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The WH issued a statement following the latest Mueller indictments highlighting the word Rosenstein used in his Press Conference: "Knowingly". Not that it didn't happen. Not a denial... but a reiteration that the Trump campaign didn't knowingly work with Russian Military to hack the election (see: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/13/17569144/white-house-mueller-indictment)
Rosenstein was careful with his wording: he said the indictment did not allege that Americans knowingly worked with Russian military to hack the election. That leaves open a lot of room for further indictments to allege such a thing.
So let's look at the possibility of the Trump campaign knowingly working with Russia to hack the election.
Some may remember this forgotten story from 2016. The indictment released on Friday is a reminder, particularly to the timeline. A server in Trump Tower was setup to specifically receive communications from systems in Russia. This was uncovered by the very cybersecurity firm called out in the indictment on Friday who was responsible for helping unwind what happened to the DNC, Hillary Campaign and DCCC servers. The investigation into those systems turned up communications from Russia directly to Trump servers. Not just servers in Trump tower, but to servers specifically setup by the Trump organization.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html
More data was needed, so he began carefully keeping logs of the Trump servers DNS activity. As he collected the logs, he would circulate them in periodic batches to colleagues in the cybersecurity world. Six of them began scrutinizing them for clues.
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There is much more interesting info at the link to the original article, but I will leave this post with this: Correlate the timeline of hacking from the indictments released Friday to the timeline and amount of communication traffic between Russia and Trump systems as shown in the graphic below (from the article). Then remind yourself that Mueller already knows this and observe how Trump behaved today.
calimary
(80,700 posts)My most astute spouse was pointing this out just yesterday. He said first they say it didnt happen. Then they say they had nothing to do with it. Next, he said, theyll say they didnt know they were doing it.
Wonder what bullshit talking points theyll come up with from here on?
Sweet God in Heaven, I cannot wait for the next round of indictments (now widely suspected to include Americans). I CANNOT wait! Ill bet there are a few surprises, and at least a few more NON-surprises.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)calimary
(80,700 posts)Eyes wide open now, 'eh dude?
We'll have to see.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)"The researchers quickly dismissed their initial fear that the logs represented a malware attack. The communication wasnt the work of bots. The irregular pattern of server lookups actually resembled the pattern of human conversationconversations that began during office hours in New York and continued during office hours in Moscow. It dawned on the researchers that this wasnt an attack, but a sustained relationship between a server registered to the Trump Organization and two servers registered to an entity called Alfa Bank."
And didn't Trump pick a lawyer who worked with Alfa Bank to work @ the DoJ?
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)Got Dam!
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)that what they are doing is in plain sight.