AMAC Exclusive – By Andrew Abbott
As Democrats’ narrative about “Russian collusion” in the 2016 presidential election continues its third (or is it fourth?) round of discrediting, some of Russiagate’s closest observers are asking if the next domino to fall may be the granddaddy of them all: the DNC Hack.
For years, intelligence agencies, politicians, and the media have asserted with near-unanimity that the DNC server was hacked by Russian agents before a selection of embarrassing internal emails were released during the Democratic National Convention in 2016. And until recently, even many who saw right through the Russia Hoax have generally been willing to stipulate that the “DNC server hack” story was probably correct.
Yet recent revelations have raised new questions. In particular, Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation has uncovered an ever-expanding web of lies that now suggests we don’t yet know the whole story behind the DNC server hack.
In 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey testified in a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee that Russian agents had hacked the DNC for the explicit purpose of influencing the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump. But there have always been aspects of this official narrative that struck skeptics as sketchy. At the top of that list is the fact that the FBI never actually examined the servers—something Comey has admitted under oath and that Donald Trump has pointed out on numerous occasions.
Comey has asserted repeatedly that the agency tried to obtain the servers, but the DNC refused “multiple requests at different levels” by the FBI to examine them. DNC officials refuted this characterization of events, insisting that the FBI never directly asked for access to the servers. The FBI contests that claim.
Either way, what no one disputes is that the FBI in fact relied on a “third party” to provide an overview and analysis of the data contained on the servers. It was on the basis of this analysis, the FBI drew its conclusions about the alleged Russian hacking.
The third-party cybersecurity firm that did the investigation is known as Crowdstrike. While it is a respected firm, it struck many experts as odd that a private company would be entrusted with verifying potentially the most significant cyberattack on a political party by a foreign power in history. When senior officials expressed concerns about how the FBI could be so sure without ever seeing the servers, the agency assured the public that Crowdstrike was “first-rate.” This is where Durham’s indictments come in.
Crowdstrike was contacted and hired not by the DNC directly, but by one of its lawyers: Michael Sussman. Sussman was an attorney at Perkins Coie, a law firm that represented the DNC and Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election—and if Durham’s allegations are borne out, Sussman was knee-deep in the Russia Hoax. In September of last year, Sussman was indicted for lying to the FBI. Specifically, he allegedly gave the FBI documents that asserted a “suspicious” link between the Russian-backed financial institution Alfa-Bank and the Trump Organization. During that meeting, Sussman allegedly assured the FBI he was not acting on behalf of a client. But as the indictment states, he was actually working on behalf of Clinton at the time.
In other words, the very person who hired Crowdstrike to examine the DNC servers is one of the first indicted members in the Russia Hoax conspiracy.
If Sussman’s involvement with Crowdstrike isn’t suspicious enough, new reporting from Margot Cleveland at The Federalist seems to prove that Special Counsel John Durham has expanded his investigation and is now also looking into questions surrounding the 2016 DNC server “hack.”
According to documents obtained by Cleveland, the researcher who allegedly provided Sussman with now-debunked documents outlining a supposed secret link between Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization is the very same person who researched the “origins” of the DNC server hack.
What are the chances the same people alleged to have criminally fabricated the Alfa Bank connection were scrupulous and honest in their handling of the DNC server hack investigation? That is the question that careful observers are waiting eagerly to see if John Durham has the nerve to answer.
If the DNC server hack narrative does indeed crumble, it will be a collapse heard around the world. Scarcely anyone in Washington will emerge from the rubble unscathed, and there will be some very difficult questions for all of our beleaguered three-lettered institutions—the DNC, the FBI, the CIA, NBC, and CNN foremost among them.
Andrew Abbott is the pen name of a writer and public affairs consultant with over a decade of experience in DC at the intersection of politics and culture.
Has 2 been running too long
Well considering the Democrat Party never allowed the FBI cyber team to inspect and analyze the servers involved and investigate the case beyond taking the incident report, I’m not sure what can be done at this late stage. The server(s) in question have no doubt been destroyed a long time ago, so no physical evidence is left to examine. So It all boils down to the word of DNC officials with no hard evidence to examine or back up their claim. Just like so much of what the Democrats say and do.
The dnc hack was lie they used to cover up Clinton’s Destroyed Government Phones and BLEACHED emails in COLLUSION with Kremlin.
Untruthful to the end, that political party is.
Comey is the poster boy for an FBI official who has become a partisan hack, even if his lies and corruption are destroying the very law enforcement fabric of our nation. He had a great deal to do with the Russian-Collusion Farce. He refused to charge Hillary Clinton with serious criminal conduct, and openly bragged that he unfairly entrapped General Flynn just because he knew he could get away with it. Comey should be behind bars, but tragically, as is often the case, Democrat leaders and sympathizers are allowed to not suffer the consequences of their unethical and criminal behaviors.
This supposition should not come as a surprise to any thinking person! Until both houses of Congress pass legislation banning lying on the House / Senate floor / media and make the penalty for doing so painful, misleading or outright lying will continue to plague our government and further erode citizen trust in the government. Both sides of the aisle guilty and I believe the officials think John Q. public is too stupid to catch the offense. Partisan comment … I believe leadership of both houses permit this as a political tool. A pox on all participants!
The left continues its destructive repetition of lies. They learned from the best as they have out
Goebbled Goebbels.
PBS ran a Frontline edition, as Frontline continues its unbroken streak of programs filled with misrepresentations and selective indignations and lies. This one was on April l12th and was supposed to be about Ukraine and Putin’s invasion and instead became a propaganda blizzard of lies making Republican presidents evil for wanting to help people who live under Communism learn to become free.
So it is all Trump, etc.’s fault that Putin went into Ukraine. In this program there is no President Biden. He is irrelevant. Did he ever even exist? You’d never guess it from Frontline.
And of course there is a repetition of the disproven accusations of Russia collusion to steal the 2016 election for Trump. I have yet to figure out why Putin would prefer Trump to be president.
Anyone who gives one cent to Public Television is paying to help bring about the demise of my beloved country, USA.
Good article. I believe the truth will come out eventually and that justice will prevail for all those who have been wronged & falsely accused.
BULL CRAP!!!! I’m tired of all this complaining CRAP!!!!
I want Pres. Biden, V.P. Harris & the whole Biden Administration IMPEACHED!!!!!
Your news letters to inform the members are NOT helping our Country!!! IMPEACH THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION NOW!!!!
Good, then just maybe we will also find out about Seth Rich, the DNC whistleblower, who so “conveniently” died in a “mugging” where nothing was stolen. It’s so amazing how all these people who potentially could witness against the Clintons, or the DNC, end up having accidents, like flying into a mountain in Bosnia, committing suicide, dying while being “mugged”, or rather going to jail, or a combination thereof. As long as Merrick Garland is in charge of the DOJ though I’m not holding my breath for that one. I don’t quite understand why the Democrats are now constantly railing against “old white men”, after all they are running the biggest “good old boy club” around, i.e. Biden, Garland, Clinton, Schumer, Wray, Comey, Mueller, McCabe, Clapper, Brennan, Strzok, Nadler, Schiff, Soros,…
Sick of the Democrat psychopaths. Send all of them home to their father’s rectum in Hell…!
I write the White House weekly asking the Biden Administration to remove themselves and help us save America. Now there putting a security fence around the Federal Reserve. Again they will protect themselves but care nothing about Americans no matter what race we are.Write the White House and ask politely for removal of the Biden Administration. It won’t do any good but they need to know how angry we all are.
The brown shirts will come to my house first anyway.
The “DNC Hack”. Sorry, will be back once the projectile vomiting is under control.
It would be less painful to put my parts in a Vitamix 5300 than to listen to the bile saturated drool flowing from the Democrats…
A “liberal” magazine (I forget which one) did a forensic audit concerning the “hack” and said the amount of time it would take an outside force to hack would be prohibitive. The info more likely came from a direct source (hard drive) from an insider.
FBI “requested” to investigate. Would they “request” from a Republican or demand, followed by a night-time SWAT raid?
There never was Russian collusion. The more pathetically desperate the dimwits become to find the most minuscule crumb the more Americans that join the ranks of just watching while shaking their heads with disgust and annoyance. Where is schiffthead that promised daily for years that this would all come to a head? Why has he gone silent?
The Truth will come out, Stay Tuned!
I wonder if this continuing accusation of Russian hacking of democratic national committee servers has reduced our credibility with Putin? Going on and on about Russia doing what they never did and never needed to defend can’t do all of us any good.
Clean house—-return credibility and integrity to our gov agencies
We know what the democRATS are all about,just look at what condition AMERICA is in today compared to the way we were under PRESIDENT TRUMP and he had very little help.but AMERICAwas better.
the DNC hack…..yet another red herring to muddy the waters, defer the conversation and deflect the truth…..the less said about it the better…time to move on to the task of arrests, trials and convictions.
Time to actively pursue the due process of the law….no matter who it means will face the music. Enough of the games and dances…..”cut bait or fish”….that’s the choice.
Save THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER the money; FIRE, THEN IMPRISON ALL OF THEM WITHOUT INVESTIGATIONS OR TRIALS. WHEN I SAY ALL, I MEAN ALL…
The DNC hack story came about to help Hilary look like a victim when in reality even her party members hate her.
So many of the things the left and media have called conspiracies have turned out to be true this one likely is too.
The left is so sick. Dems now destroy everything they touch. So scary………………
We must restore election integrity or nothing else will matter.
If ANYONE believes ANYTHING coming from the DNC, that person is utterly hopeless.
Well, someone hired the FOX to enter the hen house–Sussman–YOU have got to be kidding!!
The democrats and their media and intelligence agency wings have no credibility with the American people. Time after time their “facts” have proven to be lies and usually originate in our corrupt intelligence agencies and the FBI on behalf of democrats and are pushed on the public by a lying media. It will be no surprise to find out this was no Russian hack but just another political stunt within our intelligence services. Disgusting.
The Socialist Liberal Left have the Justice Department , the FBI, and CIA , along with corporate media “in their pocket”, to help them further their agenda and biased policies. The deep state is alive and well, it nothing else, Obama sure did good by that.
The Democrats are liars like their father the devil who Christ identified as the father of lies. The nation is going to hell, inflation rages, wages suffer, interest earned on savings is minuscule and still Biden gets 40% approval ratings. Who are the idiots who support him?
Has 2 been running too long
Well considering the Democrat Party never allowed the FBI cyber team to inspect and analyze the servers involved and investigate the case beyond taking the incident report, I’m not sure what can be done at this late stage. The server(s) in question have no doubt been destroyed a long time ago, so no physical evidence is left to examine. So It all boils down to the word of DNC officials with no hard evidence to examine or back up their claim. Just like so much of what the Democrats say and do.
The dnc hack was lie they used to cover up Clinton’s Destroyed Government Phones and BLEACHED emails in COLLUSION with Kremlin.
Untruthful to the end, that political party is.
Comey is the poster boy for an FBI official who has become a partisan hack, even if his lies and corruption are destroying the very law enforcement fabric of our nation. He had a great deal to do with the Russian-Collusion Farce. He refused to charge Hillary Clinton with serious criminal conduct, and openly bragged that he unfairly entrapped General Flynn just because he knew he could get away with it. Comey should be behind bars, but tragically, as is often the case, Democrat leaders and sympathizers are allowed to not suffer the consequences of their unethical and criminal behaviors.
This supposition should not come as a surprise to any thinking person! Until both houses of Congress pass legislation banning lying on the House / Senate floor / media and make the penalty for doing so painful, misleading or outright lying will continue to plague our government and further erode citizen trust in the government. Both sides of the aisle guilty and I believe the officials think John Q. public is too stupid to catch the offense. Partisan comment … I believe leadership of both houses permit this as a political tool. A pox on all participants!
The left continues its destructive repetition of lies. They learned from the best as they have out
Goebbled Goebbels.
PBS ran a Frontline edition, as Frontline continues its unbroken streak of programs filled with misrepresentations and selective indignations and lies. This one was on April l12th and was supposed to be about Ukraine and Putin’s invasion and instead became a propaganda blizzard of lies making Republican presidents evil for wanting to help people who live under Communism learn to become free.
So it is all Trump, etc.’s fault that Putin went into Ukraine. In this program there is no President Biden. He is irrelevant. Did he ever even exist? You’d never guess it from Frontline.
And of course there is a repetition of the disproven accusations of Russia collusion to steal the 2016 election for Trump. I have yet to figure out why Putin would prefer Trump to be president.
Anyone who gives one cent to Public Television is paying to help bring about the demise of my beloved country, USA.
Good article. I believe the truth will come out eventually and that justice will prevail for all those who have been wronged & falsely accused.
BULL CRAP!!!! I’m tired of all this complaining CRAP!!!!
I want Pres. Biden, V.P. Harris & the whole Biden Administration IMPEACHED!!!!!
Your news letters to inform the members are NOT helping our Country!!! IMPEACH THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION NOW!!!!
Good, then just maybe we will also find out about Seth Rich, the DNC whistleblower, who so “conveniently” died in a “mugging” where nothing was stolen. It’s so amazing how all these people who potentially could witness against the Clintons, or the DNC, end up having accidents, like flying into a mountain in Bosnia, committing suicide, dying while being “mugged”, or rather going to jail, or a combination thereof. As long as Merrick Garland is in charge of the DOJ though I’m not holding my breath for that one. I don’t quite understand why the Democrats are now constantly railing against “old white men”, after all they are running the biggest “good old boy club” around, i.e. Biden, Garland, Clinton, Schumer, Wray, Comey, Mueller, McCabe, Clapper, Brennan, Strzok, Nadler, Schiff, Soros,…
Sick of the Democrat psychopaths. Send all of them home to their father’s rectum in Hell…!
I write the White House weekly asking the Biden Administration to remove themselves and help us save America. Now there putting a security fence around the Federal Reserve. Again they will protect themselves but care nothing about Americans no matter what race we are.Write the White House and ask politely for removal of the Biden Administration. It won’t do any good but they need to know how angry we all are.
The brown shirts will come to my house first anyway.
The “DNC Hack”. Sorry, will be back once the projectile vomiting is under control.
It would be less painful to put my parts in a Vitamix 5300 than to listen to the bile saturated drool flowing from the Democrats…
A “liberal” magazine (I forget which one) did a forensic audit concerning the “hack” and said the amount of time it would take an outside force to hack would be prohibitive. The info more likely came from a direct source (hard drive) from an insider.
FBI “requested” to investigate. Would they “request” from a Republican or demand, followed by a night-time SWAT raid?
There never was Russian collusion. The more pathetically desperate the dimwits become to find the most minuscule crumb the more Americans that join the ranks of just watching while shaking their heads with disgust and annoyance. Where is schiffthead that promised daily for years that this would all come to a head? Why has he gone silent?
The Truth will come out, Stay Tuned!
I wonder if this continuing accusation of Russian hacking of democratic national committee servers has reduced our credibility with Putin? Going on and on about Russia doing what they never did and never needed to defend can’t do all of us any good.
Clean house—-return credibility and integrity to our gov agencies
We know what the democRATS are all about,just look at what condition AMERICA is in today compared to the way we were under PRESIDENT TRUMP and he had very little help.but AMERICAwas better.
the DNC hack…..yet another red herring to muddy the waters, defer the conversation and deflect the truth…..the less said about it the better…time to move on to the task of arrests, trials and convictions.
Time to actively pursue the due process of the law….no matter who it means will face the music. Enough of the games and dances…..”cut bait or fish”….that’s the choice.
Save THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER the money; FIRE, THEN IMPRISON ALL OF THEM WITHOUT INVESTIGATIONS OR TRIALS. WHEN I SAY ALL, I MEAN ALL…