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pbmus

(12,438 posts)
Wed Jan 4, 2017, 10:15 PM Jan 2017

FBI never examined hacked DNC servers itself: report

The FBI never examined the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) computer servers during its investigation into Russian attempts to interfere in the election, BuzzFeed reports.

“The DNC had several meetings with representatives of the FBI’s Cyber Division and its Washington (D.C.) 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,” DNC deputy communications director Eric Walker told BuzzFeed in an email.

According to one intelligence official who spoke to the publication, no U.S. intelligence agency has performed its own forensics analysis on the hacked servers

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/312767-fbi-never-examined-hacked-dnc-servers-report

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angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
1. It was the cia, not the fbi who found the hacking
Wed Jan 4, 2017, 10:24 PM
Jan 2017

the fbi spies in america, the cia spies on everyone else

4139

(1,976 posts)
3. WTF?!!! Ugh, I recall that when the story first broke the DNC declined
Thu Jan 5, 2017, 12:37 AM
Jan 2017

The FBI access to the servers... but that was before wiki published them.

But they never gave them access?

dionysus

(26,467 posts)
6. The FBI is domestic, wouldn't this be the job of the CIA or NSA anyhow?
Thu Jan 5, 2017, 05:30 AM
Jan 2017

Sounds like sloppy reporting. You know damn well someone looked at em.

 

HoneyBadger

(2,297 posts)
7. It would be very interesting if no US agency did a forensics analysis of the hacked servers
Thu Jan 5, 2017, 07:21 AM
Jan 2017

Because that means that the FBI/CIA/etc report was based on what exactly?

 

HoneyBadger

(2,297 posts)
11. Plausible deniability?
Sat Jan 7, 2017, 10:34 AM
Jan 2017

If only our intelligence agencies had thousands of highly compensated and well trained subject matter experts that had sworn an oath to our country and who could perform forensics........vs outsourcing the task to anonymous foreign national contractors at a company owned by a Russian ex pat.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a49902/the-russian-emigre-leading-the-fight-to-protect-america/

UCmeNdc

(9,650 posts)
10. Wow!
Sat Jan 7, 2017, 06:36 AM
Jan 2017

No report on how the Russian hack functions?

No cyber analysis?

Nooooo!!! Not the FBI???? (Sarcasm!)

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