http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/13/another-report-russian-hack-dnc-probably-wasnt/
Remember when the Russians hacked the DNC email and records system last year? Yeah, about that ...
Cyber experts have been digging through all of the available material for over a year now trying to pin down exactly what happened but the answers to date have been less than satisfying. This isn't the first time, but now another report has come out saying that the standard explanation we've been given (Russia, Russia Russia) doesn't appear to hold water. The interesting aspect here is that this one isn't coming from some right wing source with an ax to grind against Hillary Clinton, but rather from The Nation, a source which is generally only a couple of steps removed from being a DNC public relations firm.
The author is Patrick Lawrence, and if you take a look at other entries from his recent body of work, well ... let's just say he doesn't spend his free time filling in for Rush Limbaugh. Lawrence's report is a lengthy think-piece which initially spends quite a while on the background of the story and how critical the idea of Russia being behind the leaks is to many of President Trump's detractors. But then he gets down to the complicated tale of the experts analyzing all of the evidence and the reasons they have for reaching these two, key conclusions (emphasis added):
There was no hack of the Democratic National Committee's system on July 5 last year - not by the Russians, not by anyone else. Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak - a download executed locally with a memory key or a similarly portable data-storage device. In short, it was an inside job by someone with access to the DNC's system. This casts serious doubt on the initial "hack," as alleged, that led to the very consequential publication of a large store of documents on WikiLeaks last summer.
Forensic investigations of documents made public two weeks prior to the July 5 leak by the person or entity known as Guccifer 2.0 show that they were fraudulent. Before Guccifer posted them they were adulterated by cutting and pasting them into a blank template that had Russian as its default language. Guccifer took responsibility on June 15 for an intrusion the DNC reported on June 14 and professed to be a WikiLeaks source - claims essential to the official narrative implicating Russia in what was soon cast as an extensive hacking operation. To put the point simply, forensic science now devastates this narrative. ...
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