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Even within that article it states that those folders were created after the story broke and the drive was in FBI custody. That would indicate to me that someo
by kcplate 4y ago
Even within that article it states that those folders were created after the story broke and the drive was in FBI custody.
That would indicate to me that someone in the FBI likely created folders to pull files into associated with those topics accidentally on the drive rather than on another storage location.
- notahacker 4y agoI guess it's theoretically possible that labelling evidence "Salacious pics package" is a critical part of FBI investigative procedure they accidentally exposed to the press, if you want to believe enough. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest the political organization that actually provided the copy of the drive to the media and whose electoral messaging around the emails the folders happened to perfectly align with might have had a little more to do with it...
- kcplate 4y agoI don’t necessarily disagree that whoever had access to that drive after it landed at the FBI could have had a political ax to grind. It’s pretty apparent over the last 7 years that there is some highly politicized factions within the FBI. However, it’s definitely hard to sell the “it’s manufactured Russian disinformation” because of folders that were created after it reached the FBI and after the contents of the drive were made public to the media. Frankly I think the most damning stuff is the emails that were DKIM verified anyway.