President Trump commuted Roger Stone’s 40-month prison sentence days before he was to report to prison for lying to Congress and witness tampering to protect Trump. Stone was convicted on seven felonies for obstructing the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation, lying about …
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A federal jury convicted longtime Trump advisor Roger Stone on all seven counts: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and one count of witness tampering. The conviction stemmed from Stone’s efforts to obstruct the House …
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A U.S. grand jury added 17 counts under the Espionage Act to the federal indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, marking the first time in American history that the government used the 1917 anti-spying law to prosecute a publisher for receiving and publishing truthful classified …
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The Mueller Report documented at least 140 contacts between Trump and 18 associates with
Russian nationals and WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign and transition. The report found
Russian interference was “sweeping and systematic” and violated U.S. criminal law. While
establishing …
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted twelve officers of the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) for hacking the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Clinton presidential campaign during the 2016 election. The 29-page …
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Roger Stone tweeted “Trust me, it will soon be the Podesta’s time in the barrel” on August 21, 2016 - 47 days before WikiLeaks released Podesta emails on October 7. Even Podesta himself didn’t know about the hack until WikiLeaks began leaking. Stone claimed he meant …
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On July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks released 19,252 DNC emails and 8,034 attachments stolen by Russian GRU intelligence—strategically timed for maximum political damage just three days before the Democratic National Convention. The release, coordinated between Russian intelligence (via Guccifer 2.0), …
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On June 15, 2016—just one day after CrowdStrike publicly disclosed that Russian intelligence had hacked the Democratic National Committee—the GRU launched the “Guccifer 2.0” persona and began releasing stolen DNC documents. The Mueller investigation later proved that Guccifer 2.0 was not …
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Edward Snowden boarded an Aeroflot commercial flight from Hong Kong to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on June 23, 2013, accompanied by Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks, just days after the U.S. filed espionage charges and requested his extradition. The Hong Kong government allowed Snowden to leave …
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U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (later Chelsea Manning) was arrested at Forward Operating Base Hammer in Iraq for allegedly leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, including evidence of war crimes and civilian casualties. The arrest initiated what would …
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