companies, and even international companies. and they have great cyber forensics and the ability to investigate and attribute attributi attribution, and they re also a resource for our defense. they would all rely on a company like this. for six months, this was taken as stated fact. crowdstrike, got it. let s move on to the next one. by the aspring of 17, this was the first time the president started to question crowdstrike. he tweeted something. an a.p. reporter said why did you bring up crowdstrike? he said i heard it s owned by a very rich ukrainian. this is not true. but how do we get to the seed of doubt here? what we saw in the first part is you take a fact and use a fact to propel the lie. this is essentially how you make that falsehood move to where you want it to be. the answer, the story that they want out there, is that ukraine meddled in the election. there s also other entities that want that story, too. places like russia where crowdstrike is one of the biggest defe
you can refute them. if you re a propagandist, you know that. continue to ask questions. question more. also, the motto of the certain russian state-sponsored outlet is exhaust the audience with so many possibilities you can t know the truth and they ll walk away. two facts. fact number one, as of november of this year, the nrcc, which is the republican campaign arm for house races, used crowdstrike to protect the constant contract. and you said this is a russian effort to sort of smear crowdstrike specifically. why? if russia can disable crowdstrike, if they can take away their customer base, or if they can continue to make people say you don t believe what crowdstrike is doing and saying or providing evidence for, they are actually taking away one of their opponents, and they re using the american target audience to do that. clint watts, this is amazing what the world that we have to e live in now and have to figure out. thanks for having me. when we come back, the art of s
russian cyberattacks and aggression. this is april of 2017. let s go to the next slide that we have here. this is president trump last month in november on fox and friends, where essentially he starts to put it all together. the democrats, they gave the server to crowdstrike. it s a very wealthy ukrainian. a ukrainian company. that s what the word is. two and a half years later, he s still perpetuating this, and they even asked, you know, there s not a lot of truth to this, but he says it anyway. good if you want to propel your lie, just keep issuing falsehoods. the truth has one voice. but lies are infinite. you can continue to make more and more lies, which then wears out anybody trying to rebut them. okay, the president says these things, and it gets covered. donald trump ten years ago, this doesn t get covered. that s right. you can do all of this on social media. you can write 1,000 stories, but the thing that powers all of these narratives the most is when a very influentia
one of the favors he requested involved a cybersecurity firm called crowdstrike. they were hired to look into the hacking of the democratic committee s server and determined that russia was responsible. mr. trump has since suggested that crowdstrike is a ukraine wherein-owned company that has spirited this server to ukraine. all in the service of claiming it was ukraine, not russia that interfered in the 2016 election. the claim itself has no basis in fact. clint watticize a security analyst and the author of messing with the enemy and he s going to help us understand how unfounded allegations like this spread. good to see you. we re calling this the anatomy of a lie. all successful lies begin with a kernel of truth. simply, crowdstrike hired to investigate dnc server hack. very quickly, why crowdstrike and not the fbi in something like this? crowdstrike is a cybersecurity company, one of the best in the world, and one of the best for america, and they routinely work for groups lik