12 Russian Witches Indicted For Election Meddling (UPDATED)

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein today announced the indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers by name who were involved in the hacking and distribution of stolen documents in order to aid Putin puppet Donald "Rump" Trump during the 2016 Presidential elections. A Federal grand jury working with the Mueller investigation indicted the 12 Russians on charges ranging from conspiracy to commit computer crimes to identity theft. Rosenstein said that the Russian intelligence unit used the technique of "spearphishing" to gain access to the computers of individuals on the Clinton campaign in the summer of 2016. You can read the 29-page indictment here.

The indictments come just hours after Rump again called the Mueller investigation a "rigged witch hunt" during a press conference with UK Prime Minister Theresa May in England. Rump is scheduled for a performance review meeting with Russian thug Vladimir Putin on Monday in Helsinki, Finland, where Rump is expected to either avoid or gloss over the latest indictments that prove Russia was engaged in meddling with the elections to his benefit. Although Rosenstein denied any connection between the timing of the indictments and the Putin meeting, it would be a defiant shot across the bow by Special Counsel Mueller if there were that connection.

UPDATE: An interesting and significant detail:

"On or about Aug 15, 2016, the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, received a request for stolen docs from a candidate for U.S. Congress," the indictment reads. "The Conspirators responded using the Guccifer 2.0 persona and sent the candidate stolen docs related to the candidate's opponent."  (our emphasis)

We eagerly await the name of that candidate for Congress who solicited and received stolen documents from the Russians (who, of course, could be a Congressman running for re- election).  Quoting Reagan foot fetishist Peggy Noonan, "Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to."

UPDATE II: Some dot-connecting:

"In the morning of July 27, 2016, Donald Trump encouraged Russian hackers to find emails that had been deleted from Hillary Clinton’s private server that she used while serving as secretary of state.

'I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.' [snip]

A grand jury convened by special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officials for their involvement in hacking the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election.

The indictment states that on July 27 ― the same day as Trump’s press conference ― Russian hackers, 'for the first time,' attempted to break into email accounts, including those used by Clinton’s personal office."

They were listening, waiting for the signal.