Clinton Campaign Spurned FBI Help After Cyberattack Warning
The FBI warned Hillary Clinton's campaign that it was the target of a cyberattack five months ago, but was spurned in its attempt to investigate, Yahoo News reported.
The Bureau back in March detailed for the Clinton campaign how it was being targeted and requested logs and contact info to investigate, but was turned away. The campaign allegedly thought the request for sensitive material was too intrusive, especially given the ongoing investigation into Hillary's private email server.
Yahoo reported the FBI assured Clinton's campaign that the investigations would be separate, but that the campaign was too skeptical to turn over the information to the Bureau.
Weeks later, the Democratic National Committee discovered it had been hacked.
Slick Willie's WH staff warned dubya/ head's incoming staff about OBL and Muslim terrorism.
dubya's WH and Exec branch (NSA/Condi) IGNORED the Dem terrorism warnings, until 9/11.
what does republicans have to do with this?
liberals you point something out they say this replublican did this instead of taking blame
some republicans also do this which is BAD
EVERY ING THING
so they hacked her
So now we find the email to Chelsea bragging about the new jewelry she was gifted. The Clinton's have been milking this country for going on 25 years. Time to put an end to this Billy Bob in nice clothes.
The FBI warned the Clinton campaign that it was a target of a cyberattack last March, just weeks before the Democratic National Committee discovered it had been penetrated by hackers it now believes were working for Russian intelligence, two sources who have been briefed on the matter told Yahoo News.
In a meeting with senior officials at the campaign’s Brooklyn headquarters, FBI agents laid out concerns that cyberhackers had used so-called spear-phishing emails as part of an attempt to penetrate the campaign’s computers, the sources said. One of the sources said agents conducting a national security investigation asked the Clinton campaign to turn over internal computer logs as well as the personal email addresses of senior campaign officials. But the campaign, through its lawyers, declined to provide the data, deciding that the FBI’s request for sensitive personal and campaign information data was too broad and intrusive, the source said.
A second source who had been briefed on the matter and who confirmed the Brooklyn meeting said agents provided no specific information to the campaign about the iden y of the cyberhackers or whether they were associated with a foreign government. The source said the campaign was already aware of attempts to penetrate its computers and had taken steps to thwart them, emphasizing that there is still no evidence that the campaign’s computers had actually been successfully penetrated.
But the potential that the intruders were associated with a foreign government should have come as no surprise to the Clinton campaign, said several sources knowledgeable about the investigation. Chinese intelligence hackers were widely reported to have penetrated both the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain in 2008.
The Brooklyn warning also could raise new questions about why the campaign and the DNC didn’t take the matter more seriously. It came just four months after the DNC had also been contacted by FBI agents alerting its information technology specialists about a cyberattack on its computers, the sources told Yahoo News. As with the warning to the Clinton campaign, the FBI initially provided no details to the DNC.
As Yahoo News first reported this week, in early May a DNC consultant who was investigating Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort’s work for pro-Putin political figures in Ukraine alerted senior committee officials that she had been notified by Yahoo security that her personal email account had been targeted by “state-sponsored actors.” The DNC had already realized that it was the victim of a serious breach, but the red flag from the staffer prompted committee security officials to conclude for the first time that the suspected cyberhackers were likely associated with the Russian government.
By mid-May, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was telling reporters that US. Intelligence officials “already had some indications” of hacks into political campaigns that were likely linked to foreign governments and that “we’ll probably have more.”
In a talk at the Aspen Security Forum Thursday, Clapper said the U.S. government is not “quite ready yet” to “make a public call” on who was behind the cyberassault on the DNC, but he suggested one of “the usual suspects” is likely to blame. “We don’t know enough [yet] to … ascribe a motivation, regardless of who it may have been,” Clapper said.
Clapper’s comments come amid a mounting debate within the Obama administration about whether to publicly blame the Russian government for the cyberattack on the DNC. (A senior law enforcement official told Yahoo News that the Russians were “most probably” involved in the cyberattack, but cautioned that the investigation is ongoing.) On Wednesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and California Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrats on the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, wrote President Obama calling for a stern response, asserting that if the accounts of Russian involvement are true, “It would represent an unprecedented attempt to meddle in American domestic politics.”
But Clapper is reportedly among a number of U.S. intelligence officials who have resisted calls to publicly blame the Russians, viewing it as likely the kind of activity that most intelligence agencies engage in. “[I’m] taken aback a bit by … the hyperventilation over this,” Clapper said during his Aspen appearance, adding in a sarcastic tone, “I’m shocked somebody did some hacking. That’s never happened before.”
The confirmation that the campaign was warned by the FBI as early as March of an attempted breach of its computers is a further indication that the scope of the possible Russian attack may have been far wider and extensive than the official DNC accounts.
The FBI’s request to turn over internal computer logs and personal email information came at an awkward moment for the Clinton campaign, said the source, familiar with the campaign’s internal deliberations. At the time, the FBI was still actively and aggressively conducting a criminal investigation into whether Clinton had compromised national security secrets by sending classified emails through a private computer server in the basement of her home in Chappaqua, N.Y. There were already press reports, to date unconfirmed, that the investigation might have expanded to include dealings relating to the Clinton Foundation. Campaign officials had reason to fear that any production of campaign computer logs and personal email accounts could be used to further such a probe. At the Brooklyn meeting, FBI agents emphasized that the request for data was unrelated to the separate probe into Clinton’s email server. But after deliberating about the bureau’s request, and in light of the lack of details provided by the FBI and the absence of a subpoena, the Clinton campaign chose to turn down the bureau’s request, the source said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-hilla...000000269.html
And lo ING loud at you trying to point fingers for 911 when ISIS is staring the WORLD in the ing face and our president and his secretary of state are giving hugs saying all is well. For s sake boo tons.
Does ISIS scare you? Do you leave your house each morning thinking, "welp, this might be it"?
I wasn't scared on 910 either. But I was pissed as the next afternoon.
So you piss yourself scared thinking about ISIS?
What a pussy.
This is stupid particularly in light of her speech last night.
Do "assault weapons" scare you? Do you leave your house each morning thinking, "welp, this might be it"?
your dubya/ head started all this Middle East storm, couldn't finish it, so Barry and Hillary got stuck with it. Get your ing straight.
Actually Mr straight, it was billy clinton that stirred the al Quaida n3st first.
Scare me, no. Cuz I don't live in ty neighborhoods. But. Many minorities with children do and frankly, I'm tired of guns. Time to get rid of them.
I wanted so bad to watch. So she's waited all this time to say she'll get tough on ISIS? What the has she and obama Been doing? Is is didn't start last ing week!
Ok s...oh...splits...how many of your loved ones have served and how many died on 911?
What does that have to do with you pissing your pants over ISIS? Do you sleep under your bed, in fear every night? Did you ask your mommy to send you your blanky from childhood so you could get to sleep each night to overcome your ISIS fear? Why are you such a pussy?
We've been bombing ISIS for several years now.
Hillary's position is to continue bombing them and support the Arab proxies as it has been.
So what is your opinion on 'tough?' Indiscriminate carpet bombing?
You are aware that Mosul just fell and they are all but out of Iraq now right?
I want a rescue mission for all women and children of ISIS. Then I want the remaining terrorists rounded up. Surrounded. Isolated. Bomb them with doritos and weed and porn. Make san antonians out of them. Good enough?
By the way, fuzzy wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he?
3rd hack
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The computer network used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The latest attack, which was disclosed to Reuters on Friday, follows reports of two other hacks on the Democratic National Committee and the party’s fundraising committee for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives.
The U.S. Department of Justice national security division is investigating whether cyber hacking attacks on Democratic political organizations threatened U.S. security, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The involvement of the Justice Department’s national security division is a sign that the Obama administration has concluded that the hacking was state sponsored, individuals with knowledge of the investigation said.
The Clinton campaign, based in Brooklyn, had no immediate comment.
The Department of Justice had no comment.
It was not immediately clear what information on the Clinton campaign’s computer system hackers would have been able to access.
RUSSIAN HACKERS
Hackers, whom U.S. intelligence officials have concluded were Russian, gained access to the entire network of the fundraising Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, said people familiar with the matter, detailing the extent of the breach to Reuters for the first time.
Access to the full DCCC network would have given the hackers access to everything from emails to strategy memos and opposition research prepared to support Democratic candidates in campaigns for the House.
The hack of the DCCC, which is based in Washington, was reported first by Reuters on Thursday, ahead of Clinton’s speech in Philadelphia accepting the Democratic party’s nomination.
Russian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
Several U.S. officials said the Obama administration has avoided publicly attributing the attacks to Russia as that might undermine Secretary of State John Kerry’s effort to win Russian cooperation in the war on Islamic State in Syria.
The officials said the administration fears Russian President Vladimir Putin might respond to a public move by escalating cyber attacks on U.S. targets, increasing military harassment of U.S. and allied aircraft and warships in the Baltic and Black Seas, and making more aggressive moves in Eastern Europe.
Some officials have privately said responding more forcefully to Russia would be more effective than remaining silent over what one called “a continuing campaign of intrusions, attempted break-ins and bullying.”
The hacks under scrutiny did not involve the private email system Clinton used while she was secretary of state.
The FBI said on July 5 that no criminal charges should be filed over Clinton's use of private email servers while she was secretary, but it rebuked her for being "extremely careless" in the handling of classified information.
After emails were leaked from the DNC hack, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday invited Russia to dig up thousands of "missing" emails from Clinton's time at the State Department, prompting Democrats to accuse him of urging foreigners to spy on Americans.
On Thursday, Trump said his remarks were meant as sarcasm.
Earlier in the week, Clinton campaign senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan had criticized Trump and called the hacking "a national security issue."
In Washington, the DCCC said on Friday it has hired cyber security firm CrowdStrike to investigate. "We have taken and are continuing to take steps to enhance the security of our network," the DCCC said. "We are cooperating with federal law enforcement with respect to their ongoing investigation."
Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat and the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, said she had not heard about the hacking investigation involving the Clinton campaign.
But she told CNN: "It wouldn't surprise me. I think it should be pretty clear that both campaigns should be aware that there's a problem out there. Everybody should be cautious."
Is anyone reading these articles or just scrolling? Just curious. I scroll.
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