Thread by @FamilyManAndrew

1/Part 1 INTRODUCTION: This is an re-up & update of a thread on Crowdstrike’s role in Spygate. The thread originally appeared on now-deleted account @Taleof2Servers & then the prior version of @15poundstogo’s account (archived & partially available here: ).

2/ This isn’t a techie thread. It just questions Crowdstrike’s credibility due its multiple “hats” & associations, one of which (Perkins Coie’s involvement) Andy McCarthy noted in Oct ‘17, hat-tipping a friend (who wished & still wishes to remain anon 😉).
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3/ We know more now about Spygate than we did in 2017. But we STILL haven’t seen any of Crowdstrike’s actual work product, upon which the government attributed, at least initially, the DNC hack to the Russians. Why we haven’t will be discussed below. Conclusion of Introduction.

4/ Part 2: 7/6/15-5/2/16
On 7/6/15 the Inspector General for the IC made a referral to the FBI arising from Hillary’s use of an unsecured private server & personal email accounts to conduct classified State Dept business. On July 10, the FBI opened a formal investigation.

5/ On July 8, 2015, exactly in the middle of the same week that the FBI was opening its Hillary email investigation, the FBI entered into an “urgent” no-bid contract with Crowdstrike, purportedly for “telecom-system analysis” in the category of “other computer related services”.

6/ Later, however, Crowdstrike official Shawn Henry appeared to testify that Crowdstrike’s FBI contact was not for technical services at all, but involved providing “intelligence”. Hmmm. Disclosure of the Crowdstrike/FBI contract has been denied at least twice under foia (🙋‍♂️).

7/ Beginning on 8/6/15, and later in 2015, the FBI started warning the DNC that it was being spied on by Cozy Bear, a computer-hacking group believed to be Russian. Was Crowdstrike involved with spotting this problem? Who knows? 🤷‍♂️
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8/ In December of 2015, Crowdstrike published a paper on hacking groups, including Russian Cozy Bear & Fancy Bear. Coincidentally, this got written up by the Washington Free Beacon in Feb 2016 (back when FusionGPS was working for the Beacon against Trump). freebeacon.com/national-secur…

9/ Also in December of 2015, there was an incident where somehow a computer firewall broke down at the DNC; Berne’s staffers got into restricted files, and the DNC cut the Bernie campaign off from the DNC servers & data. So he sued them. i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/image…

10/ The DNC was represented by Bob Bauer of Perkins Coie. The case was before Judge Chutkan, btw, but not much happened in her Court, because the case quickly settled.

11/ The Bernie case settled on 4/29/16, after the DNC and Bernie jointly hired Crowdstrike to examine the DNC’s system/data, and Crowdstrike issued a report. That report has never been made public. Of course, the DNC’s counsel, Perkins Coie, would have been involved with this.

12/ Coincidentally, it was also EXACTLY THE SAME DAY, on 4/29/16,that the DNC (with FBI urging) spotted the Fancy Bear intrusion, and its Perkins Coie attorney, Michael Sussmann, hired (or re-hired?) Crowdstrike to investigate it. Hmmm.
End of Part One.

13/ PART TWO- At the time Perkins Coie re-hired Crowdstrike, two things were already going on. First, Crowdstrike was already engaged by and engaging with the FBI & DOJ. At a March 2016 conference, Shawn Henry was wargame teammates with John Carlin, who supervised the HRC probe.

14/ Meanwhile, Perkins Coie had already engaged FusionGPS for Russia-related opposition research on Trump. This was done through the law firm to create a patina of confidentiality and “privilege”.

15/ I don’t believe we’ve ever seen Crowdstrike’s contract with Perkins Coie, but it’s obvious Sussmann did the hiring to restrict and maintain control over what they disclosed to others and when. Likely it resembles FusionGPS’s written contract.

16/ Although the DNC was specifically warned by the FBI regarding Fancy Bear, (FBI contractor and Fancy Bear expert) Crowdstrike was initially unsuccessful in protecting the DNC from it. At least according to Mueller. Many DNC emails got by Crowdstrike & got to Wikileaks.

17/ Backing up a bit to add to tweet 15. Here is a highly redacted copy of Crowdstrike’s contract with Perkins Coie & DNC. It was working “at the direction of” Perkins Coie. This was to create the appearance of undiscoverable privileged documents. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

18/ Perkins Coie’s strategy of hiring vendors like FusionGPS and Crowdstrike for the DNC worked like a charm. It hid pass-through payments from FEC filings and Congressional Investigations didn’t challenge the lame assertions of privilege. Durham pretended to, but really didn’t.

19/ But Sussmann & Perkins Coie were less concerned with providing legal advice and more concerned with promoting a political narrative in the press. Thus, while Crowdstrike failed to protect DNC emails, it DID join Sussmann in getting ink in WAPO. web.archive.org/web/2016061415…

20/ In any event, Crowdstrike purportedly authored three “draft” reports: 2 in August of 2016, and one the date of which is unknown (at least to me). I say “purportedly” because …

21/ These were “draft” reports prepared at the direction of the DNC’s counsel, Michael Sussmann of Perkins Coie. And, around the same time …

22/ Sussmann was also simultaneously helping draft a “white paper” as part of an effort by others to trick the FBI into investigating Trump’s alleged electronic communications with a Russian Bank. He billed Hillary for that, but wasn’t candid about the identity of his client.

23/ And, true to form, Sussmann was all over Crowdstrike’s trickle of information to the FBI (Elvis Chan included) like white on rice. Everything was personally vetted by him and the FBI never accessed the DNC’s actual server.

24/ Even Comey (that cockroach 🪳) testified that the FBI’s lack of direct access to the DNC’s server (and reliance upon Crowdstrike) was not ideal.

25/ Crowdstrike failed to prevent any hack. But it succeeded in lobbying the feds to publicly push its clients’ Russian interference narrative. CS’s Alperovitch did this from Rome, the same week Steele was also in Rome doing the same for the same attorneys and same client. 🤔

26/ Initially, the FBI declined to publicly attribute the DNC email leaks to Russia. It was DHS (Lisa Monaco, Phyllis Schneck) and DNI (James Clapper) who did that. Neither ever got any serious scrutiny for that.

27/ Of course Clapper is a known political hack & liar. He was likely an early leaker on the dossier briefing, was the FIRST signatory to the “former” IC official’s laptop lie letter & he spoke at Perkins Coie in June of 2016.
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28/ Another thing that’s troublesome is that when Comey reopened the Weiner laptop investigation just before election day, Crowdstike’s Shawn Henry was on TV to discuss it identified as a “former FBI” guy, rather than as a current paid vendor of Perkins Coie and the DNC.