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A report from a former FBI cyberexpert unsealed today revealed new evidence that Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev may have played a more direct role in hacking the 2016 election, the New York Times reports.
The newly unsealed report, which was commissioned by @BuzzFeed from a former @FBI cyber-expert, has lots of details on the Russian election hacking. @AllMattNYT, who has the report, breaks it down:https://t.co/ynMKNI0qC4
Related: Trump-Russia inquiry: transcript reveals ex-spy and FBI’s cloak-and-dagger dance
As Anthony Ferrante, the report’s lead author and a former F.B.I. agent, noted in a deposition: “I have no evidence of them actually sitting behind a keyboard.”
Mr. Gubarev has insisted that neither he nor his businesses knowingly took part in the Russian hacking. He backed up his denials by filing a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed, the first news organization to publish the dossier, which became public in January 2017. The report unsealed Thursday was commissioned by BuzzFeed to fend off Mr. Gubarev’s suit, which was dismissed in December when the court found BuzzFeed’s decision to publish protected under the law.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross appeared before the House Oversight Committee today, to answer questions about the controversial citizenship question he attempted to add to the 2020 census.
The question, pushed for by the Trump Administration and seen as discriminatory by immigrant advocates, was struck down by a federal judge, who also accused Ross of circumventing administrative procedures and adding the question without proving why it was necessary.
Related: Judge blocks White House plan to ask citizenship question on census
Wilbur Ross tried to run out the clock on @AOC. It didn’t go so well for him or Republicans who professed confusion on her question.https://t.co/Prq1Q7XxNp
Democrats hammered Ross over specific document requests from the Commerce Department to clarify the secretary’s role in the citizenship question. One Democrat, Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Missouri, called on Ross to resign Thursday, citing his earlier testimony.
“I have never intentionally misled Congress or intentionally lied under oath,” Ross said.
