Russiagate

[David Morris]

https://mobile.twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1478074284551684097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1478074284551684097%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.balloon-juice.com%2F

When Russiagate was raging and
@IcarusNetflix <https://mobile.twitter.com/IcarusNetflix>
dropped in 2017, I remember watching it and thinking: the only way we'll
really ever know what the Russians did in 2016 is if someone defects and
tells us. I wonder if this is that moment.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-03/kremlin-insider-klyushin-is-said-to-have-2016-hack-details?utm_medium=social&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic

IT executive Vladislav Klyushin’s journey into U.S. custody is a blow to
the Kremlin, say people familiar with a Russian intelligence assessment of
what he may have to offer.

The U.S. has, in its custody, the highest-level Kremlin insider handed to
U.S. law enforcement in recent memory.

Klyushin’s cybersecurity work and Kremlin ties could make him a useful
source of information for U.S. officials, according to several people
familiar with Russian intelligence matters. Most critically, these people
said, if he chooses to cooperate, he could provide Americans with their
closest view yet of 2016 election manipulation.

According to people in Moscow who are close to the Kremlin and security
services, Russian intelligence has concluded that Klyushin, 41, has access
to documents relating to a Russian campaign to hack Democratic Party
servers during the 2016 U.S. election. These documents, they say, establish
the hacking was led by a team in Russia’s GRU military intelligence that
U.S. cybersecurity companies have dubbed “Fancy Bear” or APT28. Such a
cache would provide the U.S. for the first time with detailed documentary
evidence of the alleged Russian efforts to influence the election,
according to these people.

Klyushin’s path to the U.S. — his flight from Moscow via private jet, his
arrest in Switzerland, and his wait in jail as Russia and the U.S. competed
to win his extradition — is described in U.S., European and Swiss legal
filings, as well as in accounts of more than a half-dozen people with
knowledge of the matter who requested anonymity to speak about Moscow’s
efforts and its causes for concern.