
She visits him in the Ecuadorian Embassy, where he is hiding from extradition requests, and visits him there in September 2013 to talk about renewing his show on Russia Today. The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, was visited by Margarita Simonyan, who is the founding editor in chief of Russia Today (RT), which is the entirely Kremlin-funded, English-language-I don’t know, for lack of a better term, propaganda channel. But in the meantime, all of this very valuable information has been discovered by the Russians and then magically ends up in the hands of WikiLeaks, which has long been associated with the Russians. At one point, I think he hangs up on them. This is after the FBI has been calling and calling and calling the IT guy at the DNC, who seems to not realize anything is wrong. Well, they were told-CrowdStrike told the DNC-they were called in by the DNC to do an analysis. So does anybody know this is happening, anybody at the DNC, anybody in the intelligence community, while it’s happening? So through that, they stumble into that server and find a bunch of self-oppo on regional House candidates, and that information somehow ends up in the relevant blogs and radio stations and newspapers in the specific districts that Democrats are trying to flip from red to blue in the 2016 election. They see the DNC server is communicating with another server, and that's the DCCC server, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that helps Democrats get elected to the House of Representatives. Now, all the Bears are in the DNC servers they also stumble on a link to another server. Self-oppo is the research that a campaign does on itself to find its weak spots. They realized that they have taken all the basically self-oppo from the DNC server. They don’t seem to be aware of each other. But they don’t know that the other Bear is in there rooting around. Another one has been in there since-for the last couple months.

One of them has been in there for a year. And CrowdStrike finds out that there are two entities associated with the Russian government that they dub Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear. … In the spring of 2016, CrowdStrike, which is a private cybersecurity firm that was co-founded by a Russian-American, is called in by the DNC to analyze what happened to their servers. Tell me that story in a kind of condensed form if you can.

Election 2015-2016 MORE FROM THIS THEME …the sort of discovery that these guys are in hacking Podesta’s email, and the FBI is trying to warn. It has been edited in parts for clarity and length. Here's our statement on Julia Ioffe tweet: is the transcript of a two-part interview with FRONTLINE's Michael Kirk conducted on June 12 and June 14, 2017. The Atlantic sent out a statement as well: Scolding message from Politico's leadership on Julia Ioffe's Trump tweet from today: Contract terminated immediately. Ioffe is moving from Politico to The Atlantic, and Politico sent out the following statement saying they’re accelerating the close of her contract: It was a tasteless, offensive tweet that I regret and have deleted. It was a crass joke that I genuinely regret. The media bosses anticipate and do the censoring themselves.Īll that said, I do regret my phrasing and apologize for it. In Russia, the Kremlin rarely has to make the call to media organizations.
We have a president-elect who popularized "saying what everyone is thinking," but I guess my phrasing should've been more delicate.

Ioffe followed up with a few tweets, ultimately taking down the above one and apologizing: Ioffe responded with the following tweet (which has since been deleted): A Trump transition spokesperson has called this report “false.” There was news today that since Melania Trump will focus on raising her son Barron, Trump’s daughter will get an office in the space normally reserved for First Ladies. Journalist Julia Ioffe, a contributing writer at Politico and columnist at Foreign Policy, received some criticism on Twitter today after tweeting a joke about President-elect Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka.
