*'''14 June.''' ''Washington Post'' puts out sensational [[fake news]] story of Russian hacking the DNC. CrowdStrike is reported as discovering the hack, but the hack has never been independently verified by the FBI or any other independent firm or government agency. CrowdStrike,<ref>colloquially referred to as "industry" by the IC.</ref> under contract to the DNC, is assisting the DNC to brace for embarrassing Wikileaks revelations of the document dumps procured by DNC [[Whistleblower Statutes|whistleblower]] Seth Rich by blaming Russian hackers.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.9c00be4c3957</ref><ref>http://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html</ref><ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-22/muzzled-breitbart-wh-correspondent-ordered-not-ask-televised-question-discrediting-d</ref> | *'''14 June.''' ''Washington Post'' puts out sensational [[fake news]] story of Russian hacking the DNC. CrowdStrike is reported as discovering the hack, but the hack has never been independently verified by the FBI or any other independent firm or government agency. CrowdStrike,<ref>colloquially referred to as "industry" by the IC.</ref> under contract to the DNC, is assisting the DNC to brace for embarrassing Wikileaks revelations of the document dumps procured by DNC [[Whistleblower Statutes|whistleblower]] Seth Rich by blaming Russian hackers.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.9c00be4c3957</ref><ref>http://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html</ref><ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-22/muzzled-breitbart-wh-correspondent-ordered-not-ask-televised-question-discrediting-d</ref> |