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Drain Bamage
Jul 6, 2018, 2:57:55 PM7/6/18
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The US has identified the Russian agents behind alleged hacking ahead of the presidential election won by Donald Trump in November, reports say.
The agents, whose names have not been released, are alleged to have sent stolen Democratic emails to WikiLeaks to try to swing the vote for Mr Trump.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38528329
I don't remember the indictments of these hackers by Mueller. What's up?
Anyway, it's clear that leaks to the media gave enough emotional cover and momentum so that the public would accept behavior by the intelligence agencies and the DOJ they *never* would have accepted otherwise and in fact did not accept after the Snowden revelations. After the agencies circled the wagons over the episode, there was no way to back down. Now *they* have political cover from the new report, but as yet, still no real evidence. I wonder how many cases a prosecutor would win where his evidence is a recreation of a crime scene, recreated by his own witnesses. That's essentially what the DNC claimed to have done.
If anything, stories like this point to incompetence
https://www.lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians
rather than malice, and incompetence by the intelligence agencies is something any government would hide.
On January 18, 2017 President Obama admitted that the “conclusions” of U.S. intelligence regarding how the alleged Russian hacking got to WikiLeaks were “inconclusive.” Even the vapid FBI/CIA/NSA “Intelligence Community Assessment of Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections” of January 6, 2017, which tried to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for election interference, contained no direct evidence of Russian involvement. That did not prevent the “handpicked” authors of that poor excuse for intelligence analysis from expressing “high confidence” that Russian intelligence “relayed material it acquired from the Democratic National Committee … to WikiLeaks.” Handpicked analysts, of course, say what they are handpicked to say.
Never mind. The FBI/CIA/NSA “assessment” became bible truth for partisans like Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, who was among the first off the blocks to blame Russia for interfering to help Trump. It simply could not have been that Hillary Clinton was quite capable of snatching defeat out of victory all by herself. No, it had to have been the Russians.
Five days into the Trump presidency, I had a chance to challenge Schiff personally on the gaping disconnect between the Russians and WikiLeaks. Schiff still “can’t share the evidence” with me … or with anyone else, because it does not exist.
BTW, spying on Americans is bad again,
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/
when for a while it was so good the spooks were going to personally arrest the President!
John Schindler, a former National Security Agency analyst and current columnist for the New York Observer, said Wednesday that the intelligence community will go “nuclear” against President Donald Trump.
The national security columnist also quoted a senior intelligence official telling him that Trump “will die in jail.” “Now we go nuclear. [Intelligence community] war going to new levels. Just got an [email from] from senior [intelligence community] friend, it began: ‘He will die in jail,'” Schindler tweeted.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/15/former-nsa-analyst-claims-intel-community-will-go-nuclear-against-trump/
Moron.
The agents, whose names have not been released, are alleged to have sent stolen Democratic emails to WikiLeaks to try to swing the vote for Mr Trump.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38528329
I don't remember the indictments of these hackers by Mueller. What's up?
Anyway, it's clear that leaks to the media gave enough emotional cover and momentum so that the public would accept behavior by the intelligence agencies and the DOJ they *never* would have accepted otherwise and in fact did not accept after the Snowden revelations. After the agencies circled the wagons over the episode, there was no way to back down. Now *they* have political cover from the new report, but as yet, still no real evidence. I wonder how many cases a prosecutor would win where his evidence is a recreation of a crime scene, recreated by his own witnesses. That's essentially what the DNC claimed to have done.
If anything, stories like this point to incompetence
https://www.lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians
rather than malice, and incompetence by the intelligence agencies is something any government would hide.
On January 18, 2017 President Obama admitted that the “conclusions” of U.S. intelligence regarding how the alleged Russian hacking got to WikiLeaks were “inconclusive.” Even the vapid FBI/CIA/NSA “Intelligence Community Assessment of Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections” of January 6, 2017, which tried to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for election interference, contained no direct evidence of Russian involvement. That did not prevent the “handpicked” authors of that poor excuse for intelligence analysis from expressing “high confidence” that Russian intelligence “relayed material it acquired from the Democratic National Committee … to WikiLeaks.” Handpicked analysts, of course, say what they are handpicked to say.
Never mind. The FBI/CIA/NSA “assessment” became bible truth for partisans like Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, who was among the first off the blocks to blame Russia for interfering to help Trump. It simply could not have been that Hillary Clinton was quite capable of snatching defeat out of victory all by herself. No, it had to have been the Russians.
Five days into the Trump presidency, I had a chance to challenge Schiff personally on the gaping disconnect between the Russians and WikiLeaks. Schiff still “can’t share the evidence” with me … or with anyone else, because it does not exist.
BTW, spying on Americans is bad again,
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/
when for a while it was so good the spooks were going to personally arrest the President!
John Schindler, a former National Security Agency analyst and current columnist for the New York Observer, said Wednesday that the intelligence community will go “nuclear” against President Donald Trump.
The national security columnist also quoted a senior intelligence official telling him that Trump “will die in jail.” “Now we go nuclear. [Intelligence community] war going to new levels. Just got an [email from] from senior [intelligence community] friend, it began: ‘He will die in jail,'” Schindler tweeted.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/15/former-nsa-analyst-claims-intel-community-will-go-nuclear-against-trump/
Moron.
Drain Bamage
Jul 6, 2018, 3:03:26 PM7/6/18
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On Friday, July 6, 2018 at 1:57:55 PM UTC-5, Drain Bamage wrote:
> The US has identified the Russian agents behind alleged hacking ahead of the presidential election won by Donald Trump in November, reports say.
>
> The agents, whose names have not been released, are alleged to have sent stolen Democratic emails to WikiLeaks to try to swing the vote for Mr Trump.
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38528329
>
> I don't remember the indictments of these hackers by Mueller. What's up?
>
> Anyway, it's clear that leaks to the media gave enough emotional cover and momentum so that the public would accept behavior by the intelligence agencies and the DOJ they *never* would have accepted otherwise and in fact did not accept after the Snowden revelations. After the agencies circled the wagons over the episode, there was no way to back down. Now *they* have political cover from the new report, but as yet, still no real evidence. I wonder how many cases a prosecutor would win where his evidence is a recreation of a crime scene, recreated by his own witnesses. That's essentially what the DNC claimed to have done.
> If anything, stories like this point to incompetence
> https://www.lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians
> rather than malice, and incompetence by the intelligence agencies is something any government would hide.
>
>
https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/trump-russia-collusion-nonsense/amp/
> The US has identified the Russian agents behind alleged hacking ahead of the presidential election won by Donald Trump in November, reports say.
>
> The agents, whose names have not been released, are alleged to have sent stolen Democratic emails to WikiLeaks to try to swing the vote for Mr Trump.
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38528329
>
> I don't remember the indictments of these hackers by Mueller. What's up?
>
> Anyway, it's clear that leaks to the media gave enough emotional cover and momentum so that the public would accept behavior by the intelligence agencies and the DOJ they *never* would have accepted otherwise and in fact did not accept after the Snowden revelations. After the agencies circled the wagons over the episode, there was no way to back down. Now *they* have political cover from the new report, but as yet, still no real evidence. I wonder how many cases a prosecutor would win where his evidence is a recreation of a crime scene, recreated by his own witnesses. That's essentially what the DNC claimed to have done.
> If anything, stories like this point to incompetence
> https://www.lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians
> rather than malice, and incompetence by the intelligence agencies is something any government would hide.
>
>
In other words, Peter W. Smith was one of about 320 million people in the United States who figured that Clinton’s e-mails had been hacked — by Russia, China, Iran, ISIS, the NSA, the latest iteration of “Guccifer,” and maybe even that nerdy kid down at Starbucks with “Feel the Bern” stickers on his laptop.
My note:Actually, a "feel the Bern" player in the DNC is the exact type of insider with access and motivation.
Drain Bamage
Jul 6, 2018, 3:09:04 PM7/6/18
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