
On Tuesday evening, Trump added: “The ‘Intelligence’ briefing on so-called ‘Russian hacking’ was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. “Julian Assange said ‘a 14-year-old could have hacked Podesta’ - why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!” the president-elect said in a Wednesday tweet. When the FBI requested email metadata logs from the DNC, Tamene escalated the request to his bosses and, with their approval, handed the logs over to the FBI on April 29, 2016, according to a. The revelation comes as the Obama administration has settled on the conclusion that the Russians were behind the election-interference maneuvers - while the incoming Trump administration has rejected that conclusion. There’s no reason to believe that anything that they have concluded is not accurate.” “Beginning at the time the intrusion was discovered by the DNC, the DNC cooperated fully with the FBI and its investigation, providing access to all of the information uncovered by CrowdStrike - without any limits,” Walker said.Īn intel official told BuzzFeed: “CrowdStrike is pretty good. Instead, the feds relied on an assessment by private tech company CrowdStrike, which was hired by the DNC to investigate the intrusion.

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 said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. “The DNC had several meetings with representatives of the FBI’s Cyber Division and its Washington (DC) Field Office, the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, and U.S. But people familiar with these kinds of investigations say withholding the server was nothing out of the ordinary. The FBI never bothered to inspect the Democratic National Committee’s infiltrated servers - despite claiming that the Russians were responsible for hacking the group’s servers, the according to a new report. Why it matters: The complaint that the DNC denied the FBI access to its hacked servers is a hallmark of the rights response to the DNC hacking scandal. DOJ creating unit focused on domestic terrorism amid spike in threatsĬruz quizzes FBI brass on Capitol riot conspiracy theory at Senate hearingįresh clues and cops could finally solve gruesome Gilgo Beach murdersįBI warns hackers are sending USBs infected with ransomware to businesses
