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What the analysis is regarding this round of indictments is office of Special Council is working first at filing indictments at foreign adversary participants and showing their operations and routines of how they affected various US elections targets: voting registration data whether from county commissions and/or states voters registration data, and then using data to target social media in attempts to influence voters in upcoming general elections.

Expect future round of indictments will have names of US citizens that were involved in the criminal conspiracy. Although the word 'collusion' will be used by US media, the actual term should be 'criminal conspiracy' which is far worse compared to 'collusion' as explained by those in background of legal matters. I don't recall if it was Laurence Tribe or former US District Attorney Preet Bahara [fired in early 2017], or Sally Yates that had that opinion. And these were folks working for past previous GOP administrations as well as Obama administration. So they are not partisan hacks.

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Lawfare: Indictment does not in any sense foreclose possibility of criminal involvement by Americans

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210868481

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The statement is largely accurate, as is the Rosenstein statement on which it draws. This indictment does not charge or allege specific criminal misconduct by any American. And it is careful—as was the indictment in February—not to sweep broadly in its claims about people on this side of the Atlantic. That said, the indictment does not in any sense foreclose the possibility of substantial, knowing and even criminal involvement by Americans.

This indictment, by contrast, offers a potential factual breakthrough. It tells us that the prior factual premise was wrong: the alleged conduct violating the CFAA continued to occur throughout the summer of 2016. That affects the earlier analysis in two ways. First, it makes clear that the Russians did intend to release the information at the time the hacking occured. Second, and perhaps more important, the indictment alleges that the criminal hacking conspiracy was ongoing at the time individuals in the Trump campaign were in contact with charged and uncharged Russian conspirators, raising the possibility of more straightforward aiding and abetting liability.

read complete article at https://www.lawfareblog.com/russia-indictment-20-what-make-muellers-hacking-indictment

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