

The filing spells out the Justice Department's first official, public accounting of the most high-profile information operations against the US presidential election to date. The indictment was for conducting "active cyber operations with the intent of interfering in the 2016 presidential election." Further Reading 12 Russian intel officers indicted for hacking the DNC and Clinton campaignIn a press briefing just two weeks ago, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the grand jury assembled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller had returned an indictment against 12 officers of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (better known as Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye, or GRU).
