Copies of the server....and YES, this is what I had been saying all along, for at least 6 to 8 months, the FBI didn't need the DNC server, when they got copies of it...
If the copy is as good as the original then why couldn't the FBI have just gotten the original?
Before they knew who hacked them, the DNC hired a cyber expert firm to investigate the hacks, who got the original DNC server, and they made copies of it and sent it to the FBI with their analysis, and also...I believe to something like 5 other cyber expert firms with their analysis for peer review...
Pffffft. The DNC hired Crowdstrike. Who are all Democrats. Co founder Dmitri is a member of the Atlantic Council. Loaded with mostly Democrats. Funded by the Ukrainians including Victor Pinchuk who also sits on the Atlantic Council.
Pinchuk is the oligarch who gave the Clinton Foundation millions of dollars and in return got a sweet deal with the Iranians for $$$$$$ authorized by Clinton's State Department. Mega Ukrainian money. No wonder they blamed the Russians.
No one else actually examined the servers.
"Crowdstrike founder Alperovitch is a
Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, and head honcho of its “Cyber Statecraft Initiative” – of which his role in promoting the “Putin did it” scenario is a Exhibit A.
James Carden,
writing in
The Nation, makes the trenchant point that “The connection between Alperovitch and the Atlantic Council has gone largely unremarked upon, but it is relevant given that the Atlantic Council – which
is funded in part by the US State Department, NATO, the governments of Latvia and Lithuania, the Ukrainian World Congress, and the Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk –
has been among the loudest voices calling for a new Cold War with Russia.” Adam Johnson,
writing on the FAIR blog, adds to our knowledge by noting that the Council’s budget is also supplemented by “a consortium of Western corporations (Qualcomm, Coca-Cola, The Blackstone Group), including weapons manufacturers (Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman) and oil companies (ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP).”
More at link to see how dirty and very wrong Crowdstrike has been.
The Evidence That Russia Hacked The DNC Is Collapsing