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Government Corruption

O's Fingerprints on Russiagate?

2022-06-07

[ET] President Barack Obama approved a statement by the U.S. intelligence community in October 2016 accusing Russia of stealing emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), despite the U.S. government not having obtained the DNC server images crucial to ascertaining whether Moscow was involved in the theft.

FBI emails recently made public during the trial against now-acquitted DNC attorney Michael Sussmann show the bureau was still in the process of requesting images of the DNC servers on Oct. 13, 2016. The server images, which are equivalent to a virtual copy of the alleged crime scene, were taken by private cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

On Oct. 7, six days before CrowdStrike agreed to mail the server images to the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a statement accusing Russia of hacking U.S. political organizations and disseminating emails allegedly stolen through the hack. The statement was approved and encouraged by Obama, according to then-DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson.

"The president approved the statement. I know he wanted us to make the statement. So that was very definitely a statement by the United States government, not just Jim Clapper and me," Johnson told the House Intelligence Committee in June 2017, referring to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Posted by:Bobby

#14 And the Clinton years were followed by W Bush who didn't do anything to fix the situation. Then Obama had a turn.

Sick of Republicans too nice to fight back.

Posted by: ruprecht 2022-06-07 19:38

#13 No shit.

Posted by: Woodrow 2022-06-07 19:06

#12 You are expecting politicians and bureaucrats to follow the law? Please...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-07 18:46

#11 /\ More likely a "shadow agency."

Posted by: Besoeker 2022-06-07 18:37

#10 Isn't there a law against Shadow Presidents trying to operate in the background to undermine duly-elected Presidents?

Posted by: JohnQC 2022-06-07 17:38

#9 ^^#8 The prima facie evidence for the DNC refusal to give the Bureau access to the server, instead the entire Crowdstrike dodge which somehow didn't seem to really bother the media/democrat faithful.

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-06-07 15:49

#8 /\ Yes, reportedly very 'dead' indeed. Not to be confused with a robbery, drug deal gone bad, or a lurid love triangle. Make no mistake, the penalty for betrayal is death.

Posted by: Besoeker 2022-06-07 14:23

#7 And Seth Rich is still dead.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-06-07 13:50

#6 The eight years of the Clintons started the collapse of integrity -- with the Berlin Wall falling the only existential Enemy the Left had was fellow Americans, right? The Obama Years just saw more blatant partisans being appointed and promoted by the earlier Clinton appointees that had acquired seniority...

The Biden Era it is just more hubris and a total lack of shame.

Posted by: magpie 2022-06-07 13:28

#5 Baraq might be big in the Deep State but I can't believe he's the biggest. This is a guy who never did an honest day's work in his entire life and all of a sudden he's POTUS? Uh-uh. Somebody's pulling his strings.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-06-07 13:00

#4 But wait! There's more!

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-06-07 12:58

#3 Funny you should mention Crowdstrike. Even funnier how there always seems to be a Ukrainian connection.

CrowdStrike has ties to the Obama team, is friends with Hillary Clinton, former Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko, and connected to Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, another friend of the DNC and someone who donated $10 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Tying it all together, the CrowdStrike document (if the full report ever existed) may have been one more element of the DNC/Deep State effort to end the Trump Presidency before it started If everything was above board—why didn’t the FBI demand to examine the DNC server or the entire CrowdStrike report?

CrowdStrike has a history of lying about Russia. In March of 2017, the Voice of America VOA caught CrowdStrike creating a bogus and unrelated hacking charge against Russia, and making up the facts to prove its veracity. It seems that CrowdStrike is as politically motivated as everyone else in Washington, D.C. The VOA caught CrowdStrike lying about a claim of Russian hacking damaging Ukrainian technology. There was no hacking to blame on Russia or anyone else. The company that the DNC and FBI relied upon not only made up a crime that didn’t exist but they blamed it on Putin’s Russia. This mistake is especially relevant because CrowdStrike accused the Russians of using the same software to hack Ukraine as they supposedly used in hacking the DNC. Shouldn’t that call into question CrowdStrike ’s report? At the very least that should have motivated the FBI to get a copy of the entire report about the DNC and investigate whether it was accurate?

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-06-07 12:51

#2 O's fingerprints are all over the Deep State, 8 years of salting the civil service and SES with fellow travelers across a wide spectrum of the federal bureaucracy.

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-06-07 11:57

#1 I thought the Baltimore Orioles had gone rogue.

Posted by: Super Hose 2022-06-07 11:53

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