portion of the DCLeaks website tends to indicate that both personas were 150 operated by the same or a closely-related group of people. The GRU continued its release efforts through Guccifer 2.0 into August 2016. For example, on August 15, 2016, the Guccifer 2.0 persona sent a candidate for the U.S. Congress documents related to the candidate’s 151 opponent. On August 22, 2016, the Guccifer 2.0 persona transferred approximately 2.5 gigabytes of Florida-related data stolen from the DCCC to a 152 U.S. blogger covering Florida politics. On August 22, 2016, the Guccifer 2.0 persona sent a U.S. reporter documents stolen from the DCCC pertaining to the 153 Black Lives Matter movement. The GRU was also in contact through the Guccifer 2.0 persona with HOM█ █ █ a former Trump Campaign member Harm to Ongoing Matter█ █ █ █ █ 154 █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ In early August 2016, HOM█ █ █ Twitter’s suspension of the Guccifer 2.0 Twitter account. After it was reinstated, GRU officers posing as Guccifer 2.0 wrote HOM█ █ █ via private message, “thank u for writing back . . . do u find anyt[h]ing interesting in the docs i posted?” On August 17, 2016, the GRU added, “please tell me if i can help u anyhow . . . it would be a great pleasure to me.” On September 9, 2016, the GRU—again posing as Guccifer 2.0—referred to a stolen DCCC document posted online and asked HOM “what do u think of the info on the turnout model for the democrats entire presidential campaign.” 155 HOM responded, “pretty standard.” The investigation did not identify evidence of other communications between HOM and Guccifer 2.0. 3. Use of WikiLeaks In order to expand its interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the GRU units transferred many of the documents they stole from the DNC and the chairman of the Clinton Campaign to WikiLeaks. GRU officers used both the DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 personas to communicate with WikiLeaks through Twitter private messaging and through encrypted channels, including possibly through WikiLeaks’s private communication system. a. WikiLeaks’s Expressed Opposition Toward the Clinton Campaign