Jack - MSW2 S6 E3 - plus Part 3 of Vol. 1 of The Mueller Report
Episode Date: March 20, 2022This week: Greenberg’s sentencing gets moved back; Erik Prince, Libyan arms sales, and combat-ready airplanes; Sabotage; an extended Fantasy Indictment League; and more; plus Part 2 of Volume 1 of t...he Mueller Report. Follow AG on Twitter:Dr. Allison Gill https://twitter.com/allisongillhttps://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrotehttps://twitter.com/dailybeanspodWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?https://dailybeans.supercast.tech/Orhttps://patreon.com/thedailybeans
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So to be clear, Mr. Trump has no financial relationships with any Russian oligarchs. That's what he said.
That's what I said.
That's obviously what our position is.
I'm not aware of any of those activities.
I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I didn't have
and I have communications with the Russians.
What do I have to get involved with Putin for?
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Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.
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No, Mr. Green. Communism is just a red herring. Like all members of the oldest profession I'm a capitalist.
Hello and welcome to Muller She-Route. I'm your host, A.G. Allison Gil, and we have some
stories for you, including a new indictment and some mystery tweeting that might have
to do with Eric Prince. And then of course, we'll be playing part three of all you
one of the Muller Report, which I'm re-airing to remind everyone of the scope of the Russian
attack on our democracy in 2016, which is, of course, ongoing.
So since this is a very special episode, we're going to jump right in with sabotage.
Okay, so recently, a former business partner of Eric Prince shared an old article from 2016 about Eric Prince trying to create his own private Air Force and
basically outfitting two planes making them taken them from commercial to combat ready and of course current
investigations in the Eastern District of Virginia into Eric Prince's potential violations of the Libyan arms embargo
with regards to like I, those two planes.
He was trying to put together a private air force.
Now, that since deleted tweet was retweeted by another expert who said, quote, this tweet
is referring to an investigation of potential ITAR violations for which he provided voluminous
evidence.
There's also a domestic investigation
of Libya Arms embargo violations
on February 16th of this year, 2022.
Two words entered the O-Fuck arm sale lexicon in Abu Dhabi.
North Korea, those are the two words.
Now, aside from that, this associate who put out the original tweet that
has since been deleted and has provided evidence in the investigation of Eric Prince noted a sealed
filing on the docket in the Eastern District of Virginia the day before the statute of limitations
was to expire on crimes involving those two planes. And that date was confirmed by other Twitter salutes who monitored court dockets. Now I don't know why the tweet was
deleted, but the story and the filing caught my attention. The case number is
21-tack CR-tack 229. And when I say tack I mean hyphen. And it was filed between
October 14th and October 19th 2021, because case 228 was filed on October 14th and October 19th, 2021, because Case 228 was filed on October 14th and Case 230 was
filed on October 19th.
But this one, 21CR 229, was filed under seal sometime between those two dates.
The statute of limitations expired for these particular crimes on October 17th.
So, I've fit right in. Anyhow, that brief but eye-catching Twitter exchange and the filed under seal court
docket case number will influence my fantasy indictment draft this week.
And speaking of the fantasy indictment league, we have a big one this week.
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A Russian citizen, and they've charged him with making illegal political contributions
as a foreign national, and conspiring to make illegal political contributions as a foreign
national in the names of straw donors.
Muryev is charged with conspiring with Lev Parnas, Andrei Kukushkin, and Igor Frumen,
and others.
Others, gosh, who do we know that's associated with Parnas Kukushkin and Frumen?
And others who were convicted at trial to have or have pleaded guilty to these crimes.
U.S. Attorney Damion Williams says, as alleged, Andreye Moraviav, a Russian national,
attempted to influence the 2018 elections
by conspiring to push a million dollars of his foreign funds
to candidates and campaigns.
He attempted to corrupt our political system
to advance his business interests.
The Southern District of New York
is committed to rooting out efforts by foreigners
to interfere with our elections.
FBI assistant director and charge Michael J. Driscoll said, quote, as alleged, Maria Viyav, a Russian foreign national,
made illegal political contributions and conspired with Parnas Kukushkin and Froemen to obscure
their true source. The money Maria Viyav injected into our political system, as alleged, was
directed to politicians with views favorable to his business interests and
those of his co-conspirators.
And by the way, everyone, his business interests are the marijuana industry, and some of these
contributions went to Florida Republicans.
Hmm.
Back to the quote here, as today's action demonstrates, we will continue to aggressively pursue all those
who seek to illegally affect our nation's elections.
As alleged, the indictment against Moraviav and as its improvement during the trial against
his co-conspirators, etc.
In the spring of 2018, Moraviav, Kukushkin, Fruiman and Parnas, decided to launch a business
aimed at acquiring retail, cannabis, and marijuana licenses in the United States.
As part of that plan, Moravyev agreed to wire a million dollars through a series of bank
accounts to Fruiman and Parnas to fund hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions
they had made or promised to make before the elections in November of 2018.
Side note, if you remember, as we've previously dived into the Matt Gaetz situation, he was lobbying for cannabis reform in the Florida legislature and in the US Congress.
And one of those marijuana guys is one of the people who went to the Bahamas with them and the underage girl who he's being investigated for sex trafficking. Back to this, the purpose of the donations was to curry favor with candidates that might
be able to help Moravyev and his co-conspirators obtain cannabis and marijuana licenses.
Moravyev's money was used to reimburse and fund federal and state political donations
in Florida, Nevada, and Texas.
And Moravyev also agreed that the funds would pay for donations to politicians in New
York and New Jersey.
Moraviav traveled to Nevada as part of these efforts and received regular updates from
Cukushkin about the co-conspirators' progress politically.
To obscure the fact that Moraviav was the true donor of the money the funds were sent
to a business bank account controlled by Frumen's brother, and then the donations were made
in Frumen and Parnas' names.
Moravia 47 of Russia is charged with one, conspiring to make contributions and donations
by foreign national and in the name of another person, which carries a maximum sentence
of five years in prison, and two, making contributions by a foreign national, which carries a maximum
sentence of five years in prison.
The maximum statutory penalties are prescribed by Congress, and are provided here for informational
purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendant would be determined by a judge.
Moraviav is believed to be in Russia and remains at large.
The case is assigned to the Southern District of New York, U.S. District Judge Jay Paul
Oatkin, who presided over the trial of Parnas and Kukushkin.
So, if you had a Randall Russian, like I did, give yourself a point this week, also very interesting
timing considering the investigation in the middle district of Florida into improper campaign
financing for cannabis licenses, which I'm all for, by the way, Republicans usually aren't.
And with that, let's do the draft here.
I'm going to keep Rando Russians on my team because of the news sanctions placed on 50
oligarchs, the Russian banks, the new kleptocapture unit and the DOJ, as well as the multinational
repo effort to root out Russian money in the United States.
I think we're going to see a lot of that happening.
I'm also keeping Gates, L.A. key and angles on the team, though that investigation is getting
long in the tooth.
But in case you hadn't heard from WMFE, a federal judge has, again, postponed the sentencing
of former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg, who has said to be cooperating with investigations. Greenberg pled guilty last May, as we know,
to child sex trafficking and other crimes. He was going to be sentenced on March 29th, just in a,
you know, short amount of time, but his lawyer asked for a delay saying Greenberg continues to
help federal prosecutors with ongoing investigations. District judge Gregory Presnell granted the request saying that it was in the interest of justice.
No date has been set, but a status hearing is planned for May 13th, almost a year after his guilty plea.
News reports describe Greenberg as a potential witness in a federal investigation involving Matt Gates, who has not yet been charged with a crime.
Prosecutors have asked to file updates under seal. They say making that information public might lead the subjects of ongoing probes
to flee, destroy evidence, and harass witnesses. That's what the government says. So they're
into it as well. I'd also like to draft Eric Prince because of that sealed case on the
docket in the Eastern District of Virginia, just fascinating to me. I'm also keeping Rudy, DeGeneva, and Tone Zieg,
especially with the resurgence of the Hunter Biden laptop nonsense.
They always dragged that one out when some shit is about to hit the fan.
And as you know, I think the Hunter Biden laptop paper was an op
funded by foreign money. And Parnaust just pled guilty, by the way, to a different set of charges.
And by the way, the special master is done going through Rudy's booty, which is what I
call the stuff that they got in the raid, and has pretty much handed everything over to
the government.
And it's been a couple of months.
So by my clock, should be any time now.
It is a very, very, very broad and complicated investigation, however.
And he could be under investigation for other things, including his involvement in January
6th.
So that sometimes holds everything back while they do everything.
I'd also like to keep Sydney Powell for defrauding donors with her packs, and I'm going to add
the RNC to that list as well.
And that's my team of 10. And the reason I'm adding the RNC is because even though they
haven't had to give their stuff over to the committee, I think the DOJ already got it.
That's just a personal, I have no proof of that. That's just personal. But we're starting to see
now the committee getting things after the Department of Justice had them. And what I have specifically in mind is not just the Sydney Powell PAC stuff, but also
the Enrique Tario documentary film crew footage.
January 6th committee just got that FBI's had it for a while.
That kind of shows me that DOJ might be a little headed to game where we thought they were
sort of behind the A-ball, but you know what?
I don't know. I'm just guessing.
Anyway, thank you all so much for listening.
Please tune in today also to the MSW Book Club.
We're gonna go over the first 40 pages or so
of the book, go back to where you came from
and other helpful recommendations
on how to become an American by Wajada Ali.
And I'll see you Monday on the Beans.
And stick around for another installment of volume one
of the Mueller report from back in the day, 2019.
It's like a time machine.
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Hello and welcome to Muller She Wrote.
I'm your host, A.G. and with me as always,
our Jolissa Johnson.
Hello.
And Jordan Coburn.
Hello.
And this is part three of our extensive special coverage
of the Redacted Muller Report.
And in this episode, we're going to cover section three of volume one.
That's pages 36 to 65.
It's pretty beefy.
It gets pretty juicy at the end.
So stick with us and we'll go through it. It's really, really, really no collusion.
So this section covers the second method by which Mueller determined the Russians interfered
in our elections. The first method was Internet Research Agency, the IRA, and social media
active measures, which we covered in section two. But this is the IRA, and Social Media Active Measures, which we covered in Section 2.
But this is the Russian hacking and dumping operations.
And I know in the last episode we discussed the story
about the two major Russian operations in Prague.
And I just wanted to say it's more likely, though,
I don't know for sure, that those operations were hacking hubs
in Prague and not troll farms.
So beginning on page 36 of the Mueller report,
it says that in the beginning,
no, beginning, first Bible, is that how the Bible starts?
It sounds like a good start.
Yeah, I think that was Genesis.
In the beginning, there was nothing,
and then there was everything, the end.
I think it's the, some people died.
Amazing.
A couple of guys lived to be 900, toads, norms.
Hell yeah, well here's Mueller's Bible.
Yep.
Trump even called it that. That's right.. I think you're gonna sign a copy of my
Little working that yeah, I saw your your eyes went. Oh, yeah, yeah a light bulb lit up totally
You smoke a lot of weed when you have an idea does a black light pop up over your head
We're like a lava lamp
And I totally just stole that from Mitch headberg
Yeah, I mean either yeah, if I had done it in his voice, does a black light pop up over your head?
There you go.
It would have been more.
It would have been more mitchy.
Gosh, I love that guy.
Anyway, page 36 in the beginning, March of 2016, the GRU hacked computers and email accounts
of organizations, employees, and volunteers of the Clinton campaign, including Podesta.
I would highly recommend reading the Russia indictments
if you haven't for no other reason than to grasp
the scale scope and detail of Mueller's findings.
Like he knew how many fucking eyelashes
Ivanovich had on his left eye.
Like that he's got beautiful eyelashes.
It's gorgeous.
I think he uses latisse.
But it was fantastic, amazing amounts of detail.
And just that he was able to get all that, was pretty intense.
And I think that's why there's a lot of redactions
in this report for how they investigate
of procedures and methods because they don't want
to give any of that away.
Like we know how to sit on stuff and get this kind of detail.
So the GRU hacked the DNC and the D-TripleC,
along with targeting hundreds of email accounts, spearfishing.
In total, the GRU stole hundreds of thousands of documents
from the compromised email accounts and networks.
The GRU later released the stolen documents
and emails through online personas they created themselves
called DCLeaks and Gucci for 2.0.
And then later through WikiLeaks,
when they were like, hey, we're bigger give it to us.
The release was designed and timed to interfere with the 2016 US presidential election to
undermine the Clinton campaign specifically.
And I know that seems obvious now, but it wasn't back then.
The releases were weaponized for their deliberate timing.
We had beans on that, but Mueller confirms it here only took 22 months.
Hey, it was thorough.
Better late than never.
Not to mention that we were told early on
that DC leaks in Gucci for 2.0 were not Russian
and now we have proof that they are.
Yeah, they try to claim they were like Romani and or something.
Yeah.
I was like, well, Romaniah hates us too.
And Trump even lubed that truth by coming out and saying
it's probably a 400 pound guy in his bed.
Did he need himself?
Little did they know Americans are ignorant as fuck
and they're like, Romaniot or Russia,
what's the difference?
Yeah, same.
They're not.
It's no difference to them.
Definitely, totally.
They haven't seen Chernobyl.
And here it states, unequivocally,
that the Trump campaign showed interest
in the WikiLeaks releases and in the summer and fall of 2016,
redacted, redacted, redacted.
And then after redacted, redacted,
WikiLeaks first Clinton-related release redacted. redacted, WikiLeaks first Clinton related release redacted.
The Trump campaign stayed in contact, redacted about WikiLeaks activities.
The investigation was unable to resolve redacted WikiLeaks release of the stolen pedestrian
emails on October 7, 2016.
The same day video, you know, the pussy tape came out.
That's right.
And all these redactions, take a look at this paragraph.
It's an interesting one.
It's page 36, paragraph two, all the beans in the universe
on these redactions by being about Roger Stone.
However, that last sentence, that the investigation was
unable to resolve redacted and wiki leaks release
of the stolen Podesty emails hour after the grab them
by the pussy tape came out.
That's what that's referring to, right?
My guess is that it says Mueller was unable to resolve stones for a knowledge of WikiLeaks
release of the stolen emails, but I don't know.
Maybe he couldn't resolve stones coordination, but I don't think that means he didn't find
evidence of it.
I think it means he was unable to resolve it either because of lying, liar's lying, or
it's an ongoing matter or dipshit ignoring subpoenas.
I think liar's lying, liar's lying is the next stage in the 12 days of Christmas
thing.
I like it.
That's great.
Or the next Jim Carrey movie.
And there's no numbers lying, lying, lying, lying, lying.
Right, right.
You did a whole bit on that.
I forgot.
When we used to remember when Christmas was coming. Yes. I totally forgot. When we used to remember. Oh, when Christmas was coming. Yes.
I totally forgot.
I just hacked your joke.
Oh, it's all good.
She did a whole thing.
Do you remember it at all?
I do.
Yeah.
Go listen to the episodes leading up to Christmas of last year.
Yeah.
I would start reading the stories that we were going to go over.
And then I just would go into the 12 days of Christmas.
Yeah.
That was a great time.
Yeah.
Anyway, where was I?
Let's see.
Maybe it could be this whole whole instead of lying, lying,
lying, lying or dipshit, ignoring subpoenas, it could be because the investigation was terminated
before that was uncovered, because as we know, the stone case was handed off to DC. That's
Jesse Liu, US Attorney's Office in DC, the week that Mueller ended his investigation.
If he didn't find evidence, he'd have said that. That's important that he didn't resolve
it. If he could resolve it and didn't have evidence, he would have said that. That's important that he didn't resolve it. If he could resolve it and didn't have evidence, he would have said that because he says that elsewhere in
this report. And we now know Amy Burman, Judge Jackson, if you're nasty, has read the
redacted portions of the Mueller report that have to do with stone and we're waiting for
his trial to start November 5th. Stone has requested the full Mueller report, but I don't think
he'll get it. Maybe he'll get some pieces of it, some redacted pieces of it that maybe have to do with
him that everybody already knows about, but there she's not going to hand over the whole
report.
Right.
Maybe if he didn't have all those Instagram faux pas previously, he would be a lot to
see anything.
He would just publish it all in his insta stories or whatever he does with his
top hats. Then we just write them on stones and really small writing. Self of the first legal fees.
How many stones would it take to write the full molar? Oh my god. That's like a little
what do they call them? Blutters are pressing questions. I can guess how many jelly means? Like we'll
see it's 16,500 lines, about 20 words per line,
so you're looking at many millions of stuff.
Yeah, wow.
Get one of those like rice writer people.
Oh yeah.
The kind of people who can draw people out things
on the heads of pins.
Yes.
That you could probably fit it all in one day.
Yeah, he's a carnival guy.
This is where he should be.
Absolutely.
This is line of work that he needs that on.
There's plenty of children I'm sure he's going to get.
He's going to get before he can bring back her hand again.
Just give him a pair of those little tiny round plastic kids glasses and he becomes
Steve Martin in the jerk.
Absolutely.
Step right up and win some crap.
All right.
Then we get to part A called GRU Hacking Direction at the Clinton campaign, or excuse me,
directed at the Clinton campaign, subsection me, directed at the Clinton campaign,
subsection one, GRU units target the Clinton campaign.
Here we learned at two military units
of the GRU carried out the hacking
of the DNC, D-Triple C, and Hillary at her campaign,
and those are 26165 and 74455.
And the footnote here explains that in section five,
Mueller charged 12 GRU officers for the hacking crimes
in sites the US code and refers to that indictment
that we think you should all read of the Russians.
The report explains that unit 26165 targets military,
political, governmental, and non-governmental organizations
outside of Russia.
And there's a footnote about how they hacked the US
anti-doping agency, the world anti-doping agency,
and other international sport associations
that were indicted in October 2018 for those crimes.
And that probably had something to do with Russia being caught
doping for the Olympics, and they couldn't use their flag.
Remember, they had to just have like,
Olympians from Russia.
Yeah, exactly.
Something like that.
A very conspicuous name still.
Yeah, it's just technically not Russian.
Jordan, my thing, you've seen the documentary about that, right?
Yeah, Icarus is really good. It's a documentary that some guy does
about the doping in the doping cover up at least. Yeah, I've got to watch it. It's so good.
It's a great guy that flew too close to the sun. Yes, he is. Oh, look at me. High school
coming back. Nice. Let's see. So this unit 261, 65, these, this doping agency, you know,
half a fancy bear,
they had subdivisions with different jobs.
Like one would develop the malware
while the other would conduct spearfishing campaigns.
And spearfishing is when you send out an email
that looks like it's a legit like Google or Apple email
and say, hey, you need to change your password
and get them to click on the link
and or your password, I get your password.
So that's a spearfishing campaign.
So that's what 26165 does.
Then we get a redaction here about an investigative technique
and the sentence reads, redacted, redacted,
a Bitcoin mining operation to secure bitcoins
used to purchase computer infrastructure
used in hacking operations, unquote.
And I'll bet bitcoins to bagels,
that's dollars to donuts.
That probably illustrates how investigators were able to,
to, you know, stake out and catch the Russians mining Bitcoin.
But those are Bitcoin beans.
Bitcoin beans, yep.
They all have Fedoras.
Yeah, I bet when a Bitcoin first started,
there's no way they thought of all the SP and Asshade
help facilitate it.
Oh, yeah.
With their little creations.
Or maybe it was in their business plan
and we just missed it.
They were sketchy from the start
Unintended consequences. Yes, hello Hillary in the crime bill. So definitely fake money real crimes. Yeah
Sounds like a fake money real crimes. I like it money real crimes. What's that like jingle queen?
So what's that Neil is that guy Neil diamond? No, oh
No of crossbeast stills Nash and young oh So what's that? Neil, is that guy? Neil Diamond? No. No big coin.
No of Crosby stills Nash and young.
Neil Young.
I do this one above all.
I'm not Neil Nash.
It's not Neil Crosby.
I have a quick question.
Yes.
I wonder if Bitcoin can be held accountable in any way for things like this in the future.
You know, like I know it's a pioneered space at the moment, but considering it's all
online, I wonder if they'll ever be held more responsible for looking into the sorts of transactions
that are happening on their platform.
Who knows, maybe one of those appendix D,
redacted, redacted, referred investigations
is into Bitcoin.
Yeah, that'd be great if we got some new laws
regarding my kind of stuff out of this.
And the one thing that kind of laughed,
I laughed a little bit,
isn't the plural of Bitcoin Bitcoin?
Mm.
Mm.
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Mm.
Mm.
Mm.
Mm.
I really don't know.
Yeah.
Because I know you had like a thousand Bitcoin.
Yeah, you're right.
Because he, because Mueller says Bitcoins in here.
And it just reminds me of like when my mom says the MTV
or yeah, exactly.
But they're like, how many Molly's did you take?
How many Molly's did you take? How many Mollies did you take?
Oh gosh, that's good.
Official, official coverage of the report.
Mollies.
So then we have this other unit, 74455, which
is a related GRU unit with a bunch of different departments
that engage in cyber operations, like assisting
the release of Shit Stolen, coordinating
the release of Shit Stolen by 26165, promoting those releases, promoting the publication of
anti-clinton content on social media accounts operated by GRU through officers from 744-5455.
And they separately hacked computers belonging to state boards of elections, secretaries
of state and US companies that supplied software and other technology related to the administration
of our elections.
And so that's another thing that the 744-55 does.
And we reported on these attacks quite a lot.
These are the ones Mitch McConnell ignored
and the local and state election funding
is the funding Trump never spent.
Oh yeah.
Although I think he had some federal funding too.
Mm-hmm.
So that's the introduction to 26165 and 74455,
collectively known as fancy bear, I believe.
That is not like a little prince.
I know.
Look at little old fancy bear.
The hacking group formerly known as...
I'm stupid.
We're having a meetup of the fancy bears.
Point Loma.
That's not in the Mueller report, fancy bear,
at least not yet.
So far, as far as we've gotten in this show here.
But that's household name.
Yeah.
But that's what we've gathered from previous public reporting on these two GRU hacking
and distribution units.
Then on page 37, Mueller says beginning mid-March of 2016, 2616.5 had primary responsibility
for hacking the D-Triple C and the DNC as well as Clinton campaign staffers, individual emails.
And then it describes how they did it in two bullets.
First one says they used redacted to learn about redacted.
Different Democratic websites including Democrats.org, Hillary Clinton.com, DNC.org,
and D-Triple C.org. Then another redacted sentence
began before the GRU had obtained any credentials or gained any access,
indicating that the latter, that the later D-Triple C and DNC intrusions were not crimes
of opportunity, but resulted targeting.
And so what this is basically saying is the redacted parts early on are just redacting
how they were able to stake out, that Russia was staking out these websites to hack them.
So it's this weird cyber stakeout.
I dig it.
They're almost using their own like strategies against them.
I mean, I can't share it with the public because it's just so juicy.
Right.
And it also shows that because Russia was staking it out, they were casing the joint.
It shows that it was not a crime of opportunity.
It would be the difference between a guy noticing your front door was open when he walked by
and stealing your television versus the guy who cases your house for a month to find out when you're not there
and breaks into steal everything.
Yeah, it's pre-meditated for sure.
Yeah.
How about any hacking be a crime of opportunity too?
Like, oh, I was just strolling through the cyber hood.
That guy was in the back end of the way.
Yeah, so I am through the dark web and I saw an open door.
So I went into it. Yeah, yeah. and now all of a sudden my name is different.
This side of the portal is left to jar.
The back door is a jar.
These are probably the same technique used to observe the Russians mining Bitcoin, right,
to pay for their bitcoins.
Yeah.
Also I just said cider, I think instead of cider.
Cider?
I just want you all to know that I don't think that the internet is a bunch of delicious apple
juice. I think it is. I like cider.
S.B. Inage.
Yeah. It'd be better if this were all about cider and not ciber-terrorism.
Cider-terrorism would be really cute.
But like hard citer-terrorism.
Ooh.
Then it would all disappear after the fall, and that would be great.
I'm going to stake out your taps at the brewery.
Mm-hmm.
And I'm going to espionage me some cider.
I'm onto you.
Espionage is a verb, right?
I think so, it is now.
Espion, yeah, what?
I don't know.
As a verb?
Yeah.
I think it's a noun.
Yeah, definitely a noun.
How would it be turned into a verb?
Oh, I'm espionaging.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got it.
I'm incriming.
Just add an ink.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the rule.
Definitely. I mean, that's probably how a Russian would say it, if they didn't speak English very well. Yeah, if you wanna make kind of English, yeah, I got it. I'm incriming. Just add an ink. Yeah, that's the rule. Definitely.
I mean, that's probably how a Russian would say it,
if they didn't speak English very well.
Yeah, if you want to make kind of English, yeah,
that's the way it is.
I was not that spian-aging.
You're honor.
You're clearly not from here.
Or you're clearly do not know how to do a Russian accent.
Or you're on the podcast, Mueller, she wrote.
Yeah.
Where they just ended all with an IMG.
And the second bullet describes how GRU officers sent hundreds of spearfishing emails.
So the spearfishing campaign enabled the GRU to get access to numerous email accounts
aside from Podesta.
They got volunteers assigned to Clinton campaigns, advanced team, informal campaign advisors.
It's an informal campaign advisor.
Like me?
Yeah.
And DNC employees, they stole tens of thousands of emails from them.
And then on to page 38, subsection 2, intrusions into the D-triple C and DNC, sub-subsection
A, I'm going to call it underpants A, because sub-subsection sounds really diminutive.
Yeah.
And this is called, what it's called initial access. All right, so here's
the intrusions. Underpants A, initial access page 38. This part of the report goes into details
that no later than April 12, 2016, GRU got access to the D-Triple C network through spearfishing
someone's credentials. They hung out in there for weeks traversing the network, identifying
computers with unrestricted access because the credentials that they were able to steal were from an IT administrator who you'd think would know.
Damn, how'd he get the job?
Right?
Hire me.
Then they were able to compromise about 29 different machines from that operation.
Yeah, I guess it also goes to show how brand new these strategies are in the cyber, terrorism
world.
It's like spearfishing is something that many people can fall for
because it's so damn like stealthy, it looks so convincing.
It looks, but it's not new.
Right, that's what I was gonna say,
totally for like normal people.
Right, right.
Is it like as old as like what, 2016 or even further away?
Oh, yeah, way back.
Oh, okay, okay.
Yeah, as soon as someone figured out how you could do that
through email, basically early 2000s. Right. Now it could do that through email Basically, right now it's perfect
I guess is what it seems like it's popped up like
Yeah, well the government governments like the Russia government or the Russian government of the United States government
tend not to use the most high tech software when I went to work for the government in
2007 I had the
pleasure of walking into a book,
dummies, what was it, Windows 95 for dummies?
In 2007.
So, damn, I missed that.
That's the best Windows program.
I actually know 95 I remember.
Windows 95, best operating system.
But you know, so,
are you big?
Honestly, this is probably old junky technology.
Like, with their X tunnel that they use
and all that stuff that we'll get into in a minute
and the raw.exe
That's probably all old shit.
Damn, we're just so behind. They've been focusing on this like for the last 30 years when we thought we won the Cold War.
Yeah, but they put out like this whole new cyber espionage. This is how we're gonna win the World War four.
It came out in I think a memo that somebody in the GRU the general wrote in 2013. We read about it in Russian rule that.
Yeah, I remember that it in Russian rule that.
I remember that actually was a whole speech.
They did too.
Yeah, totally.
So, then six days after that, after they got in, compromised 29 machines at the D-Triple
C, they gained access to the DNC network using a VPN connection between the D-Triple C
and the DNC, way to build a firewall, Democrats.
So, Democrats can't take either. Networks, so unit 26165, they were able to compromise
more than 30 DNC machines, including the male server and the shared file server, big ones,
and they did that in about three weeks. They found a VPN that connected the two networks.
Oh my god, that's, I can't end itr. Yeah, that's crazy. Then underpants B called implantation of malware.
So they have the access now, they're now,
they're gonna lay their eggs.
And they use two types of software malware
to do this called X agent and X tunnel.
They also had Mimi Katz,
which is a credential harvesting tool
and Mimi Katz Kamikide and Rar.exe.
All of these names are just entirely proof
that only trolls do all this shit.
Fancy bear, Mimi Kat, and raar.
Yeah, come on.
And raar is a tool that compresses for X-Flux.
Right, right.
Makes it small so you get it out.
Also a cute little sound that Mimi Katz make.
Yeah.
So think of raar.exe as those vacuum sealed bags.
It's like going steel bunch close.
Yep, and then you zip it nice and...
So you lay the X tunnel down, okay, and then you go in with X agent, you break in with X agent,
then you use Mimi Katz to get all the data, and then you use a vacuum bag to seal it all and
make it tiny, and then you stick it through the X tunnel to get it out.
Yeah, that could be an infomercial. I've seen that.
stick it through the X tunnel to get it out. Yeah, that could be an informational.
I've seen that.
Act now.
So anyway, X tunnel is a hacking tool, like I said,
that created the encrypted connection between the victim,
D-triple C and DNC machines, and the GRU computers.
That's the tunnel.
Yeah.
And it allows for large data transfers.
So GRU used X tunnel as the exit route, and again, RAR compressed it all for like large data transfers. So GRU used X tunnel as the exit route.
And again, RAR compressed it all for transport.
I also think a little human synopede reference,
but that's probably not the best example for this.
It's just like all the elements in there.
Yeah, it's just one tunnel, though.
On the page of that way, human synopede is good.
That's pretty much what it is.
Well, you're creating one out.
One out of many, Epluribus Unum tunnel.
Why don't they let someone know the fact?
I don't think that should have been allowed to be made.
I know freedom of speech.
I'm glad they did.
Really?
Oh, that movie?
Yeah.
That and the Tusk.
I was just going to say, that shit's brilliant, because then everyone's talking about it
and referencing it.
True, here we go.
It's a simple concept.
Put some filth in it.
American's love that shit.
So fucking gross.
Yeah.
You can't even, oh, yeah.
Yeah. And now you have Tusk. American's love that shit. So fucking gross. You can't even, oh, yeah.
And now you have Tusk.
And what a weirdo movie.
But you know, that is Nightmare-ish to be like,
go to, as a journalist to go to report somebody
and then he drugs you and removes your legs
and turns you into a walrus.
Yeah, yeah, it's freaky.
Anyway.
That's X Tunnel.
So on to page 39, where Mueller says
that to operate X agent
and X tunnel, 26165 set up a group of computers
to communicate with the implanted malware.
The first set known as the middle servers,
one simply does not just walk into the middle servers.
Sent received messages to and from malware on the networks.
The middle server then sent messages
to a secondary set of computers called the AMS panel,
which served as the nerve center, through which the GRU would monitor and direct the malware operation, probably the
Mimicat stuff on the networks.
Then there's an interesting footnote.
Number 126 says, quote, in connection with these intrusions, GRU used computers that at
least from third party providers located all over the world, and Mueller found rental
agreements and payments for computers located among other places redacted.
Now, this redaction says it's for investigative technique.
So first I thought this might have read
Mueller found rental agreements and payments
for computers in Prague, but I think I was using
my jump into conclusions mat on that one
because I feel like that would be redacted
because of an open and ongoing matter.
So I really can't guess what this is about other than, you know, maybe that's another
way that they were staking them out.
You know, how did the Mueller learn that these rental agreements and computers interstitial
computers were being rented in these third party countries?
So he knew how to find that out.
He's probably got a way to take it in two seconds.
Yeah, maybe there's a person
that trying not to reveal that was like a technique.
Yeah, oh, that makes sense.
Yeah.
So triangulation of data.
Yeah, or you just smell it.
Yeah, yeah.
Just go around smell the trees and smell wires.
This one smells like Russia.
I don't know what Russia smells to you.
Yeah, good point.
It's beautiful this time.
I'm just amazed at what technology can do.
It's crazy that they can achieve this.
Yeah, and I'd be really interested to see whether the FBI's technology is super advanced
or really clunky and they just get lucky.
Yeah, I wonder.
I bet it's super advanced at that level.
I hope so.
Part of me, too.
Yeah, you would hope so, But I've also, in-
But they can't even crack apple iPhones.
Yeah.
They can't?
Oh, they don't want you to think they can.
No, they can't.
Someone cracked me if I'm wrong, please.
Listeners or the two people sitting next to me right now.
But I feel like more basic systems while they're more basic
and they're definitely down sides to that.
They're also harder to hack into, right?
That's very true.
I think that's why a lot of people use Linux or DOS.
There's fewer moving parts.
And so it's easier to secure.
Yes, and that's ports of entry.
Because where you've got all these user interfaces,
stacked on top of user interfaces,
each one that's there, and within each interface
and between each interface, you've got all these vulnerabilities.
Totally.
It's like moving parts, right?
Yeah, exactly. So I have Volkswagen so much from the 60s is so much easier to fix than my
sion. Yeah, that's why a house has like one door at max two. Why is your house
have walls, huh? You're gonna let all the immigrants in? Let's see, where were we?
Page 39 now. It says the AMS panel used to control ex agent was housed and
leased on a computer located near redacted Arizona.
There was a town. There is somewhere.
I'm sure. We want to forget about ourselves.
And then just don't even come here.
Did they blow for Trump? Redacted Arizona.
I'm sure. Yeah, that's what's until there's definitely like an A&E show or like that
focuses around people off the grid there.
Trump fully got all the redacted, yeah.
Nice.
Yeah.
Electoral votes from redacted Arizona.
Yeah.
And then the whole rest of the page is redacted.
And the footnotes are the redactions
referencing the GRU hacking indictment.
And it's all redacted for investigative techniques.
So it's just more stuff that they know how to do, that they don't want anyone to know,
that they know how to do it.
Then on page 40, it continues saying the Arizona-based panel also stored thousands of files with
key logging sessions captured by X agent that include passwords, international communications
between employees, banking information, and sensitive personal information.
Then on to underpants C. So we've got the initial access, then we've got the lay on the eggs, and now personal information. And then on to underpants C. So we've got the initial access,
then we've got the lay in the eggs,
and now the theft.
So many underpants.
Lots of layers.
Yeah, and this basically outlines how they stole 26165,
still thousands of documents,
including internal strategy documents,
fundraising data, opposition research,
and emails from the inboxes of DNC employees, right?
They began stealing pretty much right away
within three days of initial access.
They downloaded their raw.exe compression malware
and the next day they searched a compromised machine
for key terms like Hillary, DNC, Cruz, and Trump.
All right, on April 25th, they collected and compressed the data.
Muller says the GRU compressed and X-Filtrated
over 70 gigs from that file server.
Do you think Cruz was in there
because that's who they thought was Trump's biggest contender.
Yep.
So they were getting Oppo research on Cruz,
Oppo research on Trump,
and then whatever they could find on Hillary again.
Yeah, I hate that he gets that much credit.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
Lion Ted Cruz.
I forgot his slogan already.
Remember jab, jab was solid.
But like, what was Cruz's slogan?
What was jab slogan? Jab. It was just a Chris's? Well, it's a good job slogan.
Yeah, it was just with an exclamation.
Oh, it was slogan.
Yeah, yeah, do you remember what his campaign's like on this cruise?
Cruise, no, I don't remember either.
Just cruising dude in the zodiac killer.
If you were to do
jab versus cruise cruise makes way more sense.
It does.
Why didn't it?
Why didn't you just, yeah, it's his name.
Just go for it.
Totally.
It's pretty well suck. Yeah, it's his name. Just go for it. Oh, totally.
Crouple.
It's pretty well suck.
Yeah.
All right, so same story for the DNC, by the way.
Russians began stealing stuff as early as April 22nd.
Copy and files from the DNC control computers,
including the DNC's op-o research on Trump, which
write that right there makes him compromised.
End of story.
And I'm sure that the counterintelligence, you know, 40 co-located FBI agents that were
taken all the counterintelligence stuff were like, oh, fuck, and they immediately wrote
up a giant report sent that to headquarters, HQ, FBI HQ, because now Russia has opposition
research on Trump.
But as we know, the entire counterintelligence investigation
appears to be missing, as Matt I would say,
it's gone walkies.
This is the one McCabe set up in such a way
so it's not to allow it to disappear quietly
or at least without paper trail.
We just don't know where it is.
I asked McCabe, he's like, I don't know, man.
Shift threatened to hold bar and contempt
for not handing over the counterintelligence information
this week, or last week, and bar caved,
and hearings on counterintelligence begin next week
in the house.
Apparently, the Department of Justice
has started handing over counterintelligence information.
That's really interesting to me.
I wonder if the offer of that information
by the Justice Department,
because basically what bar did is he said,
please don't hold me in contempt.
I'll give you some counterintelligence stuff.
And they were like, no, we're gonna hold you in contempt.
He's like, okay, okay, I'll give it to you.
It's just like in a total nine year old moment.
But I wonder if him offering that information
to Congress destroys their argument
that Congress legally doesn't get to have it. Right. Because they've offered it to them now in exchange for stopping the contempt vote.
So how can Bar argue? It's illegal for the committee to have that information. They might have
shot themselves in the foot legally. Not literally, that would be Dick Cheney. And the face.
Then between May 25th and June 1st, they access the DNC's mail server from a GRU control computer,
at least in the US and during those connections
26165 stole thousands of emails which were later released by WikiLeaks
That's when that was stolen between May 25th and June 1st and they were released in July
So they held onto them for quite a while which is again just proof of the weaponizing the timing of the releases
On page 41 part B dissemination of the hack materials
This is how the GRU first used
DC leaks and Gooch-affer to disseminate their stolen documents.
We know most of this from public reporting.
26165botDClicks.com using Bitcoin, and that's where they have the stolen material.
Most of the documents on DC leaks seem to be from emails and not the DNC and DEECC server
servers and networks.
They also set up a Facebook DCLeaks page,
invited maybe, I always think Marvel versus DC.
And it pisses me off.
And a Gmail account, they set up a Gmail account too,
and a Twitter account.
Russia used these personas to give US media access
to their archives by sending them links and passwords.
DCLeaks was shut down March 2017.
It took that long.
Who the hell would trust them sending you a log in
to something?
Yeah, but if you're a reporter,
you're gonna go look at it.
Yeah, I guess so.
I would just assume everything,
yeah, that they didn't know what was going on at the time,
but.
No, or even if a Russian sends you a link
to stolen Hillary emails and you're a journalist,
that's what you do. You go in, you get it, you publish it.
Yeah.
And that's why they shouldn't be able to be charged for S.B. and Oj for that.
Yeah, totally.
I guess I would assume that maybe given the nature of all of the timing, they would think,
I'm sure they did think about it, I'm sure it wasn't like, okay, and then they just do it immediately.
I'm sure they looked into some of the other events that were happening around the time
and made a cost-benefit analysis.
But what I would have done is I would have published the stuff
because it's news and then I would have alerted the authorities.
Yeah.
Or probably in the reverse order.
Yeah.
No, probably the other orders.
I was gonna say, yeah, if you do it, yeah.
It's always better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Oh, yeah.
Number one rule I learned in the Navy.
Yeah. Then there's Gucci for 2.0 which is pronounced Gucci for because it's a combination of Gucci
and Lucifer. I like, you could say, Gucci for, but yeah, yeah. I like Prada. It's a Prada and God.
Prada. That sounds gross. So, GRU officers created Gucci for 2.0, it's not a Romanian.
Using a wordpress blog and published it, it's published its first post attributing the
DNC hack to, again, a lone Romanian hacker and using words and phrases like illuminati
and worldwide known, which they had Googled right before then and Muller had the evidence
of that.
Like, they Googled what are conspiracy theory words?
Wow. Because they know conspiracy theorists are gullible, right?
And this is the same day Gucci for 2.0 began releasing stolen documents same day from D. D. N. C. and D.
Triple C. The GRU also used Gucci for 2.0 to release documents directly to reporters and
Then we remember this when Gucci for 2.0 transferred about 2.5 gigabytes of Florida-related data, stolen from the D-Triple C to a US blogger covering Florida politics.
I do remember when that happened.
We reported on it, it was like episode 19 or something.
On page 44, Mueller says the GRU was in contact through the Gucci for Persona with Redacted,
a former Trump campaign member, Redacted.
It's all redacted for harm, doing ongoing matter.
I'm going to go ahead and say this is stone. campaign member redacted. It's all redacted for harm, doing ongoing matter.
I'm gonna go ahead and say this is stone.
Yeah.
He's just like an umbrella for all these redactes.
Yeah, he's the catch all.
Then on to-
He loves that shit and I hate it.
He does.
Yeah.
Then he's like, I'm not famous for it,
but then he's like, I'm so famous,
like I mentioned in the indictment
and then he tries to argue to get himself unrelated
to the Russian indictment
because he doesn't want Judge Jackson.
Yeah. And she's like, no, no indictment because he doesn't want Judge Jackson. Yeah.
And she's like, no, no, no, you can't have it both way.
You can't go around bragging that you're connected to this and then come around and say,
I'm not famous enough to be connected.
Exactly.
Yeah.
It would make more sense if he had like split like personality disorder, but I think it's
just their strategy.
They're just like deflating and inflating their assets and then like claiming their famous,
but really I'm not famous.
Yeah.
No strategy. It's a one giant piece of not famous. Yeah, it's a strategy. He has one giant piece of shit at person.
Yeah, that's for sure.
Then onto the use of WikiLeaks.
And we know that setting up your own dissemination network isn't as effective as using an existing
infrastructure that has massive recognition.
And here Mueller establishes this and that is Saunch hated Hillary and the Democrats.
And in March of 2016, WikiLeaks released a searchable archive of 30,000 Clinton
emails obtained during a FOIA request.
So GRU, and that's another argument you could use in the SONGE, S.P. and OGE case, if
that media outlet WikiLeaks is able to make successful FOIA requests that strengthens
and emboldens their justification or their characterization of being a legitimate media outlet.
Even though you don't have to be a media outlet
to get a Fourier request.
It's, for some way, it's like a one-wave out for them.
I don't know why it works that way, but it does.
But like any citizen could do that.
Yeah.
I could get a Fourier request if I wanted to.
Well, I guess we're part of a journalistic media outlet,
so to speak, but I mean, I-
You have to be a US citizen though, right?
Or no, can you be a global citizen
I don't know that's a good question a global citizen yeah alien alien comes and requests it like no
I'm sorry I'm like global citizen the interstellar guys are like we like fine we already knew the answer
I just wanted to see what you'd say sorry I can read this language, but I can see what's happening tomorrow.
So anyway, they got the 30,000 emails obtained during the FOIA request. So GR, you reached out and said, hey, yo, you got dirt on Hillary Yo, we got dirt on Hillary yo. Let's do this together. Yo, and finally enough, WikiLeaks reached out to Gucci for after it published
It's shit on Clinton saying, hey, want help? Hey, we're WikiLeaks.
We can get it to a water audience. I like that, WikiLeaks.
Hey, hey, that's their slogan.
Nice.
We're WikiLeaks.
Hey, then on July 6th, WikiLeaks contacted Guchofer again,
saying, hey, if you got anything on Hillary,
we won it in the next two days because the DNC is approaching.
That's a Democratic National Convention is approaching,
and she will solidify Bernie supporters behind her.
We think Trump only has a 25% chance of winning against Hillary, so a conflict between Hillary
and Bernie could be interesting.
Yeah, the Bernie or bus people, Bernie bros, yeah.
Big beans.
This confirms Russia used Bernie to split the Democratic electorate, and they were strategically
timing the dumps as well.
That's so interesting though, sorry to interrupt, but the theory was that like so many people
repeat this theory that if it was Bernie against Trump, he would have won. So to know that
their figures were that she was much more likely to win against him.
Might have been part of the propaganda. Yeah, probably to tell Bernie supporters that
Bernie would be Trump or and then afterwards as well. Yeah, knowing Bernie was probably going
to run again. Yeah, I think there was some merit to that argument though, just on the basis
of it being a populist year.
Oh, Bernie was there.
Yeah, yeah.
So I'm surprised that they said Trump only had it.
I mean, who knows?
Maybe Trump only had a 5% chance of winning
if it was against Bernie,
if that would have been their figure.
Good point.
Yeah, and just because the Russians say it,
doesn't mean it's a lie.
Yeah.
They're just promoting it to make you think these things.
Now a lot of it is, there are a lot of lies.
There's a lot of not true things.
But whatever helps our agenda,
whether it's factor,
exactly as they'll use it.
Yeah, and so the point isn't so much,
did the Russians make us believe a lie?
As much as did the Russians interfere in our fucking election?
Yeah.
By appealing to our individual psychographic natures,
which they use that whole siop,
some black cube and
XAML and the August 3rd meeting to find out through Facebook with all that stolen data.
Yep.
Thanks, guys.
Then Mueller talks about the GRU transferring the stolen material to WikiLeaks and opens
up this section saying both sought to hide their communications, which has limited this
office's ability to collect all of the communications between them. Thus, quote, although it is clear that the stolen DNC and Podesta documents
were transferred from GRU to WikiLeaks, then the rest of the sentences redacted. Probably
what it says is that we couldn't find that connective tissue because they were unable
to track the transfer. Because later on, it says that the GRU used a good for mail to send WikiLeaks an
email with a subject big archive, new attempt with an encrypted attachment. So new attempt,
who does? New attempt, who does? Yeah, new bear. I'm not fancy bear. I'm just regular
old bear now. So, you know, maybe that redacted bit is saying because of the
encryption, we can't establish these emails were used or exactly how the
documents got from GRU to WikiLeaks, but we know they did. And I don't know why
that's redacted there for, I think it's a redacted, let me see, I'm able to track
transfer investigative technique. Oh, interesting. Yeah, I got one of their strategies.
Yeah, it's probably like here's an investigative technique
we use that failed.
Oh.
Or we tried to use this usually successful
and we couldn't because they encrypted
and hid their communities.
And they still don't want to reveal it
because they'll make them vulnerable
even if they failed.
It's still something that we probably will try again.
The criminals?
Well, I thought they-
Oh yeah, the FBI, yeah.
Yeah, no, they don't want to let anybody know that we know
how to catch you if you're not trying to hide so hard
or they probably are trying to say,
you know, we don't want you to know that our technique
can be foiled by you in cryptic your communications.
That would make more sense.
Yeah.
Either way, it's probably got some to do with that.
And then Mueller goes on to describe all the email back and forth and cite Twitter
communications and concludes saying that the office cannot rule out that the stolen documents
were transferred to Wiki through intermediaries who visited during the summer of 2016.
For example, public reporting identified Andrew Muller-Mogun.
I just love that name.
Andrew Muller-Mogun, and WikiLeaks associate who may have assisted with the transfer of Mueller McGoon. I just love that name. Andrew Mueller McGoon, hi.
And WikiLeaks associate who may have assisted
with the transfer of these stolen documents.
And remember, we have recent reporting
that Russian hacking operation hubs were found in Prague
and that one of Cohen's cell phones was around Prague
in the summer of 2016.
Yeah, just visit.
Just on vacation.
But most of these redactions in this section
are for investigative techniques,
so I could be way off on that.
It's not an ongoing matter, but Cohen's already a closed matter. It just might still be redacted.
I used to want to make a movie where Cohen takes Prague, but now I just wanted to be his phone.
It's just like the movie poster, it's just his phone and Prague.
But it's got like his hair and a bad jacket.
Yeah, and umbrella for some reason.
And that's how you know it's a nice hat.
For Doran, some bright plaid 70s coat, cool bro, cool story.
And then you know you can have a man of four at phone
with an ostrich jacket on.
Ooh.
Yeah, we'll just do a whole thing.
I like it.
We'll do a whole series of old flip phones with shitty jackets.
Yeah, I did it like a drug dealer phone.
Yeah, yeah.
The burners from cricket.
That would hurt the kind that your mom has.
Yeah, I did.
Not your mom, my mom I'm not your mom my mom
Your mom's a badass
She's still can't text or she won't I think I texted her one time and she just every time I do she immediately calls me and it's like
Don't do that. No, she wants a phone call. It's pretty great
I think she just doesn't like triple typing because she's on that old fucking
Flip phone mom's can't take it. No, she cannot.
On to page 48, Mueller sums up the dissemination
of hack materials saying,
October 7th, WikiLeaks released the Podesta emails
and in total, they released 33 tranches
of stolen emails between then and November 7th.
That's one month leading up to the election,
including private speeches given by Clinton,
international communications between Podesta
and other high ranking members of the campaign,
and correspondence related to the Clinton Foundation.
Is it a private speech, just a conversation?
I think what they're talking about, remember where she did that golden sack speech?
Yeah, when she gets paid a fuck down the road.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just kidding.
And we all had those, too.
We were like, oh, look at her.
Beholding to the Wall Street.
Yep.
In total, WikiLeaks released over 50,000 documents stolen just from Podesta's email account
alone.
Then we get to the disinformation campaign launched by WikiLeaks, where Assange blames
murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich for being the source of the leaks, not Russia stealing
Seth Stoll and leaked.
And this story is really tragic because Assange started all these rumors that were then
amplified by Russia that Rich was murdered by Hillary for leaking stolen material to WikiLeaks.
Assange continued this nut job bullshit rumor even after the US intelligence agencies
determined Russia hacked the DNC and we have all this proof. Read those, well you don't have to,
but I wish some Trump supporters would read those Russia indictments. Mueller doesn't go into any U.S. persons retweeting
or continuing the Seth Rich conspiracy,
though he simply does discuss the origins
of the rumors as being a sange.
Just good to know at least.
Yeah.
Section C, additional GRU cyber operations,
and this is mostly peripheral targets
and victims of Russia hacking,
including that within five hours of Trump saying, including that, you know, within five
hours of Trump saying, Russia, if you're listening, I hope you could find the 30,000 emails
through missing.
G-R-U offers, and he, I don't think he quotes that in, Mueller doesn't quote that in the
report.
He just says, he asked for them, and we just know what that is.
Yeah, yeah.
G-R-U officers targeted Clinton's personal office with an hours by sending spearfishing emails,
targeting 15 email accounts and redacted domain and a redacted Clinton aid.
And this is a very important sentence.
He says, quote, the investigation did not find evidence of earlier GRU attempts to compromise
accounts hosted on this domain.
It is unclear how the GRU was able to identify these email accounts, which were not public. And there's a footnote for that sentence, but it's redacted for investigative techniques.
And here we go again, because basically what they're saying is our stakeout to find out
what they were looking at didn't work, because these were all new, and they've never seen
them before, and we didn't know they were coming, or we can't go back and see how they got
them.
So we want you to know that, you know,
basically we don't want to reveal
our investigative techniques sucks for that.
Yeah, it makes sense.
This section also talks about the GRU hacking
and stealing 300 gigabytes of data
from the DNC cloud-based account.
I cloud, find my phone.
Braug.
Then part two of other GRU ops, it's part two is called other GRU ops and it covers the
intrusions targeting the administration of US elections.
This is to say the US state and local entities, state boards of election, secretaries of
state and county governments along with individuals employed by those entities.
They also went after private tech firms such as voter registration software and electronic
polling stations, polling stations.
Polling stations.
That's insane.
Yeah.
And that's why Jennifer Cohn is so big about the hand-marked paper ballots.
Yeah.
So we have to have an auditable trail.
Yeah, and that shouldn't be privatized.
Also.
Yeah, but I mean, what's the government going to build them?
Put Windows 95 on them?
Yeah, damn.
It just makes it harder on them, them clearly because it's other unregulated
entities that are doing these things that can be hacked and affect the public sphere.
We should just hire Sweden to make them. Yeah. I like the Swedish.
Nice and neutral. Yeah. That's true. I guess, well, if they have government contracts which
I imagine they do, even other private firms, they would have some sort of regulation over them,
but it doesn't sound like they do. Yeah, but there's also probably some rule that that would be somehow a foreign entity,
you know, being part of our elections. Yeah, that it goes both ways, I guess.
Oh, yeah. No, I was just talking about domestic private. Oh, right. Right. So then get this.
Mueller says while he knows Russians attacked polling stations and voter rolls, he did not investigate
that. The office, quote, understands that the FBI,
the US Department of Homeland Security,
and the states have separately investigated that activity.
So he left it up to fucking Kiersten,
or Kiersten, what's her name, Nielsen?
Nielsen, yeah.
The FBI under, you know, Trump and the states,
the state governments.
I thought Mueller was looking into whether or not
Russia successfully manipulated the actual
vote, and he did not.
It's not part of it.
We do know the FBI's questioning or has questioned DeSantis and Rick Scott of Florida who denied
they were hacked and have found out recently two counties, including Washington County
and Florida were breached.
Oh my God.
But DeSantis claims he knows nothing about it.
The FBI won't tell us which counties were hacked and the governor says the FBI made him sign an NDA
saying he wasn't allowed to say.
And if the victims being the counties,
not the voters wanted to disclose themselves,
they could keep in mind, because of the shame.
I don't want to out the voters is hacked.
I guess, or yeah, I don't understand.
And he's calling them hacks.
I don't know.
It's supposed to be like a bad thing.
Yeah, it's dumb.
He's dumb.
But DeSantis is, but keep bad thing. Yeah, it's dumb. He's dumb. But the de-Santis is.
But keep in mind, this is Trump's FBI, like I said, under bar now.
Letting slip, which counties were hacked and how wouldn't be good for them considering
they probably need these illegal activities to win 2020.
We already know that the Trump campaign welcomed Russian interference and is that's outlined
in this report.
So there's no reason to think they wouldn't welcome it again if not encourage it.
Then the GRU found vulnerabilities in more than two dozen state board of election
websites and were able to gain access to millions of registered voters.
Mueller uses Illinois as one example where the GRU got access to information on
millions of Illinois voters and was able to extract that data for thousands of US
voters before the malicious activity was even identified.
Finally, Mueller talks about the voter roles and how 74455 spearfished its way into account
used by Florida County officials responsible for administering the election.
The emails contained a Trojan virus, and Mueller tells us here that the FBI separately is
separately investigating that and says he believes the operation enabled the GRU to gain access
to the network of at least one Florida County government.
Washington County.
The officials, quote, the officials did not verify that as explained above.
We did not undertake the investigational steps or investigative steps that would have been
necessary to do so.
Wow.
I mean, I get that.
He did a lot of research that's useful and super important, but he really passed a lot
on to Congress and these other investigations like more than I even realized.
Yeah, he kept his scope very, very narrow and that may have been also, I don't know, I
saw some of the jurisdiction memos or the scope memos from Rosenstein that might have been
by design because member Rosenstein promised he'd land the plane.
So maybe he narrowed it, you know, squosom.
Well, maybe he knew that they were going to shut him down prematurely, so he had to pass
the book for all these things.
No, it is passed on earlier. I think.
Oh, good playing.
But yeah, it's a, who knows? I mean, we're probably never know. Keep my head left.
All right, on to page 52, part D, Trump campaign and the dissemination of hack materials.
And this is where it gets juicy, but it's also where it's pretty much all redacted for
harm to an ongoing matter and sexy grand jury stuff.
But there's only a little bit of that. So allow me to read this part.
Quote, the Trump campaign showed interest in WikiLeaks release of hacked materials throughout the summer and fall of 2016.
Then there's a redacted paragraph.
Part one, redacted.
Section A, background, redacted.
Section B, contacts with the campaign about WikiLeaks, redacted.
Then we get on June 12th, a Sons claimed in a television interview to have emails relating
to Clinton, which were pending publication, but provided no other context.
In due briefings with the Mueller team, former deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates said
that redacted paragraph.
Why would something associated with Rick Gates be part of an ongoing matter and have to
do with WikiLeaks?
Well, if you remember, and we have reported that there have been, and there also have been
public reports, not just us.
We didn't scoop this.
But including the Stone indictment says this as well, that the Trump campaign official
was, there was a Trump campaign, the campaign official directed to talk with Stone about
further WikiLeaks releases.
And Stone said he thought it was Rick Gates.
But then Stone says Gates is lying.
I never spoke with him about this matter.
I never spoke to Rick Gates, but I'm mindful of the special counsel's ability to induce
people to say things that aren't true, particularly people seeking a reduction in their sentence.
It's a piece of crap.
I know.
It's such a dick.
Two weeks ago, we put beans on Gates being involved in the ongoing Stone matter, and then
we learned in Gates' most recent sentencing hearing that he is, in fact, a witness in the stone trial
along with the Greg Craig trial.
And in every gates sentencing hearing up
until recently, he's been postponed five times.
I think this is the sixth time they've postponed it.
They push back a sentencing due to cooperation
and two ongoing matters, but those were redacted.
But now the Mueller report is out,
so they feel free to say it's these two things. It's Gregory Craig and the Stone trial.
And Greg Craig's trial begins in August and Stone is November 5th.
So, woo, we'll keep a look out for that.
And then another redacted paragraph.
And then it goes on to say,
Gates recalled Trump being generally frustrated
that the Clinton emails had not been found.
Paul Manafort, who would later become
campaign chairman, paragraph redacted here. being generally frustrated that the Clinton emails had not been found. Paul Manafort, who would later become
campaign chairman, paragraph redacted here, and the footnote for that information is redacted as grand jury material.
This is probably part where Manafort told Gates to tell Stone to reach out to WikiLeaks. Yeah, that's part of the ongoing Stone matter as well as the
gate stuff. Maybe something useful we got out of Manafort. Hey, how's Rikers? Yeah. And we get into Cohen, who told Mueller
that he recalled an incident where he was in Trump's office
in Trump Tower and paragraph redacted.
Cohen also told the office that after a WikiLeaks release
in July 2016, Trump said something to the effect of redacted.
Yeah.
I think we know what these are now.
Yeah, but such cliffhangers.
From the Cohen files, right? Yeah. I think what happened was he are now. Yeah, but Coen. And the Coen files, right?
Yeah.
I think what happened was he was in the office of Trump Tower and Trump had said something
about, you know, the emails and a meeting.
Yeah, yeah.
And then also for the Trump said something to the effect of WikiLeaks.
I love WikiLeaks.
We need more stuff for some shit like that.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
Now, Coen's matters over so this could be a stone stuff.
Who knows?
Trump could be implicated in that trial?
We don't know.
But then we have another redacted sentence followed by Gates telling Mueller that Manifort
was excited about the release of redacted.
The release of Star Wars 2?
Yeah.
I loved you, Gamma Throne's it, nice Star Wars, high five.
And then Manifort told Mueller that shortly after the July 22nd release from WikiLeaks,
he spoke to Trump and redacted.
Manifort also redacted,
wanted to be kept apprised
of any developments with WikiLeaks
and separately told Gates to keep in touch
with redacted about future releases.
So there you go.
Manifort told Gates to keep in touch with Stone
and WikiLeaks, right?
And also, a calimnic could be in here too, to keep in touch with stone and WikiLeaks, right?
And also, a calimnic could be in here too, because if you remember the polling data situation,
Gates was the one who was continuing to spill those beans.
Gates then told Muller that by the end of summer 2016, they were planning the possible release
of Clinton emails by WikiLeaks, and then a redacted sentence, and then it says while Trump and Gates were driving
to LaGuardia, redacted, redacted.
And then shortly after the call, Trump told Gates
that more releases of information would be coming.
So somebody called Trump and said,
more WikiLeaks is coming.
And then he told, who did he tell Gates?
No, yeah, you right after that, yep, told Gates.
Sit right next to him in the car,
hey, just got off the phone with Redacted,
there's more WikiLeaks down's coming.
Damn.
Stone.
Totally stone.
This is insane.
So Trump got a call from someone directly.
And so there's all that.
And we have a couple of Redacted paragraphs on page 54
with a little blip in the middle that says,
Corsi is an author who holds a doctorate in political science.
In 2016, Corsi also worked for the media outlet World Net Daily, WND.
Not M-D, but N-D.
Also, Mark C. End of the World probably, that publication.
Weapons and N-A-Distruction.
Then a bunch more redactions.
And then another blip says, Corsi told the office, Mueller's office, during the interviews,
that he must have previously discussed a sange with Malik.
But Malik.
Then there's a grand jury redaction followed by according to Malik,
which means Malik spoke to the grand jury.
And of course he asked him to put him in touch with Assange, right?
Malik recalled course he's suggesting that individuals in the orbit of Nigel Farage
might be able to contact Assange on his behalf and asked Malik,
hey buddy, do you know, do you know them? Malik,
you know Farage, can you get me the hook up to WikiLeaks? Malik said he'd think about
it but never made the attempt to connect Corsi with a Sange.
Beans come true as we reported last November, Malik was asked by Corsi to put him in touch
with a Sange and it also came out in the draft plea agreement that Corsi gave to the press.
Yeah, that backfired.
A little bit that said he rejected, you know, because I don't want to do the plea agreement.
He's told me to lie.
To date, Corsi has not been indicted or signed another plea agreement that we know of.
He is, however, suing Mueller, the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, and the NSA, for a bunch of nonsense,
including accusing Mueller of forcing him to provide false testimony.
Yeah, yeah, put your crazy in multiple baskets, right?
Yeah, yeah, spread it out.
Diversify.
I'm certain that case will be dismissed, but as of this recording, it's still ongoing.
And this, to me, you know what this sounds like?
This just sounds like, Corsi, herd Trump, say, help me get the emails from WikiLeaks.
And Corsi's trying his best with his lame ass friends to like get into a wikily because everyone's like a f out of here dude after you and I
Put this man, and yeah, yeah, you can't say with us. You can't wear hoops
And and he's like, come on man. Just help me out. I know these guys
Hey, Matt. Hey Ted Malik. Do you think you can get it from Farage to give me a wikily?
Sleeping all these paper trails for nothing
Yeah, like you think I'm gonna put you in touch with the head of,
you know, the head of collusion.
What do you think you are?
So that you can go back down to talk to a Sange,
Stone's already got this.
Yeah, they were, yeah.
Yeah, and this is kind of born out
because Malik and Corsi had a couple
of FaceTime discussions, Yuck.
And then there's a redacted part said,
then then followed up by the
sentence, had made a connection to a sange and the hacked emails of Podesta would be released prior
to the election day and it would be helpful to Trump. And that's stone. And in a conversation in August
or September 2016, of course, he told Malik that the release of the Podesta emails was going to put
us in the driver's seat. We're going to be in the driver's seat. We're gonna be in the driver's seat. Oh, okay. Like he had anything to do with it.
Yeah, yeah.
And then the rest of the page and the entire next page are
redacted, but on page 58, the report briefly mentions
the Access Hollywood video and that less than an hour later,
WikiLeaks released the stolen pedestrian emails.
Then there's a couple of redacted paragraphs followed by,
of course, he said that because he had no direct means
of communicating with WikiLeaks.
He told members of the news site, WND to reach a sange.
So now he's going to his old buddies at the world network, news dickheads,
or whatever WND stands for.
It's already scrolled past it.
Past it.
Hey, can you get me?
Can I get, you know, can you ask him out for me?
And they're like, out of here.
And then,
What do you call it with me, yes or no, maybe?
Of course, he actually claimed to Mueller
that the pressure was enormous
and recalled telling WND
that the access Hollywood tape was coming.
Of course, he told him he was sure that his efforts
were the ones that caused WikiLeaks
to release the emails when they did.
But Mueller found that of course,
he was making that shit up.
And he was unable to find that of course,
he was the one who got WikiLeaks to dump
within an hour of the access Hollywood tape.
I think this is just saying it wasn't course it was stone.
A footnote even says that of course he told Mueller maybe one of his tweets is what got wiki
leeks to release the emails but Mueller went and he couldn't find any tweets.
There were no tweets.
That's great.
He's been supposed to be so miserable as teenage boys.
Yeah.
Just so fucking insecure.
Yeah, yeah.
To be around because they just want the credit They so badly just want to be so relevant.
Yeah, and they don't even earn the credit they want.
It's so ridiculous.
They're like, no, it was me.
I did it.
And then they're going to have all this shit in wreak havoc now
and sue all the intelligence agencies for them investigating
you for doing something you were trying to do,
but are too stupid and consequential to actually do
in consequential. And not only that, but like, I'm just telling you to say that it had trying to do, but are too stupid and un-causic-quenchile that actually do in this quenchile.
And not only that, but like,
I'm just telling you to say that it had nothing to do with you.
And then you're telling me I'm forcing you to lie.
Right.
Like, I think like bored, privileged people
will be the death of us.
I'm trying to make you come out and say
you didn't have sex with Angela in the ninth grade.
Yeah.
And you're insisting that you did,
even though Angela doesn't even know who you are.
And now you're suing me because you're trying to get me to lie,
or I'm trying to get you to lie about not having slept with somebody.
You imagine suing the cop or the lawyer that was trying to prosecute,
and if they were muller,
like they must really either think he's a shitty guy,
or they feel so privileged that they're like,
I can just do this because it doesn't matter,
I'm that rich, I'm that important.
It's like just the audacity alone drives me crazy.
Well, there's a third option.
It's just throw anything against the wall.
Yeah, just desperation.
You know, that lay out at least diversify.
Yeah, but they did all this before.
They were even being prosecuted too.
I'm like, why even stir up all this drama?
Like, why are you so greedy?
That Trump does it all the time.
I mean, he sue you and then he doesn't
because he'd have to depose.
So then we get to subsection E on 59, page 59 called Donald Trump Jr.'s interactions with
WikiLeaks. It starts with a guy named Jason Fishbeen, put some Fishbeens on it, sending
WikiLeaks a password for an unlaunched anti-Trump website called putentrump.org. Shortly after,
WikiLeaks tweeted about it and then tweeted the password out. Then, WikiLeaks sent Junior a direct message saying,
Hey, check out PutinTrump.org.
Here's the password I guessed it myself, even though fish being sent it to him.
Then, gave Junior the password, told him how to find out or asked him to find out who was behind it.
Several hours later, Junior sent an email to a bunch of Trump campaign staff saying,
Hey, guys, guys, I got a weird Twitter, DM from WikiLeaks, look below.
I tried the password and worked.
And the about section, the reference contains the next pick in terms of who's behind it.
Not sure if this is anything, but it seems like it really is WikiLeaks asking me as I follow
them and it's a DM.
Do you know the people mentioned and by what the conspiracy they could be looking for could
be?
He can't speak.
These are just screenshots, but it's a fully built out page claiming to be a pack.
Let me know if you want me to look into it later pal.
Late junior app, L8 late.
Why do you not go to the FBI at this point?
Well, I mean, when you're at Trump. And the House even proposed to build this week requiring folks have to to the FBI at this point. Well, I mean, when you're a Trump.
And the House even proposed to build this week requiring folks have to contact the FBI
before an adversary contacts them to help interfere in the election, but Republicans said
no.
Yeah, yeah.
Did they tell them about them potentially being approached by Russians before or after
this interaction?
Before.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Special.
And he doesn't mention that in here either.
There are a few other communications listed here
that we knew about including the Hillary drone strike thing
that Junior retweeted and the messages
where WikiLeaks tells him to tell Trump to retweet
the document dumps.
They told Junior when they released part four
of the Podesta emails and two days later,
Junior retweeted the link.
Makes you wonder why Junior wasn't charged
with 18 counts of SB&A's for distributing stolen
classified material.
Exactly.
On the basis of...
That's what makes me think though
that it's not gonna go down like that with a sange
because otherwise they would have to charge
someone like Donald Trump, junior.
You'd have to charge anyone who did it
because it doesn't delineate, you know?
Whether you're a media outlet, a fake media outlet,
an asshole media outlet, just an asshole or a nice person. Yeah,
Alan. Yeah, I guess
They're just gonna get their ass handed to them for not doing that then for not applying that justice to everybody
So it's not whatever happens. It's if that is what they're trying to do. It's not gonna go far. Yeah, I agree
Then on to page 61 subsectionsection two, called other potential campaign interest
in Russian hacked materials.
And this part is about all the other folks
that went after Hillary's emails on their own.
Underpants A is about Henry Oknyansky
or Henry Greenberg.
And we reported on this Weirdo last year,
he showed up wearing like cargo shorts and a Hawaiian shirt.
It's the guy Caputo had,
he's heard that he had dirt on Hillary
and set up a meeting with Roger Stone in him.
And Okiansky showed up with a dude named Raisin, Ukrainian associate involved in Florida
real estate.
No.
Raisin offered to sell Stone, dirt on Clinton, including proof she laundered money with
one of Raisin's companies.
So like he's also a criminal.
Stone asked if it was millions, she laundered and raised and said more like
hundreds of thousands. And stone was like, Nabra, we're cool. Trump's not going to pay for hundreds
of thousands. So Greenberg told Mueller that raisin was financially motivated and tried to
shop his shit around to a bunch of folks. Mueller found no connection between raisin and Trump.
So it's just a rando. I wonder if they said no, because they're like, we know how much evidence is publicly available of money that we flondered.
And if it doesn't exceed that, then we don't want it. Exactly. Like, I got you B bro.
Yeah. You only landed hundreds of thousands Clinton. Ha. You suck. We got millions. Yeah.
Mueller says though that Caputo and Greenberg had conflicting statements. Greenberg,
this is the Hawaiian shirt guy, said Caputo accompanied Stone to the meeting, but Caputo said he
wasn't there at all and was never told what Greenberg offered. Mueller couldn't find raisin, which
might be why Caputo wasn't charged with lying because, you know, or Greenberg, because you have to
have some sort of backing up evidence to this and there you go. Couldn't get a hold of people.
Right.
Subsection B describes the other campaign efforts to obtain emails.
And this talks about Barbara Leiden and Peter Smith.
The Flynn told Muller that Trump asked him multiple times to get the Hillary emails
and Flynn contacted multiple people in that effort.
If you remember a long time ago and no one believed Peter Smith was actually
contacted by Flynn, like he was just making shit up,
but he was indeed, and beans came true,
at least according to Flynn.
And now we know that thanks to recently
unredacted Flynn sentencing memoranda,
that Flynn was indeed asked by Trump
to get Hillary's emails.
In a recent court hearing, Judge Emma Sullivan,
who is the judge overseeing the Flynn case,
ordered the public release of all redacted
Mueller report information regarding Flynn or related to Flynn
along with transcripts of his conversations with Kisley act during the transition and
the tape of the voicemail from Trump's lawyer Dowd to Flynn's lawyer and
Van Grack and Jesse Liu in the US Attorney's office in DC
Objected to releasing well, they printed out the voicemail,
Dowd's voicemail, which was just a,
hey, if you know it's good for you, you tell us,
and otherwise I'm gonna go back and tell Trump,
you don't like him,
witness tampering,
and dangling a pardon.
But they did object to Sullivan releasing
the Kisley Act conversations,
and they said regarding
the report, you have it all except for grand jury material.
And so Flynn did apparently contact Peter Smith to help find the Clinton emails and was directed
to do so by someone in the Trump campaign.
We just found out today Sullivan has, he's not mad about it, about them not releasing,
not following his order. He's like, all right
Then he didn't give a reason why so to me that says that those kissley out conversations
There's probably more than two the government's never publicly acknowledged they exist and so they're probably super classified
Or they have something to do with the Fisk or FISA and
There's other stuff in there maybe related to an ongoing matter, or it's
just super classified, that there's just no way.
And so somebody probably came up to Sullivan and went, bro, classified, fisk.
And he was like, oh, all right, cool.
I accept your weird ass, you know, because that was a weird objection by Jesse Liu and Van
Grack.
And Van Grack used to be on the Mueller team, and now he's the head of the new FARA investigation unit
in the Department of Justice.
Yeah, I think of the main growth,
who like say cracking again, but like,
crack is his name?
VanGrac.
VanGrac.
VanGrac.
So Barbara Leeden started looking for Hillary's emails
before Flun even contacted her as early as December 2015
and reached out to Peter Smith.
And they went back and forth,
but Smith decided not to work with her at that point.
And then Smith tried to get the emails himself, and this we know about because it was reported diligently on
in our previous episodes in public reporting.
He created the company KLS Research, which is on our fantasy indictment draft.
He raised tens of thousands of dollars. There were mysterious transactions.
He recruited security experts.
He claimed he was in contact with hackers, with ties to Russia, and that he was coordinating
with the Trump campaign. Peter Smith sent an email about his efforts to Sam Clovis. Most
of what Mueller knows comes from Tate. Let's see if I can get this right. Suboxone and
saffron, all of which we've discussed on the show all the way back to August of last year, August of 2018.
So a little background here, Peter Smith is a long time,
old Republican operative that's actively opposed
the Clintons since the 90s,
reportedly paying thousands of dollars
to promote stories about Bill Clinton's
extra marital affairs.
Matt Tate is a cybersecurity expert.
Saboxon was added to our fantasy indictment draft
in March of 2018 for his appearance
in Adam Schiff's Minority Report, and we covered him again briefly in episode 71, The Man
Forth Megasod.
Suboxone was the co-signer of KLS Research.
Peter Smith's company, which also is in Schiff's Minority Report, and on our draft.
And we reported he had been interviewed by Muller on three separate occasions, and beans
came true. as we all know
Peter Smith
Though he he did commit suicide
Later that year with a note that read no foul play whatsoever. Oh, sure
Why that's the weirdest very strange. This is not how I died at all like why would he care so much if that's not the way
He died I know let us know that's not the way that yeah, and I still did still in mystery
We've always been suspicious of it as was Matthew Miller We had him on our live show of Brooklyn. He was know that's on the way to. Yeah, and I still did still in mystery. We've always been suspicious of it.
As was Matthew Miller, we had him on our live show Brooklyn.
He was like, that's always been weird to me.
So Smith was trying to recruit people
to help and find Hillary's emails.
He created a pitch to recruit folks saying he was working
with the Trump campaign, Flynn, Clovis, Banan,
and Kellyanne Conway, and also Corsi.
Leader then got back in touch with Smith at that point
and said she'd gotten a bunch of emails off the dark web.
So, Leater took him to Eric Prince,
who hired a tech advisor to verify the emails,
turns out Eric Prince told Smith they're not real,
and that's the first I've heard of Eric Prince
being involved in this.
But according to the footnote,
Prince is the one that told Mueller about it.
Mueller eventually found that Smith, Leedon, and the other individuals were in contact.
With Russians, they were never able to obtain the Clinton emails.
Any real ones, anyway.
And I'd be interested to see if this is something else Prince lied to Congress about in addition
to his meeting in the Seychelles with the Metri of a Nader.
Because he told them it was happenstance
meeting but as we know Nader set it up he just returned to the
US and was arrested on multiple counts of transporting child
pornography or what a cool guy. Yeah they were talking about
foreign policy right there's a whole point of that. Yeah yeah
that the back door channels sanctions lifting moving forward
and this of course is the UAE in Bizzah and Israel. So,
Syops and Black Cube stuff. It's all just all sorts of things. You know, we've
reported on it so extensively. I know, Julie, so you did a whole piece on Black
Cube and Syops and... Weird shit. And Xamol, who Nader paid two million dollars to
after Trump won the election, but apparently they never used his services.
It was just a $2 million.
Just $2 million tip for being a bro.
Yeah.
They just give the handshake with $2 million in it.
Nice local handshake, yeah, good drug deal.
Totally, or how comics get paid.
Oh yeah, well we get paid drinks mostly,
but yeah, aside from that.
Isn't that weird though?
It's like the only two ways I've been paid like that.
Like, you do the handshake with the money in it,
so nobody can see.
It's how you do a drug deal or how you pay a comedian.
Right.
I don't know why they do that.
I guess they don't want the other comics to see.
Totally, that's definitely what it is.
Yeah.
Hey, look, you get paid, but not you, motherfucker.
Exactly.
Yeah, I guess so.
I'm not money funny.
Anyway, this is then we get the summary of the section
from Mueller saying, you know, the GRU
Hacked Clinton and Clinton's people, the DNC, the D-Triple C, Stole Shit, set up fake accounts,
released it, timed it, hooked up with WikiLeaks, released it through them.
Mueller also established that the Trump campaign displayed an interest in WikiLeaks and the
releases and that redacted, redacted something about Rochester's own hair problem.
The evidence was sufficient to charge GRU officers for their role in election hacking.
And then a redacted sentence.
And that's an interesting one because it's harmed to an ongoing matter.
And context here would indicate that it's about whether or not Mueller had sufficient evidence to charge someone in an ongoing matter, which indicates he does.
I guess that's stone.
Or it could be those other peripheral Russian hackers that
got into Hillary's account. Do you know those accounts that they never tried before? We don't
know. My guess is it's a statement about stone and how he was able to charge him with one
count of obstruction, five counts of lying, one count of witness tampering, and that all that
stuff is in these pages, but redacted and it's still open. Yeah, one count of an awful hat.
redacted and it's still open. Yeah, one count of an awful hat. Step white up and win some crap. So there's no right episode about the indictment of Roger Stone.
It's a really good one. And read his charging document. Like I said, if you get a
chance, read that Russian indictment. If you get a chance as well, very, very
important information that kind of goes, you know, it's a nice, you know,
companion to volume one. It complemented well. Totally.
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So many. Yeah, it's the longest contacts with the Trump campaign. So many.
Yeah, it's the longest part of this whole report.
Go figure.
Yeah.
Also known as no collusion.
Right.
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