex as part of what the indictment refers to as \"Project Lakhta.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"gCi6zwVldoexgEZDbFxqq1bjzDXmxEmy\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest company indicted, the Internet Research Agency, was based in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was funded through shell companies by another individual indicted. The IRA employed as many as 80 people focused on the sole project of disrupting and influencing U.S. elections, according to the indictment. By September 2016, the company had a monthly budget of more than $1.25 million and was organized into multiple departments, including graphics, search engine optimization, information technology and finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government alleges two defendants traveled to the U.S. and others attempted to hide their Russian origins, even using a virtual private network in the U.S. so it would appear their activity originated there. The Russians also paid real Americans to work for them as part of their interference campaign. However, \"the Americans did not know they were communicating with Russians,\" according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also used \"false U.S. personas to communicate with unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump campaign involved in local community outreach, as well as grassroots groups that supported then-candidate Trump,\" the indictment alleges. Through these personas, they encouraged minority voters in the U.S. to either not vote in the 2016 election or to cast their ballots for a third-party candidate. And they also promoted allegations of voter fraud among Democrats -- a message the Trump campaign seized upon in the closing days of the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"eEZyxeN6XoxSYXwJb9t4OBr3IugIjSPI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other actions the defendants allegedly undertook, according to the indictment, included \"buying political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities. Defendants also staged political rallies inside the United States, and while posing as U.S. grassroots entities and U.S. persons, and without revealing their Russian identities and organization affiliation, solicited and compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates.\" To do so, they stole the identities of many people, including compromising their Social Security numbers, birthdays and home addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the indictment, many of the advertisements the Russians purchased were designed specifically to malign Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. \"Donald wants to defeat terrorism...Hillary wants to sponsor it,\" one ad on May 10, 2016, read. \"Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is,\" was the message of another one on Oct. 19, 2016, just weeks before Election Day. And the indictment alleges the Russian defendants also frequently used election-related hashtags like #TrumpTrain, #MAGA and #Hillary4Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian agents also organized pro-Trump rallies and anti-Clinton rallies, the indictment alleges. They employed real U.S. persons to perform tasks at these events, such as paying one \"to build a cage on a flatbed truck and another U.S. person to wear a costume portraying Clinton in a prison uniform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"LN1wpoqgn1qJzFLHtwHWBvJ1MprDvBOe\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Internet Research Agency also kept a list, the indictment says, of the more than 100 real U.S. people it had contacted to help with its recruitment efforts, logging their political views and what they had been asked to do by the Russian operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media accounts run by the Russian defendants supported Trump and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Clinton's chief primary rival for the Democratic nomination, the indictment alleges. In addition to Clinton, Russian accounts also denigrated Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who challenged Trump for the GOP nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the indictment, the individuals created hundreds of social media accounts to influence public opinion that were masquerading as legitimate U.S. political groups. The indictment points to one account, Tennessee GOP (@TEN_GOP), which gained over 100,000 followers yet had no affiliation with the actual state political party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"k6DtKQHVjl2Use8fqtpuAsG4nDsrAXGu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Internet Research Agency also had employs monitoring social media during both day and night shifts so information would be posted across U.S. time zones, according to the indictment. The Russian operatives were also aware of U.S. holidays and made posts germane to those and also employed people who could post on social media about specific policy topics, such as the economy or foreign policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russians also allegedly created specific groups on Facebook and Instagram. Starting in at least 2014, they spent thousands of dollars each month to purchase targeted advertisements on social media sites. And there was allegedly specific targeting of \"purple states,\" or swing states, that are critical to the outcome in the Electoral College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also efforts beyond influencing the election to simply sow discord and confusion. For example, defendants allegedly organized both pro-Trump and anti-Trump rallies in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4380612-Justice-Department-s-Internet-Research-Agency\" notes=\"true\" text=\"true\" search=\"true\" sidebar=\"true\" pdf=\"true\" responsive=\"true\" page=\"1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which is also investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, called the indictment from Mueller \"a significant step forward in exposing Russia's political and electoral interference in our democracy and holding Russia, and its agents, accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While it does not include an allegation that any U.S. persons conspired wittingly with the Russian actors, the indictment leaves open the vital question of whether Americans, including any associated with the Trump campaign, knowingly played a role in Russia's active measures campaign,\" Schiff also said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which is also probing Russian interference, said that \"While platforms like Facebook and Twitter are allowing Americans to communicate and share ideas in ways unimaginable just a decade ago, we're also learning that we each bear some responsibility for exercising good judgment and a healthy amount of skepticism when it comes to the things we read and share on social media.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders, who was in part a beneficiary of the Russian efforts according to the indictment, said in a statement that it's \"clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has been more accepting of evidence of Russian interference than Trump has, said the \"announcement underscores why we need to follow the facts and work to protect the integrity of future elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These Russians engaged in a sinister and systematic attack on our political system. It was a conspiracy to subvert the process, and take aim at democracy itself,\" Ryan also said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., a frequent Trump critic, said the Mueller indictment \"just put Moscow on notice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This ought to be a wakeup call to Washington: Putin's shadow war is aimed at undermining Americans' trust in our institutions,\" Sasse also said in a statement. \"We know Russia is coming back in 2018 and 2020 -- we have to take this threat seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel struck a tone similar to Trump's, saying in a statement that it \"remains crystal clear there was no collusion and the Russians were unsuccessful in their attempts to influence the results of the election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, unlike the president, McDaniel did say that the indictments \"should serve as a rallying cry for Washington and the country to come together to prevent Russia, or any foreign government, from attempting to meddle in future elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/13/584672450/intelligence-leaders-testify-about-global-threats-in-senate-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warnings this week\u003c/a> by the heads of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia's active measures campaign never stopped after 2016 and that the leaders of the major U.S. spy agencies expect interference to continue through this year's midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Friday afternoon, John Brennan, who was CIA director during the Obama administration from 2013-2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/964599638916587521\">tweeted\u003c/a> that the \"DOJ statement and indictments reveal the extent and motivations of Russian interference in 2016 election.\" Brennan, who has been a frequent critic of Trump, also said, \"Claims of 'hoax' in tatters.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/964599638916587521\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The president's tweet also seems to accept that there was some degree of Russian interference. However, Trump has, at times, doubted that there were any efforts by Russians to influence the 2016 election, which Friday's indictment clearly outlines in rich, lengthy detail. He has called media reports and other discussion of the Russian interference campaign a \"hoax\" and \"fake news.\" And last month \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/30/581800347/u-s-releases-oligarchs-list-and-opts-against-new-sanctions-on-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the administration decided not to impose new sanctions on Russia \u003c/a>despite a law passed by Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's personal lawyer, John M. Dowd, also said in an email that he was \"Very happy for the country. Bob and his team did a great job!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actions the Russian individuals and entities allegedly carried out -- some of which date to May 2014 -- are extraordinarily detailed and complex as part of what the indictment refers to as \"Project Lakhta.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest company indicted, the Internet Research Agency, was based in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was funded through shell companies by another individual indicted. The IRA employed as many as 80 people focused on the sole project of disrupting and influencing U.S. elections, according to the indictment. By September 2016, the company had a monthly budget of more than $1.25 million and was organized into multiple departments, including graphics, search engine optimization, information technology and finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government alleges two defendants traveled to the U.S. and others attempted to hide their Russian origins, even using a virtual private network in the U.S. so it would appear their activity originated there. The Russians also paid real Americans to work for them as part of their interference campaign. However, \"the Americans did not know they were communicating with Russians,\" according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also used \"false U.S. personas to communicate with unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump campaign involved in local community outreach, as well as grassroots groups that supported then-candidate Trump,\" the indictment alleges. Through these personas, they encouraged minority voters in the U.S. to either not vote in the 2016 election or to cast their ballots for a third-party candidate. And they also promoted allegations of voter fraud among Democrats -- a message the Trump campaign seized upon in the closing days of the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other actions the defendants allegedly undertook, according to the indictment, included \"buying political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities. Defendants also staged political rallies inside the United States, and while posing as U.S. grassroots entities and U.S. persons, and without revealing their Russian identities and organization affiliation, solicited and compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates.\" To do so, they stole the identities of many people, including compromising their Social Security numbers, birthdays and home addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the indictment, many of the advertisements the Russians purchased were designed specifically to malign Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. \"Donald wants to defeat terrorism...Hillary wants to sponsor it,\" one ad on May 10, 2016, read. \"Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is,\" was the message of another one on Oct. 19, 2016, just weeks before Election Day. And the indictment alleges the Russian defendants also frequently used election-related hashtags like #TrumpTrain, #MAGA and #Hillary4Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian agents also organized pro-Trump rallies and anti-Clinton rallies, the indictment alleges. They employed real U.S. persons to perform tasks at these events, such as paying one \"to build a cage on a flatbed truck and another U.S. person to wear a costume portraying Clinton in a prison uniform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Internet Research Agency also kept a list, the indictment says, of the more than 100 real U.S. people it had contacted to help with its recruitment efforts, logging their political views and what they had been asked to do by the Russian operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media accounts run by the Russian defendants supported Trump and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Clinton's chief primary rival for the Democratic nomination, the indictment alleges. In addition to Clinton, Russian accounts also denigrated Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who challenged Trump for the GOP nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the indictment, the individuals created hundreds of social media accounts to influence public opinion that were masquerading as legitimate U.S. political groups. The indictment points to one account, Tennessee GOP (@TEN_GOP), which gained over 100,000 followers yet had no affiliation with the actual state political party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Internet Research Agency also had employs monitoring social media during both day and night shifts so information would be posted across U.S. time zones, according to the indictment. The Russian operatives were also aware of U.S. holidays and made posts germane to those and also employed people who could post on social media about specific policy topics, such as the economy or foreign policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russians also allegedly created specific groups on Facebook and Instagram. Starting in at least 2014, they spent thousands of dollars each month to purchase targeted advertisements on social media sites. And there was allegedly specific targeting of \"purple states,\" or swing states, that are critical to the outcome in the Electoral College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also efforts beyond influencing the election to simply sow discord and confusion. For example, defendants allegedly organized both pro-Trump and anti-Trump rallies in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which is also investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, called the indictment from Mueller \"a significant step forward in exposing Russia's political and electoral interference in our democracy and holding Russia, and its agents, accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While it does not include an allegation that any U.S. persons conspired wittingly with the Russian actors, the indictment leaves open the vital question of whether Americans, including any associated with the Trump campaign, knowingly played a role in Russia's active measures campaign,\" Schiff also said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which is also probing Russian interference, said that \"While platforms like Facebook and Twitter are allowing Americans to communicate and share ideas in ways unimaginable just a decade ago, we're also learning that we each bear some responsibility for exercising good judgment and a healthy amount of skepticism when it comes to the things we read and share on social media.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders, who was in part a beneficiary of the Russian efforts according to the indictment, said in a statement that it's \"clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has been more accepting of evidence of Russian interference than Trump has, said the \"announcement underscores why we need to follow the facts and work to protect the integrity of future elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These Russians engaged in a sinister and systematic attack on our political system. It was a conspiracy to subvert the process, and take aim at democracy itself,\" Ryan also said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., a frequent Trump critic, said the Mueller indictment \"just put Moscow on notice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This ought to be a wakeup call to Washington: Putin's shadow war is aimed at undermining Americans' trust in our institutions,\" Sasse also said in a statement. \"We know Russia is coming back in 2018 and 2020 -- we have to take this threat seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel struck a tone similar to Trump's, saying in a statement that it \"remains crystal clear there was no collusion and the Russians were unsuccessful in their attempts to influence the results of the election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, unlike the president, McDaniel did say that the indictments \"should serve as a rallying cry for Washington and the country to come together to prevent Russia, or any foreign government, from attempting to meddle in future elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/13/584672450/intelligence-leaders-testify-about-global-threats-in-senate-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warnings this week\u003c/a> by the heads of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia's active measures campaign never stopped after 2016 and that the leaders of the major U.S. spy agencies expect interference to continue through this year's midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Friday afternoon, John Brennan, who was CIA director during the Obama administration from 2013-2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/964599638916587521\">tweeted\u003c/a> that the \"DOJ statement and indictments reveal the extent and motivations of Russian interference in 2016 election.\" Brennan, who has been a frequent critic of Trump, also said, \"Claims of 'hoax' in tatters.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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