So it’s the best evidence.”Ī senior FBI official told Wired in a Jan. This went against “best practice,” Comey said, noting “our forensics folks would always prefer to get access to the original device or server that’s involved. Yet the DNC waited until “spring of 2016” before it turned to the private firm to investigate the breach.
This meant that subsequent federal investigations based their claims about the alleged Russian cyberattack on the findings of the private firm hired by the DNC.Ĭomey said the FBI first alerted the DNC to the breach in August 2015. Instead of using the FBI as an official channel, the DNC turned to private cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. 4 that “the FBI never requested access to the DNC’s computer servers.” Delayed Investigation He confirmed the FBI had requested and was denied access to both the DNC servers and Podesta’s personal devices.Ĭomey’s claims under oath contradict previous claims from the DNC. 10, Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee on that the FBI had made “multiple requests at different levels” to gain access to the devices for their investigations, but in the end they needed to rely on a private company hired by the DNC to “share with us what they saw.” However, according to former FBI Director James Comey, the DNC never gave the FBI permission to investigate the devices.īy blocking federal investigations into the hacked servers, the DNC is withholding a key piece of evidence that would either prove or refute allegations that Russia was behind the cyberattacks.Ĭomey said during a March 20 House Intelligence Committee hearing that the FBI “never got direct access to the machines themselves.” presidential elections.Ī cornerstone of the Democrat-led allegations that Russia helped Trump get elected is based heavily on the belief that Russian cyberattacks hit the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the devices of Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, and stole their emails, which it then provided to whistleblower website WikiLeaks. One of the most crucial pieces of evidence is being withheld from Senate and FBI investigations into whether Russia interfered with the 2016 U.S.
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