Rolling Stone magazine, no stranger to fake news, has its doubts about the obama regime’s assertion that the Russians are behind the “hacking” of the DNC.
The problem with this story is that, like the Iraq-WMD mess, it takes place in the middle of a highly politicized environment during which the motives of all the relevant actors are suspect. Nothing quite adds up.
If the American security agencies had smoking-gun evidence that the Russians had an organized campaign to derail the U.S. presidential election and deliver the White House to Trump, then expelling a few dozen diplomats after the election seems like an oddly weak and ill-timed response. Voices in both parties are saying this now.
As I said, Rolling Stone magazine is no stranger to fake news. It went off the rails with a a story about rape on campus:
While it is “impossible to say” what happened to Jackie, Reason’s Robbie Soave writes, the Rolling Stone article is clearly false.
“Not slightly false, or partly false, but false,” he says. “And if Rolling Stone had done its job, the magazine might well have determined that before such a journalistic catastrophe unfolded.”
Rolling Stone is not the only doubter:
“What they released doesn’t add anything to the discussion [about attribution],” said Rob Lee, founder of the critical infrastructure cybersecurity company Dragos.
The technical data in the report, security experts say, is a very basic footprint pointing to Russian intruders — and one that frequently turns out to be a false positive.“What they released is what we would consider to be the lowest form of indicators of compromise,” Lee said.
Then Lee drops the hammer:
“Said more simply: the written portion of the report has little to nothing to do with the intended purpose or the technical data released,” Lee said in a blog post.
barack obama is the President who cried wolf. democrats are trying their best to find an excuse that will stick- a scapegoat- for why they lost the election. Even the Huffington Post recognizes that obama’s SJW attempt to lurch the country into leftward into socialism has lead to the destruction of the democrat party.
“You look at the destruction of the Democratic Party under Barack Obama’s leadership and you have to wonder, what was the political — what were the electoral benefits that he gave to the party?” Stein asked on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday.
“He leaves them in a much worse position,” Stein continued. “The states are decimated, they lost control of the House and Senate, the governorships are decimated.”
What neither obama nor democrats ever mention is that John Podesta willingly handed over his password in a phishing scheme. Aside from obama already asserting that hackers did not sway the election, do you know a single person who was swayed by the Podesta emails?
I don’t.
Then we have the problem that pretty much everything obama says is a lie. So when I hear obama whining about the Russians, all I hear is “You can keep your doctor and your plan no matter what” and it seems likely that once again he is depending on the “stupidity of the American voter.”
To paraphrase that insurance commercial, “Lying. When you’re President obama it’s what you do”
UPDATE
Seems someone else has doubts about the obama fable:
Talk about disappointments. The US government’s much-anticipated analysis of Russian-sponsored hacking operations provides almost none of the promised evidence linking them to breaches that the Obama administration claims were orchestrated in an attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.
The 13-page report, which was jointly published Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, billed itself as an indictment of sorts that would finally lay out the intelligence community’s case that Russian government operatives carried out hacks on the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Clinton Campaign Chief John Podesta and leaked much of the resulting material. While security companies in the private sector have said for months the hacking campaign was the work of people working for the Russian government, anonymous people tied to the leaks have claimed they are lone wolves. Many independent security experts said there was little way to know the true origins of the attacks.
Sadly, the JAR, as the Joint Analysis Report is called, does little to end the debate. Instead of providing smoking guns that the Russian government was behind specific hacks, it largely restates previous private-sector claims without providing any support for their validity. Even worse, it provides an effective bait and switch by promising newly declassified intelligence into Russian hackers’ “tradecraft and techniques” and instead delivering generic methods carried out by just about all state-sponsored hacking groups.
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