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AZJoe
04-01-2017, 06:15 AM
A Cyber Gulf of Tonkin
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/03/30/a-cyber-gulf-of-tonkin/

The “cyber-security” firm that everyone is depending on to make the case for Russia’s alleged “hacking” of the 2016 presidential election, CrowdStrike, has just retracted a key component of its analysis (http://www.voanews.com/a/cyber-firm-rewrites-part-disputed-russian-hacking-report/3781411.html) – but the “mainstream” media continues to chug along, ignoring any facts that contradict their preferred narrative.

As Voice of America – hardly an instrument of Russian propaganda! – reports (http://www.voanews.com/a/cyber-firm-rewrites-part-disputed-russian-hacking-report/3781411.html):
“U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has revised and retracted statements ... The shift followed a VOA report that the company misrepresented data (http://www.voanews.com/a/3776067.html) ...”

This retraction pulls the rug out from under CrowdStrike’s identification of the hacking group that supposedly broke into the Democratic National Committee’s server. ...

Forced to backtrack in light of VOA’s definitive takedown (http://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html), CrowdStrike’s whole case collapses. ... the evidence that supposedly identifies whoever broke into the DNC servers as GRU agents is virtually nonexistent. ... Remember, the FBI never looked at the DNC servers: they depended on CrowdStrike ...

So if CrowdStrike’s analysis of the alleged hacking of the DNC is collapsing, why aren’t we reading about it in the “mainstream media”? ...

And so we are forced to witness the fraud of the House Intelligence Committee conducting hearings, which are predicated on an assumption that has no basis in reality, and has already been debunked. ... A fraud is being perpetrated in order to achieve certain geopolitical ends. There is historical precedent for this. ... What became known as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed the Senate with only two dissenting votes: the vote was unanimous in the House. Thus a nation was led down the path of escalating a disastrous war on the strength of a lie.

The Russian “hacking” narrative – which all too many Democrats (https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/847484107223257088) (and a few Republicans (https://twitter.com/RussiaInsider/status/846622169966690305)) are calling (https://twitter.com/DylanTMagee/status/847541541367193600) an “act of war (https://twitter.com/TomStark88/status/843940751381733376)” – is just such a lie. It is a cyber-Gulf of Tonkin “incident,” i.e. a made up story that is being used as a pretext for two purposes: 1) To accuse the Trump administration of “collusion” with the Russians, and 2) to block any effort to short-circuit the developing cold war with Russia and repair relations with Moscow.

The media, which has lost all sense of proportion in their eagerness to topple Trump, is promoting a dangerous lie that could lead directly to a conflict with Russia. ...

FunkBuddha
04-01-2017, 06:20 AM
I called bullshit on that report when I read it. Crowdstrike followed the clues until they confirmed their own bias and then quit, blaming the Russians becuase the VPN that was used was based in Russia. Why the #$@# would Russians use a Russian VPN?

agitator
04-01-2017, 06:51 AM
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?509230-DNC-Russian-Hackers-Found&highlight=