BuzzFeed Suing DNC For Proof They Were Hacked

[Swordsmyth]

BuzzFeed is suing the cash-strapped Democratic National Committee (DNC) to force them to hand over information related to the "Steele Dossier" that might help the news outlet defend itself against a lawsuit lodged by a Russian businessman who was named in the document.

Three separate lawsuits have been launched against BuzzFeed in connection to the January 11, 2017 publication of the dossier, which states that Russian tech executive Aleksej Gubarev used his web hosting companies to hack into the DNC's computer systems.

The dossier, without substantiation, said Gubarev’s U.S.-based global web-hosting companies, XBT and Webzilla, planted digital bugs, transmitted viruses and conducted altering operations against the Democratic Party leadership.
While one key name in the dossier was blackened out by BuzzFeed, Gubarev’s was not. He alleges that he was never contacted for comment, suffering reputational harm in the process. -Foreign Policy

As part of their defense, BuzzFeed issued a subpoena to the DNC for information which might help them defend against Gubarev's lawsuit by verifying claims in the dossier - including "digital remnants left by the Russian state operatives," as well as a full version of the hacking report prepared by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
Since the DNC wouldn't let the FBI look at the server and instead relied on the report prepared by CrowdStrike (founded by Russian expat Dimitri Alperovitch - who sits on the very Anti-Russian Atlantic Council along with Evelyn "oops!" Farkas. The AC is funded by the US State Department, NATO, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukranian Oligarch Victor Pinchuk, who apparently owns the Ukrainian gas company Joe Biden's son is on the board of).
“As part of the discovery process, BuzzFeed is attempting to verify claims in the dossier that relate to the hacking of the DNC,” said BuzzFeed spokesman Matt Mittenhal in a statement. “We’re asking a federal court to force the DNC to follow the law and allow BuzzFeed to fully defend its First Amendment rights.”
Last month, the DNC claimed that providing the requested information would expose the DNC's internal operations and harm the party politically (it's always someone else's fault, no?).
“If these documents were disclosed, the DNC’s internal operations, as well as its ability to effectively achieve its political goals, would be harmed,” said DNC lawyers.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ey-were-hacked

[dannno]

Since the DNC wouldn't let the FBI look at the server and instead relied on the report prepared by CrowdStrike (founded by Russian expat Dimitri Alperovitch - who sits on the very Anti-Russian Atlantic Council along with Evelyn "oops!" Farkas. The AC is funded by the US State Department, NATO, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukranian Oligarch Victor Pinchuk, who apparently owns the Ukrainian gas company Joe Biden's son is on the board of).

Shocking

[Firestarter]

“As part of the discovery process, BuzzFeed is attempting to verify claims in the dossier that relate to the hacking of the DNC,” said BuzzFeed spokesman Matt Mittenhal in a statement. “We’re asking a federal court to force the DNC to follow the law and allow BuzzFeed to fully defend its First Amendment rights.”
Last month, the DNC claimed that providing the requested information would expose the DNC's internal operations and harm the party politically (it's always someone else's fault, no?).
“If these documents were disclosed, the DNC’s internal operations, as well as its ability to effectively achieve its political goals, would be harmed,” said DNC lawyers.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ey-were-hacked

Maybe I’m the only one to think that it would be a whole lot more interesting if BuzzFeed would sue the Trump Organization, the Russian Alfa Bank and/or Michigan-based Spectrum Health of the DeVos family for the logs on their communication with each other.

The Alfa Bank, Spectrum Health and Trump denied that they were communicating with each other.
The FBI “investigation” was closed with the conclusion “that there could be an innocuous explanation, like a marketing email or spam, for the computer contacts”.

The following image shows that there was a distinct pattern in the communication.


Maybe there are other explanations possible, but this looks like communication to synchronise 2 or 3 databases.
There could be different reasons why 3 organisations working together would need a synchronised database. One possibility is (that they were removing evidence on) money laundering.

The bulk of the communication took place between the Trump server and Alfa Bank: https://teapainusa.wordpress.com/201...e-with-russia/
(archived here: http://archive.is/dyW4F)

Alfa Bank is part of the Alfa Group, who’s CEO, the Ukrainian born Mikhail Fridman, is one of the richest billionaires in Russia and close to Vladimir Putin.
Fridman is also a board member of the US-based International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Fridman isn’t only close to Russian President Putin, but also to Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, Alexey Kuzmichev and Pyotr Aven, are the 4 largest of 7 beneficial shareholders of Alfa Bank.
In the early 1990s, Pyotr Aven helped Vladimir Putin to cover-up a corruption case that would have forced him to be expelled from the St. Petersburg government: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...-and-Alfa-Bank


For more information on the money laundering, drugs trafficking Alfa Group: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6588358