Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Have Endorsed Forensic Analyses of Adam Carter and Forensicator re Guccifer 2.0
As I outlined in a previous post (https://caucus99percent.com/content/what%E2%80%99s-left-russiagate-%E2%8...), forensic analyses of the DNC material posted by "Guccifer 2.0", conducted by Adam Carter and an anonymous entity calling itself "the Forensicator", have indicated that "Guccifer 2.0" downloaded his subsequently leaked material via USB drive or local connection to the DNC computers, on the East Coast - contrary to the assertions of our intelligence community that Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian hacker. This download occurred after Wikileaks had announced that it would be releasing DNC material pertinent to the Clinton campaign and, curiously, just 5 days before Seth Rich was murdered by hitmen.
Furthermore, before being placed online, the metadata of the Guccifer 2.0 leak was intentionally altered to add "Russian fingerprints" that would suggest to naive analysts that the material had been hacked by Russians. Following the Wikileaks release of DNC material, "Guccifer 2.0" claimed to have provided that material to Wikileaks. The material released by "Guccifer 2.0" is notable for being anodyne - unlike the Wikileaks release, it did little to impugn the DNC.
These findings suggest that "Russiagate" was a consciously constructed hoax, by someone likely affiliated with the DNC (as he had local access to the DNC computers), the intent of which was to falsely implicate Russians as hackers of the DNC, and to imply that Wikileaks had obtained its DNC material from Russian hackers. This cast aspersions on Wikileaks, distracted from the damaging content of the leaked emails, and provided the Deep State with another narrative which they could use to demonize Russia.
The credibility of these bombshell conclusions evidently rests on the accuracy of the forensic analyses by Adam Carter and Forensicator. It is therefore of momentous importance that Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, a distinguished consortium of retired intelligence professionals (including notably Ray McGovern and NSA co-founder William Binney) that has no political ax to grind, has vetted these forensic analyses and finds them to be sound:
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-e...
"Forensic studies of “Russian hacking” into Democratic National Committee computers last year reveal that on July 5, 2016, data was leaked (not hacked) by a person with physical access to DNC computers, and then doctored to incriminate Russia."
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"Independent analyst Skip Folden, a retired IBM Program Manager for Information Technology US, who examined the recent forensic findings, is a co-author of this Memorandum. He has drafted a more detailed technical report titled “Cyber-Forensic Investigation of ‘Russian Hack’ and Missing Intelligence Community Disclaimers,” and sent it to the offices of the Special Counsel and the Attorney General. VIPS member William Binney, a former Technical Director at the National Security Agency, and other senior NSA “alumni” in VIPS attest to the professionalism of the independent forensic findings."
(I have amended my own Russiagate essay to add this key citation.)
How long will it be before MSM outlets even deign to acknowledge the existence of this new compelling evidence? Our MSM have raised "lying by omission" to an art form.
With respect to the identity of "Guccifer 2.0", Adam Carter indicates that he suspects members of Crowdstrike, the private cybersecurity firm which the DNC retained to evaluate the "hacking" of its servers. Carter also indicates that he hopes to provide proof of this in coming weeks. Notably, Crowdstrike - whose founders have strong animus toward the Russian government - is the only group that has been allowed to analyze the DNC servers, as the DNC rather suspiciously refused to allow their servers to be examined by the FBI, even after multiple requests. Hence, our intelligence community is relying soley on the reports of Crowdstrike in concluding that hackers affiliated with the Russian government hacked the DNC servers. Crowdstrike is clearly in an ideal position to foment the Russiagate narrative.
In any case, whether or not Crowdstrike concocted the Guccifer 2.0 persona, it is now clear that people close to the DNC attempted to hoax our intelligence community on Russiagate - a hoax which the Deep State very likely was eager to fall for. Bear in mind that the widely touted Intelligence Community Assessment implicating Russia in election meddling was not a formal National Intelligence Estimate collating input from a wide range of intelligence agencies and experts (and noting dissents), but rather an ad hoc report concocted by intelligence professionals hand-picked from 3 agencies by the Russophobes Brennan and Clapper. There is every reason to believe that such a report would be highly politicized. Also recall that, in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, our intelligence agencies proved themselves to be remarkably credulous in accepting the bogus reports of Iraqi defectors recruited by Ahmed Chalabi.
For evidence rebutting additional claims regarding Russian interference in our election, please see my previous essay.
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This is the same group
that loudly protested the intel on Iraq's WMD was fake. I believe them far more than I do the so-called assessments of the current CIA, DNI and FBI.
But will this even get mentioned in a trad corp. media outlet? Only to mock it as CT, if that.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
@Steven D Maybe Hannity will pick
Maybe Hannity will pick it up. How disgusting and ridiculous when we may need to rely on Faux News to bring the truth to a broader public.
Mark F. McCarty
My research puts CrowdStrike directly behind
…the entire Russian false flag. The official narrative has the DNC consulting CrowdStrike about the server "hack" starting April 29th. It shows CrowdStrike running a test on the DNC server on May 6th, when they say they discovered active "hacking". However, my sources show them at DNC headquarters during the entire month of April. They were believed to be engaged in finding proof that the DNC server was hacked by Bernie Sanders' staffers — attempting to get ahead of a lawsuit being filed against them. The DNC wrote CrowdStrike a check for $168,000 in late April. They were also on retainer to the FBI for $150,000 at the time. The founder of CrowdStrike, being a rabidly anti-Russian Ukraine immigrant, would periodically plant dire warnings about Russian cyber attacks, which he is invariably forced to retract. So it comes as no surprise that CrowdStrike reported a Ukrainian cyber attack implicating Russia, on the same day they filed the first hacking announcement about the DNC — in mid June 2016. CrowdStrike was forced to publicly retract the Ukrainian report in March 2017. It is not known why CrowdStrike delayed a month (without cutting off the alleged hackers) before filing a notice of the DNC intrusion. Oddly, some of the most damaging emails were written and saved on the contaminated server during the month of May, and later lifted and leaked.
The two months CrowdStrike was at the DNC happens to coincide with the last two months of Seth Rich's life. This computer stored their voter database, over which Rich was the director, both as an IT specialist and as the prime user of the content for his Voter Outreach project. He was writing an app that would assist voters on election day, providing them with a news feed about their local reps and races, offering social networking with other voters, helping them shoot out voting reminders to friends and family, updating the waiting time and conditions at their voting precinct, using GPS to speed them to their voting place, and surveying them after they voted. These voting records are the files that Bernie's staffers were suspected of stealing, so one might assume there was significant overlap between Seth Rich and CrowdStrike.
CrowdStrike founder, Dmitri Alperovitch, is an active member of the Atlantic Council, the anti-Russian think tank funded by George Soros and staffed with Neocons like Susan Rice. They were all about overthrowing the democratically elected Ukrainian government to provoke Russia, and were all about Hillary Clinton being elected president. That's the connection between CrowdStrike and the DNC.
There are a dozen reasons why the Russian election interference is fabricated nonsense, This is just one of them.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
Conflict of interest, Pluto?
Surely you jest!
Why this is no more a conflict of interest than, say, Mueller investigating Comey.
(for those who need to be advised, this is snark. Please check back with the MSM before proceeding).
The sensational Russia.Russia.Russia "discovery"
…has been a real boost for CrowdStrike. They hang with the beautiful people, now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/business/dealbook/crowdstrike-hacking...
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
There are that many corrupt companies to protect?
Oh, pardon me. I am sure all the client companies of Cloudstrike are as reliable and honest as the DNC.
To me these are the key conclusions
"From the information available, we conclude that the same inside-DNC, copy/leak process was used at two different times, by two different entities, for two distinctly different purposes:
-(1) an inside leak to WikiLeaks before Julian Assange announced on June 12, 2016, that he had DNC documents and planned to publish them (which he did on July 22) – the presumed objective being to expose strong DNC bias toward the Clinton candidacy; and
-(2) a separate leak on July 5, 2016, to pre-emptively taint anything WikiLeaks might later publish by “showing” it came from a “Russian hack.”
My guesses: The inside leak (1) was probably Seth Rich. The doctored, fake leak (2) was probably Crowdstrike, perhaps in collusion with the Clinton campaign.
That makes sense to me.
All while I was reading, I kept asking why crowdstrike would do leak #1. Hillary was much more likely to attack Russia than Trump. If Seth was #1 and Crowdstrike #2, it would answer that.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
@Roy Blakeley That's my conclusion as
That's my conclusion as well.
Some commentators are screwing up their reports on the Adam Carter/Forensicator revelations by conflating the Guccifer 2.0 breach with the leaks that provided the Wikileaks DNC emails. It's great that VIPS is taking pains to clarify the situation.
The fact that Guccifer 2.0 is not Russian does not necessarily imply that the Wikileaks releases weren't provided by Russian hackers. But of course we believe that the Wikileaks releases were leaks because Craig Murray says so, and Assange insists that the Russian govt is not his source. And it's clear that Assange believes that Seth either is, or could be, his source.
Mark F. McCarty
If $Hillary handn't run such a crap campaign,
this Russia crap wouldn't have mattered. It was her turn alright.
The real SparkyGump has passed. It was an honor being your human.
It only came out,
in a Page One way, 2 or 3 days after the election. That was enough for me to go hmmmm... You're right. Had she won we never would have heard more about it.
BernieBros and The Left (or what's left of it) permanently kicked to the Village curb.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Now all we need
is to have someone post this information and the letter to Trump by the Intel Vets on TOS in a diary for discussion and watch the uproar ensue. It may even bring Markos back from his vacation in Germany....no doubt with his ban hammer at his side. What will the poor Hillary camp do without their Russia did it narrative?
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
Has it even sunk
in over there, yet, that Her lost all on her lonesome, didn't need any help?
They'll likely come back with, "but those 4 million votes! What about those?!"
Here's what... just three states - NY, CA and MA - account for More than those 4 million votes. That means the majority of votes, collectively, in those 47 other states went for Trump. And! Take away those three Librul states and Trump still wins the electoral vote! A spanking any way you look at it. Her Highness needs to exit, stage right. Permanently.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Those four million votes were the result of Bernie Sanders
energizing and motivating the Democrat base in those states. It had fuck all to do with Her Heinous. In fact it was in spite of Her. She didn't fucking earn one single one of those votes on Her own.
Fucking grifter....
@Wink
They just have to change Herstory to the Russians hacking the Electoral College and it's all good?
Of course, the entertainment value of the Ever-Changing Fault Zone which spreads so widely over Everyone But Hillary has already been carefully missed by Clinton supporters and they don't seem to have been issued with a sense either of humour or of the appearance to the unpropagandized of this bizarre behaviour, including contradictory claims such as:
Her won by millions of votes, but lost because the Ebil Russians published accurate, documented news about Her/DNC lackey attitudes and actions and turned off voters for the most blatantly (Obama being considerably less blatant about it while still in office) corrupt, blood-thirsty, pathetically venal, power-grabbing and despised corporate/billionaire-serving, public-interest-democracy and-environmental-health-sacrificing Dem candidate in history, so that she lost (already disgusted) voters, since the Clintons are exceptionally Above The Law And Reality And Can Have it Both Ways...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Not really disinterested do-gooders,
The Atlantic Council had this to say in 2015:
So I guess,
at least in part, we have The Atlantic Council to thank for this MEST.
They get lavish government grants
…to rehash their war crimes and build a case for more slaughter. When I read that release all I see is the money distribution channel into their own pockets — for regenerating their warmed-over prattle.
We need a c99 pac, or better yet, a think tank. Let the funding begin. We have resumes and a body of work. May as well package it distribute it in DC.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
Pluto, you are out-snarking everybody.
@Alligator Ed Really? I thought
Really? I thought maybe Pluto was just overwhelmingly sick of the constant rain of bullshit.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
@Alligator Ed
Sounds remarkably like sense to me. If some of you guys were making policy, our survival chances would skyrocket. But that would be contingent on such things as an actual news media and sane people in politics accepting such rational policy. That and no sudden outbreak of sudden and often mysterious deaths among the C-99 policy-makers...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
We've got to sell out to somebody though.
I nominate New Zealand, and the solar power industry. Maybe the Lakota too.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Typo observed; please consider this correction--or not
Please add: "where it will promptly be relegated to the circular file".
Hmm. I thought that Guccifer 2.0 was a real hacker
and that someone followed in his/her footsteps and made another download, one which had "Russian" fingerprints. That was the first analysis I heard, because people were wondering why there had been two downloads. The idea was that the second download was because they realized they had been hacked, and wanted to poison the well/sow doubt.
But the person I read thought the original Guccifer 2.0 "hack" was a genuine leak and not a created persona.
Changed my mind after reading all the comments here. I think it makes more sense that the first leak was Rich's and what followed was the Clinton machine or their Deep State allies putting out fires.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Guccifer 2.0 is real enough.
Take a look at his HOME PAGE before the elections. He has a Twitter account and a following.
But I'm rethinking things, too. I think a more precise timeline will hold many of the answers.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
The truth about what really happened in Ukraine also
continues to come out. Truth of Ukraine War Revealed: Watchdog Media Releases Definitive Chronological Timeline Video of Ukrainian War From Euromaidan to MH-17
https://clarityofsignal.com/2017/07/19/truth-of-ukraine-war-revealed-wat...
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