Hillary Clinton supporter pushed Trump-Russia computer narrative investigated by FBI
by John Solomon and Sara Carter
A respected computer scientist who raised concerns about a possible connection between Donald Trump and a Russian bank is an unabashed Hillary Clinton supporter who made multiple small donations to the Democrat’s presidential campaign around the time she and her colleagues surfaced the allegations.
Who is L. Jean Camp?
Indiana University professor L. Jean Camp, a recognized expert whose work includes federal research on the security of Internet-connected devices, became a spokesperson last fall for a loose group of computer researchers who reported they had detected a series of communications between a commercial email server registered at Donald Trump’s office in New York City and a server at Alfa Bank in Russia.
Posted to Reddit
Logs of the computer communications -- known as Domain Name System look ups - were originally put on the Reddit social media site by one of the researchers, and then by Camp on her personal Web site. They quickly became grist for a series of stories suggesting there may have been a secret channel of communication between one of the largest private commercial banks in Vladimir Putin’s country and Trump’s campaign.
FBI says server provided no evidence
The FBI counterintelligence team that chronicled Russian interference in the U.S. election briefly reviewed the server connections and concluded they did not provide evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign and likely were explainable by routine computer behavior, U.S. officials told Circa, speaking only on condition of anonymity.