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    Charges, Hearings Sharpen The Big Picture About Russia's Influence Campaign

    Nearly a year after Election Day, action on Capitol Hill and by DOJ special counsel Robert Mueller helps put the pieces together about Russia's interference. But some remain missing.
    by Philip Ewing Nov 01, 2017 5 minutes
    Left to right: Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, Twitter Acting General Counsel Sean Edgett, and Google Law Enforcement and Information Security Director Richard Salgado testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee on Tuesday, October 31, 2017. / Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

    Nearly a year after Election Day, Americans have the clearest picture yet about the extent of the influence campaign Russia ran against the United States in 2016.

    The operation had a clandestine side and an overt side, and aspects that moved from one into the other. It involved a number of Russian government intelligence officers and cyber-operatives within Russia, as well as at least a few operatives working in the West.

    And, according to at least one former top U.S. spymaster, it went better than its authors could have possibly imagined.

    "The Russians have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations," as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Politico this week.

    by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller add the latest pieces to the puzzle: Russian operatives made overtures early to a junior campaign aide of Donald Trump, offering him "dirt" on

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