Russian spies may have used tech company named in Steele dossier to hack Democrats

The tech company mentioned in a dossier detailing President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia may have been used by Russian agents to hack the Democrats, new evidence suggests. The infamous dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele claimed internet service providers owned by Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev used “botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and conduct ‘altering operations’ against the Democratic Party leadership.” A report by a former FBI cyberexpert unsealed Thursday in federal court in Miami found evidence that indicates Russian agents used Gubarev’s networks to hack the Democratic National Committee and the campaign chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, according to the New York Times.

The networks were also likely used by Russian agents and other malicious actors to attack Ukraine’s power grid in 2015, the report said. The report did not directly link Gubarev or his executives to the hacking, as Steele’s dossier did. “I have no evidence of them actually sitting behind a keyboard,” the report’s author, Anthony Ferrante, said in a deposition.

Gubarev has denied that he and his businesses knowingly were part of the Russian hacking. The tech entrepreneur filed a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed, the first news outlet to publish the dossier. BuzzFeed commissioned the report released Thursday to counter Gubarev’s lawsuit, which was dismissed in December.

Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm, was paid by the conservative Washington Free Beacon to conduct research on Trump and other candidates during the Republican presidential primaries. When the outlet’s interest in the research lapsed, Fusion GPS approached a law firm for the Clinton campaign and the DNC and offered to continue its research. That information was compiled by Steele into a 35-page dossier that contained salacious allegations against Trump, including that Russian intelligence operatives filmed Trump with prostitutes urinating on a Moscow hotel bed. Many of the claims in Steele’s dossier have yet to be verified. The report commissioned by BuzzFeed did not seek to prove any of the accusations except those against Gubarev.

“Because they couldn’t prove the allegations that they actually made about our client,” a lawyer for Gubarev said, “they pivoted to say, ‘Well, your infrastructure was used from time to time to do bad things.’” “You could say the same thing about Google’s infrastructure and Amazon’s infrastructure — and no one is accusing them of hacking anyone just because hackers used their infrastructure,” he said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/russian-spies-may-have-used-tech-company-named-in-steele-dossier-to-hack-democrats

United States District Court Southern District of Florida Miami DivisionCASE NO. 1:17-CV-60426-UU

ALEKSEJ GUBAREV, XBT HOLDING S.A., AND WEBZILLA, INC., PLAINTIFFS

VS BUZZFEED, INC. AND BEN SMITH, DEFENDANTS

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/668-report-commissioned-by-buzzfee/b3e5dbe1c9086ae11ccc/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

EXCLUSIVE: SPLC’s Morris Dees Fired After BLP Exposé, Employees Detail Internal Strife

America’s largest hate group has fired Morris Dees, its 82-year-old co-founder, but failed to provide a concrete reason for his termination. “As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world,” Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen said in a statement.

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America’s largest hate group has fired Morris Dees, its 82-year-old co-founder, but failed to provide a concrete reason for his termination.

“As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world,” Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen said in a statement. “When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the organization, we take it seriously and must take appropriate action. Today we announced a number of immediate, concrete next steps we’re taking, including bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices, to ensure that our talented staff is working in the environment that they deserve – one in which all voices are heard and all staff members are respected,” the statement continued.

Big League Politics spoke with someone who is in contact with several SPLC employees, whom the source described as “whistleblowers.” The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said that there is increasing tension between the SPLC’s employees and its management. “There’s a lot of anger and resentment inside the company. Their black employees are paid less than their white ones,” the source said. “Dees feels that he’s being scapegoated because the SPLC was down a whole bunch of money. They didn’t raise that much money last year.” Morris had previously been accused of discriminatory treatment of black employees. When Big League Politics called the SPLC media center to ask why specifically Dees was fired, we were stonewalled. Last year, Big League Politics exposed several alleged misdeeds of Dees from court documents obtained from his divorce proceedings. The bombshell revelation was that Dees was accused of attempting to molest his stepdaughter with a sex toy. He also allegedly had an affair with an SPLC employee.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/exclusive-splcs-morris-dees-fired-after-blp-expose-employees-detail-internal-strife/

>>5691287

Looking at this recent pick of him, he looks disheveled, perhaps his problems are bigger than being let on…maybe one of the sealed indictments we will soon hear about.

>>5691337

Don't know if this has been posted yet…SPLC Co Founder…

SPLC’s Morris Dees Fired After BLP Exposé, Employees Detail Internal Strife

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>>5691370

No doubt it was all caught on camera in the area..and it will end up being FF.

>>5691398

CIA Post has to cover themselves any way they can… Proofs are important!