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Julian Assange, CrowdStrike, and the Russian Hack that Wasn't
aclearerpicture.net ^ | February 17, 2020 | Michael Thau

Posted on 02/17/2020 11:35:55 AM PST by Michal T

60 Minutes ran a segment shilling for CrowdStrike last night. They must be scared. They should be scared. Here’s just a fraction of what 60 Minutes didn’t say about CrowdStrike and their story that the Russians hacked the DNC.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: alperovitch; blogpimp; clickbait; crowdstrike; dmitrialperovitch; guccifer; guccifer2

1 posted on 02/17/2020 11:35:55 AM PST by Michal T
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To: Michal T

We’ve got two separate realities going on here.


2 posted on 02/17/2020 11:41:16 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Michal T

Ping


3 posted on 02/17/2020 11:47:15 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Steely Tom

I need a Program to keep this straight.


4 posted on 02/17/2020 11:49:33 AM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Steely Tom

And it’s President Donald John Trump vs. every multi-billion dollar international media conglomerate that sees it’s NWO threatened.
God bless this man.


5 posted on 02/17/2020 11:57:25 AM PST by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: Michal T

The single lynch pin in the entire narrative that Russia hacked the DNC server is Dmitry Alperovich. The CTO of Crowdstrike is the only person who actually ran scans on the DNC server and conjectured that what he found was evidence of Russian hacking. The FBI was denied independent access to the server by the DNC and simply accepted Alperovich’s conclusions at face value.

The problem with his story is that it was based on the presence of trojan horse malware that he conjectured could only have been put there by a suspected Russian organization known as APT-28. This was uncorroborated by any follow on investigation. The malware had also been used by many other nefarious non-Russian organizations and was widely available on the dark net. Worse, metadata in the executable code showed that it had been compiled only days after the Wikileaks announcement and just before Alperovich ran his scans. In one case the code had been compiled after Alperovich had done the scan. This means his report that Russian’s hacked the DNC server is impossible.

As Sherlock Holmes said, “When you have eliminated the impossible what remains, however improbable, is the truth”. Alperovich’s impossible story must be eliminated as evidence of Russian hacking of the DNC server with respect to the transfer of the DNC emails.

The more probable story for their transfer to Wikileaks was broadcast by the local Fox News affiliate shortly after the murder of Seth Rich who was a DNC staffer. The report quoted a federal investigator who had seen a forensic report done by the FBI on Rich’s laptop showing that he had transferred some 40,000 documents to Gary MacFadden, a contact and associate of Wikileaks. Judicial Watch issued a FOIA request to the FBI last Friday to recover all the relevant documents to this report. Once this is made public we will either be able to eliminate this as the source of the DNC emails or we will be plunged into a much deeper rabbit hole of corruption and even murder.


6 posted on 02/17/2020 12:21:11 PM PST by Dave Wright
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To: Michal T; Steely Tom; ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton; griswold3
This is a very good article, thanks for posting it.

As an IT person, I have been following this pretty closely since it became public, and just as quickly, it became clear it was a sham.

Alperovitch, the CTO for Crowdstrike, is also a board member of The Atlantic Council. 17 of 27 members of the Atlantic Council donated to the Clinton Foundation, and Victor Pinchuk, a wealthy Ukrainian oligarch, gave $25 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Check out some of the people on the board of The Atlantic Council:

Jeff Carlson, who does sterling work as an investigative reporter, wrote this fine article back in 2018 talking about the Atlantic Council

Lastly, all you have do to is a Google search on Atlantic Council and Alperovitch, and nearly every page served up by Google has the words conspiracy theory, insane, lunatic fringe, and so on.

To me, that tells a story right there. And the article you posted does a fine job of filling in the blanks.

7 posted on 02/17/2020 12:27:42 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: Michal T

You have made a very interesting case. It certainly fits the style of Hillary’s scheme-team to stage the sort of games you describe to handle the Podesta data eruption. Reminds me of the dirty p.r. tricks deployed to handle Bill’s Bimbo Eruptions.

Your article poses the question of how G2 would possess the Trump Oppo files that were in Podesta’s spearfished emails.
Possibilities:
1) G2 was the spearfisherman.
2) G2 received the files from the spearfisherman, directly or indirectly.
3) G2 had access to Wikileaks’ data after Wiki’s receipt of the Podesta files.
4) The Trump oppo files being among Podesta’s emails, implies that Podesta either received or sent the files to someone as email attachments. Who? Who created the oppo materials? Who else had the files besides Podesta?

Is it your opinion that the DNC “Server” was a single machine? If so, located where?
Or was the DNC using cloud computing, with data stored on many servers? After Trump’s Ukrainian call transcript mentioned Crowdstrike and servers in Ukraine, comments popped up saying Trump was all wet because there were some 120 servers in a cloud. Not sure how they claimed to know this.
If a cloud, where were all the servers located?


8 posted on 02/17/2020 12:59:12 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Michal T
I wonder if 60 Minutes understands the importance of evidence “chain of custody” in a criminal case?

Hah, they pointed out that they FBI never saw the computer, but got the data from crowd strike provided from the computer and that was good enough. NOT

9 posted on 02/17/2020 1:11:57 PM PST by Robert357
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To: Michal; All

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7rgc29

There is a good chance some on this thread has seen this, but it all “dovetails”.

The information has been roughly known for some time.

But to hear these two former top NSA guys dissect how WE WERE NOT HACKED BY THE RUSSIANS, essentially proves the effort to control and manipulate election outcomes and media narrative!

Gets into FISA and possibly Seth Rich as well.

Very good interview. Totally worth it!

You will need to “unmute” to hear it.


10 posted on 02/17/2020 1:25:22 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: rlmorel

Thank you. The mention of Crowdstrike draw instant flak which of course means you’re over the target.


11 posted on 02/17/2020 3:12:51 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: griswold3

Exactly!


12 posted on 02/17/2020 5:15:40 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: Dave Wright

Thanks for this explanation.


13 posted on 02/22/2020 3:48:31 AM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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