McMaster says evidence of Russian meddling in the US election is ‘now really incontrovertible’

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• The US indicted 13 Russians accused of an elaborate plot to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.
• H.R. McMaster said that the federal indictments showed the U.S. was becoming “more and more adept at tracing the origins of this espionage and subversion.”
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the indictments as “just blabber.”

MUNICH (AP) — Top Russian and American officials exchanged barbs Saturday in Germany over the U.S. indictment of 13 Russians accused of an elaborate plot to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.

H.R. McMaster, U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, said at the Munich Security Conference that the federal indictments showed the U.S. was becoming “more and more adept at tracing the origins of this espionage and subversion.”

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