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A Russian national has become the first person charged by the U.S. for
conspiring to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections, according to the FBI
and Justice Department. Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova is alleged in the
indictment to have participated in a conspiracy to "sow discord in the U.S.
political system and to undermine faith in our democratic institutions.
The government says that the conspiracy is also part of a 2016 influence
operation that dates back to at least May 2014.
Forty-four-year-old Khusyaynova, of St. Petersburg, was the chief accountant
of "Project Lakhta," an effort funded by Russian oligarch Yevgeniy
Viktorovich Prigozhin and two companies he controls, Concord Management and
Consulting LLC, and Concord Catering, the indictment says. Prigozhin is
close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and is often referred to as "Putin
's chef."
Khusyaynova is accused of overseeing a $35 million budget from 2014 to 2018
that covered spending on activists, social media advertising, and promoting
news postings on social networks. The Justice Department says that the
proposed operating budget for 2018 alone was over $10 million.
John Carlin, former head of the Justice Department's National Security
division, and author of "Dawn of the Code War," tells CBS News that Russia
is spending millions to undermine American democracy.
"We're under attack now and our elections are at risk," he said. "There is
no way this is taking place without the knowledge of Putin himself."
The indictment says that this was a large-scale operation overseen by a
management group and notes that there with were several departments,
including a graphics and design department, one devoted to analysis, and
another to search engine optimization, as well as an IT, and a finance
department.
Those involved in the conspiracy made extensive efforts to appear to be
American political activists, and hide the fact that they were Russian.
According to the indictment, the conspiracy "inflamed passions" on topics
including immigration, gun control and the Second Amendment, the Confederate
flag, race relations, LGBT issues, the Women's March, and the NFL national
anthem controversy.
The conspiracy advised social media writers on how to write for U.S.
audiences, suggesting in one instance that people of color who are LGBT are
"less sophisticated" than those who are white. "Colored LGBT are less
sophisticated than white; therefore, complicated phrases and messages do not
work," the guidance said, according to the indictment. It went on to
suggest that infographics "work well among LGBT and their liberal allies,"
but not so well with conservatives.
Conspirators were in one instance directed to message an August 2017 online
news article, "McCain Says Thinking a Wall Will Stop Illegal Immigration is
'Crazy,'" in this way: "Brand McCain as an old geezer who has lost it and
who long ago belonged in a home for the elderly. Emphasize that John McCain'
s pathological hatred towards Donald Trump and towards all his initiatives
crosses all reasonable borders and limits."
Another article was to brand House Speaker Paul Ryan as "a complete and
absolute nobody incapable of any decisiveness."
President Trump, addressing the news with reporters Thursday, said it had
nothing to do with his campaign.
"It had nothing to do with my campaign," the president said. "All of the
hackers and all everybody that you see — nothing to do with my campaign. If
they're hackers, a lot of them probably liked Hillary Clinton better than
me."
Earlier in the day, in a rare joint statement, the nation's top law
enforcement and intelligence agencies issued a warning against what they
described as "ongoing campaigns by Russia, China and other foreign actors,
including Iran, to undermine confidence in democratic institutions and
influence public sentiment and government policies."
"Elements of these campaigns," the statement said, "can take many forms,
including social media to amplify divisive issues, sponsoring specific
content in English-language media like RT and Sputnik, seeing disinformation
through sympathetic spokespersons regarding political candidates and
disseminating foreign propaganda."
The statement, issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
, Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Homeland Security, noted that
there had not been any evidence, to date, of a compromise or disruption of
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