Robert Mueller’s team has taken over the investigation of Guccifer 2.0, who communicated with longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer
Robert Mueller’s team has taken over the investigation of Guccifer 2.0, who communicated with (and was defended by) longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.
Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has learned. It’s an attribution that resulted from a fleeting but critical slip-up in GRU tradecraft.
That forensic determination has substantial implications for the criminal probe into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia. The Daily Beast has learned that the special counsel in that investigation, Robert Mueller, has taken over the probe into Guccifer and brought the FBI agents who worked to track the persona onto his team.
While it’s unclear what Mueller plans to do with Guccifer, his last round of indictments charged 13 Russians tied to the Internet Research Agency troll farm with a conspiracy “for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.” It was Mueller’s first move establishing Russian interference in the election within a criminal context, but it stopped short of directly implicating the Putin regime.
Mueller’s office declined to comment for this story. But the attribution of Guccifer 2.0 as an officer of Russia’s largest foreign intelligence agency would cross the Kremlin threshold—and move the investigation closer to Trump himself.
Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone admitted being in touch with Guccifer over Twitter’s direct messaging service. And in August 2016, Stone published an article on the pro-Trump-friendly Breitbart News calling on his political opponents to “ Stop Blaming Russia ” for the hack. “I have some news for Hillary and Democrats—I think I’ve got the real culprit,” he wrote. “It doesn’t seem to be the Russians that hacked the DNC, but instead a hacker who goes by the name of Guccifer 2.0.”
Proving that link definitively was harder. Ehmke led an investigation at ThreatConnect that tried to track down Guccifer from the metadata in his emails. But the trail always ended at the same data center in France. Ehmke eventually uncovered that Guccifer was connecting through an anonymizing service called Elite VPN, a virtual private networking service that had an exit point in France but was headquartered in Russia.
Explain in detail why you make that connection.
He can't do that because there is nothing in the article or any of its links except the uncorroborated claims by the Daily Beast, one of the sites that is notorious for fake outrage news.
On the assumption you read and comprehended the words in the article, your question is mute.
As bbl-1 said, a reading of the article provides sufficient information to understand it.
moot
"Moot" is correct. However, in some cases 'mute' can be applicable.
snorkel.
In a corrected version...that should read "Toot!"
(not "moot")
"moot"
Yeah....sometimes my keyboard makes that mistake.
I really hope you aren't expecting anything coherent.
The Guccifer 2.0 being a Russian GRU Intel OP has probably been known for quite some time and we're hearing about it now because of the money connections that are being discovered. Whether Trump was personally involved is open to question. However, it is likely that some in 'his orbit' were directly involved.
I think it has been shown that there is no proof of the President's involvement. Maybe Meuller should do something productive like find Tupac's killer.
Trump's dirty trickster communicated with a Russian intelligence officer who hacked the material that was used to discredit Hillary Clinton.
I'd hope it was "fake news" too if I were a Trumpster.
Things are closing in on Trump. He's trying to act cool-- but its obvious he's nervous,and starting to make very serious errors in judgement.
(As opposed to his usual M.O. wihich is to constantly make ordinary serious errors in judgement).
That's true. He knows that Mueller is closing in on his finances and that this not going to end well for him no matter what he does. He administration is going to fail. It is going to collapse in disgrace, he knows it and he knows he can't stop it. So he is now far, far more dangerous then ever. He will strike out like a cornered animal and people will die. He is even more desperate, irrational and unhinged then usual and there is no telling what he will do next, how bad it will be for America and how many people it will harm or even kill.
Ed Morrissey:
We already knew that Roger Stone had been in contact with Guccifer 2.0 because Stone publicly declared it a years ago . That contact came after the hack, Stone insisted, and whether or not it’s true, Stone’s contact with Guccifer 2.0 has been well known for a long time. There’s nothing in the rest of this story to suggest that the revelation provides any more connection to Trump and his campaign than the data points already known.
Just remember folks....
I think the tip of what we know as opposed to what Mueller knows is smaller then illustrated. I believe he knows a lot more and I also believe that he has a solid contingency plan in case Trump is stupid enough to fire him to get what he knows out into the public eye or to pass the evidence on to other investigators. If Trump fires him it will not only be a genuine Constitutional Crisis, it will also be an exercise in futility for Trump.
Ouch... Mueller is having a field day. Buh Bye Trumpy!