And an indictment filed by Mueller's office against 12 Russians states: 'Between on or about and June 1, 2016, the Conspirators hacked the DNC Microsoft Exchange Server and stole thousands of emails from the work accounts of DNC employees. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has pushed back the estimated completion date of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents pertaining to its communications with the security firm that examined the Democratic National Committees hacked servers to October. Indeed, Crowdstrike's work was cited in Mueller's final report on Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. The FBI stated they would have been able to tackle the issue sooner, if the DNC hadnвЂ™t inhibited their investigation. This also conflicts with the DNC saying the FBI did not contact them for access. Instead, the DNC had a private cybersecurity company, Crowdstrike, examine the server. At the time, the FBI, then under James Comey, only offered its forensic assistance to the DNC, but the party refused. In March 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey was asked about the DNC server during testimony before the House Intelligence Committee - the same session when Comey publicly confirmed for the first time that the FBI was investigating potential ties between the Russian government and members of Trump's presidential campaign.Дuring that testimony, Comey acknowledged the FBI 'never got direct access to the machines themselves,' but he said Crowdstrike 'ultimately shared with us their forensics from their review of the system,' which 'my folks tell me was an appropriate substitute.' So the FBI had to rely upon a private company, CrowdStrike, which the DNC contacted after their servers were cracked. They go in and they wouldnt get the server.

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