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Around the world including here in the u.s., funding their scheme through cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. >> the defendants falsely claimed that d.c. leaks was a group of american hackers and that guccifer 2.0 was a lone romanian hacker. >> reporter: rosenstein stressed that none of the americans targeted knew they were communicating with the russians. >> the conspirators corresponded with several americans during the course of the conspiracy, through the internet. theres no allegation in this in...

Yourself, how would this congressional candidate even know to reach out to guccifer, if this information isnt being shared among others? this is not like hes reaching out to google. this is something very significant. >> let me ask you legally, even if you dont know that the person on the other end of the e-mail is russian intelligence, if you think think its a hacker or somebody who is tooling around the dark web, is that a crime? >> it can be. just as receiving stolen property can be a crime. ...

Page, the bottom line is we know that the russians did, according to this indictment, hack and get e-mails that damaged hillary clinton, and according to this indictment, released them through a third party, unnamed in the indictment, although we know it to be wikileaks as well as d.c. leaks and guccifer 2.0, that those were released to damage hillary clinton. there was discussion about when they would be released. we know that to be the case. theres also evidence in this indictment that somebod...

Guccifer 2.0 was a lone romanian hacker. both were controlled by the russian gru. in addition to releasing documents directly to the public, the defendants transferred stolen documents to another organization that is not identified by name in the indictment, and they used that organization as a pass through to release the documents. they discussed the timing of the release in an attempt to enhance the impact on the election. in an effort to conceal their connections to russia, the defendants use...

The investigation is hurting relations with russia. the president is heading to finland to have his first official one-on-one summit with putin on monday. that is specifically the part where putin and trump are supposed to meet, just the two of them thach. that is worrying many on capitol hill. its something bob corker expressed to cnn multiple times this week. >> yeah, i, you know, i hope there are people present during the meeting. >> why do you say that? >> i just -- i just -- i just hope the...

Networks, take screen shots and remove data from those computers. >> reporter: to distribute the stolen e-mails, they registered the d.c. leaks and gusifer 2.0 and users around the world and the u.s. through cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. >> they falsely claim the d.c. leaks were a group of american hackers and gucifer 2.0 was a lone hacker. >> reporter: none of the americans targeted knew they were communicating with the russians. >> they corresponded with americans during the course through th...

And you point out that particularly in section 44 of this indictment, its not just american citizens here. these are people who work for or around the trump campaign, that they are quoting their e-mails, one of which really struck me. it said, what do you think from guccifer 2.0 -- >> guccifer is actually russian military intelligence officers. >> right. >> pretending to be a hacker. >> someone who is in contact with regular members of the campaign. what do you think of the information on the tu...

Starting in march of 2016. they also hacked into the computer networks of a congressional campaign committee and a national political committee. the defendants covertly monitor the computers and planted hundreds of files containing malicious computer code and soul emails and other documents. the conspirators created fictitious online personas including d.c. weeks. and they used those personas to release information including thousands of stolen emails and other documents. beginning in june of 20...

Citizens when they released the information. >> the conspirators created fictitious online personas including d.c. leaks and gucifer 2.0. the defendants falsely claimed that d.c. leaks was a group of american hackers and that gucifer 2.0 was alone romanian hacker. in fact, both were created and controlled by the russia gru. >> legal experts say an indictment likes this can send a strong message but has no teeth. the russians are unlikely to extra diet their own nationals, especially intelligence...

>> one of the things we learned from the indictment, russian intelligence was trying to cover their tracks with masquerading under these web names like d.c. leaks and gucifer 2.0. and some people thousand gucifer may be a romanian hacker. we learned today it was just a cover for the russian military intelligence. once again, the deputy attorney general. >> the conspirators created fictitious personas online including d.c. leaks and gucifer 2.0. the defendants falsely claimed that d.c. leaks was ...