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Wall Street Journal сообщает, что в Министерстве юстиции готовятся обвинительные заключения в отношении шести служащих из России, вовлеченных в хакерские атаки на DNC.

The Justice Department has identified more than six members of the Russian government involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee’s computers and swiping sensitive information that became public during the 2016 presidential election, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Prosecutors and agents have assembled evidence to charge the Russian officials and could bring a case next year, these people said. Discussions about the case are in the early stages, they said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/prosecutors-consider-bringing-charges-in-dnc-hacking-case-1509618203

Дополнительное подтверждение того, что эти атаки пришли из России, получили в Associated Press, раздобыв список людей из разных стран, который использовался группой хакеров "Fancy Bear" в качестве мишени для атак. По всем признакам список составлен в России.

The list provides the most detailed forensic evidence yet of the close alignment between the hackers and the Russian government, exposing an operation that stretched back years and tried to break into the inboxes of 4,700 Gmail users across the globe — from the pope’s representative in Kiev to the punk band Pussy Riot in Moscow.
https://apnews.com/3bca5267d4544508bb523fa0db462cb2/Hit-list-exposes-Russian-hacking-beyond-US-elections



Под шумок в США сходят со сцены персонажи, зашкваренные в Рашагейте.

Сэм Кловис, один из руководителей избирательной кампании Трампа, напрямую связанный с Джорджем Пападопулосом, снял свою кандидатуру с номинации на пост в Министерствe сельского хозяйства. В обвинительном заключении Пападопулоса Кловис зашифрован как "The Campaign Supervisor".

In August 2016, Clovis responded to efforts by Papadopoulos to organize an “off the record” meeting with Russian officials. “I would encourage you” and another foreign policy adviser to the campaign to “make the trip, if it is feasible,” Clovis wrote.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whos-who-in-the-george-papadopoulos-court-documents/2017/10/30/e131158c-bdb3-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html



Заодно появился ответ на загадку о том, почему Джеф Сешнс в ответе на простой вопрос сенатора Ала Франкена ушел в сторону и, с риском для себя, стал говорить о том, что он сам никогда не встречался с русскими. Вопрос был "if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?"

Сешнс прекрасно знал ответ на этот вопрос, потому что лично он обсуждал с Пападопулосом его контакты с российскими представителями.

Candidate Donald Trump did not dismiss the idea of arranging a meeting with Russia's president when it was suggested in a meeting with his campaign foreign policy advisers last year, according to a person in the room.
The idea was raised by George Papadopoulos as he introduced himself at a March 2016 meeting of the Republican candidate's foreign policy advisers, according to a court filing.
"He didn't say yes and he didn't say no," the official said, declining to be more specific about Trump's response to Papadopoulos.
But the chairman of Trump's national security team, then Alabama senator and now attorney general Jeff Sessions, shut down the idea of a Putin meeting at the March 31, 2016, gathering, according to the source. His reaction was confirmed with another source who had discussed Session's role.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/01/politics/trump-putin-meeting/index.html

Утаив эту информацию от Сената и заболтав заданный ему вопрос, Сешнс по сути совершил преступление, нарушив клятву "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".



Сегодня же опытный игрок в покер Роберт Мерсер неожиданно ушел в отставку и разорвал свои связи со Стивом Бэнноном и Майло Яннопулосом. Пока непонятно, связан ли этот ход с Рашагейтом.

A society founded on the basis of the individual freedom that flourishes under a limited federal government has no place for discrimination. Of the many mischaracterizations made of me by the press, the most repugnant to me have been the intimations that I am a white supremacist or a member of some other noxious group.
Discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, creed, or anything of that sort is abhorrent to me. But more than that, it is ignorant.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/hedge-fund-billionaire-robert-mercer-steps-down-from-his



Журналисты пытаются разыскать "профессора" Джосефа Мифсуда, завербовавшего Пападопулоса, но он зачистил следы и лег на дно.

Today, there is no sign of the London Academy of Diplomacy on Middlesex Street in London. Phone numbers for the organisation that can be found online do not work and websites lead to error messages. A receptionist at the address said the organisation left the premises six months ago.
“Any stuff we get, we just send it back,” she said.
There are still some remaining traces of the academy, though, including a photograph of Mifsud and a senior representative of Russia’s embassy in London, a counsellor named Ernest Chernukhin, during a visit to the University of East Anglia. In the photograph, Mifsud is wearing a medal. The picture was taken on 10 July 2017.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/31/joseph-mifsud-professor-trump-russia-inquiry-kremlin