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Inventing the Russian Boogeyman - The FULL Timeline

Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:09 pm
Posted by BeefDawg
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Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:09 pm
Let's go back to where this all began, shall we?

- Sept. 2015, FBI agent Hawkins warns DNC tech support, Mr. Tamene, one of their servers was hacked by one of "The Dukes", which is alleged to be a Russian cyber-espionage unit. LINK Now how the FBI knew the DNC was being hacked is of itself very perplexing. Why was the FBI monitoring computer traffic in/out of the DNC?

- Sept. 2015 - An unamed wealthy Republican donor who opposed Trump's candidacy, hired Fusion GPS to do opposition research on Trump. However, when Trump won the nomination, the Republican donor bailed out. (Later re-hired by the DNC) LINK

- Dec. 2015 - Bernie Sander's campaign staffers accused of getting improper access to Clinton campaign data and confidential voter information via DNC server "glitch". LINK DNC tech support wrapped up in this debacle, ignores other hacking suspicions.

- Jan. 2016 - DNC tech support guy, Mr. Tamene, met with FBI agent Hawkins, but didn't believe he was FBI or his story about his servers being hacked and blew it all off. LINK Meanwhile, APT-29/Cozy Bear is said to have injected malware in the server which gave them backdoor access for months. LINK

- Feb. 22, 2016 - Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort, is accused of having ties to Russia and being blackmailed after his computer was hacked. LINK Turned out to be false, and his only connections were business related in the Ukraine. This is when the Russia-Trump narrative first grew wings.

- March 19, 2016 - DNC aide to Podesta, Mr. Delavan, receives the phishing email claiming Podesta and other DNC staffers GMail accounts were receiving unauthorized access attempts and they all needed to change their passwords. He tells Podesta and several other staffers the email is legit and they should change their password. LINK and LINK However, it was not legit and this exercise gave "someone" access to Podesta's and other staffer's email archives (over 60,000 emails). That said, nobody who has fallen for this phishing email scam is yet aware what they have actually done for nearly 6 weeks.

- April 29, 2016 - DNC tech support installs monitoring software designed to weed out malware and injectors by logging certain data routing through their machines. Mr. Tamene discovers an unauthorized user accessing staffer files and reports to DNC head's Dacey and Wasserman-Schultz their system has been hacked. LINK

- April 30, 2016 - DNC hires CrowdStrike, a cyber-security firm, to investigate their breech and the extent of possible data lost.

- May 4, 2016 - Trump is named presumptive nominee.

- May 2016 - CrowdStrike claims that APT-29 Cozy Bear accessed the DNC server via malware injections back in Sept 2015, and APT-28 Fancy Bear accessed the DNC server via malware injections beginning March 2016. They insist that both of these code-names are affiliated with Russian cyber-espionage units linked to the Russian government. However, there is no definitive confirmation of this assertion. CrowdStrike report. Findings on "The Dukes" AKA Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear.

- May 2016 - George Soros, Open Society Foundation server is hacked. Cyber-security company ThreatConnect insists the hacker is Guccifer2.0 and possibly affiliated with GRU linked group known as Fancy Bear.

- May 2016 - CrowdStrike sets up entire new server for DNC and formats every computer and laptop of every DNC staffer on the network. The DNC server is wiped clean as well. No other authorities ever get to examine it. Not the FBI, CIA, NSA, or ODNI. Nobody. All we have to go by is the report supplied by CrowdStrike that says it was the Russians.

- May/June 2016 - The DNC hires Fusion GPS, who was already in the midst of puting together opposition research about Trump. Immediately, they hire Orbis Business Intelligence firm headed by ex-MI6 agent, Christopher Steele. Steele is the author of the now infamous "fake dossier".

- June 13, 2016 - DNC holds press conference asserting they were hacked by Russia. LINK

- June 14, 2016 - Guccifer2.0 claims responsibility for the hacks of the DNC mainframe dating back to March and posts this website linking to a handful of DNC documents. He also claims that he has handed over to WikiLeaks thousands of additional documents and emails.

- June 14, 2016 - WaPo begins attempting to infer connections between Team Trump and Russia. LINK

- June 15, 2016 - CrowdStrike suggests that Guccifer2.0 may be just a front for the Cozy Bear/Fancy Bear Russian cyber-espionage units, but they support this with nothing but conjecture. LINK

- June 2016 - Some cyber geeks out of the University of Indiana, began trace-routing IP addresses affiliated with Trump Organization holdings. They found that a sever in the Trump Tower was consistently communicating with a bank in Russia. A subsequent investigation, however, found no wrong-doing. It was simply a Russian bank leasing space in Trump Tower and processing daily banking activity. There was no association with Team Trump. LINK

- June 2016 - HeatStreet confirms the FBI and DOJ requested a FISA court order to monitor 4 Trump associates, however the order was denied for being too broad. LINK
This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 8:12 am
Posted by BeefDawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:09 pm to
- July 10, 2016 - DNC staffer, Seth Rich, is murdered for no apparent reason by two gun wounds to the back. Nothing was stolen, and he was less than a mile from his home in a nice neighborhood. LINK

- July 21, 2016 - Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, offers a $20,000 reward to any information leading to the capture of Seth Rich's murderer. Noone is ever found or charged.

- July 22, 2016 - WikiLeaks drops 44,000 emails and documents with nearly 18,000 attached documents. LINK

- July 27, 2016 - Trump, during a speech, sarcastically and jokingly asks if Russia would try to locate Hillary's 33,000 deleted emails. The Left and MSM goes absolutely bonkers, accusing Trump of asking Russia to hack someone for him. This was obviously not the context, but at this point, the Russia-Trump narrative went in full propaganda mode. LINK

- Aug. 15, 2016 - DC Leaks posts tens of thousands of documents stolen from the George Soros Open Society Foundation server hack. DC Leaks/soros

- Aug. 16, 2016 - A hacking organization called the "Shadow Brokers" auctions off to the highest bidder NSA created spy program designed to inject malware and gain access to server mainframes. They prove they actually have it by releasing some of the code, which the NSA confirms is legit. Funny this is the same form of malware used to hack the DNC. Shadow Brokers

- Aug/Sept/Oct 2016 - Constant bombardment from the MSM either bashing Trump for alleged connections to Russia and "hacking the election" or MSM making veiled excuses for why the emails impugning Hillary and her campaign aren't really that bad or worthy of coverage. LINK

- Oct. 7, 2016 - ODNI chief, James Clapper, a known and repudiated liar, announces, along with President Obama, that Russians purposely are trying to influence our election process. FBI Comey and NSA Rogers refuse to directly accuse Moscow for being responsible. LINK

- Oct. 7, 2016 - WikiLeaks begins dropping 1,800 to 3,000 John Podesta emails per day for the next 30 days. LINK

- Oct. 2016 - FBI and DOJ request a more narrowed FISA court order to monitor a server inside Trump Tower. It turns out to be owned by a Russian bank simply leasing space there. However, the monitoring continues even after they find no nefarious activity linked to Trump. LINK

- Oct. 31, 2016 - FBI director Comey sees no clear link between Russia and Team Trump. LINK

- Nov. 8, 2016 - Trump wins! Lefties everywhere cry and freak out. For the next 8 weeks, all we hear is the Russians hacked the election for Trump. LINK

- Nov. 17, 2016 - NSA director, Mike Rogers, refused to suggest the Russians hacked the DNC with the purpose of helping Trump win. He has a meeting with Trump at Trump Tower, the details of which are unknown. He is fired by Obama the next day. LINK

- Jan. 4, 2017 - 17 days from leaving office, Obama suspiciously signs an EO that permits NSA intercepted communications to be disseminated to all 16 other intelligence agencies. LINK

- Jan. 10, 2017 - Buzzfeed releases the "Fake Dossier" that was created by Christopher Steele and circulated around Washington intelligence agencies by submission of RINO John McCain back in October. LINK This dossier has been quite easily debunked as fake. LINK

- Jan. 10, 2017 - CNN, and virtually every news outlet in existence, suddenly links to the BuzzFeed article and dossier and contends that Trump is some Russian Mancurian Candidate planted and corrupted by Putin and the Russian Mafia nearly a decade ago. LINK Every Lefty nut on the planet now insists that Trump is a Russian spy and "literally Hitler" and will bring on Armageddon. To this day, most Lefties still believe the dossier is real.

- Jan. 13, 2017 - 7 days from leaving office, Obama suspiciously signs an EO that changes the Attorney General succession downline so that it removes a Trump appointee (Deputy Assistant AG Dana Boente), and makes 3 consecutive Obama appointee's the next in line if anything were to happen to Jeff Sessions, Trump's AG appointment. Luckily, Trump noticed the change and reversed it before Sessions recused himself from investigating any Russia-Trump ties. LINK This just reeks of shady BS.

- March 4, 2017 - Trump accuses Obama or ordering wiretaps on Trump Tower. LINK

- March 4, 2017 - Obama denies ordering any wiretap of Trump. LINK


And that's pretty much where we stand.

I encourage everyone to also read this: LINK It describes in great detail (pretty technical) what all we know about the public evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC... and especially how it's ALL circumstantial and unsubstantiated with real proof.

The only thing we do know is that the DNC hired cyber-security firm, CrowdStrike, who suggests the hackers were Russian GRU affiliates, however they showed no indisputable proof, AND they wiped all the servers and computers involved and not a single government agency was able to examine them.

And lastly, in all this mess, there is actually not one single shred of evidence anywhere that suggests Trump or his surrogates had any actual involvement in anything. Zero, zip, nada, nothing.
This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 10:05 am
Posted by Iowa Golfer
Heaven
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:15 pm to
Itradasting!
Posted by LSUTigersVCURams
Member since Jul 2014
21940 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:19 pm to
shite, let's just be real about this. Manafort probably was talking to the Russians during the election. So here's what's going to happen. Congress is going to wag their dicks around for three years, have some hearings, come out with proof Manafort was talking to the Russians. TRUMP says "I am a shocked! Good thing I fired him." Everyone shrugs. Chuck Schumer melts. The Dems nominate some incorrigible retard to run in 2020 who then loses to Trump. The end.
This post was edited on 3/6/17 at 8:20 pm
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
140573 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:22 pm to


Hopefully we get some tax breaks, Obamacare repealed and regulations removed between all that.
Posted by HubbaBubba
North of DFW, TX
Member since Oct 2010
51690 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:22 pm to
You're goddamn right!

Posted by JoeHackett
Member since Aug 2016
5171 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:26 pm to
That's some really good work comrade.
Posted by AUstar
Member since Dec 2012
19605 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:30 pm to
quote:

- Nov. 17, 2016 - NSA director, Mike Rogers, refused to suggest the Russians hacked the DNC with the purpose of helping Trump win. He is fired by Obama the next day. LIN
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You should revise this. You should add that Mike Rogers went to Trump tower to meet with Trump (people still don't know why). After he met with Trump he was fired immediately.
Posted by RobbBobb
Member since Feb 2007
34147 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:33 pm to
quote:

shite, let's just be real about this. Manafort probably was talking to the Russians during the election.

Youre an idiot

Manafort worked for the Ukrainian prez, who went into exile with tons of money, IN RUSSIA. The Ukrainians charge the former prez with high treason. Russians refuse to release him

Manafort continued working in Ukraine with other political parties

If he was talking with the Russians, while the Ukrainians were trying to arrest their former prez, Manafort would be dead about right now
Posted by jdd48
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2012
23711 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:37 pm to
I am actually surprised Crowdstrike engaged in this nonsense. They are pretty well respected in the IT/infosec world. They actually sell an endpoint protection software package, so I wonder if they used fearmongering tactics just to scare the DNC into purchasing their product.
This post was edited on 3/6/17 at 8:40 pm
Posted by JoeHackett
Member since Aug 2016
5171 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:39 pm to
quote:

I encourage everyone to also read this: LINK It describes in great detail (pretty technical) what all we know about the public evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC... and especially how it's ALL circumstantial and unsubstantiated with real proof.


From that link:

quote:

It’s very hard to buy the argument that the Democrats were hacked by one of the most sophisticated, diabolical foreign intelligence services in history, and that we know this because they screwed up over and over again.


quote:

Truly, the argument that “Guccifer 2.0? is a Kremlin agent or that GRU breached John Podesta’s email only works if you presume that APT 28/Fancy Bear is a unit of the Russian government, a fact that has never been proven beyond any reasonable doubt.


quote:

What’s missing is any evidence at all. If this federal confidence is based on evidence that’s being withheld from the public for any reason, that’s one thing — secrecy is their game. But if the U.S. Intelligence Community is asking the American electorate to believe them, to accept as true their claim that our most important civic institution was compromised by a longtime geopolitical nemesis, we need them to show us why.


quote:

What we’re looking at now is the distinct possibility that the United States will consider military retaliation (digital or otherwise) against Russia, based on nothing but private sector consultants and secret intelligence agency notes. If you care about the country enough to be angry at the prospect of election-meddling, you should be terrified of the prospect of military tensions with Russia based on hidden evidence. You need not look too far back in recent history to find an example of when wrongly blaming a foreign government for sponsoring an attack on the U.S. has tremendously backfired.
Posted by themunch
bottom of the list
Member since Jan 2007
71744 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:42 pm to
quote:

NSA director, Mike Rogers,


Is there a reason to fire some one of his position for meeting with the President elect?
Posted by LSUTigersVCURams
Member since Jul 2014
21940 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:43 pm to
quote:

Manafort continued working in Ukraine with other political parties


Surely you aren't implying Manafort's work on behalf of the fiercely pro-Russia Opposition Bloc is proof he has nothing to do with Russia? Because that would be dishonest!
Posted by League Champs
Bayou Self
Member since Oct 2012
10340 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 9:16 pm to
quote:

pro-Russia Opposition Bloc

You dumb shite pro-Russia is their stance on use of the language, THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
quote:

The party's platform envisages protecting the status of Russian as a regional language
The party rejects the March 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia
The party wants a non-aligned status for Ukraine
It wants "peace in a united Ukraine within the borders of 1991".

They want to be completely separate from Russia, and want the former prez released so he can stand trial for high treason
Posted by LSUTigersVCURams
Member since Jul 2014
21940 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 9:24 pm to
Sorry, fool. The party is for and by ethnic Russians and it was basically created by Manafort. I am pro-Trump, mind you. But let's just be honest about what is going on.
Posted by BeefDawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
4747 posts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 9:51 pm to
So what are you suggesting? Manafort plotted with Putin to do a measly phishing email scam and release factual real emails?

Do you understand how absurd that really is considering how unsophisticated and low chance of success phishing emails are at tricking people?

Or the pure luck that Podesta didn't delete a decade worth of emails?

Or that there was even any dirt in the emails that might influence anyone's decision?

So Manafort and Putin banked their entire Manchurian Candidate scheme with Donald freaking Trump and a phishing email scam??

Come the frick on.
Posted by BeefDawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
4747 posts
Posted on 3/7/17 at 8:00 am to
I spent a while on dis shite, and it's on page 3 already? Damn.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
39187 posts
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:01 am to
To clarify,
quote:

- Sept. 2015, FBI agent Hawkins warns DNC tech support, Mr. Tamene, one of their servers was hacked by one of "The Dukes", which is alleged to be a Russian cyber-espionage unit.

Seems to conflict with:
quote:

- May 2016 - CrowdStrike ...All we have to go by is the report supplied by CrowdStrike that says it was the Russians.

I may be missing some detail or caveat.
Posted by AZTarheeel
Member since Feb 2015
3702 posts
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:10 am to
I read it and appreciate you taking the time to lay everything out in order with source links.

I wouldn't expect a ton of discussion though because the left are allergic to facts.

Also that is a hell of a lot of content competing with 20 threads about a WL tweet.

Question: why the Russians? Muslims and China represent much more recent and dangerous threats to the US. Why did Russia get chosen as the Boogeyman?
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
93164 posts
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:40 am to
quote:

Why did Russia get chosen as the Boogeyman?


because of the russian bank in trump tower and putin has been taking shots at obama for a while now.

O's whitehouse thought they could kill 2 birds with one stone; putin & trump but it backfired bigly.
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