After
six solid months of co-ordinated allegation from the mainstream media
allied to the leadership of state security institutions, not one
single scrap of solid evidence for Trump/Russia election hacking has
emerged.
The
original, base accusation is that it was the Russians who hacked the
DNC and Podesta emails and passed them to Wikileaks. (I can assure
you that is untrue).
The
authenticity of those emails is not in question. What they revealed
of cheating by the Democratic establishment in biasing the primaries
against Bernie Sanders, led to the forced resignation of Debbie
Wasserman Shultz as chair of the Democratic National Committee. They
also led to the resignation from CNN of Donna Brazile, who had passed
debate questions in advance to Clinton. Those are facts. They
actually happened. Let us hold on to those facts, as we surf through
lies. There was other nasty Clinton Foundation and cash for access
stuff in the emails, but we do not even need to go there for the
purpose of this argument.
The
original “Russian hacking” allegation was that it was the
Russians who nefariously obtained these damning emails and passed
them to Wikileaks. The “evidence” for this was twofold. A report
from private cyber security firm Crowdstrike claimed that metadata
showed that the hackers had left behind clues, including the name of
the founder of the Soviet security services. The second piece of
evidence was that a blogger named Guccifer2 and a website called DNC
Leaks appeared to have access to some of the material around the same
time that Wikileaks did, and that Guccifer2 could be Russian.
That
is it. To this day, that is the sum total of actual “evidence” of
Russian hacking. I won’t say hang on to it as a fact, because it
contains no relevant fact. But at least it is some form of definable
allegation of something happening, rather than “Russian hacking”
being a simple article of faith like the Holy Trinity.
But
there are a number of problems that prevent this being fact at all.
Nobody has ever been able to refute the evidence
of Bill Binney,
former Technical Director of the NSA who designed its current
surveillance systems. Bill has stated that the capability of the NSA
is such, that if the DNC computers had been hacked, the NSA would be
able to trace the actual packets of that information as those emails
travelled over the internet, and give a precise time, to the second,
for the hack. The NSA simply do not have the event – because there
wasn’t one. I know Bill personally and am quite certain of his
integrity.
As
we have been repeatedly told, “17 intelligence agencies” sign up
to the “Russian hacking”, yet all these king’s horses and all
these king’s men have been unable to produce any evidence
whatsoever of the purported “hack”. Largely because they are not
in fact trying. Here is another actual fact I wish you to hang on to:
The Democrats have refused the intelligence agencies access to their
servers to discover what actually happened. I am going to say that
again.
(Craig
Murray)
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