Mueller indicted 12 Russian military-intelligence officers for hacking and 13 Russians for the troll operation, and laid out how both worked. He also found “numerous links” between the campaign and Russian-connected people, including the Trump Tower meeting and Manafort’s sharing of polling data. But he said the evidence was not enough to charge anyone in the campaign with conspiring with the Russian government. [1][2]
On obstruction he took no position: “if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.” Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein then decided the evidence did not support charging obstruction. [1][2]
The Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans, went further on counterintelligence. It found Manafort’s contact, Konstantin Kilimnik, was a Russian intelligence officer and called the relationship “a grave counterintelligence threat.” It did not find proof of an election conspiracy either. [3]
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