Some elements of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report are inherently open to interpretation. Still, Mueller has proved at least one thing beyond all reasonable doubt: Vladimir Putin’s Russia remains an ardent adversary of the United States.
Enter the Mueller report’s repeated referencing of the GRU, Russia’s primary military intelligence service. Mueller notes that the GRU and its facilitators, or cutouts, engaged in a highly aggressive effort to disrupt the 2016 presidential election. This involved leasing servers on the U.S. mainland, using bitcoin currency in an effort to avoid evidence of Russian culpability, and employing various technical intelligence tools. These were then weaponized to access the private communications of U.S. politicians, activists, private citizens, and state and local government agencies. The GRU then released that information through intermediaries such as Wikileaks and Guccifer 2.0.
