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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Brazile, Rice, Obama Gave Russian Hackers Free Rein
2018-07-17
[American Thinker] The conveniently timed indictments of 12 more Russians by Deputy A.G. (or should we just face reality and ditch the word "deputy"?) Rosenstein, who will never see the inside of an American courtroom, probably includes the Russian who "hacked" into John Podesta's email account secured with the password "password."
All ensuring the 30,000 Clinton emails are securely nested alongside the Obama transcripts and passports, and will never see the light of day. National Security, ongoing investigations and all of that.
Rosenstein was no doubt pleased with himself to announce that 12 Russian spies were caught ‐ er, spying, on President Obama's watch, by the way, but neglected to include one small detail in his announcement ‐ namely, that DNC chair Donna Brazile and most of the Obama hierarchy let them do it.

As the Daily Caller reported:

Donna Brazile says in her new book the Democratic National Committee (DNC) went against professional advice and sat idly for a month while Russians stole data because primaries were still underway in a number of states.

"In May, when CrowdStrike recommended that we take down our system and rebuild it, the DNC told them to wait a month, because the state primaries for the presidential election were still underway, and the party and the staff needed to be at their computers to manage these efforts," Brazile wrote in her new book, "Hacks."

"For a whole month, CrowdStrike watched Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear operating. Cozy Bear was the hacking force that had been in the DNC system for nearly a year."

Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear are cybersecurity firms that have reported ties with Russian hackers. Both groups are blamed for the hacks on the DNC in 2016. CrowdStrike is a private U.S. cybersecurity firm that oversaw the protection of the DNC's servers.

The DNC never turned its servers over to the FBI, although it is not clear what Obama's and Comey's FBI would have done with them. Instead, Brazile, et al. simply stood by while the Russians emptied the computer jar of its cookies. Among stuff you couldn't make up was election cheater Donna Brazile telling Martha Raddatz, who got choked up over Trump's victory, on ABC's This Week on Sunday that Russian hackers kept her and predecessor Debbie Wasserman Schultz so busy that the DNC barely had time to put its fingers on the scale to tip the nomination to Bernie Sanders while feeding Hillary Clinton debate questions in advance. As ABC reported:
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Podesta emails with the password PASSWORD was an invitation. The Awans had carte blanche to Dem Congresscritters computers and probably DNC also. HRC server was unprotected for awhile. Weiner used his computer for nefarious things. We don't know what escaped that computer. FBI never looked at DNC servers. Probably many foreign entities could have accessed data with little difficulty.

Besoeker, your Novichuk theory is plausible.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-07-17 23:43  

#3  (with a bit of help from their British friends - novichok anyone?)

I'm still going with my domestic.... well, you know.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-07-17 04:56  

#2  We all know that they didn't anticipate Hillary's loss (and she would not have lost to a "Regular Republican").
(a) They were shocked and lashing out looking for somebody to blame.
(b) The "cognitive elites" know (because it's part of their superior education) that "the deplorables" have a blind, unthinking hatred of Russia.
(c) The top levels of CIA/FBI, who are part of the "cognitive elites" - look at the email server scandal, were willing to go along (with a bit of help from their British friends - novichok anyone?).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-07-17 04:52  

#1  So Rice and Obama are now to blame for Clinton's defeat ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-07-17 04:32  

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