When is a Russian 'hack' not a hack? Evidence suggests DNC email hack was an inside job

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When is a Russian 'hack' not a hack? Evidence suggests DNC email hack was an inside job
Washington Examiner, Aug 11, 2017, Jennifer Kerns

One year ago, the news broke that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked. Tongues began wagging and fingers began pointing that Russia was behind it. However, Democrats might want to get the Kremlin on the phone and offer an apology because a new report suggests the DNC hack may not have been a "hack" at all.

It could have been an inside job.

According to a new report at The Nation, forensic experts and former national security advisers have quietly gathered over the last several months to examine the breach and they have determined the DNC email hack heard ‘round the world was conducted from within the DNC.


More:  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/when-is-a-russian-hack-not-a-hack-evidence-suggests-dnc-email-hack-was-an-inside-job/article/2631267

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A little more ...

The group found that "there was no hack of the Democratic National Committee's system on July 5 last year—not by the Russians, not by anyone else."

The report continues, "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."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/when-is-a-russian-hack-not-a-hack-evidence-suggests-dnc-email-hack-was-an-inside-job/article/2631267

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Hate Trump Brigade won't believe it until Chris Matthews says it.

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Hate Trump Brigade won't believe it until Chris Matthews says it.

Ok, that's long enough.

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Here is the article referenced above that provides many more details on the hacking by someone in the DNC ....

A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack
The Nation; Aug 9, 2017, Patrick Lawrence

Former NSA experts say it wasn’t a hack at all, but a leak—an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system.

It is now a year since the Democratic National Committee’s mail system was compromised—a year since events in the spring and early summer of 2016 were identified as remote hacks and, in short order, attributed to Russians acting in behalf of Donald Trump. A great edifice has been erected during this time. President Trump, members of his family, and numerous people around him stand accused of various corruptions and extensive collusion with Russians. Half a dozen simultaneous investigations proceed into these matters. Last week news broke that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had convened a grand jury, which issued its first subpoenas on August 3. Allegations of treason are common; prominent political figures and many media cultivate a case for impeachment.
 
The president’s ability to conduct foreign policy, notably but not only with regard to Russia, is now crippled. Forced into a corner and having no choice, Trump just signed legislation imposing severe new sanctions on Russia and European companies working with it on pipeline projects vital to Russia’s energy sector. Striking this close to the core of another nation’s economy is customarily considered an act of war, we must not forget. In retaliation, Moscow has announced that the United States must cut its embassy staff by roughly two-thirds. All sides agree that relations between the United States and Russia are now as fragile as they were during some of the Cold War’s worst moments. To suggest that military conflict between two nuclear powers inches ever closer can no longer be dismissed as hyperbole.

All this was set in motion when the DNC’s mail server was first violated in the spring of 2016 and by subsequent assertions that Russians were behind that “hack” and another such operation, also described as a Russian hack, on July 5. These are the foundation stones of the edifice just outlined. The evolution of public discourse in the year since is worthy of scholarly study: Possibilities became allegations, and these became probabilities. Then the probabilities turned into certainties, and these evolved into what are now taken to be established truths. By my reckoning, it required a few days to a few weeks to advance from each of these stages to the next. This was accomplished via the indefensibly corrupt manipulations of language repeated incessantly in our leading media.


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

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Hopefully this will continue to bleed into the MSM's reporting .....

The DNC ‘hack’ might have been an inside job
New York Post, Aug 17,2017, John Crudele

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Over the past few columns, I’ve mentioned areas where I think the press has fallen down on the job. In my humble effort to keep people — investors or not — informed, here’s another media failing: the alleged hacking of the Democratic National Committee computers.

You should read a story in the Aug. 9 issue of The Nation magazine entitled, “A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack.”

The first thing you need to know is that The Nation is a liberal/progressive publication. So if there is any bias there it’s in favor of the Democrats.

The magazine’s conclusion: there wasn’t a computer “hack” at all.

Hard evidence, it says, shows that the DNC e-mails — including those of Hillary Clinton adviser John Podesta — were leaked by someone inside the party.

That would change everything, of course, especially since numerous other investigations concluded that the Russians did it.


More:  http://nypost.com/2017/08/17/the-dnc-hack-might-have-been-an-inside-job/