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The Department of Justice on Friday announced an indictment for three #Iranian nationals for
hacking Donald Trump’s campaign.
The DOJ accused three Iranians -- members of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- of hacking into Trump’s campaign.
Masoud Jalili, Yaser Balaghi, and Seyyed Ali Aghamiri were charged with
conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer and other counts relating to fraud.
The indictment alleges that the three individuals hacked information from Trump’s campaign before sharing it with various media outlets, 
which refused to publish it.
Attorney General #Merrick #Garland denounced efforts by foreign regimes to influence U.S. elections during a press conference on Friday.
“The message of the U.S. government is clear 
the American people, not a foreign power, decide the outcome of our country’s elections, 
not Iran and its malicious cyber activities as laid bare in today’s indictment, not Russia and its efforts to spread disinformation and propaganda to secured its preferred outcome in the U.S. presidential election, as laid bare in the indictment and seizures announced earlier this month,” Garland said.
The indictment relates to an FBI investigation regarding an anonymous online account sharing stolen documents from the Trump campaign to reporters.
One document shared by the hackers was a dossier the Trump campaign wrote on JD #Vance while vetting him to be Trump’s running mate -- the dossier was made public Thursday by an independent journalist.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-bidens-doj-charges-iranian-operatives-for-hack-of-trump-campaign/
Independent journalist #Ken #Klippenstein was suspended from X after he 
published the hacked dossier compiled by the Trump campaign during its #vetting of JD #Vance.
Back in February, the Trump campaign compiled a research dossier on Vance in order to vet the Ohio senator as a potential running mate for Donald Trump.
The 271-page document included a section about “potential vulnerabilities,” which included his past criticism of the former president.
Soon after Trump picked Vance as his vice presidential nominee, an individual known as “#Robert” sent the document to a reporter from Politico.
In August, The Trump campaign revealed it had been 
hacked by Iranian intelligence.
Several other outlets were sent the vetting documents, but all refused to print its contents
— on the grounds of both the unclear provenance of the information as well as its apparent lack of newsworthiness.
Some criticized those outlets for their refusal to make the documents public.
Klippenstein on Thursday published the dossier via his website.
“The dossier has been offered to me and I’ve decided to publish it because it’s of keen public interest in an election season,” Klippenstein wrote.
“It’s a 271-page research paper the Trump campaign prepared to vet now vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance.
As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been altered, but even if it was, its contents are publicly verifiable. I’ll let it speak for itself.”
His account was suspended hours after publishing the dossier.
@cdarwin I shared it to Farcebook. Immediately, I got a warning that it was spam and would not be published. I've reported it as a mistake. They're looking into it. 
