Hidden For Two Years: Crowdstrike Admitted Under Oath That It Had No Evidence At All That the DNC Servers Were Hacked by Russia

But we had been told that there was no doubt that Russia hacked the DNC servers, and this, in turn, required us to have no doubt that Russia wanted Trump to win (which in turn led, ipso facto, to the conclusion that Trump was a Russian Sleeper Agent).

But the first dot in this line of connected dots is in fact false.

There was never any evidence that Russia hacked the DNC emails -- but the Democrats and their media partners lied to us about this for three fucking years and turned the country upside down with their lunatic conspiracy theories and coup efforts.

Not only did he have no evidence that Russia intruded into the servers, he had no evidence that any information was moved off (downloaded from) the servers.

Also -- this never leaked.

Why?

I'm getting tired of the answer "Because Republicans follow the rules and don't leak."

I'm starting to think many of them -- Trey Godwy, maybe? -- were in on the hoax.

How can so many people have been present at these interviews and heard from Crowdstrike itself -- Hillary's handpicked data security company-- that they had no evidence that Russia hacked the servers or that any information was downloaded from the servers, but then go out into the public and claim that the proof that Russia did this is undeniable?

CrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia probe, acknowledged to Congress more than two years ago that it had no concrete evidence that Russian hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee’s server.

CrowdStrike President Shawn Henry's admission under oath, in a recently declassified December 2017 interview before the House Intelligence Committee, raises new questions about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller, intelligence officials and Democrats misled the public. The allegation that Russia stole Democratic Party emails from Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and others and then passed them to WikiLeaks helped trigger the FBI's probe into now debunked claims of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to steal the 2016 election. The CrowdStrike admissions were released just two months after the Justice Department retreated from its its other central claim that Russia meddled in the 2016 election when it dropped charges against Russian troll farms it said had been trying to get Trump elected.

Henry personally led the remediation and forensics analysis of the DNC server after being warned of a breach in late April 2016; his work was paid for by the DNC, which refused to turn over its server to the FBI. Asked for the date when alleged Russian hackers stole data from the DNC server, Henry testified that CrowdStrike did not in fact know if such a theft occurred at all: "We did not have concrete evidence that the data was exfiltrated [moved electronically] from the DNC, but we have indicators that it was exfiltrated," Henry said.

Seventeen intelligence servers, including the world famous foreign intelligence arm of the Coast Guard*, agree.

So shut up and stop asking questions about Elite Conspiracy Theories, prole. Elite Conspiracy Theories are too smart for you to understand, and are above the need for supporting evidence or ever superficial plausibility.

* One wonders how much foreign intelligence a service geared to protecting the three mile limit of America's coasts conducts. I'm sure there's some signals intelligence and phone surveillance of drug smugglers and sure, there's patrolling for foreign military craft making approaches, but... is the Coast Guard doing Kremlinology?

And if so -- why?

Trump Press Conference: He might talk about Flynn and the unmasking disclosures. Right now he's talking about reopening the economy.

posted by Ace at 05:03 PM

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