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Article snippet: White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster said a new round of indictments in special counsel MORE’s investigation show “incontrovertible” evidence that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, McMaster said “with the FBI indictment, the evidence is now incontrovertible” that Russia interfered in the election, according to The Associated Press. The consensus of the U.S. intelligence community is that Russians did seek to influence the 2016 presidential election, although the investigation has yet to reach a conclusion on whether Russia influenced the outcome. McMaster also reportedly dismissed a question about future U.S. cooperation with Russia on cybersecurity. McMaster spoke at the conference immediately after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who said the new Mueller indictments were “just blabber,” the AP reported, according to a translation. Deputy Attorney General announced the slew of indictments at a press briefing Friday. Thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian groups were charged with multiple counts of attempting to interfere in the 2016 election. The indictment alleges the goal of the Russians was to support then-candidate MORE. Some of the Russians allegedly posed as U.S. people and communicated with “unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities.” Rosenstein noted that there i... Link to the full article to read more