@snoopydawg

The contract between FBI and CS was not related to the DNC server, it was for other services in 2015. DNC hired CS to accuse Russia of hacking their server -- er, to examine the server -- in 2016. FBI asked CS to share their findings and turn over the server but CS refused, likely under orders from Clinton or DWS, because it would blow their blame Russia strategy out of the water.

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.

I thought that the DNC hired CrowdStrike themselves? And then when they said that Russia hacked them, the FBI wanted to look at their computers?

However, former FBI Director James Comey testified that the bureau had sought access to the servers numerous times.

So why would the FBI award CS the contract and they then tell the FBI that they can't look at them? Seriously, no wonder people don't believe half the crap they are told.

BTW, the Joy Reid homophobic rants are being blamed on Russia and its bots! Oh Lordy, they can't be serious, can they? HarHarHa! And Reid is saying that she doesn't believe that she would have said those things. Even though she had said them before. You just can't make this stuff up. That people are buying this is incredible. But that's what happens when people lose their minds.

Another BTW. The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Jr says that she is a Kremlin informant!

Well, that's what the headline states. But what she actually says is that yes she has ties to a person who then has connections with the Kremlin. Not her being the informant, someone else is. This is how the stories have been spread since Russia Gate started. The headline says something definitely, but inside the article it's different information. But what do people remember? The headline, of course.

@Pluto's Republic

Hillary and Podesta where she told him that she was worried that the information would damage her candidacy and that Her campaign and the DNC should blame the leak on Russia. This gave Russia Gate more legs for it to go viral. Trump had already been accused of being Putin's puppet during the election, but this got more people believing in it.

The work of anyone who approached the problem forensically, ultimately pointed directly at CrowdStrike as the perpetrator. Not as the gentleman who actually downloaded the emails to a thumbdrive, which was then handed over to Wikileaks. That was done just before CrowdStrike was brought on board. What the forensics specialists see is a concocted report of a hacking with concocted self-damning evidence that was created under CrowdStrike's watch.

I notice that these releases always omit the fact that the co-founder of the relatively new CrowdStrike is the former head of Cyber Security for the FBI. He joined forces with a whacky Ukrainian exile, who exercises his anti-Russian fanaticism at the Atlantic Council, where he is a fellow.

@Alligator Ed At the very least keeping both parties tied up with this nonsense might keep them away from whatever else they’re wanting to do. Hell, we could even luck out and have them reach mutually assured destruction. And who knows, maybe we’ll even get some truth out of this?

of the FBI wanted documents, because they will be needed for Trump's counter suit, a demand for which other named defendants will join.

• How the DNC contributed to the fake dossier, using Fusion GPS along with the Clinton Campaign as the basis for the launch of a phony investigation.

• Why the FBI was never allowed access to the DNC servers in the course of their investigation into the Clinton e-mail scandal.

• How the DNC conspired to hand Hillary Clinton the nomination over Bernie Sanders.

• How officials at the highest levels of the DNC colluded with the news media to influence the outcome of the DNC nomination.

• Management decisions by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Donna Brazile, Tom Perez, and John Podesta; their e-mails, personnel decisions, budgets, opposition research, and more.

This is all going to come out if the idiot Dims continue to pursue their own conspiracy theory. Even if the DNC suit does not survive initial judicial review for legitimacy, I am fairly sure the named defendants will push counter suits--plural.