REPORT: DOJ likely to announce charges against Iranian suspects for hacking into President Trump’s electronic communications

This stuff is so predictable. You would think that the DOJ-NSD would make an effort not to simply reuse their previous playbook. Unfortunately, especially because the IC silos are run by bureaucratic idiots, they end up repeating whatever works.

On September 19, CTH said: “I’m just going to sit back and wait to see what the DOJ NATIONAL SECURITY DIVISION (DOJ-NSD) comes up with next. Presumably -iIf I’m right, we’ll see a nasty Iranian group named, labeled and blamed for the hacking, probably end of this month. In fact, however, the “hacking” itself is probably nothing more than the Biden group Intelligence Community (FBI/DOJ/DNI) exploiting their political surveillance control systems..” {LINK}

Play dramatic music…

TODAY IN DC: A grand jury has indicted several Iranians on charges of hacking Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

The federal charges stem from an Iranian operation that allegedly stole internal Trump campaign communications this summer, according to three people familiar with the investigation who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.

The names of the defendants and the specific criminal charges were not immediately available. A grand jury secretly approved the indictment Thursday afternoon. The Justice Department is expected to announce the indictment on Friday.

(…) This month, US security agencies released an unusual statement saying that Iranians were sending materials stolen from the former president’s campaign to people linked to Biden’s re-election team (which later morphed into Harris’ campaign). The statement said there was no sign the recipients had responded.

Google’s cybersecurity division has said Iranians have also tried to hack into Biden’s campaign, but there is no evidence those efforts were successful. (read more)

√ Iran in 2024 replaced Russia in 2016.
√ Devlin Barrett in 2024 replaced Ali Watkins in 2016.
√ “Google cybersecurity” in 2024 replaced Crowdstrike in 2016.

Stop me when you realize you’ve seen this movie before.

At the end of this IC rainbow it is the same destination. The Trump campaign is under constant surveillance and the IC is obscuring Iran as the legal predicate, the justification for the mechanisms used for surveillance by the Biden administration.