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Reason. they reported to be american hack-tivists. then they fingered russia and said this looks like russian government. then they formed the goosifer. no, no, its not a hacker and then wikileaks comes to goosifer and says we can do it better. and starts specifically looking for information they can use that wikileaks can use, that russia can use to attract bernie sanders supporters. and wikileaks says this would be a good time to sow discord. it is not new news that goosifer 2.0, there were re...

Blinking red. again. today the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. every day foreign actors, the worst offenders being russia, china, iran, and north korea. >> the u.s. intelligence director singled out russia as the most aggressive foreign actor in terms of cyberattacks against the u.s. he accused russia of continuing to undermine u.s. democracy, adding, quote, we are just one click away on the key board from a similar situation repeating itself, a referen...

Our friends. he may walk out of there getting everything he wants. and so might vladimir putin. granted it may not be as visible with -- as the north korea meeting and they were both shaking hands. m wondering if theyll walk out and think theyre both winners. >> im sorry, this is what the presidents director of national intelligence said on friday about russia. take a listen. >> we know you run the shop. we know youre making the decisions. you cant pass it off to oh, thats some hacker down somew...

Investigations, when weve done it on the movement side, we were un-american, unpatriots and everything you can think of. now, you have republicans doing this, its amazing to me, and i think that youre seeing the world look at this country, saying, whats going on? i was watching the president in england today and i was there three weeks ago when a lot of the progressives were getting ready for the march. its almost like we are the laughing stock of the world because of our inconsistency as a coun...

Situation like this. lets try to imagine donald trump saying anything like this. >> my message would be, um, we know what you are doing and we know you know what you are doing. we know you run the shop. we know youre making the decisions. you cant pass it off to, oh, thats some hacker down somewhere where we dont know. we know what you do. and, so, you make the choice. but if you want to stay in this tit for tat, were going to beat you. and, david fromme, dan coats saying that on the same day th...

Organizations that recognizes that you cant just wait and see what -- who the hacker is and who is the attacker. youve got to take immediate steps. >> and i think the timing of the release of these e-mails was also incredible. the release of the "access hollywood" tapes, 27 minutes after that took place, there was a release of the podesta -- or the mention of the podesta e-mails that were hacked, as well. so i think the timing of the release of so many of these hacked e-mails was just absolutely...

Today its an incredibly strong move by federal law enforcement. the entire intelligence community. because this indictment really just flies in the face of everything that donald trump has been saying about as you just said. whats more, we have a little bit of breaking news here. dan coates, direct he of national intelligence explicitly called out russian hacking and asked what he would say to putin. he said that he would say we know what youre doing and we know how youre doing it. we know you r...

Investigators say, it was opening up a big back door to your system to these hackers. the other way in which this appears to have been happening, going to the hackers that were in fact tied to the russians, was through something called malware. malware can be assigned to your computer or put on to your computer just that same way through an e-mail link or in other ways as well. they can hack in. and what the malware does is in a more automated way it just is scanning your computer constantly, ta...

Counsel investigation is on-going. he did also say that no americans were implicated in yesterdays indictment. there were several americans cited in it. one appears to be roger stone who acknowledged himself he likely is the official that was cited having communicated with russian hacker gussifer during the 2016 election. stone says the conversations were benign, but we know from witnesses that have spoken to the special counsels team, stone appears to be someone whos a focus of the mueller inve...

12th gru officer are charged with conspireing to infiltrate computers of organizations involved in administering elections. according to the indictment, the two-part operation began with a spearphishing attack in 2016 to gain access to the kpours accounts of more than 300 people competed to the clinton campaign and democratic political groups including campaign chairman john podesta. starting that june, the defendants allegedly distributed stolen documents through a bogus website they created ca...