The White House has highlighted what it says is the DNC’s reluctance to accept help dealing with the server hack. “Not only so we can establish what happened, but so it can teach us what is frankly inevitable about the next election cycle if we don’t figure out what happened.” “As a general point, there is no question that we need to look into everything in terms of who did what, what was invasive about hacking, and what they gained from it and why,” Ms. Harris, California Democrat and a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said more needs to be known about the interaction. Those requests were also denied.ĭNC officials said the Russian hack had already been discovered and dealt with when the Homeland Security Department approached them last summer. Comey told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that the FBI issued “multiple requests at different levels” to assist the DNC with a cyberforensic analysis. I was anxious to know whether or not our folks were in there, and the response I got was the FBI had spoken to them, they don’t want our help, they have CrowdStrike.” Johnson said at the time, “did not feel it needed DHS’ assistance at that time. Jeh Johnson, who served as homeland security secretary under President Obama, told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence last month that his department offered to assist the DNC during the campaign to determine what was happening, but Mr. The hacked server was last photographed in the basement of the DNC’s Washington headquarters near a file cabinet dating from the 1972 break-in of the DNC headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.īoth Republicans and Democrats say the DNC’s reaction to the hacking is troubling. Some observers have wondered whether the information is real or is Russian disinformation. Lynch privately assuring “someone in the Clinton campaign that the email investigation would not push too deeply into the matter.” Comey, the correspondence reportedly shows Obama-era Attorney General Loretta E. Mentioned in recent reporting and testimony from fired FBI Director James B. In recent days, questions about the server have taken on more importance as attention has focused on an email suggesting that the DNC and the Obama administration’s Justice Department were trying to limit the scope of the FBI’s investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s secret email account. SEE ALSO: House seeks contempt charges against CEO who maintained Hillary Clinton’s secret email server President Trump will hold an official bilateral meeting on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit in Germany, although it’s unclear how big the Russian election hacking scandal will loom in their private talk.
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