The Mueller Report: Presented with Related Materials by The Washington Post

by The Washington Post

active measures investigation has resulted in criminal charges against 13 individual Russian nationals and three Russian entities, principally for conspiracy to defraud the United States,

Our best estimate is that approximately 126 million people may have been served content from a Page associated with the IRA

Clinton Campaign, including the email account of campaign chairman John Podesta. Starting in April 2016, the GRU hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee

targeted hundreds of email accounts used by Clinton Campaign employees, advisors, and volunteers. In total, the GRU stole hundreds of thousands of documents from the compromised email accounts and networks.109 The GRU

and DNC documents through online personas, “DCLeaks” and “Guccifer 2.0,” and later through the organization WikiLeaks...

to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and un...

Campaign showed interest in the WikiLeaks releases and,...

elections, secretaries of state, and U.S. companies that supplied software and other technology related to the administration of U.S. elections.114

were not crimes of opportunity but rather the result of targeting.116

Intrusions into the DCCC and DNC Networks

Stolen documents included internal strategy documents, fundraising data, opposition research, and emails from the work inboxes of DNC employees.130

Stolen documents included the DNC’s opposition research into candidate Trump.134 Between approximately May 25, 2016 and June 1, 2016,

During these connections, Unit 26165 officers appear to have stolen thousands of emails and attachments, which were later released by WikiLeaks in July 2016.136 B. Dissemination of the

units transferred many of the documents they stole from the DNC and the chairman of the

WikiLeaks, and particularly its founder Julian Assange, privately expressed opposition to candidate Clinton well before the first release of stolen

GRU and WikiLeaks sought to hide their communications, which has limited the Office’s ability to collect all of the communications between them. Thus, although it is clear that the stolen DNC and Podesta documents were transferred from the GRU to WikiLeaks, [= =

Beginning in the summer of 2016, Assange and WikiLeaks made a number

Seth Rich, a former DNC staff member who was killed in July 2016. The statements about Rich implied falsely that he had been the source of the stolen DNC emails. On August 9, 2016, the @WikiLeaks Twitter account posted: “ANNOUNCE: WikiLeaks has

intelligence community publicly announced its assessment that Russia was behind the hacking operation, Assange continued to deny that the Clinton materials released by WikiLeaks had come from Russian hacking.

Unit 26165 targeted email accounts connected to candidate Clinton’s personal office [# # # # #]. Earlier

candidate Trump made public statements that included the following: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”183 The “30,000

emails described in media accounts as having been stored on a personal server that candidate Clinton had used whi...

Trump’s remarks, Unit 26165 created and sent malicious links targeting 15 email accounts at the domain [# # # # #] including an email account belonging to Clinton aide [# # # # #] The investigation did not find evidence of earlier GRU

Targeting the Administration of U.S. Elections

targeted individuals and entities involved in the administration of the elections. Victims included U.S. state and local entities, such as state boards of

relevant items belonging to these victims. The Office understands that the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the states have separately investigated that activity.

Trump Campaign and the Dissemination of

told the Office that he recalled an incident in which he was

summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign was planning a press strategy, a communications campaign, and messaging based on the possible release of Clinton emails by WikiLeaks.207 [+

WikiLeaks Donald Trump Jr. had direct electronic communications with WikiLeaks during the campaign period. On September

investigation did not find evidence that the Trump Campaign recovered any such Clinton emails, or that these contacts were part of a coordinated effort between Russia and the Trump Campaign.

Efforts to Obtain Deleted Clinton Emails

asked individuals affiliated with his Campaign to find the deleted Clinton emails.264 Michael Flynn—who would later serve as National Security Advisor in the Trump Administration—recalled that Trump made this request repeatedly, and Flynn subsequently contacted

investigation established that Smith communicated with at least Flynn and Clovis about his search for the deleted

but the Office did not identify evidence that any of the listed individuals initiated or directed Smith’s efforts.

provided funding to hire a tech advisor to ascertain the authenticity of the emails. According to Prince, the tech advisor determined that the emails were not authentic.283 A backup of Smith’s

No emails obtained from Clinton’s server were subsequently released.

investigation did not establish that Smith was in contact with Russian hackers or that Smith, Ledeen,

individuals in touch with the Trump Campaign ultimately obtained the deleted Clinton emails.

sum, the investigation established that the GRU hacked into email accounts of persons

affiliated with the Clinton Campaign, as well as the computers of the DNC and DCCC. The GRU then exfiltrated data related to the 2016 election from these accounts and computers, and disseminated that data through fictitious online personas (DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0) and later

through WikiLeaks. The investigation also established that the Trump Campaign displayed interest in th...

Separate from this Office’s indictment of GRU officers, in October 2018 a grand jury sitting in the Western District of Pennsylvania returned an indictment charging certain members of Unit 26165 with hacking the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the World Anti-Doping Agency, and other international sport associations. United States v. Aleksei

Gates pleaded guilty, pursuant to a plea agreement, to a superseding criminal information charging him with conspiring to defraud and commit multiple offenses (i. e., tax fraud, failure to report foreign bank accounts, and acting as an unregistered agent of a

Manafort entered into a plea agreement with our

breached the agreement by being untruthful in proffer sessions and before the grand jury. We have generally recounted

November 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea agreement to a single-count information charging him with making false statements to Congress, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a) & (c). He had previously pleaded guilty to several other criminal charges brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, after a referral from this Office.

we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred.

Accordingly, while this report does not conclude

that the President committed a crime, it also does n...