Could Alpha Bank Servers Be the Link Between Trump Campaign and Kremlin?

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By notdrinkingtherightwingkoolaid at the Daily Kos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/16/1681192/-Could-Alfa-Bank-Servers-Be-the-Link-Between-Trump-Campaign-and-Kremlin

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PART A

In October of 2016 Slate magazine and the New York Times reported a story about two mysterious servers registered to Alfa Bank in Moscow communicating with a server registered to the Trump organization on Fifth Avenue in NYC. The line of communication was designed to be discreet and specific to the two parties, not available to others, “ configured something like a digital hotline connecting the two entities, shutting out the rest of the world, and designed to obscure its own existence”. Per Slate..” The conversation between the Trump and Alfa servers appeared to follow the contours of political happenings in the United States. At election-related moments the traffic peaked.” On September 21 a reporter from the New York Times contacted Alfa Bank to ask questions about the servers. The bank denied any involvement , but shortly after that meeting, the Trump Domain name went cold. One could only conclude the Trump organization shut down the server. On September 27 the Trump Organization created a new host name, trump1.contact-client.com, which enabled communication to the very same server via a different route. When a new host name is created, the first communication with it is never random. To reach the server after the resetting of the host name, the sender of the first inbound mail has to first learn of the name somehow. It’s simply impossible to randomly reach a renamed server. That party had to have some kind of outbound message through SMS, phone, or some noninternet channel they used to communicate [the new configuration]. The first attempt to look up the revised host name came from Alfa Bank. If this was a public server, there would have seen other traces. The only look-ups came from this particular source.

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PART B

In May of 2017 the Washington Post reported that Jared Kushner wanted to set up back channel communications with Russia . The idea was supposedly broached during a meeting between Kushner and Kislyak during an early December meeting at Trump Tower.The Post said Kushner suggested the use of Russian diplomatic facilities as a way to shield pre-inauguration discussions with Kislyak from monitoring. Kislyak allegedly then relayed the suggestion to his superiors in Moscow. The idea was supposedly broached during a meeting between Kushner and Kislyak during an early December meeting at Trump Tower.

Apparently the FBI is aware of all this and is not commenting at this time.

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