The Mad Chase For RussiaGate Prey
In his June 8 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey conceded that the FBI never checked the DNC’s servers to confirm that they had truly been hacked. [Transcript]
Former FBI Director James Comey about the FBI forensics that never happened!
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN RICHARD BURR: Did you ever have access to the actual hardware that was hacked? Or did you have to rely on a third party to provide you the data that they had collected?
COMEY: In the case of the DNC, and, I believe, the DCCC [i.e. the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee], but I’m sure the DNC, we did not have access to the devices themselves. We got relevant forensic information from a private party, a high-class entity, that had done the work. But we didn’t get direct access.
BURR: But no content?
COMEY: Correct.
BURR: Isn’t content an important part of the forensics from a counterintelligence standpoint?
COMEY: It is, although what was briefed to me by my folks — the people who were my folks at the time – is that they had gotten the information from the private party that they needed to understand the intrusion by the spring of 2016.
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At last some sanity from the pond …
For the record, I do the exact same thing I’ve always done.
It’s just that my neighborhood has gone to shit. Actually,
my whole country has gone mad, so I guess I shouldn’t
complain that much that my audience has as well.
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So, to recapitulate: The FBI has NO evidence of Russian hacking or indeed ANY hacking, except for the unsubstantiated word of CrowdStrike without ANY physical evidence or third party report of examination of any evidence. You report an attack to the FBI but insist that they “just take my word for it”. And Comey bought it. I would fire him as FBI director for that alone. Dereliction of duty.
This has been public information since long before Comey’s testimony. It was always based on Crowdstrike’s alleged forensics. Why that highly questionable operation — both technologically and politically — has received virtually no scrutiny from the MSM, FBI, and involved NatSec agencies will figure into a future autopsy of how this mess out of nothing was created.
I kept on reading that the FBI had verified the reports. Apparently they only verified that they had reports.
Probably weak reporting — best to skip most of them after one gets the facts straight. Everything about the DNC file theft has been based on Crowdstrike’s work — although a few other computer operations later said that they confirmed that work but those confirmations also seemed to me to be based more on Crowdstrike than a truly independent and fresh look at the evidence.
The article you linked about George Soros, who is quite the bogeyman it would seem, leads to another by the same author (Wayne Madsen) that includes this fascinating claim:
“Today, Soros, deprived of his NGO offices in Russia, is relying on external operations on Russia’s periphery to continue to the advance the goal of restricting Russian rule to Old Muscovy. These bases of operations include Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Romania, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Arrayed against Russia are a developing coalition of Ukrainian fascists and neo-Nazis, Ukrainian and Moldovan Zionists; Islamic State guerrillas from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq; Turkish Grey Wolves nationalists and Salafist jihadists; and Chechen and Caucasus Emirate fighters. The connections between this growing coalition and the Soros operations, CIA, and NATO should not only be alarming to Russia but also to Belarus, Armenia, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Greece, Serbia, and other Slavic and Orthodox Christian regions.”
Wow.
That Soros is one evil dude. He’s brought together every Russia hater on the face of the globe!
Here’s a bit from the Wikipedia entry on Mr. Madsen:
Claims about Barack Obama
Madsen has claimed that Obama is gay. The Nation writing on that conspiracy theory reported that Wayne Madsen “is the source on Obama’s visits to the bath house and who revealed how Obama used basketball pickup games to pick up men. Obama, Madsen says, had homosexual trysts with Representative Artur Davis, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Senate majority leader Bill Frist!”
On June 9, 2008 he reported that unnamed “GOP dirty tricks operatives” had found a Kenyan birth certificate registering the birth of Barack Obama, Jr. on August 4, 1961. “However, the registration is a common practice in African countries whose citizens abroad have families with foreign nationals.” This birth certificate was a cornerstone of the “Kenyan Born” subset of the birther conspiracy theories, and Madsen’s article was cited in a Washington state petition challenging Obama’s eligibility to be president.
In 2012, Madsen self-published a book Manufacturing a President that said that Barack Obama was a creation of the CIA.
Other claims involving Israel and Mossad
Madsen has asserted in The Palestine Telegraph that hundreds of Iraqi scientists who had been assassinated or died in accidents after the invasion in 2003 were actually murdered by Mossad hit teams operating in Iraq.
In September 2005 he said that the pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, had pressured American politicians to avoid protests against the Iraq War. In October 2005, he wrote that “an unidentified former CIA agent” claimed that the USS Cole was hit by a Popeye cruise missile launched from an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine.
In a 2008 ArabNews article suggesting that the criminal prosecution of New York State governor Eliot Spitzer was partly due to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, Wayne Madsen says that the prostitution firm that entangled Spitzer in a call girl ring, is seen as a front for Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad. Further Madsen suggested that Spitzer was outed by Russian-Israeli gangsters angry at Spitzer’s crack down on Wall Street malfeasance.
He has asserted that members of AIPAC and Israel’s Mossad dominate CNN’s management and urges his readers to boycott CNN and its advertisers until they are fired. He has begun a project to oppose Israel as a threat to world peace. Madsen has stated in an interview that “the Israeli lobby owns the Congress, media, Hollywood, Wall Street, both political parties and the White House”.
In 2010, Madsen reported in the Pakistan Daily that unnamed sources suggested that the company formerly known as Blackwater, had been conducting false-flag operations in Pakistan that were blamed on the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
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I will be very direct here. Wayne Madsen is another in the long tradition of cranks who write carefully coded anti-Semitic crap.
Great find!
More on Wayne Madsen …
○ How the world changed after 9/11 | The Guardian |
○ A summary by ADL includes Code Pink and Pepe Escobar
Indeed, I’m no fan of Madsen. In a long diary with dozens of links, the item I linked was about declassified CIA documents. Nothing anti-semitic there. Thx for the concern. Rest of your comment is way O/T 🙂
About the Soros Foundation, Open Society and the Soviet Union, it’s a fact he started his NGO in 1987.
○ For Art in Hungary, Wall St. Friends | NY Times – Dec. 1987 |
Haha … business councils, culture and the arts have been a well known vehicle for propaganda and espionage for most nations. Soros, USAID for color revolutions is a well known combination.
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