Then-FBI Director James Comey testified that the bureau received from the DNC what he called an “appropriate substitute” for the servers and internet architecture in question. the adversary's movement in situ (network logs)īy all indications, the FBI got what it needed from the DNC and Crowdstrike. disk images of many machines *in the network* This DNC-didn't-give-the-server-to-the-FBI idea makes no sense. Thomas Rid, a cybersecurity expert and professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, has pointed out that the FBI didn’t need the servers themselves to fully investigate the DNC hack: For starters, there is no single “server.” As Robert Mueller would later disclose, the DNC was forced to decommission more than 140 servers after the Russia hack. If Russia didn’t hack the DNC, then the controversy around Russia’s efforts to elect Trump in 2016 would go away. The underlying motivation of those supporting this theory (including Trump himself) is to deny that Russia carried out the DNC hacking scandal. In Trump’s regurgitating of this theory to the Ukrainian president he also seemed to suggest that the DNC server in question had ended up in Ukraine because, as Trump has falsely claimed, Crowdstrike has Ukrainian owners. This theory claims that because the DNC and Crowdstrike didn’t give the FBI the “server” that was hacked, that was evidence of a cover-up.
On the far-right fringes, however, a conspiracy theory formed that Crowdstrike was somehow part of a Deep State plot to wrongly blame Russia for the DNC hack.
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