punchgaq.blogg.se

Trump has dismissed the dossier as "bogus" and denied his campaign had any ties to Russia.īuzzFeed argues the DNC has information that could bolster its defense against Gubarev's lawsuit. The dossier, funded in part by the DNC and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, contains inflammatory allegations about President Donald Trump and his alleged connections to Russia. The DNC did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the subpoena.BuzzFeed is suing the Democratic National Committee for information about a controversial dossier about Donald Trump the news outlet published last year.īuzzFeed has filed a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee, hoping to receive information related to a libel lawsuit the news site faces over its publication of Christopher Steele's Russia dossier.īuzzFeed, which published the controversial dossier last year, has been sued by Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian businessman who says he was libeled by BuzzFeed's publication of the dossier when it tied him with the alleged hacking of DNC email servers during the 2016 US presidential campaign.

It is also reportedly requesting information about the type of malware used in the hack as well as “non-public” analysis and other related reports. “It seeks irrelevant information because it’s not asking the question that actually matters: Was Gubarev, XBT, or Webzilla responsible for the hack? The answer to that question is ‘No.’ ”īuzzFeed is requesting “technical information and data obtained during the investigation into the Democratic Hack, including all host-based and network-based artifacts,” according to a copy of the subpoena obtained and reviewed by Foreign Policy. “BuzzFeed’s subpoena doesn’t amount to much,” Evan Fray-Witzer, a lawyer for Gubarev, told Foreign Policy. One of Gubarev's lawyers suggested the subpoena is a moot point, saying it seeks information that doesn't matter in their case: whether Gubarev and his companies were involved in the DNC cyberattack. Gubarev’s servers were behind the DNC hack,” BuzzFeed News spokesman Matt Mittenthal told Foreign Policy. “One prong of our strategy is to prove that the dossier was being acted on and circulated by officials at the highest levels of government but we would be remiss if we didn’t use every tool to determine the truth of what actually happened - and whether, as the dossier claims, Mr. Gubarev has strongly denied the allegations made in the dossier, which claim that his companies helped the Russian government hack the DNC computer systems during last year's presidential campaign.Īs part of its defense strategy, BuzzFeed is trying to verify the dossier's allegations, according to the report.