Indictment. Good evening, catherine. Thank you. Good evening, this 29 page indictment on the Russian Special counsel makes a direct connection between the 2016 election meddling and Vladimir Putin. The Deputy Attorney general made the announcement at main justice. The indictment charges 12 russian millry officers by name for conspireing to interfere with the 016 president ial election. During the 2016 campaign the defends all members of russian intelligence known as the gr ruchlt accused of hacking democrats emails and releasing them as well as targeting companies that supplied voter software. In some cases masquerading as u. S. Stenls the russian operatives flooded the web with emails from the clinton campaign, dnc and dccc. They created fictitious personas, dc likes. The defendants falsely claimed dc likes was a group of american hackers. And that goosifer2. 0 was a lone romanian hacker. The indictment says goosifer 2. 0 got a request for stolen documents from a canned fought for u.