In a memo to President Trump, a group of former U.S. intelligence officers, including NSA specialists, cite new forensic studies to challenge the claim of the key Jan. 6 “assessment” that Russia “hacked” Democratic emails last year.
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Was the “Russian Hack” an Inside Job?
Executive Summary
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.
Add captionDirector of National Intelligence James Clapper (right) talks with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, with John Brennan and other national security aides present. (Photo credit: Office of Director of National Intelligence) After examining metadata from the “Guccifer 2.0” July 5, 2016 intrusion into the DNC server, independent cyber investigators have concluded that an insider copied DNC data onto an external storage device, and that “telltale signs” implicating Russia were then inserted.
Key among the findings of the independent forensic investigations is the conclusion that the DNC data was copied onto a storage device at a speed that far exceeds an Internet capability for a remote hack. Of equal importance, the forensics show that the copying and doctoring were performed on the East coast of the U.S. Thus far, mainstream media have ignored the findings of these independent studies [see here and here].
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.
The recent forensic studies fill in a critical gap. Why the FBI neglected to perform any independent forensics on the original “Guccifer 2.0” material remains a mystery – as does the lack of any sign that the “hand-picked analysts” from the FBI, CIA, and NSA, who wrote the “Intelligence Community Assessment” dated January 6, 2017, gave any attention to forensics.
NOTE: There has been so much conflation of charges about hacking that we wish to make very clear the primary focus of this Memorandum. We focus specifically on the July 5, 2016 alleged Guccifer 2.0 “hack” of the DNC server. In earlier VIPS memoranda we addressed the lack of any evidence connecting the Guccifer 2.0 alleged hacks and WikiLeaks, and we asked President Obama specifically to disclose any evidence that WikiLeaks received DNC data from the Russians [see here and here].
Addressing this point at his last press conference (January 18), he described “the conclusions of the intelligence community” as “not conclusive,” even though the Intelligence Community Assessment of January 6 expressed “high confidence” that Russian intelligence “relayed material it acquired from the DNC … to WikiLeaks.”
Obama’s admission came as no surprise to us. It has long been clear to us that the reason the U.S. government lacks conclusive evidence of a transfer of a “Russian hack” to WikiLeaks is because there was no such transfer. Based mostly on the cumulatively unique technical experience of our ex-NSA colleagues, we have been saying for almost a year that the DNC data reached WikiLeaks via a copy/leak by a DNC insider (but almost certainly not the same person who copied DNC data on July 5, 2016).
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.”
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“I have no use for liars, national, international, or those found in private life.”
Theodore Roosevelt. This simple statement, by one of America’s greatest presidents, responsible for most of our fabulous national parks among other great achievements, basically summarizes the problem of America today. Lying and cheating at the highest or “lowest” levels to all citizens, totally against all the basic principles of openness of the great Founders of this country. This once great nation will never return to its original position unless and until all this immoral lying and cheating is brought to a halt. The corollary to this is that all secrecy in government must end because secrecy is the enemy of the truth.
Winfield J. Abbe, Ph.D., Physics
Admitted Mossad asset George Webb does have verifiable information on the deep state spy ring in Congress and the DNC….
"Day 280.1, Hillary's Leakers" at George Webb YouTube
https://youtu.be/P23L-zY8CeY
Here is a positive act Trump could do now, this instant, which would be of immense value to the country in many ways: Order every agency including but not limited to the CIA, NSA, FBI and all the rest, every four star general and the Pentagon, and every other agency to release immediately, every written document pertaining to all activities associated with the attack on 9/11/01, the alleged attack on Sandy Hook School on Dec. 14, 2012, the Boston Bombing and the death of JFK. Anyone with knowledge not written is ordered to provide it in written summary form signed. This act would be a beginning to return this troubled country back on the right track again. Nothing is to be held back including but not limited to implications involving former President Bush, former Vice President Cheney, the country of Israel or anyone else. Lay everything out on the table openly and honestly for a change for the citizens to decide the truth.
Winfield J. Abbe, Ph.D., Physics
And we should believe absolutely anything that Paul Craig Roberts writes because…Oh! that's right, because Jim Fetzer says so. LOL
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Clearly alphabets are full over OVER-patriotic, sometimes Messianic staff. Patriotism is a limited concept, that is, too much is idolatry. I believe that alphabets have become centres of IDOL worship. How do you think our Creator feels being usurped in his role? He can become furiously angry at the wicked.
Haven't we had secrecy in government long enough? All secrecy does is allow horrible criminal activities to go on in secret outside the public view. Why not set a new standard of openness in government for the next 100 years? So far as I know the word secrecy does not appear in our Constitution at all, so the Founders did not envision our government operating behind closed doors protected by the full military armed force of government. Wouldn't a return to openness and honesty be a breath of fresh air? The corrupt CIA must be abolished totally.
Jim, as always, thanks for sharing this article from Paul Craig Roberts. Just more evidence leading to the conclusion all our 3 letter agencies have been corrupted and the push for war against the phantom menace of the day, which for this is obviously Russia. Can't have the US and Russia buddy buddy with each other or can we? The banksters will not allow this.