We've been hearing about this for a while now, and here's the most recent: Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson: DNC Declined Our Offer to Help Fight Russian Hacking. From the article:
KING: Can you elaborate more on what the DHS’s connection with the DNC was, or consultation with the DNC after it became aware of the hacking, as to what was offered them, what they accepted? Was there any level of cooperation at all?
JOHNSON: To my disappointment, not to my knowledge, sir. And this is a question I asked repeatedly when I first learned of it—”What are we doing? Are we in there? Are we helping them discover the vulnerabilities?” Because this is fresh off the experience and there was a point at which DHS cybersecurity experts did get into OPM and help them discover the bad actors and patch some of the infiltrations, or at least minimize some of the damage. So I was anxious to know whether our folks were in there and the response I got was—FBI had spoken to them, they don’t want our help, they have Crowd Strike cybersecurity firm, and that was the answer I got after I asked the question a number of times over the progression of time.
Former Secretary Johnson was relying on second hand information, but from what we knew already, it sounded very credible. Nonetheless, along comes Debbie Wasserman Schultz with a denial. See Debbie Wasserman Schultz: FBI, DHS never contacted me about DNC hack. Here's a quote attributable to her:
"At no point during my tenure at the DNC did anyone from the FBI or any other government agency contact or communicate with me about Russian intrusion on the DNC network."
Whoa, ya gotta parse those words. It's entirely possible that they never communicated directly with Schultz. And if they did, it's also entirely possible the words "Russian intrusion" were not mentioned, particularly since that aspect wasn't disclosed until later. So she's got some plausible deniability going on there. How convenient. But those of us out here in flyover country have grown very suspicious of Schultz's shenanigans.
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