The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee announced Friday that it has launched inquiry into Iran’s hacking of the Trump Campaign to support the Biden-Harris campaign.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed in a joint statement Wednesday that “Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails.”
Additionally, the agencies said Iranian hackers had been sending “stolen, non-public material associated with former President Trump’s campaign to U.S. media organizations” since June.
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said “details about the hack have been few” and demanded an unclassified briefing to learn more, including when the FBI discovered the hack, what exactly was stolen and with whom specifically was it shared.
Jordan noted that according to reporting, Iran emailed the illegally obtained information to “at least three advisers on the Democratic presidential campaign.” In addition, Jordan continued, research compiled by the Trump campaign on Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio) and internal Trump campaign polls were sent to “at least three major media outlets—Politico, the Washington Post, and the New York Times—from an AOL account using the pseudonym ‘Robert.’ However, the outlets have not publicly disclosed what other confidential information they received from Iran.”
The Committee is requested the briefing to address the following questions:
1. What material did Iran obtain from President Trump’s campaign?
2. To whom at the Biden for President or the Harris for President campaigns did the hackers
send information and materials?
3. What actions did the Biden for President or the Harris for President campaigns take with
regards to the material after it was received?
4. Who has the FBI interviewed in relation to this matter, including those individuals
associated with the Biden for President or the Harris for President campaigns?
5. On what date did the FBI learn there had been a hack and exfiltration of nonpublic
information from President Trump’s campaign?
6. On what date did the FBI authenticate the documents that Iran obtained from President
Trump’s campaign?
7. How did the FBI authenticate the documents that Iran obtained from President Trump’s
campaign?
8. On what date(s) did Iran provide the stolen documents to the Biden for President
campaign or the Harris for President campaign?
9. On what date did the FBI first inform President Trump’s campaign it had been hacked?
10. On what date did the FBI first inform the Justice Department about the Iranian hack of
President Trump’s campaign?
11. On what date did the FBI first inform the National Security Council about the Iranian
hack of President Trump’s campaign?
12. On what date did information about the Iranian hack of President Trump’s campaign first
appear in the Presidential Daily Brief?
13. Why did it take the FBI so long to inform President Trump’s campaign it had been
hacked?
14. Did the FBI use any Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authorities to surveil President
Trump’s campaign?
15. Did President Trump receive a defensive briefing?
Jordan requested that the briefing occur as soon as possible but no later than September 26, 2024.
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