Chinese
company reportedly hacked Clinton's server, got copy of every email in
real-time, by Adam Shaw, 8/29/18, Fox News.
The
Daily Caller reported
that the firm operating in the D.C. area wrote code that was then embedded in
the server and generated a “courtesy copy” for almost all her emails -- which
was then forwarded to the Chinese company.
The code reportedly was
discovered in 2015 by the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG),
which then warned FBI officials of the intrusion.
A source briefed on the
matter confirmed to Fox News the details of the Caller’s reporting, and said
that the ICIG was so concerned by the revelation that officials drove over to
the FBI to inform agents -- including anti-Trump agent Peter Strzok -- of the
development after it was discovered via the emails' metadata.
The source told Fox
News the hack was from a Chinese company, describing it as a front for Chinese
intelligence.
A second source
briefed on the matter told Fox News that officials outside of the FBI indicated
code on the Clinton server suggested a foreign source was receiving copies of
emails in real time.
The hacking report
caught the attention late Tuesday of President Trump, who warned that the FBI
and DOJ should act or “their credibility will be forever gone.”
But the FBI disputed the
claims. - “The FBI has not found any evidence the servers were
compromised,” an FBI official told Fox News and referred to the Justice
Department's Inspector General report in June. That report detailed how the FBI
conducted intrusion analyses into the server to look for evidence the accounts
on the server had been accessed.
Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Hua Chunying also responded to Trump’s tweet, saying: "This
isn't the first time we've heard similar kinds of allegations.”
"China is a staunch
defender of cybersecurity. We firmly oppose and
crack down on any forms of internet attacks and the stealing of secrets,"
she said, according to Reuters.
The ICIG declined to
comment.
Clinton's office did not
respond to a request for comment, but a spokesman told The Daily Caller, “The
FBI spent thousands of hours investigating, and found no evidence of intrusion.
That’s a fact.”
Fox News reported in March
that Strzok was advised of an irregularity in the metadata of Clinton’s server
that suggested a possible
breach,
but no follow-up action was taken.
Further, a
May 2016 email from Strzok, obtained by Fox News earlier this year, said
“we know foreign actors obtained access” to some Clinton emails, including at
least one “secret” message “via compromises of the private email accounts” of
Clinton staffers.
Rep. Louie Gohmert,
R-Texas, asked Strzok in a House Oversight Committee hearing in July whether he was briefed about an
anomaly on Clinton’s emails found by ICIG officials.
“You were given that
information, and you did nothing with it,” Gohmert told Strzok in July.
Strzok said he remembered
meeting with the ICIG officials, but did not remember the contents of the
meeting and that every allegation was forwarded to experts who looked at it
carefully.
“If there was a lead, I
gave it to the team,” Strzok said as part of a heated back-and-forth between
the two. Strzok was fired this month after controversy surrounding anti-Trump
texts he sent to FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair.
Reached by phone Tuesday,
Gohmert told Fox News on Tuesday that the emails were obtained by a foreign
country’s intelligence, but he declined to name the country in question. He
said there was no sign that Strzok and the FBI had taken any action when
informed by the ICIG, and no indication that they even informed Clinton.
He told Fox News he was
surprised that his questioning about it in the Strzok hearing in July didn’t
generate more media attention, but noted that the press seized on a comment he
made shortly afterward when he asked Strzok, “How many times did you look into
your wife’s eyes and lie about Lisa Page?”
“It’s critically
important,” he said, when asked about the significance of the server
revelation. “There are countries that would pay a tremendous amount of money to
know what Clinton was saying, doing and thinking through her emails, what she’s
doing, who she’s going to meet, what she thought about meetings, not necessarily
classified but critically important and those emails were compromised and
people like Strzok, when they were briefed, knew this would devastate her
chances of being elected and they weren't about to do anything to hurt those
chances.”
Then-FBI Director James
Comey concluded the FBI’s investigation into Clintons emails in July 2016,
saying that while Clinton had been “extremely careless” in her handling of
classified information, he would not recommend charges to the DOJ.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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