Spencer Ackerman & Kevin Poulsen, Daily Beast: EXCLUSIVE: ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer
Robert Mueller’s team has taken over the investigation of Guccifer 2.0, who communicated with (and was defended by) longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.
Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has learned. It’s an attribution that resulted from a fleeting but critical slip-up in GRU tradecraft.
That forensic determination has substantial implications for the criminal probe into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia. The Daily Beast has learned that the special counsel in that investigation, Robert Mueller, has taken over the probe into Guccifer and brought the FBI agents who worked to track the persona onto his team.
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WNU Editor: The hack of the DNC server .... and the subsequent release of documents coupled with the release of John Podesta's emails .... is IMHO one of the main reasons why Hillary Clinton lost the campaign. The revelation that the primaries were rigged to help her win hurt her standing among the Bernie Sanders supporters, and my gut tells me that it helped to suppress that vote on election day. But is Guccifer 2.0 a GRU Intelligence agent? Spencer Ackerman & Kevin Poulsen are reporting that because of one IP address and some other intel the U.S. intelligence community has come to the consensus that there is a very good chance that Russian military intelligence was involved in the DNC hack. One IP address linked to a website on a social media platform???? As for the rest of the article .... a lot of speculation and anonymous sources.
