Russian Interference in the 2016 Election
The Mueller Report
The Russian Government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian Government operations began to surface in mid-2016. In June, the Democratic National Committee and its cyber response team publicly announced that Russian hackers had compromised its computer network. Releases of hacked materials — hacks that public reporting soon attributed to the Russian Government — began that same month. Additional releases followed in July through the organization WikiLeaks, with further releases in October and November. In late July 2016, soon after WikiLeaks’ first release of stolen documents, a foreign government contacted the FBI [Federal…
