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Is Skepticism Treason?
Nation, The ^ | 03 January 2017 | James Carden

Posted on 01/08/2017 8:52:31 PM PST by Lorianne

Yet despite the scores of breathless media pieces that assert that Russia’s interference in the election is “case closed,” might some skepticism be in order? Some cyber experts say “yes.”

Cybersecurity consultant Jeffrey Carr noted that the report “merely listed every threat group ever reported on by a commercial cybersecurity company that is suspected of being Russian-made and lumped them under the heading of Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) without providing any supporting evidence that such a connection

In late December, Crowdstrike released a largely debunked report claiming that the same Russian malware that was used to hack the DNC has been used by Russian intelligence to target Ukrainian artillery positions. Crowdstrike’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Dmitri Alperovitch, told PBS, “Ukraine’s artillery men were targeted by the same hackers…that targeted DNC, but this time they were targeting cellphones [belonging to the Ukrainian artillery men] to try to understand their location so that the Russian artillery forces can actually target them in the open battle.”

Dmitri Alperovitch is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

The connection between Alperovitch and the Atlantic Council has gone largely unremarked upon, but it is relevant given that the Atlantic Council—which is funded in part by the US State Department, NATO, the governments of Latvia and Lithuania, the Ukrainian World Congress, and the Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk—has been among the loudest voices calling for a new Cold War with Russia.

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interesting read
1 posted on 01/08/2017 8:52:31 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne
...Russia’s interference in the election is “case closed...”

"The science is settled" too!

2 posted on 01/08/2017 8:54:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Those wascawwy Wussians. If it wasn’t for them, we’d never know that CNN (was it CNN?) gave Donna Brazile the debate questions ahead of time to give Hitlery Rosenberg Clinton a chance to rehearse her answers.


3 posted on 01/08/2017 8:58:57 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Lorianne

The entire narrative re: The Russian Hacking of the Election is a desperate attempt to build plausible deniability for the rampant and obscene levels of voter fraud the left engaged in, if/when the Trump admin decides it needs to be investigated fully.


4 posted on 01/08/2017 9:08:38 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Lorianne
Crowdstrike’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Dmitri Alperovitch, told PBS, “Ukraine’s artillery men were targeted by the same hackers…<\i> Wait a minute, Crowdstrike, the company that did the investigation of the DNC breakin is run by a Ukrainian? They are the ones who found Russian markers? Are you serious? And the Intelligence guys thought that little detail wasn't important?
5 posted on 01/08/2017 9:17:32 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: McGavin999

Shoot, wrong slash


6 posted on 01/08/2017 9:18:37 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: McGavin999

Yep amazing isn’t it?
I’m sure it was a clerical oversight.


7 posted on 01/08/2017 9:20:00 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: McGavin999

No problemo. The Ukranians were the original Rus. Much less Viking in them and more Slav. So......the RUSsians still did it. They either hacked and/or lied about the non-hacking. Either way the DC Rump Rangers are taking us to war war. Forget jaw jaw.


8 posted on 01/08/2017 9:39:25 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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