More Questions for Durham
We are trying to focus on offering questions that we think are most important and that are unlikely that a staffer would come up with - that is mostly going to be stuff Durham omitted from his report.
There are a few other questions that are critically important and need to be asked, although a lengthier list of questions could be produced.
In thinking about the DNC hack more, I revisited a point sleuths had discussed months ago.
The FBI was asking for forensic images in October 2016, and Sussmann was suggesting the imaging still had to be done. That means the June 2016 remediation event happened and nobody had imaged the systems to capture the most crucial evidence of the hack. Once remediated, server images are all but worthless.
Of the dozens of jaw dropping inconsistencies around the hack and details, something that stood out is the extended delay between Alperovitch claiming to have gotten evidence the Russians were on the network “immediately” upon plugging in Crowdstrike’s sensor in the first days of May 2016, to the remediation event occurring 5 weeks later.
In an article I can no longer find, I recall the explanation for the delay being that they wanted to gather more evidence on the hack. So they left the supposed Russians inside their network for weeks in the middle of a campaign. And without allowing the government investigators in.
That is impossible to reconcile with failing to image the servers at the time of remediation, and failing to provide all manner of forensic data and reports to the FBI for months.
Adding to our questions from a few days ago, we have a few more to get Durham on the record about.
Were there any images taken of the DNC servers prior to remediation and provided to the FBI?
What value do the forensic images have, if done after remediation?
The Shearer dossier makes an allegation of a secret communications channel. When was that section written, and was the Clinton campaign aware of these allegations independently of Rodney Joffe and the University-1 researchers?
Can you characterize the evidence provided to the US government by Sergei Mikhailov and Ilya Sachkov in regards to the DNC hack or attribution?
Hopefully we learn when Durham will be testifying soon.