{"id":38289,"date":"2021-10-31T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=38289"},"modified":"2021-10-31T12:49:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:49:53","slug":"crowdstrike-one-of-russiagates-biggest-culprits-ex-house-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/31\/crowdstrike-one-of-russiagates-biggest-culprits-ex-house-investigator\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdstrike One of Russiagate&#8217;s \u2018Biggest Culprits&#8217;: Ex-House Investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\">The Grayzone<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a top investigator on the House Intelligence Committee, Kash Patel helped uncover the Clinton campaign\u2019s funding of the Steele dossier and the FBI\u2019s extensive and deceptive reliance on it.<\/p>\n<p>Patel joins Aaron Mat\u00e9 to discuss Steele\u2019s new attempt to defend his discredited work via a softball interview with ABC News. Patel also addresses the key role of newly indicted Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann in hiring and overseeing another heavily influential Clinton campaign contractor, CrowdStrike, the cyber-firm behind the foundational allegation that Russia hacked the DNC. \u201cCrowdStrike is one of the biggest culprits of the Russia fraud,\u201d Patel says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor some reason, for the only time in FBI history that I can think of, they allowed an outside non-government entity to referee. That is, to go in and seize the servers of a target of an investigation and let a third party, CrowdStrike, referee what the FBI could and could not have access to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4p2rtZI1-UE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read more: <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2021\/09\/20\/with-clinton-lawyer-charged-the-russiagate-scam-is-now-indicted\/\">With Clinton lawyer charged, the Russiagate scam is now indicted<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mate.substack.com\/p\/indicted-clinton-lawyer-hired-crowdstrike\">Indicted Clinton lawyer hired CrowdStrike, firm behind dubious Russian hacking claim<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/grayzone\">Support The Grayzone at Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Grayzone: As a top investigator on the House Intelligence Committee, Kash Patel helped uncover the Clinton campaign\u2019s funding of the Steele dossier and the FBI\u2019s extensive and deceptive reliance on it. Patel joins Aaron Mat\u00e9 to discuss Steele\u2019s new attempt to defend his discredited work via a softball interview with ABC News. Patel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-38289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38289"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38295,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38289\/revisions\/38295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38289"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=38289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}