(Number 2) "Well, the major media really want Hillary to win, so if we get the major media on board, well, we really got it wired."
(Ray McGovern again) "And if you watch the coverage since the WikiLeaks leak, two days before the convention, the media content was not 'how did Hillary steal the election' but 'How did the Russians do it?"'
("Ray McGovern: The Deep State Assault on Elected Government Must Be Stopped")
He's right, isn't he? Hillary and Co. pulled off the whole ruse without a hitch. The media focused on the "Russia meddling" angle, and the calculating Ms. Clinton slipped away with nary a scratch. It's amazing!
But there was one glitch to the "Blame Russia" scheme. There was no hard evidence of Russian involvement. And, now, 10 months into multiple investigations of Russian hacking, there's still no evidence. How can that be?
Well, for one thing, the FBI was never given access to the DNC computers.
Let me repeat that: In the biggest and most politically-explosive investigation in more than a decade, an investigation that has obvious national security implications -- alleged cyber-espionage by a hostile foreign power, alleged collusion by high-ranking officials in the current administration, alleged treason or collusion on part of the Chief Executive, and the possible impeachment of a sitting president -- the FBI has not yet secured or examined the servers that may or may not provide compelling forensic evidence of cyber-intrusion by Russia.
Why? Why would the FBI accept the analysis of some flunky organization that no one has ever heard of before (Crowdstrike) rather than use all the tools at their disposal to thoroughly investigate whether or not the hacking actually took place or not? Isn't that their job?
Yer damn right it is. The reason the FBI never insisted on examining the DNC servers, is because they knew the story was baloney from the get go. Otherwise they would have kicked down the doors at the DNC, seized the computers through brute force, and arrested anyone who tried to stop them. Those computers are Exhibit A in the Trial of the Century. They should be under lock and key at FBI Headquarters, not collecting cobwebs in the basement of the DNC-HQ. The fact that the servers have not been seized and examined just proves what a joke this whole Russia-deal really is.
You see, when a law enforcement agency like the FBI fails so conspicuously in carrying out its duties, you have to assume that other factors are involved, mainly politics. It's all politics, right? There is no rational explanation for the FBI's behavior other than it is following a political script that coincides with the agenda and ambitions of the DNC and other power players behind the scenes. Investigative journalist Gareth Porter summed it up perfectly in a brilliant article titled Foisting Blame for Cyber-Hacking on Russia. He said:
"...the history of the US government's claim that Russian intelligence hacked into election databases reveals it to be a clear case of politically motivated analysis by the DHS and the Intelligence Community. Not only was the claim based on nothing more than inherently inconclusive technical indicators but no credible motive for Russian intelligence wanting personal information on registered voters was ever suggested." ("Foisting Blame for Cyber-Hacking on Russia," antiwar.com)
Right on, Porter. Facts don't matter in the Russia hacking case. They never have. The whole approach from Day 1 has been to drown the public with innuendo and baseless accusations, while the MSM Carnie barkers pretend that "Russia meddling" is already settled science and that only "Putin puppets" would ever doubt the veracity of the media's loony claims. Got that?
But facts do matter and so does evidence. And on that score we're in luck because McGovern's group, the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), released a blockbuster report last week that produced the first hard evidence that Russia most certainly DID NOT hack the DNC servers. It was a DNC insider. Here's an excerpt from the VIPS article titled "Was the "Russian Hack... an Inside Job?"
"Independent cyber-investigators have now ...come up with verifiable evidence from metadata found in the record of the alleged Russian hack. They found that the purported 'hack' of the DNC 'was not a hack... (but) originated with a copy ...by an insider. The data was leaked after being doctored with a cut-and-paste job to implicate Russia....
"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." ("Was the "Russian Hack... an Inside Job?" CounterPunch)
Capisce? There was no hack. Someone working inside the DNC (a disgruntled employee?) -- who had access to the computers, and who worked on the East Coast -- copied the data onto a storage device and transferred it to WikiLeaks. That's what you call a "leak" not a "hack." There was no hack. Russia was not involved. The official narrative is bullshit. End of story.
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