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Proof that DNC manufactured the Russian controversy in June 2016
Reddit ^ | 5/25/17 | byecomey

Posted on 05/26/2017 4:16:46 AM PDT by dontreadthis

Democrats manufactured the Russian interference story as a disinformation campaign all the way back in June 2016. And this post will prove this beyond reasonable doubt with evidence. Not just that, but there is great circumstantial evidence of illegal activity going all the way up to the Obama administration, and provides new motive for why Seth Rich was murdered. The evidence is presented in this post. Timeline

Understanding the order in which the events happened will be important to understand why it was the DNC and only the DNC could have manufactured the Russian campaign. Date Event Source June 14, 2016 The DNC releases a statement stating they have been hacked. Washington Post June 15, 2016 Crowdstrike (cybersecurity firm) releases reports suggesting the DNC was hacked by Russians Crowdstrike June 15, 2016 Guccifer 2.0 publishes first DNC email documents and claims he has sent them to Wikileaks.Guccifer insists he is not Russian. Guccifer 2.0 blog June 16, 2016 Vice publishes article titled "'Guccifer 2.0' Is Likely a Russian Government Attempt to Cover Up Its Own Hack." Other media outlets follow suit calling Guccifer a Russian government job Vice July 22, 2016 Wikileaks releases the DNC email documents Wikileaks July 27, 2016 Trump makes infamous "Russia: If you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing" joke that starts allegations of Russian collusion Politico In bullet point form:

DNC announces they've been hacked. The day after, a hacker calling himself Guccifer 2.0 claims to have taken credit for the hack and announces he will be giving his documents to Wikileaks. Guccifer 2.0 vehemently denies being Russian, a façade he keeps up throughout his activity. Bolstered by Crowdstrike's report and the metadata in Guccifer 2.0's documents, media outlets immediately start screaming that Guccifer 2.0 must be Russian agents. Finally, Wikileaks releases the DNC documents a month after Guccifer 2.0 did. This post unmasks Guccifer 2.0's identity as none other than the DNC.

What did Guccifer 2.0 do?

Guccifer 2.0 hosted a Wordpress site where the DNC documents could be publicly downloaded. June 15th was the date of the first Guccifer 2.0 leak; further leaks would continue thereafter. I focus only on the first leak, as they contain the metadata which are essential to proving it was a DNC operation. What were in the leaked Guccifer documents?

Guccifer 2.0 leaked a total of 10 Office documents from the DNC in the first batch (many more would come, but none contain the same "mistakes" as the ones I shall detail).

All Microsoft Office documents have metadata entries which contain attributes about the document itself such as the user that created them, the user that modified them, and so on. This metadata is usually invisible to viewers but can be viewed with a raw text editor like Notepad, or on Mac OS, vim.

It would be unusual for a leaker to modify the metadata, but Guccifer 2.0 did, claiming that it was his "watermark."

In Office, the metadata includes the owner of the Office application who created the file and the owner of the Office application who modified the file. I present a list of the document names having metadata values for original author & modified author:

Document name Original author Modified author 1.doc Warren Flood Феликс Эдмундович 2.doc Warren Flood Феликс Эдмундович 3.doc Warren Flood Феликс Эдмундович 4.doc Blake 5.doc jbs836 Феликс Эдмундович

Феликс Эдмундович, or Felix Edmundovich in the English alphabet, was an early Soviet statesman who died in 1926. So what... Warren Flood, Blake, and jbs836 were the original authors?

Short answer: No. Non-technical answer: For one thing, we can cross-reference the actual authors from the Wikileaks dump. 1.doc is in the "verified" Wikileaks release as the attachment which can be downloaded from here which has the original author of "Lauren Dillon." So, wait, who is Warren Flood et al? Each of these documents had a creation date of June 15, and were modified by "Феликс Эдмундович" a few minutes later.

In Office 2007 format specification, there is a certain stylesheet template which dictates overall formatting for the document. In three of the documents by Warren Flood, we find the identical metadata. {\s108\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\contextualspace \rtlch\fcs1 \af1\afs20\alang1025 \ltrch\fcs0\f1\fs20\lang1049\langfe1049\cgrid\langnp1049\langfenp1049\sbasedon0 \snext108 \slink107 \sqformat \spriority1 \styrsid11758497 No Spacing;} The above line appears across all three of Warren Flood's documents. styrsid11758497 is an unique identifier that is author-associative. The fact that it does not appear in the other documents indicates it's associated with Warren Flood and not Феликс Эдмундович.

Why is this important? Well, the \langfe1049 portion is a setting saying that Russian language should be used as the default language for the document.

Had Феликс Эдмундович been setting the "watermark," it would be the same across all documents. But instead, distinct watermarks were created for each document creator, suggesting inconsistent application or three different creators applying their own watermark. In other words, document creators set the document properties to use Russian language and created three distinct so-called 'watermarks' in doing so, not 'Феликс Эдмундович.'

Also, cross-reference to Wikileaks shows that Warren Flood did not author any of the documents. And given that the timestamps are all on June 15th, this is the sequence of events:

Warren Flood opens a DNC document, copies it, and pastes it as a new document to his computer. Warren Flood sets the theme language to Russian in some way (this process is different for all authors). Warren Flood modifies the document's author to Феликс Эдмундович. The modified document is then uploaded to the Guccifer website and publicly published a short time thereafter. Who is Warren Flood?

Warren Flood is a high-ranking technology official for Democratic operatives, having worked for Obama for America, DNC, and Joe Biden. It's a unique name.

His name does not appear in any of the Wikileaks emails, meaning that he appears to be a third party as far as the DNC email leaks are concerned.

Other than his (professional Internet) profile, he is a social media ghost, never having made any Tweets nor any evidence of real social media activity.

The pertinent point is that: the metadata forensic proof is irrefutable that Warren Flood, or someone who owned a copy of Word registered to Warren Flood, shoehorned in obvious "Russian" fingerprints all over the documents.

Guccifer 2.0 is none other than a botched DNC creation to create a false flag for Russia.

Impact of Guccifer 2.0 being a DNC creation

The "Russian influenced the US election" campaign all started from the DNC leak.

Allegations of Russian influence was built on a completely fabricated foundation of lies.

In hindsight, we now know that Obama administration unmasking of US campaign officials on the pretext of "Russian interference" started in June 2016, same date as when Guccifer 2.0 began. The implications that the unmasking all was predicated on a DNC psy-ops is staggering. Who cares why the DNC did it?

Because it proves that "Russian interference" started as a total DNC fabrication that persists to today. The whole Russian campaign started before Trump made his infamous joke about Russians getting Hillary’s emails.

Illegal unmasking of Trump campaign officials over Russian interference began June 2016. Was this predicated on Russian interference with the DNC hacks? If so, this means that the leaks not only implicate DNC and plague President Trump himself, but also implicates Obama administration officials and all the involved intelligence agencies.

Why did DNC leak their own documents?

It’s right in Guccifer 2.0’s blog. Pertinent quote: "The main part of the papers, thousands of files and mails, I gave to Wikileaks. They will publish them soon." TheDNC knew they were having their documents leaked to Wikileaks, and wanted to make sure a Russian hacker took credit for the leaks.

How did the DNC know Wikileaks was going to release the DNC emails?

Great question. It’s hard to imagine them knowing without assistance from intelligence agencies – and indeed unmasking of campaign officials started in June 2016.

This is, of course, highly illegal, and would mean that the Russian disinformation campaign wasn’t just a DNC operation, it was also created from collusion with the Obama administration using highly illegal means including violations of the Fourth Amendment.

Since Guccifer 2.0 was a botched operation, that might make the continued existence of the real leaker who might draw scrutiny that much more precarious… What about Crowdstrike report?

The metadata I described above can be independently verified by a non-technical person with access to any text editor like vim (which is available on Mac OS terminal command line). It does not require special forsenic analysis to identify. There are only two explanations: staggering incompetence, or DNC collusion.

I cannot say if Crowdstrike is competent, but I can say that their co-founder and CTO, Dmitri Alperovitch, is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council, a think tank whose policies could be termed as anti-protectionist.

Who leaked the DNC emails to Wikileaks?

In short, all circumstantial evidence points to Seth Rich.

Seth Rich was killed on July 10, after the Guccifer drops and before the Wikileaks release. Wikileaks offered a 20,000 reward for information on Seth Rich’s death.

Craig Murray, a British national connected with Wikileaks, claims a disgusted Democrat insider was the leaker and he personally flew overseas to make the drop.

Was Seth Rich murdered by the DNC?

We are getting in speculative territory here. The circumstances of his death are suspicious – there had never been a homicide prior or after in his area. The assailants did not steal any of his valuables.

Conspiracy theorists assume Seth Rich was murdered by the DNC to "set an example."

Personally, I think that as long as Seth Rich existed, he could have spoken up as the leaker at any moment and drawn scrutiny to Guccifer 2.0 being a DNC operation. To our knowledge, the unmasking of Trump and related officials started in June 2016 using the DNC hacks as a pretext. Seth Rich’s continued existence could have lead to the fall of the White House and intelligence agencies.

Is that motive enough for a political hit? You tell me.

News sources say that the "documents contain DNC metadata" is disproven.

In addition to hosting them on the official Wordpress website, DNC documents were sent directly by Guccifer 2.0 to media outlets such as The Hill (despite Guccifer 2.0 himself claiming hatred of these very same media outlets accusing him of being Russian).

What Guccifer 2.0 sent was not always the same as what was on the official Guccifer 2.0 website. My speculation is that Guccifer 2.0 revised the documents to remove the metadata, and sent those corrected documents to media outlets. He could not do the same on his Wordpress site for without drawing intense scrutiny, so the botched documents remained.

Bottom line:it is unimpeachable that watermarked Russian metadata in Guccifer’s first document drop are associated with a DNC tech worker named Warren Flood who otherwise has nothing to do with the DNC emails.Any media outlet reporting otherwise are probably either working from their own "corrected" copy from Guccifer or spinning hard or both.


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1 posted on 05/26/2017 4:16:46 AM PDT by dontreadthis
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2 posted on 05/26/2017 4:19:51 AM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: dontreadthis
Limbaugh forgot about the June reports based on Crowdstrike, and speculated that the "MUH Russia" story was triggered by Trump suggesting, for the first time in a late July rally, that the Russians find Crooked's lost e-mails.

When in fact, Trump was riffing off of and ridiculing both Crooked's private wedding and parties server, and the "MUH Russia" news stories that were circulating at the same time.

3 posted on 05/26/2017 4:22:55 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: dontreadthis

Interesting.


4 posted on 05/26/2017 4:29:14 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Cboldt

Savage was playing audio with Trump from right before the election with Savage saying the dems/intel community are going to blame Hill’s loss on Russia. Told him to be careful. He said he knew and they were working on it or something.


5 posted on 05/26/2017 4:32:03 AM PDT by petercooper (Ryan and McConnell need to go.)
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To: dontreadthis

When the DNC discovered that someone inside their group had leaked their emails to Wikileaks, they concocted the Russian meme to cover it up?......


6 posted on 05/26/2017 4:33:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: dontreadthis
Bottom line:it is unimpeachable that watermarked Russian metadata in Guccifer’s first document drop are associated with a DNC tech worker named Warren Flood who otherwise has nothing to do with the DNC emails.Any media outlet reporting otherwise are probably either working from their own "corrected" copy from Guccifer or spinning hard or both.

This is very important information--good work by a centipede over at Reddit.

The DNC knew about the coming Wikileaks drop and invented this cover to deal with it.

As well as eliminating Seth Rich.

Pull on the string marked Seth Rich, and the whole DNC/Obama Administration comes undone.

7 posted on 05/26/2017 4:36:16 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: dontreadthis

Summary: (let me see if I’ve got this right)
1. IC alerts DNC that they’ve been hacked
2. DNC, via Warren Flood and his Guccifer 2.0 creation, alters the metadata of hacked documents to appear as is they’ve passed through Russian hands.
3. DNC hires Crowdstrike to examine hacked documents to confirm Russian intervention.
4. Seth Rich is murdered
5. Wikileaks releases original? hacked documents

If this summary is what the author is saying, then the Wikileaks documents will have different metadata than those released by Guccifer.


8 posted on 05/26/2017 4:43:47 AM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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To: Red Badger
It is important to understand that the DNC allegations of Russian involvement would have been laughed at as patent nonsense by the vast majority of media outlets unless...

The Mockingbird is still singing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation
9 posted on 05/26/2017 4:45:03 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: dontreadthis
If this summary is what the author is saying, then the Wikileaks documents will have different metadata than those released by Guccifer 2.0

Bingo!

10 posted on 05/26/2017 4:49:22 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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per Reddit:
“cross-reference to Wikileaks shows that Warren Flood did not author any of the documents”
“Warren Flood is a high-ranking technology official for Democratic operatives, having worked for Obama for America, DNC, and Joe Biden. It’s a unique name.
His name does not appear in any of the Wikileaks emails, meaning that he appears to be a third party as far as the DNC email leaks are concerned.”

is this “bingo”?


11 posted on 05/26/2017 4:57:42 AM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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Yes.

First, Guccifer 1.0 (Hillary’s server hacked by him) is a real Romanian hacker.

Guccifer 2.0 is a fake Romanian hacker of the DNC server.

Warren Flood set up the leaked documents to point to the fake Guccifer (2.0), who turned out to not even know Romanian as a language.

Thus, the metadata of the Seth Rich-leaked DNC documents(the real thing) will NOT match those that Flood concocted for the Guccifer 2.0 release, masked as a Russian operation.


12 posted on 05/26/2017 5:11:23 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: dontreadthis

I’m thinking pseudonyms:

(Elizabeth) Warren = deep hole

Maxine Waters = Flood

LOL!!


13 posted on 05/26/2017 5:11:57 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: dontreadthis
DNC hires Crowdstrike to examine hacked documents to confirm Russian intervention.

The fact the FBI allowed Crowdstrike to examine the DNC servers is a giant red flag. Since when does the FBI allow 3rd parties to do forensic examination of a server when that 3rd party was hired by the DNC?

FBI: "We need to examine your servers as part of a criminal investigation".
Joe Nobody: "I've got my own IT guy. He'll take a look."
FBI: "Oh, OK. No problem."

14 posted on 05/26/2017 5:15:17 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("Daddy, what did you do in the Deep State War?")
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To: exit82

It’s right in Guccifer 2.0’s blog. Pertinent quote: “The main part of the papers, thousands of files and mails, I gave to Wikileaks. They will publish them soon.” The DNC knew they were having their documents leaked to Wikileaks, and wanted to make sure a Russian hacker took credit for the leaks.


15 posted on 05/26/2017 5:16:34 AM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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To: exit82

from Reddit comments:
In before the people who say “Guccifer is such a lazy stupid name. They would never use that!”
It’s exactly why they would use that. It’s a very clever name to use for disinformation.
It floods any search for Guccifer with results for Guccifer 2.0 and muddies the waters.
A testament to the intentional confusion is how many of us confuse Guccifer with Guccifer 2.0 or even use Guccifer as shorthand. I’m sure it will be seen in this very thread.
Since Guccifer is a real known hacker, the Guccifer 2.0 name piggybacks on that legitimacy.
Edit: Many of us have bought into Guccifer 2.0 because he claims that Seth leaked to WikiLeaks.
But it is bait used to push the main idea that Guccifer 2.0 wants us to promote: that “Russia hacked the election > Trump colluded with Russia > Trump should be outed.”


16 posted on 05/26/2017 5:18:41 AM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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To: Flick Lives
-- The fact the FBI allowed Crowdstrike to examine the DNC servers is a giant red flag. --

I don't think the FBI had any control or choice in that. The DNC refused to give the FBI access, and the FBI chose to not undertake a criminal investigation that would have empowered it to seize the evidence.

-- FBI: "We need to examine your servers as part of a criminal investigation". --

That part didn't happen. I don't think that the DNC even contacted the FBI with a claim that they had been hacked. I think the FBI remarks on the subject followed news reports, not contact from "the victim."

17 posted on 05/26/2017 5:22:54 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: dontreadthis

The point is that they were not “hacked”. The emails were released by a whistle blower - Seth Rich - and that is what the DNC is trying to obfuscate by blaming it on “Russia”. As the article said, Seth Rich was the only one who could step forward at any time and reveal the lie. Strangely, he was never given the opportunity. Wikileaks never reveals its sources but they did say, several times, that the source was NOT Russia but internal.


18 posted on 05/26/2017 5:29:54 AM PDT by Nipfan (The desire to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it - H L Mencken)
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Seth Rich’s continued existence could have lead to the fall of the White House and intelligence agencies.

Motive, Means, Opportunity are all present.

Who ordered the hit is now more important then who pulled the trigger.

19 posted on 05/26/2017 5:30:55 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Pass the Ketchup)
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BTTT


20 posted on 05/26/2017 5:31:29 AM PDT by petercooper ("Democrats are on a collusion course with destiny in 2018." -- Bill Mitchell 5/26/17)
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