CrowdStrike: Five Things Everyone Is Ignoring About The Russia-DNC Story

dailycaller.com ^ | 6/24/17 | Justin Caruso

[V K Lee]

I prayed so hard and the day DJT announced his candidacy it was if a door had been unlocked. At that moment said more prayers and felt that the entire landscape had changed for the better. After a few months in office, some have learned not only to accept Romney's loss and feel grateful, but have seen the reason for that loss.

[sissyjane]

Who’s Egg McMuffin? McCain?

[Ray76]

Just the high points, ever link contains additional info...

Alperovitch is a founder of CrowdStrike
https://www.crowdstrike.com/about-us/ (see video)

$100M of funding for CrowdStrike is from Warburg Pincus.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/warburg-pincus#/entity
http://www.warburgpincus.com/investments/crowdstrike/

$56M from Accel
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crowdstrike#/entity

$100M from Google

Timothy Geithner is President of Warburg Pincus
http://www.warburgpincus.com/people/industry/executive-management/

Geithner was Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs under Bill Clinton.

At the Wikipedia page for Geithner is a photo of Geithner and SoS Hillary Clinton. They co-chaired the U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue meeting in Washington in 2009 and in Beijing in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.-China_Strategic_and_Economic_Dialogue

There are seven members of CrowdStrike Board of Directors, two of whom are also Board members at Warburg Pincus: Cary Davis and Joseph Landy.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/board-of-directors/

CrowdStrike is heavily funded by Warburg Pincus and 30% of it’s Board members are from Warburg Pincus, a company lead by Clinton associate Timothy Geithner. And CrowdStrike just so happens to be the promoter of the Russia-hacked-the-DNC narrative.

Since Alperovitch’s financiers and directors are associated with Clinton his disinterest might reasonably be questioned.

(Jun 14, 2016) DNC chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) said, “When we discovered the intrusion, we treated this like the serious incident it is and reached out to CrowdStrike immediately.” - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html

Why CrowdStrike?

From the same article: CrowdStrike is not sure how the hackers got in. The firm suspects they may have targeted DNC employees with “spearphishing” emails. These are communications that appear legitimate — often made to look like they came from a colleague or someone trusted — but that contain links or attachments that when clicked on deploy malicious software that enables a hacker to gain access to a computer. “But we don’t have hard evidence,” Alperovitch said.

Crowdstrike/Alperovitch bases his claim partly on the claims of a Russian blogger. The blogger claims that Ukrainian military units were targeted via malware inserted onto Ukrainian tablet computers, the malware provided to Russia the location of Ukrainian troops. As “evidence” the blogger cites a 2016 International Institute for Strategic Studies report of a sharp reduction of Ukrainian D-30 howitzers between 2013 and 2015. Ukraine denies any large loss of D-30 howitzers. Alperovitch claims this same malware was used to breach the DNC email system. The malware has been available for years prior to the DNC breach. http://www.voanews.com/a/skeptics-doubt-ukraine-hack-link-to-dnc-cyberattack/3649234.html URL for the blog post mentioned in the VOA article http://thesaker.is/ukrainian-army-losses-in-ato-anti-terrorist-operation-according-to-the-iisss-military-balance/

In Crowdstrike’s report Alperovitch refers to APT 28 and APT 29 as “Fancy Bear” and “Cozy Bear”. Why does Alperovtich refer to APT 28 and APT 29 as “Fancy Bear” and “Cozy Bear”? Why use these colorful names rather than the accepted technical names? (APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat). Is he selling an idea, supporting a narrative?

Alperovitch told the PBS NewsHour: “And when you think about, well, who would be interested in targeting Ukraine artillerymen in eastern Ukraine? Who has interest in hacking the Democratic Party? [The] Russia government comes to mind” - http://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html

Why does Alperovitch think Russia has an interest in hacking the Democrat Party?

What are Alperovitch’s biases?

Think Tank: Cyber Firm at Center of Russian Hacking Charges Misread Data - One of the IISS researchers who produced the data said that while the think tank had dramatically lowered its estimates of Ukrainian artillery assets and howitzers in 2013, it did so as part of a “reassessment” and reallocation of units to airborne forces. “No, we have never attributed this reduction to combat losses,” the IISS researcher said, explaining that most of the reallocation occurred prior to the two-year period that CrowdStrike cites in its report. “The vast majority of the reduction actually occurs ... before Crimea/Donbass,” he added, referring to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine. - http://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html

CrowdStrike Rewrites Part of Disputed Russian Hacking Report - CrowdStrike has revised and retracted statements it used to buttress claims of Russian hacking http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3539028/posts?page=1 http://www.voanews.com/a/cyber-firm-rewrites-part-disputed-russian-hacking-report/3781411.html

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https://www.crowdstrike.com/george-kurtz/

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
30251 GOLDEN LANTERN
SUITE SUITE E-519
LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIFORNIA 92677

George Kurtz, Director, Executive Officer
30251 GOLDEN LANTERN
LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIFORNIA 92677

Donald Gregg Marston, Executive Officer, CFO
30251 GOLDEN LANTERN
LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIFORNIA 92677

Patrick Severson, Director
450 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10017

Total Offering Amount: $26,000,000
Total Amount Sold: $10,250,000
Total Remaining to be Sold: $15,750,000

Clarification of Response (if Necessary):
$500,000 worth of sale is being covered through a share exchange

total number of investors who already have invested in the offering: 6

Signed: Donald Gregg Marston, 2011-12-02

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000153552711000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml

7/13/2015 - CrowdStrike landed a $100 million Series C investment round. The round was led by Google Capital with Rackspace, which happens to be one of the company’s customers also investing. Existing investors Accel and Warburg Pincus also participated. Today’s investment brings the total to-date to $156 million. The company was launched by former executives from McAfee in 2011. Its most recent funding was a $30 million round in September, 2013.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/13/security-company-crowdstrike-scores-100m-led-by-google-capital/

9/8/2013 - CrowdStrike has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Accel Venture Partners. Founding investor Warbug Pincus also participated in the funding. The company was founded by former McAffee CTO George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch, who was previously vice president of advanced threat research, also at McAfee.

https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/crowdstrike-raises-30m-for-data-security-platform-built-to-put-adversaries-on-the-defensive/

8/21/2013 - Patrick Severson has quietly stepped down as a managing director with private equity firm Warburg Pincus, Fortune has learned.

Severson originally joined Warburg Pincus in 2001 to focus on software and healthcare technology investments. Deals included Nuance Communications (nuan), CrowdStrike, iParadigms, Spigot and Telcordia.

http://fortune.com/2013/08/21/exclusive-tech-investor-leaves-warburg-pincus/

Crowdstrike/Alperovitch is closely associated with and heavily funded by Clinton colleague Timothy Geithner.

The DNC refused to allow the gov to investigate. The gov relied on Crowdstrike/Alperovitch claims that Russia hacked the DNC email system.

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Alperovitch is a Russian expatriate and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council policy research center in Washington. - http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/dmitri-alperovitch

Victor Pinchuk sits on the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council. He has donated between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-charity.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-charity-tapped-foreign-friends-1426818602

The Atlantic Council of the United States and Burisma Group, an independent gas producer in Ukraine, have announced a cooperative agreement. Atlantic Council will develop programs with Burisma’s support to strengthen transatlantic relations, including a focus on energy security and related issues. - http://burisma.com/en/news/the-atlantic-council-of-the-united-states-and-burisma-group-sign-cooperative-agreement/

Hunter Biden - Director - Appointed: April 2014 (Vice President Joe Biden’s son) - http://burisma.com/en/director/xanter-bajden/

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[outinyellowdogcountry]

I don’t understand how DNC and Russians would or why they would deny HRC. Can you explain? It seems they would want her to be easy peasy as she had been.

[little jeremiah]

Placemark,

[entropy12]

If Putin is a globalist (meaning free trade with all regardless of trade deficits and free flow of people with no borders) why I can not find anything made in Russia in Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Sears, Macy’s, Walgreen, Kohl’s, etc etc?

All Putin is after is to restore the former and now defunct USSR. He can achieve that by weakening USA by forcing us to bleed resources in Syria, Iraq & ME with borrowed money from Asians.

None of the US middle class jobs in manufacturing have been gobbled up by Russia. Heck, Russia does not even buy US debt (Treasury bonds).

[Whenifhow]

Thanks for the great post at #31

Mueller is deeply entrenched in the swamp!

[Guenevere]

I truly think ( and hope and pray) it is a replay of Haman and Mordecai!

The trap set for Mordecai ( by Haman, the bad guy) was sprung for Haman instead.....and Haman is hoisted by his own petard!

Truly Biblical!
Justice!

[b9]

Just watched TRAITOR - good recommendation.

Very clever ending!

Good Trump analogy.

[The Westerner]

Yes, Hostage, you figured it out. Heavy hearted tonight.

[onyx]

[cynwoody]

Putin IS a globalist.

Doubtless, Putin would gladly accept the title of Emperor of the Globe, even as he reigns supreme as Czar of all the Russias.

But that is the only sense in which he is a globalist.

[Jim Noble]

“leftist thugs want a global totalitarian Marxist state. No countries, no freedoms”

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too...

[Yosemitest]

No Evidence you say ?

The Democratic National Committee REFUSED to allow their computers and servers to be searched for evidence.
WHY ?
I propose that

the Democratic National Committee hired Amid Awan, Jamal Awan, Imran Awan, and Rao Abbas to do the hacking to search for evidence against their opponents in the 2016 election,
and also had them hack the Democratic National Committee's own computers and servers, so as to remove suspicion from the DemocRATS.

Consider the following information about the SO CALLED Russian Hacking.
I believe it was the Democratic National Committee who was DOING the hacking and leaving FALSE TRACES of the Russians.
We MUST INVESTIGATE the Democratic National Committee's servers ! ! !

Let's review a few pieces of history, such as:

CBS NEWS on December 12, 2016, John Bolton says claims of Russian hacking could be "false flag" operation

MotherBoard.Vice.com on Oct 12 2016, How Hackers Plant False Flags to Hide Their Real Identities

Politico on Dec 11 2016 Bolton: Russian hacks could actually have been by Obama administration

National Review on Nov 1 2016 The Clinton E-mails Are Critical to the Clinton Foundation Investigation

The Rush Limbaugh Show on Jun 13, 2017 We Have Evidence That Loretta Lynch Obstructed Justice

NewsMax on May 31 2017 Debbie Wasserman Schultz Admits She Violated Information Security Policy 'For Years'

Politico on Mar 1 2017 House Democrats fire two IT staffers amid criminal investigation

The Daily Caller on Mar 4 2017 EXCLUSIVE: House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee Members Compromised By Rogue IT Staff

Now based on the articles linked above, I propose to you that it is VERY POSSIBLE AND CREDIBLE

that the Democratic National Committee,
under the direction of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF,
hired Amid Awan, Jamal Awan, Imran Awan, and Rao Abbas
to hack those computers,
and to place false flags to make it look as if the Russians did the hacking.

On the other side of the issue is:

The Glenn Beck Program on Jun 13, 2017 EXCLUSIVE: Jim DeMint Weighs in on Russia and His New Role at Convention of States

Bloomberg.Com on June 13, 2017 Russian Cyber Hacks on U.S. Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known

Schneier on Security on Jun 9 2017 NSA Document Outlining Russian Attempts to Hack Voter Rolls

TheIntercept.Com on June 5 2017


TOP-SECRET NSA REPORT DETAILS RUSSIAN HACKING EFFORT DAYS BEFORE 2016 ELECTION

Now, I trust former Senator Jim DeMint, and I trust Rush and Glenn.
But all former Senator Jim DeMint has is the document he was shown and briefed upon, and they came from a corrupted agency under Obama and his minions.

In closing, let me make it clear that

I strongly believe that document and other sources were generated by Amid Awan, Jamal Awan, Imran Awan, and Rao Abbas,
while they were working for he Democratic National Committee, under the direction of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF .


Imran Awan, target of a House security probe, worked in IT for Rep. Andre Carson, a member of the intelligence committee


Former President Bill Clinton with alleged Muslim Spy Imran Awan


Wasserman Schultz Threatened Police Chief For Gathering Evidence On Her IT Staffer’s Alleged Crimes


THE AWAN BROTHERS PAKISTANI/AMERICAN INTERNET SECURITY TEAM


Obama Placed ISLAMIC SPIES in the Federal Government. Details Are Treason.

[karnage]

Rock on and Praise the Living Christ!

[stockpirate]

No hack, this all a coverup of the murder of Seth Rich and the former ambassador of the UK who carried the zip drive from Rich to Wikileaks founder to publish. It’s that simple.

[Yosemitest]

WRONG !
Check the links, because they ARE credible sources

[LS]

Lol. Too bad he can’t do that w all Dems!!

[HangThemHigh]

So, reading between the lines, Crowdstrike leaked the Dim emails at their request so the Dims could later claim it was the dirty old Ruskies?

So this was their backup plan all along? It doesn’t make total sense, but truth is stranger than fiction because good fiction has to make sense.

[thinden]

Just going by a foggy memory, but does the atlantic council tie back to podesta’s russian stock deal??