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Neither U.S. law enforcement nor intelligence officials ever examined DNC servers.  The DOJ admitted that the FBI never saw the Crowdstrike Report on Russian hacking claim.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/15/doj-admits-fbi-never-saw-crowdstrike-report-on-dnc-russian-hacking-claim/</ref>  Instead, they relied on the forensics of [[CrowdStrike]], a private contractor for the DNC founded by a Ukrainian oligarch that was not a neutral party, much as “Russian dossier” compiled by [[Christopher Steele]], also a DNC contractor, was not a neutral party. This puts two Democrat-hired contractors squarely behind underlying allegations in the affair – a key circumstance that Mueller ignored.

Neither U.S. law enforcement nor intelligence officials ever examined DNC servers.  The DOJ admitted that the FBI never saw the Crowdstrike Report on Russian hacking claim.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/15/doj-admits-fbi-never-saw-crowdstrike-report-on-dnc-russian-hacking-claim/</ref>  Instead, they relied on the forensics of [[CrowdStrike]], a private contractor for the DNC founded by a Ukrainian oligarch that was not a neutral party, much as “Russian dossier” compiled by [[Christopher Steele]], also a DNC contractor, was not a neutral party. This puts two Democrat-hired contractors squarely behind underlying allegations in the affair – a key circumstance that Mueller ignored.

The FBI allowed CrowdStrike and the Democratic Party's legal counsel to submit redacted records, meaning CrowdStrike and not the government decided what could be revealed or not regarding evidence of hacking.

The FBI allowed CrowdStrike and the Democratic Party's legal counsel, [[Perkins Coie]], to submit redacted records, meaning CrowdStrike and not the government decided what could be revealed or not regarding evidence of hacking.

The Mueller report conspicuously does not allege that the Russian government carried out the social media campaign. Instead it blames, as Mueller said in his closing remarks, "a private Russian entity" known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA).  It makes no connection between IRA and the Russian government.  Mueller falls far short of proving that the Russian social campaign was sophisticated, or even more than minimally related to the 2016 election. As with the collusion and Russian hacking allegations, Democratic officials had a central and overlooked hand in generating the alarm about Russian social media activity.

The Mueller report conspicuously does not allege that the Russian government carried out the social media campaign. Instead it blames, as Mueller said in his closing remarks, "a private Russian entity" known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA).  It makes no connection between IRA and the Russian government.  Mueller falls far short of proving that the Russian social campaign was sophisticated, or even more than minimally related to the 2016 election. As with the collusion and Russian hacking allegations, Democratic officials had a central and overlooked hand in generating the alarm about Russian social media activity.