Salon Asks The Question – What If The DNC Russian “Hack” Was Really A Leak After All?

Someone at Salon must have stopped drinking the Kool-Aid.

Salon Asks The Question - What If The DNC Russian “Hack” Was Really A Leak After All?

I can’t believe my lyin’ eyes! This means there is no need for the Muller probe.

From Salon August 15, 2017:

What if the DNC Russian “hack” was really a leak after all? A new report raises questions media and Democrats would rather ignore

A group of intelligence pros and forensic investigators tell The Nation there was no hack— the media ignores it

Last week the respected left-liberal magazine The Nation published an explosive article that details in great depth the findings of a new report — authored in large part by former U.S. intelligence officers — which claims to present forensic evidence that the Democratic National Committee was not hacked by the Russians in July 2016. Instead, the report alleges, the DNC suffered an insider leak, conducted in the Eastern time zone of the United States by someone with physical access to a DNC computer.

This report also claims there is no apparent evidence that the hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 — supposedly based in Romania — hacked the DNC on behalf of the Russian government. There is also no evidence, the report’s authors say, that Guccifer handed documents over to WikiLeaks. Instead, the report says that the evidence and timeline of events suggests that Guccifer may have been conjured up in an attempt to deflect from the embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign that was released just before the Democratic National Convention. The investigators found that some of the “Guccifer” files had been deliberately altered by copying and pasting the text into a “Russianified” word-processing document with Russian-language settings.

If all this is true, these findings would constitute a massive embarrassment for not only the DNC itself but the media, which has breathlessly pushed the Russian hacking narrative for an entire year, almost without question but with little solid evidence to back it up.

You could easily be forgiven for not having heard about this latest development — because, perhaps to avoid potential embarrassment, the media has completely ignored it. Instead, to this point only a few right-wing sites have seen fit to publish follow-ups.

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White House Meetings On Ukraine Coincide With Time Of Russian Fingerprint Fabrications

At the same time the Guccifer “Hack” was taking place, Joe Biden was hosting a meeting with 18 Ukrainians. Very unusual for him. Warren Flood was a consultant for Biden. Warren Flood was the name the Microsoft account was registered to on the Guccifer documents.

White House Meetings On Ukraine Coincide With Time Of Russian Fingerprint Fabrications

More Ukrainian connections. Also be sure to watch the video below where Imprisoned Romanian hacker ‘Guccifer’ tells Fox News that ‘Guccifer 2.0’ could be the U.S. State Department.

From Adam Carter [April 29th, 2017]:

In my research to investigate the real identity of Guccifer 2.0, I discovered that the name Warren Flood applied to more documents than had originally been reported and highlighted the unusual nature of those documents both in terms of the metadata and the RSIDs (and Russian Stylesheet that existed in multiple documents even before the content in each document did) and explained that this demonstrates an effort to try to discredit Wikileaks by blaming leaks on Russian hackers.

White House Meetings on Ukraine Coincide With Time of Russian Fingerprint Fabrications

Considering where copies of Microsoft Word installed by Flood (highlighted in the photo above with Biden) might exist besides on computers he owns, I considered his past role as Sen. Joe Biden’s Technology Director (as noted on his Linked-In profileand thought one place to look for interesting activity would be computers residing in Biden’s office or generally at the White House.

So, I wondered who may have visited Biden that day around that time. I thought I’d check out visits to the White House hosted by Biden, wondering whether there’d be any interesting activity anywhere near 1:38pm on June 15th 2016.

It turns out that Biden was hosting visits from a number of Ukrainians around that time, on that date. To see how frequent this sort of activity occurred I checked the whole of June. – It seems such visits were not a regular occurance.

(Times below are appointment times, some individuals turned up before their 2pm appointment)

White House Meetings on Ukraine Coincide With Time of Russian Fingerprint Fabrications

An attempt to quickly identify visitors in June showed the following had a Ukraine connection:

White House Meetings on Ukraine Coincide With Time of Russian Fingerprint Fabrications

While this doesn’t prove anything, it certainly is a curious coincidence to stumble upon while looking for activity of people that might have had a motive (or helped with an effort) to frame Russia.

US visitors that day also have ties back to events surrounding the Ukrainian 2014 revolution and/or reporting on it (with the exception of Kuklish who is an English-Ukrainian translator) and most had worked or were working in the State Department.

It’s worth nothing that Nuland and Pyatt were both embroiled in a diplomatic crisis in 2014 when a conversation they had was posted to YouTube showing that the US was interfering in Ukraine’s politics (The State Department and the White House blamed Russia’s vice-president Dmitryi Rogozin for the leak.)

I’m not going to get into speculation. I’ve let journalists who have written extensively on the Ukraine coup know about this and will leave this up to them to pursue, if they wish to.


UPDATE [May 2nd]: A closer look at the actual booking/arrival times, room numbers, other visits, etc. shows that, on the 15th, there were effectively 2 meetings. One of which had at least 18 individuals attending (Stoliarchuk is listed at 1:30pm and 2:00pm) and another with at least 4 attending.

White House Meetings on Ukraine Coincide With Time of Russian Fingerprint Fabrications


 

‘Guccifer’ to Fox News: ‘Guccifer 2.0’ is not Russia, it’s the US Government

Imprisoned Romanian hacker ‘Guccifer’ talks exclusively to Fox News about the DNC email hack, Hillary Clinton’s private email server and claims ‘Guccifer 2.0’ could be the U.S. State Department.

 

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