Strzok personally interviewed former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who recently pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Strzok, as a top counterintelligence official at the Bureau, reportedly signed the documents that established the FBI’s July 2016 investigation into Russia’s influence in the presidential election.
“Every time would say that about us, I would go after them and say, ‘What the hell are you talking about? We’ve given you everything you’re asking for,’” she said.īrazile was asked by PJM for her reaction to the anti-Trump text messages exchanged between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page, for which special counsel Robert Mueller removed Strzok from the Trump investigation. The operation was so stealth,” she said.īrazile mentioned that former FBI Director James Comey had said during one of his congressional testimonies that the DNC did not cooperate with the FBI in terms of access to its server. Everything was wiped clean, but we made a replica.”īrazile recalled the DNC having to decide whether to “shut down” or “kill” the server after the hack took place. “If you can imagine this, right before the convention, these staffers had lost all of their data, all of their materials – everything was gone.
So we, trust me, it cost us quite a penny to make replicas and then we destroyed the machines and then bought the staff people new laptops,” she said. We also let them see all of the evidence from all of the individual computers, from everything else. “We made a replica of everything and turned it all over to. They got a list from the FBI of things the FBI wanted, and in that list of items that the FBI requested they asked for a replica or an exact copy of everything we had from our server, knowing that if we got rid of our server we actually would get rid of our entire database, our brain would gone and then essentially we would have nothing,” she added.īrazile said the total duplication and remediation process after the hacking cost the DNC “millions” of dollars. A staffer told her “‘we’re told to turn in all of our systems,’ so everyone turned in everything.” My machines had already started to have some really interesting – I had a DNC phone and a DNC computer and DNC email because as I mentioned I did a lot of stuff in the voting-rights field and ‘what’s going on?’” Brazile said during the event at the National Press Club on Tuesday evening. “The first time I heard about the quote-unquote hacking, it was in June I heard about it. Several cybersecurity firms, including CrowdStrike, attributed the hack to Russia. During a discussion about her new book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House, Brazile was asked why the DNC did not immediately allow the FBI to examine its server after the hacking took place during the 2016 presidential campaign.