CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is a cybersecurity technology company based in Sunnyvale, California. It provides endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. The company has been involved in investigations of several high profile cyberattacks, including the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak, and the Democratic National Committee cyber attacks.
CrowdStrike was part of the narrative that Russians had colluded with the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. This was a result of the supposed hack of the DNC computers by the Russians. This conclusion was reached by CrowdStrike without the FBI or any other US law enforcement agency being allowed to review computers, servers, server logs, etc. CNN was in the forefront of reporting that the DNC had declined requests from the FBI to review its computer services.
The denial of access was reported on various media sites on both sides of the aisle. These included The Hill, CBS News, Washington Times, CNN and RedState.
With all this in mind, why is CrowdStrike trying to back away from this narrative now? That narrative is that CrowdStrike reported the results of their investigation to be Russian links to the hack of the DNC servers.
Personal Liberty published a critique of a LA Times article on February 28th. Go here for the original LA Times article. In the Personal Liberty article Bob Livingston inserted some editor’s notes to counter the fake news narrative that the LATimes was spinning. Apparently one such note roiled the waters over at Crowdstrike.
Mr. Eddy, an Executive Vice President over at Goldin Solutions who represents CrowdStrike, sent an email to Personal Liberty asking for “important updates” to the story.
Please note emphasis added in red above.
Mr. Eddy is denying that CrowdStrike was the source of the conclusion that the Russians had hacked the DNC. He is also denying that the FBI was prevented from gaining access to underlying evidence. Again since the opposite has been reported in many places including James Comey under oath to Congress, the question is why is CrowdStrike trying to back away from these well-known facts?
Also noteworthy is the statement that CrowdStrike “did not do any investigations around the release of the information.” For three and a half years the Russia collusion scam has been repeated so often that half of America believes that Russia hacked the DNC and gave their emails to WikiLeaks. Now CrowdStrike announces that it had nothing to do with that assessment. If not them, then who did? We know it wasn’t the FBI since they never had access to the evidence.
Why is CrowdStrike reacting to a minor article on the Internet that would likely have quickly disappeared except for the intervention of their PR firm? What is their concern that they would take such an unusual step? How is CrowdStrike exposed? Who committed fraud on the American people?