Who Really Indicted The Russians?

Tonight it’s time to revisit the letter DARPA sent to Senator Grassley last year. We’ve talked a great deal about the section acknowledging the August 7, 2016 attribution report.

But what about this section?

The origins of Senator Grassley’s inquiry was this email we obtained from the Georgia AG office:

We also need to consider this portion of a letter we have talked about before:

As a starting point, we know DARPA’s letter contained inaccuracies regarding the August 7 2016 attribution report. So accepting that DARPA has no idea what is going on, let’s dive deeper.

The researchers say they were providing materials to the DOJ and Mueller. In one email, they reference a ‘Mueller list - Domains and indicators of APT-28’ and DARPA later says it relates to the indictment of Netyksho et al by Mueller.

Is it possible that Dagon and Antonakakis first provided that analysis to Mueller? This could be the bulk of the indictment which has a substantial treatment of web searches and domain activities, and fits with what we have seen in other instances where Antonakakis was asked to look into someone’s online activities:

Read the Netyksho indictment. If that information didn’t come from Dagon or Antonakakis, where did it come from?

If it did come from Dagon/Antonakakis, the government placed a breathtaking amount of reliance on individuals they knew were connected to the Alfa Bank allegations that were considered suspicious and not technically viable.