FBI never examined hacked DNC servers itself: report

[pbmus]

The FBI never examined the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) computer servers during its investigation into Russian attempts to interfere in the election, BuzzFeed reports.

“The DNC had several meetings with representatives of the FBI’s Cyber Division and its Washington (D.C.) Field Office, the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, and U.S. Attorney’s Offices, and it responded to a variety of requests for cooperation, but the FBI never requested access to the DNC’s computer servers,” DNC deputy communications director Eric Walker told BuzzFeed in an email.

According to one intelligence official who spoke to the publication, no U.S. intelligence agency has performed its own forensics analysis on the hacked servers

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/312767-fbi-never-examined-hacked-dnc-servers-report

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Just when you thought the story couldn't get worse..

[angstlessk]

1. It was the cia, not the fbi who found the hacking

the fbi spies in america, the cia spies on everyone else

[MattP]

2. The N.S.A. knows

[4139]

3. WTF?!!! Ugh, I recall that when the story first broke the DNC declined

The FBI access to the servers... but that was before wiki published them.

But they never gave them access?

[uponit7771]

4. There are 16 other agencies, are they saying they never examined the servers either? tia

[Rex]

5. Well you know they are a political organization now.

Kinda hard to deny it.

[dionysus]

6. The FBI is domestic, wouldn't this be the job of the CIA or NSA anyhow?

Sounds like sloppy reporting. You know damn well someone looked at em.

[NWCorona]

13. No. Hacking of US based ip addresses are handled by FBI

And another agency.

[HoneyBadger]

7. It would be very interesting if no US agency did a forensics analysis of the hacked servers

Because that means that the FBI/CIA/etc report was based on what exactly?

[Rex]

8. A contractor giving them information.

A private security company is handling it, evidently.

[HoneyBadger]

11. Plausible deniability?

If only our intelligence agencies had thousands of highly compensated and well trained subject matter experts that had sworn an oath to our country and who could perform forensics........vs outsourcing the task to anonymous foreign national contractors at a company owned by a Russian ex pat.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a49902/the-russian-emigre-leading-the-fight-to-protect-america/

[EffieBlack]

9. They were too busy scouring Hillary's emails . . .

[UCmeNdc]

10. Wow!

No report on how the Russian hack functions?

No cyber analysis?

Nooooo!!! Not the FBI???? (Sarcasm!)

[HoneyBadger]

12. I just want to know who Guccifer 2.0 is