Liars claimed CrowdStrike produced irrefutable evidence of Russian hacking, but that was a lie. This is from your source:
The Senate report states on page 48:
“The Committee found that specific intelligence as well as open source assessments support the assessment that President Putin approved and directed aspects of this influence campaign.” (That does not say CrowdStrike proved Russians hacked the DNC computers.)
Furthermore, in his testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee, Shawn Henry stated the following with regards to CrowdStrike’s degree of confidence that the intrusion activity can be attributed to Russia, cited from page 24:
- HENRY: We said that we had a high degree of confidence it was the Russian Government (CrowdStrike did not say it had irrefutable proof the Russians hacked the DNC computers.) And our analysts that looked at it and that had looked at these types of attacks before, many different types of attacks similar to this in different environments, certain tools that were used, certain methods by which they were moving in the environment,and looking at the types of data that was being targeted, that it was consistent with a nation-state adversary and associated with Russian intelligence.
CrowdStrike testified before Congress in sworn testimony:
https://www.dni.gov/files/HPSCI_Transcripts/2020-05-04-Shawn_Henry-MTR_Redacted.pdf
page 31-32: Mr Schiff: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
My colleague asked you whether the damage that was done to the DNC through the hack might have been mitigated had the DNC employed your services earlier. Do you know the date in which the Russians exfiltrated the data from the DNC?
Mr. Henry: I do. I have to just think about it. I do know. I mean, it’s in our report that I think the committee has.
Mr. Schiff: And, to the best of your recollection, when would that have been?
Mr. Henry: Counsel just reminded me that, as it relates to the DNC, we have indicators that data was exfiltrated. We do not have concrete evidence that data was exfiltrated from the DNC, but we have indicators that it was exfiltrated.
Mr. Schiff: And the indicators that it was exfiltrated, when does it indicate that would have taken place?
Mr. Henry: Again, it’s in the report. I believe – I believe it was April of 2016. I’m confused on the date. I think it was April, but it’s in the report.
Mr. Schiff. It provides in the report on 2016, April 22, data staged for exfiltration by the Fancy Bear actor.
Mr. Henry: Yes sir. So that, again, staged for, which, I mean, there’s not – the analogy I used with Mr. Stewart earlier was we don’t have video of it happening, but there are indicators that it happened. There are times when we can see the data exfiltrated, and we can say conclusively. But in this case, it appears it was set up to be exfiltrated, but we just don’t have the evidence that says it actually left.
