James Clapper's and FBI's hole grows deeper
WikiLeaks: James Clapper ‘Gets Literally Everything Wrong’ About DNC Hack Timeline
DNC CEO Amy Dacey learned of the breach in late April and brought in the private cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. But CrowdStrike’s presence did not stop the flow, and the majority of the emails weren’t even written, much less stolen, until after the company was already on the scene. Most of the emails were written between May 5 and May 25. (RELATED: Most Wikileaks Emails Weren’t Even Written Until AFTER DNC Knew It Was Hacked)
The DNC declined to give its server to the FBI as evidence, and the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community relied in part on CrowdStrike’s private analysis to form its conclusions about the hack — despite the company taking weeks to stem the bleeding.
CrowdStrike Services President Shawn Henry is a retired executive assistant director of the FBI. Co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is a Russian expatriate.
Clapper, who left government on Jan. 20, 2017, said that by the time he left office, U.S. officials had identified a “cut-out”, or middleman, selected by Russian intelligence to pass 19,000 stolen DNC emails to WikiLeaks in April 2016. WikiLeaks has said it did not get the emails from Russia...
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STORY COTINUED... WikiLeaks’ Friday response to Clapper mentions “sources,” meaning there were likely more than one. It also refers to “published” emails, whereas Clapper referred to emails being “sent” to WikiLeaks. It’s possible that, if Clapper’s statement is accurate, there could have been more emails sent in April that WikiLeaks did not publish or that there was another source Clapper monitored but was not the origin of what WikiLeaks ultimately published. Side: Indeed
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