I want to know who these contractors are and what they did with the data.
Crowdstrike and Fusion GPS were two of the contractors. Think about that for a minute.....
My best guess - I think there was wholesale spying on political opponents by the prior administration. This explains a lot - even the desperation to remove Flynn.
Is that an assumption or have you seen government documents stating that for a fact?
No offense, but assumptions don't move the ball down the field.
They didn’t want anyone else looking at the DNC servers because they may have been loaded up with files of unmasked people.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/shawn-henry/
SHAWN HENRY
President of CrowdStrike Services & CSO
Shawn Henry is the president of CrowdStrike Services and CSO and a retired executive assistant director of the FBI. Henry, who served in three FBI field offices and at the bureau’s headquarters, is credited with boosting the FBI’s computer crime and cybersecurity investigative capabilities. He oversaw computer crime investigations spanning the globe, including denial-of-service attacks, bank and corporate breaches, and state-sponsored intrusions. He posted FBI cyberexperts in police agencies around the world, including the Netherlands, Romania, Ukraine and Estonia. He has appeared on “60 Minutes,” “CBS Evening News,” “Good Morning America,” “The Today Show,” “Dateline,” “Rock Center with Brian Williams” and C-SPAN. He has been interviewed by Forbes, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press and USA Today.
Henry earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Hofstra University and a master’s degree in criminal justice administration from Virginia Commonwealth University.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/top-cyber-official-shawn-henry-retiring-from-fbi/
Top Cyber Official Shawn Henry Retiring From FBI
March 9, 2012
Henry served as the assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division from 2008 to 2010, when he was then promoted to assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office. (Henry had begun his career in the FBI as a special agent in the Washington field office in 1989.) After serving as the head of the Washington field office for less than a year, Henry was pulled back to headquarters by FBI director Robert Mueller to be the executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/several-nations-trying-to-penetrate-us-cyber-networks-says-ex-fbi-official/2012/04/17/gIQAFAGUPT_story.html?utm_term=.5ef3319af0e2
April 18, 2012
Despite an entreaty by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III to remain at the bureau, Henry this month joined a cybersecurity start-up called CrowdStrike, where, he said, he hopes to help clients take the fight to sophisticated foreign adversaries.C-SPAN. He has been interviewed by Forbes, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press and USA Today.
I want to know who these contractors are and what they did with the data.
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Crowdstrike and Fusion GPS were two of the contractors. Think about that for a minute.....
My best guess - I think there was wholesale spying on political opponents by the prior administration. This explains a lot - even the desperation to remove Flynn.
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Spot on