@CBSNews "the New England Patriots of messing with elections"
Now, just how can that be? Let's take a look at the history of the intelligence about Russian interference in elections.
Now, just how can that be? Let's take a look at the history of the intelligence about Russian interference in elections.
@CBSNews We have to go back to 2014 to find where the saga of "Russian Interference" began. It is early spring and John Brennan is on the ropes with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Investigated by the committee because of the torture stories in the media, Brennan is now...
@CBSNews ...struggling. His answer was to HACK the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) to find out what SSCI knows and how they know it. Brennan's hack is detected, and now he has a hacking investigation to go with torture. It was at this point that the...
@CBSNews ...intelligence about Russian interference falls in his lap. It is May 2014 that the first reports hit Obama's desk. Flailing, and having lied about HACKING the SSCI, Brennan needed to change the subject.
@CBSNews Obama reacted to Brennan's May 2014 report by warning Putin to stay out of UKRAINE'S 2014 elections. Apparently either Obama's contact did no good, or private Russian hackers, like Cyber Berkut, harassed the Ukrainian election, but since there was evidence of Russian activity...
@CBSNews ...one would expect the US government would be on their guard for our country's elections in 2014 (Mid-Term) and 2016 (Presidential). Actually, they were very casual about the whole thing.
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@CBSNews In July 2015, an alleged Russian hacking group, the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) 29, also known as "Cozy Bear," an arm of the Russian civilian spy agency SVR (sometimes identified as FSB) breached the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) network.
@CBSNews Now we will see that, when the "defense" is not very focused, it is easy for any team to look like "the New England Patriots of Election Interference." The United States HAD NO DEFENSE in 2015 and 2016.
@CBSNews Sources are mixed about how the FBI found out about the breach. Some say the National Security Agency (NSA) found out about the breach and told the FBI, and others claim Dutch Intelligence discovered it from their breach of Russian intelligence headquarters in Moscow...
@CBSNews ...and that was how NSA found out, or our agencies were informed by the Dutch in our Embassy in Holland, which would include CIA and the FBI's LEGAT at the embassy. At any rate, the FBI found out and informed the DNC by telephone that "The Dukes," an FBI name for APT 29,...
@CBSNews ...was inside the DNC's network. This was the start of the US "response" to alleged Russian election interference that would continue into 2016. Russian spies were already cavorting around inside the DNC network, including ADMINISTRATIVE ACCESS to critical applications and...
@CBSNews ...data sets, but US response was to telephone the DNC and inform them. Telephone calls and two meetings were to sum total of the US government response when the entire intelligence apparatus knew about "Russian interference" since early 2014.
@CBSNews Now, it is important to note another controversy in which the FBI was embroiled at that same time. Yet another Congressional probe involved FBI issuance of something called "NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS" (NSL).
@CBSNews NSL are a kind of search warrant that does not require the signature of a judge or magistrate. They are to be used in National Security cases, and the FBI used thousands of them since the USA PATRIOT Act was passed. The issuance of an NSL could have enabled the FBI to gain...
@CBSNews ...access to the DNC network immediately after DNC executives refused FBI access to the network to expel Cozy Bear hackers. Since "election interference" was the subject of the 2014 CIA report to President Obama, Russian spies inside the DNC network could only be interpreted...
@CBSNews ...as a "national security issue," thus permitting use of NSL. There was also a high probability of a judge agreeing that probable cause was reached for approval of a judicial search warrant. The NSL was under review in 2014-2015 because of their wide use by the FBI since the..
@CBSNews ..start of the program. Congress was considering judicial review of NSLs just like search warrants, but no legislation had been introduced to do this, and, again, election interference by Russia was the subject of a CIA report in 2014. There were grounds for the FBI for force..
@CBSNews ...access to the DNC network, but nothing was done. The DNC Information Technology (IT) staff could find no evidence of the presence of hackers and neither could any security consultants hired by the DNC in 2015 and early 2016 until Crowdstrike was hired in May 2016.
@CBSNews In March 2016, yet another Russian APT, APT 28, allegedly penetrated the DNC network. This APT was called "Fancy Bear" by Crowdstrike, and was allegedly linked to Russian military intelligence, the GRU. Unlike the stealthy APT 29, "Cozy Bear," which no one in DNC could find...
@CBSNews ...on the DNC network for a year, Fancy Bear was detected within a few weeks. As Donna Brazile described Fancy Bear in her book "Hacks," Fancy Bear acted like they didn't care if they were discovered.
@CBSNews "Fancy Bear, the one our IT department detected, was loud and did not seem concerned about being found out. As our technology director, Andrew Brown said, it was like Fancy Bear smashed in the front window and raged around grabbing whatever was at hand, less concerned...
@CBSNews "...with being detected than Cozy Bear had been," was how Donna Brazile described it on page 138 of "Hacks."
Now, we need to understand this: The breach of the DNC, and theft of damaging emails, was Putin's main plan for getting Donald Trump elected. He already had an APT...
Now, we need to understand this: The breach of the DNC, and theft of damaging emails, was Putin's main plan for getting Donald Trump elected. He already had an APT...
@CBSNews ...installed on the DNC network, Cozy Bear, which, for all Putin knew, was detected by no one in the DNC or the US government. In November 2015, the FBI told the DNC Cozy Bear transmitted data from the DNC to Moscow. Nothing was done to expel Cozy Bear after that, so why...
@CBSNews ...would Putin need another APT inside the DNC just to steal some emails when Cozy Bear was already there and could take anything they wanted? Once Fancy Bear was detected while performing an UNNECESSARY HACK, since Cozy Bear was already inside the DNC network, the plan to...
@CBSNews ...elect Trump would be blown wide open by Fancy Bear being caught. All Fancy Bear did was steal emails. Cozy Bear could do that since Crowdstrike informed the world Cozy Bear "read and monitored" all email traffic inside DNC, as reported by the Washington Post...
@CBSNews ..in the exclusive article written by Ellen Nakashima and published by the POST on June 14, 2016. The article was based on the interview of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Amy Dacey of DNC, and Shawn Henry and Dmitri Alperovitch of Crowdstrike by POST National Security...
@CBSNews ...reporter Ellen Nakashima.
The US Government's non-reaction to the original reports of Russian hackers inside the DNC in 2015 led inexorably to the data loss, but, by the time any damaging emails appeared on the network to be stolen, which was in April and May of 2016,...
The US Government's non-reaction to the original reports of Russian hackers inside the DNC in 2015 led inexorably to the data loss, but, by the time any damaging emails appeared on the network to be stolen, which was in April and May of 2016,...
@CBSNews ...Putin supposedly made the mistake of sending in another hacking group which couldn't steal the emails without first being so clumsy they tipped off DNC IT personnel to their presence, thus exposing the "plot to elect Donald Trump," or so we've been told, but only AFTER the...
@CBSNews ...WASHINGTON POST story was published. The Ellen Nakashima article only referred to "two files of opposition research about Donald Trump" being stolen by Fancy Bear. No emails were stolen, and no donor information had even been accessed by the "Russian hackers," according...
@CBSNews ...to the June 14, 2016 POST article. A lengthy explanation for why those two files of opposition research were stolen by Russian spies was presented in the article. Again, no emails were identified as having been stolen in the incident. The emails would be identified as...
@CBSNews ...stolen by the alleged Russian spies only AFTER the article's publication. What changed the story? Most likely the appearance of an Unidentified Subject on the Internet known as GUCCIFER 2.0.
@CBSNews More on the original John Brennan "Russian Interference" report in 2014:
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@CBSNews So far, the Russians haven't run up a very good record at getting with such "interference," and the limited success they might have had was the product of inaction by targeted governments, including our own government. Hardly making the NE Patriots an apt analogy.
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