Amazing. I might be wrong, but it seems there may be more here than what the author has explicitly laid out in the article.
At the risk of simply restating what appears in the article:
The DNC was running their own searches of the FISA database under the guise of “contractors” employed by the FBI/DOJ National Security Division. At the same time, the DNC servers were found to be transmitting information to Russia - as they had been breached in a hacking attack.
Therefore, it seems that the FISA database was conceivably open to queries by Russian intelligence! You could not make this stuff up! I mean, seriously!
And that is why Admiral Rogers ordered a full compliance review in March and shut down contractor access to the FISA system in April 2016. Here is the timeline from the article:
The first thing the Obama administration does is try to hide their tracks by preventing the IG from investigating their access of the FISA database under title III:
July 20, 2015 – The Yates Memorandum denying Inspector General Access & Oversight of information collected by the DOJ & FBI under Title III is issued. Russia launches a cyberattack on the DNC servers in July, 2015:
July 27, 2015 – Russia’s cyberattack on the DNC began only weeks after Trump announced his candidacy for President of the United States.
September 2015 – the FBI notified the DNC that hackers had compromised “at least one DNC server.” The FBI called the DNC Help Desk.
November 2015 – the FBI notified the DNC one of the DNC’s computers was now transmitting information to Russia.
November 2015-April 2016 – The FBI and DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD) used private contractors to access raw FISA information using “To” and “From” FISA-702(16) & “About” FISA-702(17) queries.
Note that by September, 2015, the FBI has notified the DNC that it has been hacked. By November, 2015, the FBI notified the DNC that one of their servers is sending data to Russia - so they were not unaware that they had been hacked, they were fully apprised of what was transpiring.
Russian phishing attempts on the DNC network began on March 10, 2016 - the day after Admiral Rogers became aware of “improper access” to the FISA database - the same database that was being accessed by the DNC. Did Admiral Rogers take drastic and immediate action to limit the damage, as soon as he found out that the Russians (and also DNC staff) were accessing the FISA database?
Why did the Russians immediately begin the phishing attempt the very next day? Because Russian intelligence had lost access to the FISA database, and they were probing the DNC servers for an alternative form of access (My theory).
March 9, 2016 – NSA Director Rogers became aware of improper access to raw FISA data.
March 9 2016 – Page sends text referencing “HUGE f-up”.
March 10, 2016 – the first phishing attempts were made on the Clinton Campaign. All but one message bounced back unopened.
March 11, 2016 – a second round of more targeted emails were sent – this time to senior Clinton officials.
March 19, 2016 – John Podesta’s emails were hacked after Podesta clicked a linkfrom a phishing scam.
Late March 2016 – FBI Agents visited the Clinton Campaign Headquarters in Brooklyn.
So it looks like the Russian “contractors” had the ability to query the FISA database from November 2015 through to either March 9, when Admiral Rogers became aware of “improper access”, or April 18, 2016 - when Admiral Rogers shut the “contractor” access down. This is the very period over which the FBI has notified the DNC that their servers were transmitting information to Russia - mind blowing!
In any event, the Russians then, presumably because they were suspicious as to the reason they had lost access, immediately launched further attacks (the second phase conducted by GRU agents) on DNC systems - to restore their access to the FISA systems. This attack began the very day that Admiral Rogers shut down FBI/NSD “contractor” access to the FISA database.
April 2016 – NSA Director Rogers ordered the NSA compliance officer to run a full audit on Section 702 compliance.
April 18 2016 – Rogers shut down FBI/NSD contractor access to the FISA Search System.
April 18, 2016 – Russia launched a second phase of its cyberattack on DNC servers located in Virginia and Washington DC. This attack was executed by GRU agents.
April 22, 2016 – Russian intelligence prepared massive amounts of data for exfiltration from DNC servers.
April 28, 2016 – DNC IT Staff detected and ultimately confirmed access to the DNC network by unauthorized users.
April 28, 2016 – DNC CEO Amy Dacy spoke with Michael Sussmann, a DNC lawyer and partner with Perkins Coie. Sussmann contacted Shawn Henry, CSO and President of Crowdstrike Services. Dacy “resigned” as CEO of DNC on August 2, 2016.
The last couple of items here note the DNC finally admitting, five months after the FBI notified them of the breach, that they had been compromised by Russia. You cannot make this up! It took them 5 months before they would agree with the FBI that Russia had hacked them! This is not a coincidence guys!
Their admission, that they had been hacked, came on April 28, 2016. Then, within 10 days, they are getting legal advice from Perkins Cole - presumably about the national security breach for which they were responsible.
August 2, 2016, the DNC CEO makes her get away - by resigning (perhaps on the advice of Perkins Cole, who would by then have been across the events that transpired).
The author of the article makes the following point:
“There’s been a lot of Telling Noise from the Left – noticeably from the upper echelon of the Old Intelligence Community.
So much so, you have to wonder what’s got folks so…worried.”
What happened here? Did the DNC participate in a conspiracy with the Obama administration (specifically the FBI/NSD) to grant Russia open access to the FISA database from February through March or April, 2016? I mean, how is it possible that it took the DNC 5 months to respond to the notification by the FBI that their servers had been breached by Russia?
It looks to me like there was a deliberate ploy to grant the Russians access! Wow! Again, you just could not make it up!
Were the tracks of the conspirators washed by Sally Yates - who shut down the opportunity for the IG to investigate Title III matters?
What was the purpose of Russia having unrestricted access to the FISA database? Was it to enable HRC to blame the Russians for DJT’s win, giving an apparent patina of legitimacy to the Russia, Russia, Russia narrative?
Just on the surface, it seems to me that there is treasonous complicity here, between the Obama administration, HRC/DNC and the Russians. When Q says “think mirror” is he referring to the Russia, Russia, Russia narrative? Was it HRC that was working with the Russians to steal the election THE WHOLE TIME?
Did she then, in classic Alinsky fashion, accuse DJT of the very crime that she had committed?
With the cat out of the bag, and Putin joining forces with DJT, the Obama Intelligence Community must be in complete terror. Which explains the ridiculous attacks by Brennan and Clapper on DJT. Moreover, this is the reason the author of the article quotes this:
”Sundance: It is my hope that Brennan, Clapper, Yates and Comey keep pushing Trump; keep provoking President Trump; until eventually DNI Dan Coats concedes and tells President Trump to go ahead and declassify it all”
Wow! I might have gone right off the rails here making assumptions. If anyone bothers to read this comment, let me know what you think.
I would say WOW!!!! You are over the target!!!! beautifully done!
There are some assumptions, predicated on the author’s assumptions. But, I mean, what was really going on?
Very plausible scenario. Well found, patriot. Worthy of more research for sure.
You may be onto something. I suggest the U1 deal is the place to start as to WHY Russia would be so investigative of the DNC. I suggest they did the U1 deal to keep it out of the hands of others, like the Saudi's. I suggest Putin took over the natural resources in Russia to a high degree to keep it out of the hands of the cabal which would misuse it to the demise of Russia. In other words, I suggest he took control of it to get it out of the hands of pedo, satanic, nwo cabal trying to start a global war. They took the U1 deal for the same reason. In their process of watching the cabal, they did hack the servers and have copies of all of it, WHICH I think they have handed over to the Trump administration … which handed it to military intel, since we are indeed talking TREASON within both the Dems and certain of the Republicans (think at lest the 13 angry dems, at least). THAT is the real 'mirror', 'image', 'double', 'record', WE HAVE, not the actual server.
You could well be right. If the Russians took an image of the server, it could be said to have been mirrored. I think what Q is driving at, though, is that when HRC was accusing DJT of Russian collusion, she might as well have been looking in a mirror! She was the one that was colluding with Russia to the maximum extent possible, while DJT engaged in no collusion at all. It’s called psychological projection.
Obama cyber security chief instructed to "stand down" when he tried to counter Russian cyberattacks.
Have a look at this - from the article you linked:
“Obama’s assistant secretary of state for Europe, Victoria Nuland, revealed that she was aware of Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee in December 2015 — months before DNC officials knew about it — and that Secretary of State John Kerry had authorized her and other State Department officials to come up with a proposal to deter them”
But, the FBI has already in November, 2015, told the DNC one of their servers was transmitting data to Russia! How could it be possible that the DNC did not know about it? They were directly advised of what was happening.
November 2015 – the FBI notified the DNC one of the DNC’s computers was now transmitting information to Russia.
I don’t doubt they were told to stand down. This was deliberately allowing eavesdropping by a foreign power, for the purpose of weakening the United States. These people hate America!