well-organized, well-resourced, wide ranging effort, by russia use iing trolls and bots to ampy its messages across social media. these facts are not disputed by any serious person, so this is a yes on the checklist. hack iing and theft of politica information. throughout 2015 and 2016 russian intelligence services and state-sponsored hackers conducted cyber operations against u.s. political targets including state and local election boards penetrating network, probing for vulnerables and stealing private e-mails. attribute of these crimes to russian actors was confirmed in our last hearing and many other sources. so this is another yes. timed leaks of damaging material. russian intelligence fronts cut outs and sympathetic organizati organizations, then time the relows of stolen victim data to