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Could federal watchdog tamper with Trump wiretap evidence? It may not be a first
The Hill ^ | March 1, 2018 | SHARYL ATTKISSON

Posted on 03/01/2018 11:52:39 PM PST by Enchante

As our lawsuit continues, so do our forensics. New computer investigative tools have become available, and grains of evidence have been solidified into forensic mountains. Our evidence involves multiple computers and government I.P. addresses discovered improperly residing in them.

That brings us to the news.

Not long ago, my forensics team asked if I used that Apple computer after the IG returned it. My team was conducting a new exam. “No,” I replied, “it hasn’t functioned since before I gave it to the IG. I just stored it when they returned it. Why?”

“Because — that’s not your hard drive inside the computer they gave back to you,” they told me. “… We know the serial number on the hard drive when you bought it. We recorded the same serial number on our earlier forensics exams. This is a different hard drive. Completely different serial number. Not even close.”

I would never have known if we hadn’t gone back in that computer for additional forensics.

In addition to somebody changing the scope of the IG investigation midstream, and the office withholding from me the notes and the report on my own complaint, somebody also switched out my hard drive before the IG returned it to me.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; doj; fbi; msm
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Clear indications that the DOJ's IG office may be completely untrustworthy when it comes to investigations, i.e., just another SWAMP THING.

They slow-rolled, narrowed, and totally botched/punted the investigation of govt intrusions into Sharyl Attkisson's computers. THEN they switched out the hard drive of one of her computers while it was in their possession!!!

1 posted on 03/01/2018 11:52:39 PM PST by Enchante
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Prolly mirrored the drive and kept the original.


2 posted on 03/01/2018 11:54:53 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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This information seriously undermines hopes that the IG office of DOJ will prove to be any kind of “white hat” in the upcoming report. They may well be doing simply damage control and dishonestly limiting and distorting their reporting of FBI and DOJ malfeasance.

If Sharyl Attkisson’s experiences mean anything (and they do), then the IG cannot be counted upon to do anything except try to minimize problems for DOJ with public and Congress.


3 posted on 03/01/2018 11:55:39 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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This information seriously undermines hopes that the IG office of DOJ will prove to be any kind of “white hat” in the upcoming report. They may well be doing simply damage control and dishonestly limiting and distorting their reporting of FBI and DOJ malfeasance.

If Sharyl Attkisson’s experiences mean anything (and they do), then the IG cannot be counted upon to do anything except try to minimize problems for DOJ with public and Congress.


4 posted on 03/01/2018 11:55:39 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: Gene Eric

Nothing more nefarious than that? They could have changed/inserted any kind of “evidence” to affect ongoing legal proceedings.


5 posted on 03/01/2018 11:57:11 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: Enchante

I’m only speaking to the different serial #s.


6 posted on 03/01/2018 11:59:03 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

Yes, thanks. I’m simply wondering whether it was a minor switch (identical mirrored content) or whether any evidence was changed....


7 posted on 03/02/2018 12:02:15 AM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: Gene Eric

Yes, thanks. I’m simply wondering whether it was a minor switch (identical mirrored content) or whether any evidence was changed....


8 posted on 03/02/2018 12:02:15 AM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: Enchante

Good question.

Would love to know what exactly happened Attkinson. She’s a good egg.


9 posted on 03/02/2018 12:05:11 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Nah, clearly the IG is the one and only agency/ office of government that isn’t corrupt.

/s

If the IG was capable of achieving any sort of effective outcome whatsoever, Attorney Genital Sessions wouldn’t use it at all.

The entire government stinks of sh!t.


10 posted on 03/02/2018 12:11:16 AM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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That would be encrypted/compressed and hidden with some type of Trojan to unencrypt it and decompress it X months later as a hidden directory of kiddie porn or the account info to a couple hundred thousand in “untaxed income” to destroy the owners life.

Seriously, government officials who are clearly caught doing this should get the death penalty. It would behoove even the most innocent and unobtrusive citizen to record the serials of all major hardware components in computers they own as a defense to this type of subversion.


11 posted on 03/02/2018 12:16:55 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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True, govt “forensic” investigators could ruin almost anyone’s life so easily. Very few would have the knowledge, preparation, or resources to fight back.


12 posted on 03/02/2018 12:25:31 AM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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There must have been something damned incriminating on that drive for the feds to take the risk of swapping it out.

If Sharyl's forensic team recorded the drive's serial number before they originally turned it over I wonder if they made a complete bitwise copy of the drive's internals also.

I bet the feds are wondering the exact same thing now that their evidence tampering has been exposed.
13 posted on 03/02/2018 12:28:23 AM PST by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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Either way it's not the way evidence should be handled.

If there was anything of value to investigators on that drive they should have retained it and the original machine it was in, not return the computer with a different drive to the owner of the computer. If there's nothing on it that they believe has value as evidence there's no reason not to return the original to her.

Makes me wonder if they can produce the original drive or if they've destroyed it.

14 posted on 03/02/2018 12:32:36 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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Clear indications that the DOJ’s IG office may be completely untrustworthy when it comes to investigations>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Since the Obama liberal fascists have NOT been stopped, Civil War II is about to begin.


15 posted on 03/02/2018 12:42:14 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Gene Eric

My thoughts as well.


16 posted on 03/02/2018 12:46:05 AM PST by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: Enchante

Another example of government run amok. This is not the government we are supposed to have. The Constitution (remember that quaint document?) gives the power to the people and defines LIMITED government.

How much longer will we tolerate these abuses? President Trump is only one man and all of the Swamp is against him 24/7. He needs our help.


17 posted on 03/02/2018 12:48:53 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Rashputin

Exactly. With all the obscene scandals about the FBI lab and mishandling of so much evidence over the years, one would have hoped that all areas of federal investigations had been revamped with the most rigorous evidence handling standards.

That seems not to be the case!!


18 posted on 03/02/2018 12:52:53 AM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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I fear you are right. I had rested my hopes on an honest DOJ IG, and an aggressive Jeff Sessions.

These are the highest of high crimes and felonies possible in a republic, a nation of laws. The betrayal of trust by those responsible for enforcing the supreme law of the land constitutes an overthrow of the sovereign, We the People. Outside of bills of attainder, Congress has tremendous power to deal with this assault. But, of course, it won’t.

The day these criminals from Obama on down to Strzok and Page are exonerated will mark the formal end of the republic and the beginning of authoritarian America.

Further voting will be a waste of time little more important than voting was in the Soviet Union.


19 posted on 03/02/2018 1:06:43 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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Poor Sharyl.

Everything always seems to happen to her.


20 posted on 03/02/2018 1:13:20 AM PST by humblegunner
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