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Impeachment Was Cover for CrowdStrike and Democrats Got What They Wanted
American Greatness ^ | February 14, 2020 | Michael Thau

Posted on 02/14/2020 2:25:14 PM PST by Michal T

New article pointing out that impeachment wasn't a failure insofar as it memory-holed Trump having mentioned CrowdStrike and the DNC servers and sucked up media attention. Democrats avoided any prolonged discussion of their story of the fake DNC hack, which can't withstand the slightest scrutiny.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; crowdstrike; dncservers; impeachment; trumpsphonecall
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To: Codeflier

“Poor cover for Biden, because it actually blew his campaign up entirely.”

Biden always was the Dems Village Idiot. Doesn’t say much for Obama either, leaving the Village Idiot in charge of our policy for Ukraine, China, and other places.


21 posted on 02/14/2020 4:07:59 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!)
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To: ping jockey
There may have been a good reason for Comey to buy the defective Crowdstrike forensics that pointed to Russia. This reinforced his Crossfire Hurricane narrative to get Trump which was really all they were interested in. If they can falsify FISA warrants they can do anything. But there's even more suspicious indications that suggest Comey actually knew the evidence was false and accepted it anyway.

Here's and except from a Fox News story that was related to the investigation into Seth Rich's murder.

The Fox News report states the unnamed federal investigator reviewed an FBI forensic report detailing the contents of Rich’s computer that was generated 96 hours after his murder. The investigator reportedly said Rich transferred 44,053 DNC emails and 17,761 attachments to Gavin MacFayden, a now-deceased American investigative reporter and member of the WikiLeaks operation.

Was Comey aware of this and was actually covering up the DNC inside explanation to keep the Russia narrative going? The Judicial Watch FOIA request for these FBI records was just issued today and time will tell if this further undermines the coup attempt to get Trump that Comey was running.

22 posted on 02/14/2020 4:15:29 PM PST by Dave Wright
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To: polymuser

Very tempting to think Awans were involved here but think at end of day it’s unlikely. Dmitri Alperovitch and Shawn Henry of CrowdStrike are total scam artists. Their claims about being able to attribute malware to specific the intelligence services of specific countries are total voodoo. (Here’s very informative Scott Ritter article explaining CrowdStrike’s awful track record and how their scam works: https://medium.com/homefront-rising/dumbstruck-how-crowdstrike-conned-america-on-the-hack-of-the-dnc-ecfa522ff44f)

But Dmitri and Shawn are very high rent scam artists. They got a $100 million investment from Google and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. My suspicion is that no one has more disdain for low-rent scam artists like the Awans than high-rent scam artists like Dmitri and Shawn. It’s not clear that the Awans had anything to bring to the table that CrowdStrike couldn’t do without them and, apart from grifter snobbery, I can’t see them risking involving the Awans in one of the greatest political crimes ever committed since it only creates people who can be squeezed into talking.

Also, I’m agnostic about Seth Rich’s death. Anyone who looks like Seth Rich and goes strolling around DC at 4am is taking his life into his own hands. And that would be true even if he was the one who leaked the DNC emails, which we don’t know for sure. I also think a lot of the alleged evidence SR was murdered for being leaker doesn’t hold up.

But, with that said, there are three pieces of evidence that I think are very suggestive t up in a situation where he needed to be silenced. So, while I’m agnostic, I certainly think there are grounds for suspicion. If it turns out that those suspicions are totally justified, I definitely cannot see CrowdStrike involving the Awans. Seems impossible to me they would do so in an operation that was that serious.

One of the coincidences that makes me wonder about SR is that FEC filings show that CS was paid around 100 grand the day after SR was killed and around another 100 grand the day after Shawn Lucas allegedly died of an overdose. So I’m inclined to think that CS was involved if SR was killed for being leaker. That’s why I idea that they would never let Awans in on such an operation is relevant.

However, with that said, despite a lot of claims that Shawn Lucas was somehow involved with SR there is zero evidence for any of them and Lucas’s live-in girlfriend, who is suspicious about, the official story of his death, appears to have said SR and SL didn’t know each other.

It’s possible they did and she was just unaware of it. But, again, no one has provided the slightest evidence to think so that I’ve seen. If SR and SL didn’t know each other and SL wasn’t involved in SR’s leaking in some way, it’s hard to see what possible motive DNC would have for eliminating Lucas. He was going to be a witness in Jared Beck’s lawsuit because he’d served the DNC but, once he died, Beck just submitted a video of him doing so which seemed to do the job. Seems absolutely nuts that they’d eliminate a someone who was only testifying that he’d served the DNC with a subpoena. So I’m inclined to think Lucas’s death is just a coincidence.

Also, paying CS the day after they did the hits seems incredibly reckless given that it would have to be public information filed with the FEC as expenditures. So I’m almost inclined to think that the payments are just as much evidence that SR wasn’t killed for being the leaker as they are that he was.

But, regardless, even if official story of his death is true, faking DNC hack seems like to big an operation and Dmitri and Shawn too much big wheels to involve Awans. If official story on SR is bogus, then that’s more reason to think Awans wouldn’t have been brought in.


23 posted on 02/14/2020 4:29:53 PM PST by Michal T
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To: Michal T

After Trump’s assertion that the DNC server was somehow in Ukraine, various articles emerged to say Trump was an ignoramus, because the DNC did not have a single server. These sources claimed that the DNC data was stored in the “cloud” scattered over some 120 servers. I have no idea whether these assertions were true.

If they were accurate, various things seem possible. The lo-tech DNC management likely had no clue how this worked or where their data was actually stored. After the data breach, they hired Perkins-Coie to hire Crowdstrike to figure it out. Crowdstrike probably knows how the system worked and what elements it contained.

Could some of the cloud servers physically have been in Ukraine? Why not? That would seem like a factual issue that could be pinned down, were anyone to have analyzed it. But the DNC made sure that the FBI never inspected any physical equipment; DNC lawyers turned over a redacted report created by Cloudstrike, claiming evidence of GRU hacking, and supposedly an “image”, of exactly what is unclear. Nothing in the public domain tells us the physical location of equipment that was hacked.

Experts claim the transfer time of the “stolen” DNC data was far too short for it to be hackers in Russia or Europe; they say the timing would better fit if the data was loaded directly into a USB drive by someone within the DNC. But if the server cloud was accessed at a local element in Ukraine or elsewhere in Europe, would the transfer time make sense? Could it be an inside job by someone involved in operating the cloud servers? All beyond my knowledge, and technical experts can probably shoot it down.

Trump didn’t dream up “server in Ukraine” out of thin air. He must have heard discussion/speculation about it — it would be darned interesting to know what the evidence is, if any.


24 posted on 02/14/2020 7:06:23 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Michal T

No way Trump lets Crowdstrike go - Dems have no choice but to try to obscure it and will leave breadcrumbs along the way.


25 posted on 02/15/2020 3:47:22 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

26 posted on 02/15/2020 10:21:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Michal T

The democrat party’s as dead as Biden’s chance of being elected President.

As a doornail...


27 posted on 02/15/2020 10:44:53 AM PST by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Trump should start talking about it publicly. Often.


28 posted on 02/15/2020 10:53:33 AM PST by sauropod (If women are upset at TrumpÂ’s naughty words, who bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Grey?)
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To: philman_36

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29 posted on 02/15/2020 10:56:03 AM PST by sauropod (If women are upset at TrumpÂ’s naughty words, who bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Grey?)
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