The FBI got hit with an embarrassing hack. Besides the obvious that they’re supposed to be on the catching end of those, not the victim end, this hack in particular raises eyebrows as to what the intruders might have been phishing for. Could it maybe have something to do with Hillary Clinton? There’s a good chance of it. It leads down the pizzagate trail, but oh yeah, that’s been debunked.
FBI unhappily hacked
Apparently, the FBI is dealing with a malicious hacking attempt on its systems. Gizmodo and a whole bunch of other outlets are circulating a story first reported by CNN, Friday morning, February 17.
It’s “still unclear just which systems were compromised and for how long.” That’s about the extent of official details.
The FBI calls what they’re investigating a kind of “cyber incident” that hit one of its computer networks. A couple unnamed sources “briefed” CNN “on the matter.” Besides investigating, they say they’re “working to contain the supposed hack attempt.”
FBI investigating hack of its computer network: report https://t.co/G9kU9ny1eX
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 17, 2023
CNN notes, “scant details” were released, “regarding how big the attempted hack was or how widespread the impact could have been.”
The anonymous sources did have one thing to say which prompted all sorts of speculation. The “incident involved the FBI computer system used to investigate child sexual abuse material.” Oh yeah?
“The sources also said the hack had somehow involved the FBI’s New York field office.” Hmm, the one that investigated child pornography on Anthony Weiner’s laptop? The one stuffed full of Hillary Clinton’s emails to his wife, Huma Abedin? Hillary and Huma were intimately close in those days, which is how Anthony had so much time to sext a 15-year-old girl. He got a couple years behind bars over that.
In case you missed it
Even if the current hack has nothing to do with Clinton emails and child pornography, now’s a good time to refresh everyone’s recollection of what the FBI was up to back at the end of 2016. By January 31, 2017, Federal prosecutors at the New York Office were “considering whether to file child pornography charges against disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner.”
The tough decision was “whether Weiner should be considered a sexual predator or a man with a non-criminal sexting addiction who engaged with one girl who happened to be underage.”
Text messages which were publicly revealed “showed he clearly was aware the girl was underage.” On a Skype video chat, “Weiner asked the girl to undress and touch herself.” The big problem for the FBI was that his wife shared the laptop.
FBI investigating hack of its computer network: report https://t.co/G9kU9ny1eX
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 17, 2023
The bureau agent was rattled enough by what he saw to swear out a formal affidavit and get it into the official record. He didn’t feel suicidal and wanted to keep his family healthy, too. It was dated 10/3/2016 and titled “FBI Communication on Discovery of Hillary Clinton E-mail on Anthony Weiner’s laptop computer part 01 of 01.”
“Just putting this on the record because of the optics of this case,” the agent begins. “During the course of my review of a computer seized from Anthony Weiner, a seizure and search of which was authorized by an SDNY Search Warrant, I encountered approximately/at least 340,000 emails stored on the computer.” They had an email client, like Outlook. It “pulled emails from servers belonging to both Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin.”
What made him nervous was a “significant number of these 340,000 emails appeared to be between Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton (the latter who appears to have used a number of different email addresses.)” You almost hear the “please don’t kill me” coming through the tone of the FBI agent’s next line. “This is based simply [on] a review of the header information. I did not review the content of these emails, as the warrant only authorized me to view items that would give me probable cause to believe that CP [Child Pornography] evidence may reside therein.“
