Twitter Spaces Tonight at 6:30 ET: Who Determined Russia Hacked the DNC?
A discussion with UndeadFOIA, who will help explain the import of newly produced documents that raise questions about the origin story of Russiagate.
A few days ago, we published “FOIA Files: Did Special Counsel Robert Mueller Rely on Clinton Campaign Operatives to Point to Russia?” The story contained new results from public records requests that suggest the story we’ve been told for eight years — that a private company called Crowstrike determined Russia was responsible for a hack of the DNC — may not be true. Because this is a complicated affair, we’ve decided to hold a brief Twitter Spaces to answer any questions readers may have about the story.
Check in at @mtaibbi at 6:30 ET. I’ll be there with
— see you then!
Two important points:
1.) The file transfer speed of the leaked DNC files was too high to have been done over an internet connection, meaning it was obtained locally.
2.) Crowdstrike attributed the hack to Russian APTs by pointing to traffic from IP addresses associated with the actors, but those IP addresses had been blackholed by the time the file leak occurred. There was no direct tie to Russian APTs within the period of the actual leak.
Hillary Clinton launched 'Russiagate' during the 2016 debates when she claimed 'Russia hacked' and '17 spy agencies confirm.' She was referring to the DNC servers and Pedodesta emails, but I marveled at how the media morphed her statement into 'Russia hacked the election.' SHE launched 'Russiagate.' No one ever asked her what she meant (obviously, it could not have been 'hacked the election' prior TO the election) or how she was able to state that '17 spy agencies confirmed.' PLEASE pull on this thread! LOVE your work!