By Peter Toren (November 15, 2017, 12:00 PM EST) -- There are many interesting details about the Trump campaign's contacts with Russian officials that are contained in the George Papadopoulos statement of offense and available from other facts recently disclosed, including Donald Trump Jr.'s contacts with WikiLeaks, but as a former federal prosecutor with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, the facts relating to potential violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which, in general is the federal criminal law against computer hacking, are what jump out to me. In particular, the publicly available evidence strongly suggests that certain Trump campaign officials had knowledge that Russian hackers had penetrated the Democratic National Committee computer system before this became publicly known, and sought political benefit from this and by maximizing the disclosure's negative impact on the Hillary Clinton campaign. If this is true, it appears that there is probable cause to charge Trump officials, and maybe the president himself, with felony violations of the CFAA....