Flashback: Comey and FBI Never Asked for DNC Hacked Computer Servers During Investigation
Published May 9, 2017 at 5:25pm
The FBI did not examine the DNC servers before issuing a report stating the intrusion was a Russian attack.
On December 16, 2016, FBI Director James Comey reportedly agreed with DNI Director Clapper that Russian intervened in the 2016 election.
At least six times Wikileaks has denied Russia was their source of the leaked DNC emails.
Buzzfeed reported:
The FBI did not examine the servers of the Democratic National Committee before issuing a report attributing the sweeping cyberintrusion to Russia-backed hackers, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Six months after the FBI first said it was investigating the hack of the Democratic National Committee's computer network, the bureau has still not requested access to the hacked servers, a DNC spokesman said. No US government entity has run an independent forensic analysis on the system, one US intelligence official told BuzzFeed News.
"The DNC had several meetings with representatives of the FBI's Cyber Division and its Washington (DC) Field Office, the Department of Justice's National Security Division, and U.S. Attorney's Offices, and it responded to a variety of requests for cooperation, but the FBI never requested access to the DNC's computer servers," Eric Walker, the DNC's deputy communications director, told BuzzFeed News in an email.
The FBI has instead relied on computer forensics from a third-party tech security company, CrowdStrike, which first determined in May of last year that the DNC's servers had been infiltrated by Russia-linked hackers, the U.S. intelligence official told BuzzFeed News.
"CrowdStrike is pretty good. There's no reason to believe that anything that they have concluded is not accurate," the intelligence official said, adding they were confident Russia was behind the widespread hacks.
Hat Tip Winterspirit
On Tuesday May 9, 2017, James Comey was fired by President Trump.