So the DNC didn’t turn over its physical servers because they were still using those during the campaign - and the FBI had access to the imaging. Both the DNC and the security firm Crowdstrike, hired to respond to the breach, have said repeatedly over the years that they gave the FBI a copy of all the DNC images back in 2016. The images, not the computer’s hardware, provide the evidence. This has been standard procedure in computer intrusion investigations for decades. They do the same for the machine’s memory, capturing evidence that would otherwise be lost at the next reboot, and they monitor and store the traffic passing through the victim’s network. When cyber investigators respond to an incident, they capture that evidence in a process called “imaging.” They make an exact byte-for-byte copy of the hard drives. The Daily Beast has a good look at the underlying information from Kevin Poulson today. How could the FBI have gathered information on those hackers without access to information from the DNC servers? And they didn’t have to “turn over” their servers in order to provide the FBI with the information on the hacking, as is obvious from the Mueller indictment of 12 Russian hackers. Where is the server? I want to know where is the server and what is the server saying?īut there’s one problem: the DNC did apparently cooperate with the FBI, according to the FBI. Why was the FBI told to leave the office of the Democratic National Committee? I’ve been wondering that, I’ve been asking that for months and months and I’ve been tweeting it out and calling it out on social media. You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server - haven’t they taken the server. He has no evidence whatsoever to suggest that his intelligence agencies are wrong - but he does have a question he frequently posits, and that has been repeated ad nauseum by those on the right who question the official story: if the DNC was hacked by the Russians, why didn’t they turn over their servers to the FBI? In doing so, he threw his own intelligence agencies under the bus. On Monday, President Trump granted credence to Vladimir Putin’s account of the hacks of the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, as well as Hillary Clinton’s campaign servers, had nothing to do with Russia.