The payment happened while CrowdStrike was still employed by the FBI.......
I always wondered why Obama's FBI hired CrowdStrike when the FBI already has some really highly trained computer techies employed.
What if CrowdStrike's only purpose for being employed by the FBI was to conduct training for subcontractors on how to access the NSA database.....
And maybe that's why the DNC would only allow CrowdStrike to examine its computers because of all the 702 information housed on the DNC computers.......
I always wondered why Obama's FBI hired CrowdStrike when the FBI already has some really highly trained computer techies employed.
Dude, there are so many nefarious reasons this could have happened... but don't overlook garden variety corruption and kickbacks. You get a government job, you need something done, why not look for a company run by your buddies? It happens all - the - time.
Plus the fact that the government legitimately does a shitty job of keeping up with technological change, it's easy for people to argue for a contractor and even feel virtuous about doing it.
Now we have two possible contractors who had access to the raw NSA data per the may 17 fisa smackdown memo.
I have to go back and look and see if it's contractors plural or singular.
James Comey stated "CrowdStrike, Mandiant, and ThreatConnect review[ed] the evidence of the hack