What if the DNC Russian “hack” was really a leak after all? (Salon swallows the red pill)

Salon ^ | Aug 15, 2017 | Danielle Ryan

[Drew68]

Oops. Forgot the link.

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/15/what-if-the-dnc-russian-hack-was-really-a-leak-after-all-a-new-report-raises-questions-media-and-democrats-would-rather-ignore/

[Paladin2]

What if ‘Rats are seditious commies?

[goldstategop]

It blows the Russian collusion conspiracy theory out of the water.

What the new report does show is Hillary and Obama insiders framed the Russians to cover up a Hillary scandal and DNC mismanagement of their server breach.

Trump was supposed to be collateral damage. The real damage is the credibility of the fake news media.

Not to mention the veracity of senior intelligence officials who fed them compromised intelligence data to make it look like Trump benefited from non-existent Russian meddling.

Remember the Left’s way of looking at the picture: its not the facts that matter, its the seriousness of the charge.

That’s why Special Counsel Robert Mueller is chasing the rabbit hole through Wonderland.

[Deaf Smith]

“Copied and pasted”...sounds like what happened to someone’s (goes by BHO) BC.

[TheThirdRuffian]

It’s interesting that there are occasionally honest liberals.

[Drew68]

It blows the Russian collusion conspiracy theory out of the water.

Well, it's a good thing our GOP Congress took it upon themselves to punish Russia for "meddling" in our election. Though they were kind enough to present President Trump with a bill of questionable constitutionality.

[gibsonguy]

Well Rosenstein what will it take for you exert some control on that bastard Mueller? Maybe he should conduct a pre dawn no knock raid on the Nations editor.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Seth Rich was the leak and he was plugged.

[TBP]

This group is Former Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. They’re not Republicans or conservatives — they were the ones who questioned the finding of all major intelligence agencies that there were WMDs in Iraq.

[TChad]

It’s interesting that there are occasionally honest liberals.

It's as if their mental illness temporarily goes into remission. Definitely worth studying.

[happyathome]

“...What the new report does show is Hillary and Obama insiders framed the Russians to cover up a Hillary scandal and DNC mismanagement of their server breach.”

I disagree. I think Obama and the deep state used the “Russia” story to justify domestic surveillance of Trump (and anyone else they wanted). Hillary multi-purposed it to explain her humiliating defeat. The media further multi-purposed it to obstruct the Trump agenda.

[rb22982]

There are honest ones out there, at least some of the time. I have one good friend that is fairly intellectual honest and you can certainly reason with him. I can always tell when he’s been in his echo chambers for a while, though.

[GnuThere]

The huge flap over Charlottesville gives the Dims an excuse to avoid the Russia topic this week, and the Awan brothers too. Look, squirrel!

[bigbob]

Bill Binney is the retired IT guru who has explained this several times on Bill Still’s YT and last night on Tucker Carlson’s show. It’s technical, thus most people’s eyes glaze over and they just go on repeating memes and crap, but he has laid bare the entire fake news theory that there was a hack. It is impossible these files came from anywhere but inside the DNC. And it’s very likely the person responsible was Seth Rich, and they had him killed for it.

[bigbob]

HERE is the link to the Binney interview last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeMYEPAd8wE

[gubamyster]

Hasn’t this information been out there for months & ignored except on FR & Reddit?

[Drew68]

Hasn’t this information been out there for months & ignored except on FR & Reddit?

Yep. But now lefty sites are picking it up. Rush had an interesting take on it last week; that the old commies at The Nation are having a hard time watching their old friends the Russians get so thoroughly demonized in the U.S. press. At the same time, they believe Hillary was robbed and if the Russians didn't do it, who did?

[gubamyster]

Who did? Seth Rich did.

[Neidermeyer]

We’ll know we’ve won when the CIA’s house organ the Washington Post starts printing factual stories. (The CIA gave Bezos $600M for “cloud computing services” ,, The Post cost Bezos $250M , you do the math)

[GOPJ]

This report also claims there is no apparent evidence that the hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 — supposedly based in Romania — hacked the DNC on behalf of the Russian government. There is also no evidence, the report’s authors say, that Guccifer handed documents over to WikiLeaks. Instead, the report says that the evidence and timeline of events suggests that Guccifer may have been conjured up in an attempt to deflect from the embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign that was released just before the Democratic National Convention. The investigators found that some of the “Guccifer” files had been deliberately altered by copying and pasting the text into a “Russianified” word-processing document with Russian-language settings.

If all this is true, these findings would constitute a massive embarrassment for not only the DNC itself but the media, which has breathlessly pushed the Russian hacking narrative for an entire year, almost without question but with little solid evidence to back it up.

You could easily be forgiven for not having heard about this latest development — because, perhaps to avoid potential embarrassment, the media has completely ignored it. Instead, to this point only a few right-wing sites have seen fit to publish follow-ups.

Salon? For real?