Timeline: DARPA and the DNC Hack | Upon whose analysis did the government rely when it blamed Russia for hacks of Democratic Party emails?

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[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Linked article has been added to our Russiagate links compilation.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Some great points made below, especially the silence of the NSA, but here's another indicator it was total BS from the get-go. If this was a security breach by a foreign power as claimed - some politicians actually called it an act of war - why did the FBI not immediately take custody of the server? Since when does law enforcement NOT do that, instead relying on a 3rd party who's in the employ of the "victim" of the crime to conduct the investigation?

[–]stickdog[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, the whole "investigation" was clearly bullshit from the start. Crowdstrike even admitted as much when they were under oath.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The VIPS group convincingly explained that no one 'exfiltrated' or 'hacked' the DNC, because the transfer speeds indicated in the metadata could only be achieved with something like a plug-in USB key (most likely Seth Rich's USB key). Also, the NSA exists to capture exactly this sort of data transfer, so if there were a hack, the only appropriate step to identify the culprits would have been to call up the NSA and ask them whodunnit. So someone pulled that whole story out of their ass, and everyone involved knew it was fake from day 1.

The other elements of the story, Guccifer 2.0 and the 'hack' of the RNC were both fabrications of the intelligence agencies. So the basis for the arrest and prosecution of Julian Assange is also fabricated, and they all know it. The 'DNC hack' story was a collaboration between Herself's campaign and the intelligence agencies.

[–]stickdog[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep.

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The story just published today on Racket, “Forget Collusion. Was "Russian Interference" Also Fake News?,” adds new information to the public’s understanding of Russiagate. Because the significance of certain documents is tied to dates, and many details have begun to fade from public memory, artist Daniel Medina put together a visual timeline to explain the overall chronology.

This first panel above is comprised of news already known to the public, but there are a few items of note. For one, the DNC reported detection of “unusual activity” on April 30th, but didn’t commence a “remediation event” until over five weeks later, on June 10th.

There’s also a quirk in connection to the June 14th announcement by Democrats and their reseaarchers that Russians had not only “penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee,” but “gained access to the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump” (the Washington Post used the term, “stole”). Much later, Crowdstrike president Shawn Henry testified to congress about DNC emails that the company lacked “evidence that they were actually exfiltrated. There’s circumstantial evidence, but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated.”

Despite Henry testifying that “we just don’t have the evidence that says it actually left,” the DNC made its big “The Russians took our data!” announcement on June 14th. This was a day before the Guccifer 2.0 persona began publishing leak material, including Trump oppo research. If they didn’t have evidence anything was “actually exfiltrated,” what exactly was the basis for that Post story?

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The next panel shows researchers David Dagon and Manos Antonakakis were looking at the origins of the DNC hack during the same time period that they were working with Neustar executive Rodney Joffe on the ill-fated effort to show a connection between Donald Trump and Russia’s Alfa Bank. This is only certain now because Senator Chuck Grassley was able to elicit an admission from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, that these researchers produced a “Fancy Bear/APT28 Attribution analysis” on August 7, 2016, roughly the same time frame as the Alfa fiasco.

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