::*Hillary Clinton then received her first classified briefing — alone, for 2 hours — from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence at a Federal Bureau of Investigation facility in White Plains, NY.
:*Rodney Joffe sent the white paper, with the fake Trump-Alfa Bank allegations on which DNC attorney Michael Sussmann had been working, to his team at Neustar with the following comment:
{{quotebox-float|"Please read as if you had no prior knowledge or involvement, and you were handed this document as a security expert (NOT a DNS expert) and were asked: Is this plausible as an explanation?' NOT to be able to say that this is, without doubt, fact, but to merely be plausible. Do NOT spend more than a short while on this (If you spend more than an hour you have failed the assignment). Hopefully less. :)"}}
::*One of Joffe’s researchers replied, stating that the white paper achieved Joffe’s objective, but noting that the paper “smartly” avoided discussing weaknesses or “holes” in the paper's hypothesis.