Intel Vets Challenge Russia Hack Evidence Consortiumnews. 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. Russia hacked Democratic emails last year. Editors Note This VIPS Memo included two mistaken dates. Neither affected the Memos main conclusion i. July 5, 2. 01. 6 intrusion into DNC emails that was blamed on Russia could not have been a hack by Russia or anyone else. The portions of the Memo affected by the mistaken dates have been corrected. A short explanation of the corrections 1 June 1. VIPS memo erroneously stated was the day Crowdstrike said malware had been found on the DNC server and claimed there was evidence the malware was injected by Russians. On the following day the 1. Guccifer 2. 0 claimed responsibility for the hack and claimed to be a Wiki. Leaks source. 2 Although the VIPS Memo indicated, correctly, that on June 1. Guccifer 2. 0 posts a document that the forensics show was synthetically tainted with Russian fingerprints, other language in the Memo was mistaken in indicating that evidence of such tainting was also found in the Guccifer 2. July 5. MEMORANDUM FOR The President. FROM Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity VIPSSUBJECT 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, 2. DNC computer. After examining metadata from the Guccifer 2. July 5, 2. 01. 6 intrusion into the DNC server, independent cyber investigators have concluded that an insider copied DNC data onto an external storage device. Then Director 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 IntelligenceKey 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 was 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, who retired after 2. 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. Think about this to date, only three countries have been able to put a man merely in Earth orbit the United States, Russia, and China. That speaks to how. Retrouvez toutes les discothque Marseille et se retrouver dans les plus grandes soires en discothque Marseille. FBI, CIA, and NSA, who wrote the Intelligence Community Assessment dated January 6, 2. 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, 2. Guccifer 2. 0 hack of the DNC server. In earlier VIPS memoranda we addressed the lack of any evidence connecting the Guccifer 2. Wiki. Leaks, and we asked President Obama specifically to disclose any evidence that Wiki. Leaks received DNC data from the Russians see here and here. Addressing this point at his last press conference January 1. Intelligence Community Assessment of January 6 expressed high confidence that Russian intelligence relayed material it acquired from the DNC to Wiki. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Wii English Patch. Leaks. Obamas admission came as no surprise to us. Edward Bernays Engineering Of Consent Pdf To Jpg' title='Edward Bernays Engineering Of Consent Pdf To Jpg' />Etymology. Propaganda is a modern Latin word, the gerundive form of propagare, meaning to spread or to propagate, thus propaganda means that which is to be propagated. 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 Wiki. Leaks 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 Wiki. Leaks via a copyleak by a DNC insider but almost certainly not the same person who copied DNC data on July 5, 2. Edward Bernays Engineering Of Consent Pdf To Jpg' title='Edward Bernays Engineering Of Consent Pdf To Jpg' />From the information available, we conclude that the same inside DNC, copyleak process was used at two different times, by two different entities, for two distinctly different purposes 1 an inside leak to Wiki. Leaks before Julian Assange announced on June 1. DNC documents and planned to publish them which he did on July 2. DNC bias toward the Clinton candidacy and 2 a separate leak on July 5, 2. Wiki. Leaks might later publish by showing it came from a Russian hack. President This is our first VIPS Memorandum for you, but we have a history of letting U. S. Presidents know when we think our former intelligence colleagues have gotten something important wrong, and why. For example, our first such memorandum, a same day commentary for President George W. Bush on Colin Powells U. N. speech on February 5, 2. U. S. attack Iraq and justify the war on intelligence that we retired intelligence officers could readily see as fraudulent and driven by a war agenda. Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the United Nations on Feb. Iraq had WMD, but the evidence proved bogus. The January 6 Intelligence Community Assessment by hand picked analysts from the FBI, CIA, and NSA seems to fit into the same agenda driven category. It is largely based on an assessment, not supported by any apparent evidence, that a shadowy entity with the moniker Guccifer 2. DNC on behalf of Russian intelligence and gave DNC emails to Wiki. Leaks. The recent forensic findings mentioned above have put a huge dent in that assessment and cast serious doubt on the underpinnings of the extraordinarily successful campaign to blame the Russian government for hacking. The pundits and politicians who have led the charge against Russian meddling in the U. S. election can be expected to try to cast doubt on the forensic findings, if they ever do bubble up into the mainstream media. But the technical limitations of todays Internet are widely understood. We are prepared to answer any substantive challenges on their merits. You may wish to ask CIA Director Mike Pompeo what he knows about this. Our own lengthy intelligence community experience suggests that it is possible that neither former CIA Director John Brennan, nor the cyber warriors who worked for him, have been completely candid with their new director regarding how this all went down. Copied, Not Hacked. As indicated above, the independent forensic work just completed focused on data copied not hacked by a shadowy persona named Guccifer 2. The forensics reflect what seems to have been a desperate effort to blame the Russians for publishing highly embarrassing DNC emails three days before the Democratic convention last July. Since the content of the DNC emails reeked of pro Clinton bias, her campaign saw an overriding need to divert attention from content to provenance as in, who hacked those DNC emails The campaign was enthusiastically supported by compliant mainstream media they are still on a roll. The Russians were the ideal culprit. And, after Wiki. Leaks editor Julian Assange announced on June 1. Words and Deeds Kunstler. I know Im not the first to point out how Anthony Scaramucci, President Trumps brand new Communications Director, is suddenly and eerily carrying on like his namesake, the arch rascal buffoon of the Old World Commedia dellArte in lashing out at his fellow scamps and bozos in the clown school that the White House has become. Of course, these antics only reflect the astounding violent vulgarity of current US culture in general, especially as it recursively re amplifies itself in the distorting echo chamber of TV. Its how we roll nowadays right up the collective butt hole of history until some fateful event provokes a last frightful purging of our own bullshit. Still, it was rather shocking to hear Scaramucci refer to White House Chief of Staff Rance Priebus as a fucking paranoid schizophrenic and Trump ultra insider Steve Bannon as someone who enjoys sucking his own cock. Its kind of like Paulie Walnuts of The Sopranos wandered into the West Wing of Veep. Somebodys gonna get whacked, and itll be a laugh riot when it happens. We need a little comic relief in these midsummer horse latitudes of the mind as the ill starred Trump Show appears to enter its ceremonial death dance. Theres also something satisfyingly Napoleonesque about Scaramucci. Heres a guy who cuts through the odious blubber of US politics right to the bone of things with a flensing blade of profane righteousness. Personally, Id like to see him take some whacks at a few more deserving targets, and I can even imagine a somewhat farfetched scenario where the little guy shoves Trump out during a concocted national emergency and manages to declare himself First Citizen, or some such innovative title allowing him to run things for a while say, until the generals toss him out a window. Or maybe hell last less than a week in his current position. I would not be surprised, either, if Mr. Southern Promise Land Farms Corn &Amp; Pumpkin Patch here. Bannon beats little Mooch to death with an Oval Office fireplace poker right in front of the Golden Golem of Greatness himself. The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine in this case, inexorably toward the restorative medicine of the 2. There is, after all, that hoary old artifact called the national interest lurking somewhere offstage aside of all this colorful mummery, especially as the Russian Meddling gambit appears to be dribbling away to nothing. Its more than self evident that poor Trump is in so far over his head that hes come down with something like the bends, a debilitating systemic disorder rendering him unfit to execute the powers of office. Decades from now, theyll say he had the tweets. This is a melodrama of a type the world has seen before in a hundred royal palaces and other centers of mis rule. The need to get rid of the head of state becomes so painfully self evident that idle chatter about it ceases and all intention is signaled in mere eye rolls, sighs, portentous glances, and other fraught devices of body language. Thats whats going on now in the senate, the agency executive suites, the terraces of Marthas Vineyard, and surely the hallowed corridors of the White House itself. One way or another, the knives are coming out. The most economical script would have Trump graciously resign and be allowed to return to his familiar money grubbing activities in real estate, where he can really only do harm to his own bank accounts and family posterity. Or, he could be dragged kicking and screaming from the premises, shall we say, and thrown to the bloodthirsty beasts of Deep State justice. That will not be pretty. Either outcome could provoke a lot of mischief out there among those who voted for him. In any case, I doubt that the polity can take much more of Trump after Labor Day and I say all this as one who was never part of the so called Resistance. Im not even very much convinced that getting rid of Trump and installing his stand in, Mike Pence, will leave the government any less dysfunctional. After all, the nation is riding a larger and scarier arc of history as the techno industrial fiesta winds down, with all the awfully disruptive consequences that implies. But at least theres a chance that we might at least face this predicament seriously instead of feeling trapped in some sort of cosmic sitcom in an alternative universe of endless fucking nonsense.