BOMBSHELL: NSA Experts Say DNC ‘Hack’ Was Actually a Leak and Inside Job – LawNewz

A new report states categorically that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was not hacked by Russiansor anyone elseas frequently alleged by the mainstream media, liberal intelligentsia and anti-Trump politicians.

The Nations Patrick Lawrence wrote a lengthy review of the findings made by various computer experts formerly with the NSA. Published this week, the left-wing magazines report notes two bases for their conclusion: (1) hard science shows that a remote hack of the DNC servers resulting in the breach that actually occurred would have been technologically impossible; (2) forensic review of the initial Guccifer 2.0 documents proves that they are poorly-disguised cut-and-paste jobsforgeriesintended to finger Russia.

Lawrence, by way of the experts findings, concludes that the so-called hack was actually an inside job by someone with internal access to the DNCs computer network. In other words, the DNC has (or had) a leak.

The report mostly relies on the work ofVeteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which was founded in 2003 in order to push back against the false claims of Iraqi WMD emanating from the second Bush White House. Despite mostly being ignored by the media so far, VIPS diligently set to work on unraveling the cocoon of misinformation surrounding Russiagate and the DNC hack narrative.

Four members of VIPS are currently concentrating on the task. They are: (1) William Binney, the NSAs former technical leader who also designed many of the programs now in use by the agency; (2) Kirk Wiebe, a former senior analyst with the NSAs SIGINT Automation Research Center; (3) Edward Loomis, the former technical director at the NSAs Office of Signal Processing; and (4) Ray McGovern, former chief of the CIAs Soviet Foreign Policy Branch.

First, VIPS noted, the NSA has the technical prowess to root out exactly what happened because their publicly known programs alone are capable of capturing any and all electronic transfers of data. As VIPS noted,If NSA cannot produce such evidenceand quicklythis would probably mean it does not have any.

Thats a drum VIPS has been beating for awhile, but, of course, thats not hard evidence. There simply wasnt much of anyuntil very recently. Those recent documents undergird the reports first contentionthe technological impossibility of the DNC breach having been a long-distance hack. Lawrence describes the impossibility like this:

The metadata established several facts in this regard with granular precision: On the evening of July 5, 2016, 1,976 megabytes of data were downloaded from the DNCs server. The operation took 87 seconds. This yields a transfer rate of 22.7 megabytes per second. These statistics are matters of record and essential to disproving the hack theory. No Internet service provider, such as a hacker would have had to use in mid-2016, was capable of downloading data at this speed.

What is the top possible speed? Somewhere around 16 megabytes per second. According to Skip Folden, a former IBM program manager and independent analyst, 22.7 megabytes per second is beyond unlikely under the circumstancesunless youre downloading the files directly using a storage device like a USB drive. He said:

A speed of 22.7 megabytes is simply unobtainable, especially if we are talking about a transoceanic data transfer. Transfer rates of 23 MB/s are not just highly unlikely, but effectively impossible to accomplish when communicating over the Internet at any significant distance. Further, local copy speeds are measured, demonstrating that 23 MB/s is a typical transfer rate when using a USB2 flash device (thumb drive).

As to the reports second contentionthat the Guccifer 2.0 documents were tainted to cast curious eyes toward RussiaFolden notes that a simple peeling away of the documents top layer of metadata shows the sloppy and intentional misattribution.

The report is lengthy and doesnt stop there. Lawrence notes multiple additional problems with the now-broken narrative: CrowdStrike is essentially an arm of the DNC itself; Dmitri Alperovitch, CrowdStrikes co-founder and chief technology officer is consumed by Russophobia; the FBI has never once examined the DNCs servers by themselves; that famousIntelligence Community Assessment breathlessly reported as the cumulative work of 17 national security agencies was actually the work of three hand-picked analysts.

Lawrence even raises the possibility that Guccifer 2.0 was a whole-cloth creation of the DNC used to deflect away from the leaks contents and send everyone scrambling to find Russians underneath all the nations laptops and ashtrays.

That question, for now, will have to remain unanswered, but it looks like the official story is swiftly crumbling away.

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