Emergency Edition: GRUccifer 2.0 Indictment!
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for their role in the theft and dissemination of documents from the DNC, the DCCC and the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election. Susan Hennessey, David Kris, Paul Rosenzweig, Matt Tait and Benjamin Wittes got together to make sense of the news.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast special edition emergency edition Friday, |
| 0:40.7 | July 13th, Friday the 13th, 2018. |
| 0:46.4 | It was a normal Friday morning until Rod Rosenstein called a 1145 press conference and |
| 0:55.2 | most people didn't think it was going to reflect a Mueller indictment since the president |
| 1:02.0 | is off abroad meeting with Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:07.2 | But it turned out that that was exactly what it was and it's quite a doozy. |
| 1:13.8 | 12 Russian military officers indicted for the DNC, detriple C and Clinton campaign hacks |
| 1:23.1 | and the distribution of the emails perloined in those attacks. |
| 1:29.6 | There are none of them names you've ever heard before but it is a major step for the Mueller |
| 1:37.9 | investigation and the Russian electoral interference investigation and we have the gang here to talk |
| 1:46.0 | about it. |
| 1:47.0 | Susan Hennessy, Matt Tate, David Chris, Paul Rosen's Wig. |
| 1:52.4 | Welcome everybody. |
| 1:53.4 | Paul, get us started. |
| 1:56.0 | What was your reaction to the indictment? |
| 1:58.8 | Well, other than shock and awe, I'll give you five quick and important takeaways from |
| 2:07.8 | my perspective. |
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