Posted on 06/25/2017 8:03:32 AM PDT by ColdOne
The Democratic Party and mainstream media have become increasingly consumed with the narrative that Donald Trump’s election win is largely influenced by Russian hacking.
The narrative is centered around two hacks–the hack of a DNC server that led to the release of embarrassing emails during the Democratic National Convention, and the hack of John Podesta’s email which led to several embarrassing moments for the Clinton campaign in October 2016. Both are supposedly the result of the Russians.
The Russia story is back in the headlines once again after reports surrounding former President Barack Obama’s attempts to “punish” Russia for its interference.
However, there is still a cloud of doubt hanging over the DNC’s Russia narrative on the breach of the DNC servers.
The analysis that alleged that Russia was behind the DNC server breach was carried out not by the U.S. government, but by the private security group CrowdStrike.
CrowdStrike is the sole source of this claim, with their June 2016 report, “Bears in the Midst: Intrusion into the Democratic National Committee” being the basis of the DNC’s Russian hacking allegations.
Here are five key points about CrowdStrike that the mainstream media is ignoring:
1. Obama Appoints CrowdStrike Officer To Admin Post Two Months Before June 2016 Report On Russia Hacking DNC
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Who’s Egg McMuffin? McCain?
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.
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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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.
Placemark,
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).
Thanks for the great post at #31
Mueller is deeply entrenched in the swamp!
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!
Just watched TRAITOR - good recommendation.
Very clever ending!
Good Trump analogy.
Yes, Hostage, you figured it out. Heavy hearted tonight.
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.
“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...
Rock on and Praise the Living Christ!
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.
Lol. Too bad he can’t do that w all Dems!!
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.
Just going by a foggy memory, but does the atlantic council tie back to podesta’s russian stock deal??
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