Thursday, March 29, 2018

Was the DNC Server Actually Hacked by the Russians?

Well after the convention, Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton's public relations chief, said in a March 2017 Washington Post essay that she worked assiduously during the nominating convention to "Get the press to focus on the prospect that Russia had not only hacked and stolen emails from the DNC, but that it had done so to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary."

First, VIPS concluded that the DNC data were not hacked by the Russians or anyone else accessing the server over the internet.

After the DNC denied law enforcement access to its server, the FBI - under James Comey's leadership - meekly agreed to accept the findings of CrowdStrike, the DNC's private computer security firm, as to the server's contents.

Equally important, has anyone else other than CrowdStrike conducted a forensic examination of the DNC server, its contents, and the allegedly hacked emails? Specifically has Special Counsel Mueller done so?

May we expect him to use similar aggressive tactics in dealing with the mysteriously recalcitrant DNC? Will the server at long last be subjected to a non-DNC-controlled forensic analysis? Will the server and CrowdStrike's work product be analyzed to either confirm or disprove the presence of Russian malware? And, if none is found, will the special counsel investigate the persons responsible for that deception?

Will the DNC files released by Guccifer 2.0 be analyzed to determine if they were, as VIPS has concluded, altered to give the false impression that the Russians had hacked the server? If so, will Mueller pursue those responsible for the adulteration? If, as appears likely, the server was not hacked, will Mueller investigate why Hillary Clinton and the DNC claimed it was?

Will he investigate whether the DNC files were stolen by someone who had direct physical access to the DNC server? Will he try to determine who at the DNC had a motive to leak the files? Could it be someone who wanted to make public Clinton and the DNC's underhanded treatment of Bernie Sanders?

https://spectator.org/mr-mueller-was-the-dnc-server-actually-hacked-by-the-russians/ 

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