President Trump Administration and Russia

From left wing Nation rag I mean magazine:

"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.

https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/

 

I don't think it is really logical to reject sources from the "deep state" (it is really unfortunate kidbourbon wasn't here for his golden age) for months and then come around to plugging alleged NSA sources when they finally say something you want to believe. I have no special or direct knowledge about any of this. I can only listen to what the experts are saying. Most of them have said this was a hack. You're going to have to do better than a single article from the nation quoting unknown "NSA" sources discussing "forensic science now devastates this narrative." That's a journalist phrasing that I am certain they didn't get from professionals.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/11/polit...p-vladimir-putin-election-meddling/index.html

Well, shut it all down. Despite what every agency we've had saying the opposite, Putin really, really means it when he says he didn't do it. So, Mr. "America First" believes the Russian former spy's word over the evidence from his own people.

He's, seriously, the dumbest mother [uck fay]er I've ever seen in public office.

 

This might be kind of important

 

Probably nothing.

 

Just some snowflakes upset they lost the election.

 

Freaking crazy. Incumbent pres had his security guy contact the Russians. That’s insane.

 

Nothing burger.

Just an excuse by Democrats for losing an election.

Hillary did it.

Believe me.

 

Wonder why the nature of the contact wasn’t leaked too?

This was Post election. Really stupid.

 

It was.

Same day that new sanctions were announced, in fact.

 

I agree. Have no idea why it’s remotely news.

 

We don’t have time for this right now, our soil can wait. We need to focus on our soul.

 

We'll see eventually if it's relevant.

But I agree with float. Back to As the Vols Turn for now.

 

About that earlier report from ABC....

 

Wow. No way that was intentionally misleading.

 

I knew this was about the transition because I actually read the story.

And if that is all there is, I guess just Flynn goes to jail for inexplicably lying to the FBI. Somehow I doubt that is all there is, given the deal the FBI struck for his cooperation.

Nah. Probably nothing.

 

Definitely nothing.

 

Lots more nothing from K.T. McFarland's transition team emails:


“If there is a tit-for-tat escalation Trump will have difficulty improving relations with Russia, which has just thrown U.S.A. election to him,”

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/...lynn-trump-emails.html?smid=tw-share&referer=

 

I assume you’re joking.

 

It’s still stupid and is nothing. The election meddling idiocy should die right here. Tying it to transition work is absurd.