Meetings and contacts between Trump's campaign and Russians or their agents were reported in the press and became publicly known. Here's where Mueller's office explains the definition it used to analyze conduct and determine what would constitute lawbreaking. Victims included U. There remains no evidence that any votes were changed as a result of Russian cyber-activity, but operatives were able to break into a board of elections website in Illinois and steal voter data on thousands of U.
Despite security improvements over the past two years and a newfound awareness of the threat, voting in America remains a massive target. The decentralized nature of how elections are administered means states and localities are on the front line of defense against entire nation-states. And it remains unclear whether lawmakers will allocate adequate resources soon enough to further shore up the system before a presidential election that is about a year and a half away.
The company referenced here seems to be VR Systems, a Florida-based company that makes voter registration equipment. In an interview with NPR's Pam Fessler six months after the election, the company's chief operating officer said Russian hackers were unsuccessful in breaking into their systems.
But today's report, and an indictment filed last summer by Mueller's team, disagree. One of the tough contradictions about American voting is the transparency, or lack thereof, from the companies responsible for election security. Even though elections are technically supervised at the state and local levels, in most cases the equipment that voters use to cast their ballots, have their votes counted and to check-in at the polls is run by companies in the private sector.
That makes forcing them to provide information about potential breaches, or their own security practices, incredibly difficult. Ron Wyden told NPR ahead of the report's public release. I am convinced we cannot rely on these companies to do the right thing on their own. In the report: Page Volume I page Papadopoulos admitted telling at least one individual outside of the Campaign — specifically, the then-Greek foreign minister — about Russia's obtaining Clinton-related emails.
In addition, a different foreign government informed the FBI that, 10 days after meeting with Mifsud in late April , Papadopoulos suggested that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton.
B, supra. Such disclosures raised questions about whether Papadopoulos informed any Trump Campaign official about the emails. When interviewed, Papadopoulos and the Campaign officials who interacted with him told the Office that they could not recall Papadopoulos's sharing the information that Russia had obtained "dirt" on candidate Clinton in the form of emails or that Russia could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information about Clinton.
Papadopoulos is the origin of the Russia investigation. When the FBI got wind of the overtures he was receiving from Russian agents, it kicked off the events that brought us to today. What this section establishes is that although the Russians whom Papadopoulos met were offering him dirt on Hillary Clinton, no one involved recalls discussing that.
Papadopoulos and others, including Trump advisers Sam Clovis and Stephen Miller, now say they don't recall discussing the Russian offers at the time Papadopoulos was receiving them. In the report: Page Volume I, Page In sum, the investigation established multiple links between Trump Campaign officials and individuals tied to the Russian government.
Those links included Russian offers of assistance to the Campaign. In some instances, the Campaign was receptive to the offer, while in other instances the Campaign officials shied away. Ultimately, the investigation did not establish that the Campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities. The Trump campaign engaged with some offers of help in and welcomed the support it was getting indirectly from fellow travelers such as WikiLeaks.
But the substance of that activity did not amount to a criminal conspiracy, the special counsel's office concluded, and that's why no Americans have been charged with colluding with the Russian interference. In the report: Page Volume 1, Page After the report was made available, the impact is unclear. Get your copy of this large print historic book today!
Mueller,Special Counsel's Office U. Deep State Author : James B. Danchenko has been charged with five counts of making false statements. The year-old was a primary source of information for the so-called Steele dossier, a collection of reports compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
Steele provided the information he had collected to the FBI during the campaign. The bureau later used some of the information in the dossier to get surveillance on a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page.
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