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2018-04-28 -Lurid Crime Tales-

FBI Delays Release of Communications With Firm That Examined DNC Servers

[Freebeacon] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has pushed back the estimated completion date of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents pertaining to its communications with the security firm that examined the Democratic National Committee's hacked servers to October.
New guy, same as old guy? Appears to be a much larger problem than previously indicated.
The Washington Free Beacon submitted the FOIA request in July 2017 with the FBI seeking all communication between the bureau and CrowdStrike, Inc., the California-based cyber security firm that examined the DNC's servers following the infiltration that led to the release of John Podesta's emails. The FBI said in December the documents should be available by March.

The FBI, which was never granted access to the DNC's servers for inspection, instead relied on the third-party firm that was brought in by the DNC for information regarding the compromised network who concluded that Russia was behind the hack.

The FBI previously awarded an unrelated $150,000 contract to CrowdStrike in July 2015. Details and communications between the firm and the bureau regarding that past contract were requested as part of the FOIA.

The request additionally sought all communications spanning from April 1, 2016‐one month before the firm was brought in by the DNC to analyze the servers‐and July 7, 2017, the day the FOIA request was submitted to the FBI.

After inquiring about the estimated completion date for the documents in early December, an FBI public information officer said requests are divided into two processing tracks: Simple, which are under 50 pages of potentially responsive documents, and complex, which are more than 50 pages of potentially responsive documents. Complex requests are further divided into medium, large, and extra-large sub-tracks based upon the request size.

Simple track requests are averaging approximately 80 days from the date of receipt for processing, the officer said. Requests in the large complex processing track are averaging 774 days for processing.

The Free Beacon request falls into the complex medium processing track and was given an estimated completion date of March 2018.

However, the documents were not made available in March. The Free Beacon again reached out to the records office.

A public information officer later left a message saying the estimated completion date is now October, seven months after the initial completion date.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-28 07:55|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I believe we may have isolated at least a portion of the problem.

CrowdStrike has figured prominently in the Democratic National Committee cyber attacks and the attribution of those attacks to Russian intelligence services. On March 20, 2017 during testimony before congress, James Comey stated "CrowdStrike, Mandiant, and ThreatConnect review[ed] the evidence of the hack and conclude[d] with high certainty that it was the work of APT 28 and APT 29 who are known to be Russian intelligence services."[20] However, the FBI did not independently verify these findings because the DNC refused to give the FBI access to the server.[21]
Emphasis added.

How far along are you? Ten percent finished? Fine, send over your first ten percent Monday morning or the Director can find a new job. We'll need the balance within 30 days. How your copy? Over.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-28 08:11|| 2018-04-28 08:11|| Front Page Top

#2 A public information officer later left a message saying the estimated completion date is now October, seven months after the initial completion date.

Ah, the motto of Massachusetts - 'Don't kill the job!'

Posted by Raj 2018-04-28 08:44|| 2018-04-28 08:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Do you realize how many of Hillary's e-mails we have to scrub???

Good lord, we're scrubbing as fast as we can.

Posted by AlanC 2018-04-28 11:57|| 2018-04-28 11:57|| Front Page Top

#4 the estimated completion date is now October

I.e., we're going to hold the documents back until after the election (not hard to go from October to November) and if the Dems win we'll be able to forget all about this silliness.

Posted by Matt 2018-04-28 13:17|| 2018-04-28 13:17|| Front Page Top

#5 How about all these agents working on this get held in jail, general pop, while we send the federal Marshall service in to collect everything. And while enjoying their shower frolics, we can draw up charges of aiding and abetting foreign enemies (Russia and China) so they can have nice treason trials later. Or if they want to take the honorable option, give them a gas can and a zippo.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-04-28 16:21|| 2018-04-28 16:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Eight years of ValJar Nd ChMp salting their minions deep in the ranks of the civil service at critical 13-16 levels. Below the radar but visible now as they provide a wide, cooperative resistance to this administration and any attempt to undo the tsunami of progressive policies and imported voters.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-04-28 20:03|| 2018-04-28 20:03|| Front Page Top

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