Posted on 11/03/2016 2:32:42 PM PDT by Ray76
In the final presidential debate on Oct. 19, Clinton said documents released by WikiLeaks were part of Russian espionage on the U.S.
Clinton was citing the Oct. 7 statement from the U.S. intelligence community saying it was “confident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of emails from U.S. persons and institutions.”
Analysts say, however, that the ability to determine who cyber attackers are, where they’re located and sometimes who ordered their operations is rarely definitive and comes in degrees of confidence.
Beyond the government’s headline assertion that Russia is to blame, “it’s important to parse the public statement pretty closely,” said Susan Hennessey, a national security fellow at the Brookings Institution. “They’re being really careful in their word choice.”
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PBS? Blind squirrels, nuts & all that. Stopped-clocks, too.
Valerie Plame, please pick-up the white courtesy phone!
The answer is: Not if the hackers were any good.
Do you think our enemies (and some of our allies) hire good hackers?
The NSA. That’s what they do for a living.
I don’t think they know, I don’t think it was Russia.
My guess is it was someone in a US intelligence agency, but not with that agency’s knowledge. More likely a patriot inside that agency doing it on the sly. Could be related to what Piezcinek hinted at. Remember when he said emails “we gave to” Wikileaks...I always thought it was someone inside US intelligence, that comment by itself really got my attention when I watched his video. This is part of what he was talking about.
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