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The entire case does not rest on "IP address". Did you read the rest of the document? The details are documented. They followed the paper trail created by all
by asciibinary 8y ago
The entire case does not rest on "IP address". Did you read the rest of the document?
The details are documented. They followed the paper trail created by all of the shell corporations and financial transactions used to fund this $1.25M/month operation, had testimony from witnesses involved in the conspiracy to the Grand Jury, and evidence from stealing the identities of US citizens to commit bank fraud. It also lists 12 specific people behind the operation including what role they played (travel to US, purchasing IT equipment, etc). This begins on page 5.
Here's a particularly relevant excerpt from page 24:
58. In order to avoid detection and impede investigation by U.S. authorities of Defendants'
operations, Defendants and their co-conspirators deleted and destroyed data, including emails,
social media accounts, and other evidence of their activities.
a. Beginning in or around June 2014, and continuing into June 2015, public reporting
began to identify operations conducted by the ORGANIZATION in the United
States. In response, Defendants and their co-conspirators deleted email accounts
used to conduct their operations.
b. Beginning in or around September 2017, U.S. social media companies, starting
with Facebook, publicly reported that they had identified Russian expenditures on
their platforms to fund political and social advertisements. Facebook's initial
disclosure of the Russian purchases occurred on or about September 6, 2017, and
included a statement that Facebook had "shared [its] findings with US authorities
investigating these issues."
c. Media reporting on or about the same day as Facebook's disclosure referred to
Facebook working with investigators for the Special Counsel's Office of the U.S.
Department of Justice, which had been charged with investigating the Russian
government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
d. Defendants and their co-conspirators thereafter destroyed evidence for the purpose
of impeding the investigation. On or about September 13, 2017, K.AVERZINA
wrote in an email to a family member: "We had a slight crisis here at work: the
FBI busted our activity (not a joke). So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks
together with the colleagues." KAVERZINA further wrote, "I created all these
pictures and posts, and the Americans believed that it was written by their people."
Who is "everyone" in "everyone takes at face value with zero second thought"? and where is the resistance "to a simple request for evidence rather than allegations is in matters within the political realm, objectivity will soon be a thing of the past if we keep going like this."
Who is taking them at face value and who is resistant to a simple request for evidence? Straw man and a hasty generalization.
I've been engaging with you in good faith. Are you doing the same? Read the documents I've shared. You're exhibiting the behavior of a troll.