6 thoughts on “Back Down To Earth

  1. The evidence that Russia “interfered” in the 2016 presidential election at all is thin — Russia denies it (of course!), Assange says more than one individual/group had hacked the DNC, and that he didn’t get the DNC emails he leaked from the Russians. The core of the notion that the Russians were behind it goes back to a company called Crowdstrike that prepared a report for the Democrats last Summer. Crowdstrike has a pronounced anti-Russian bias (it has ties to the Ukrainians). Later reports, including the one by DHS last October, relied heavily on Crowdstrike’s assessment of the identity of the hackers.
    The intelligence report rushed out by the Obama administration after the election showed signs that only intelligence assessments that agreed with the DNC talking points were included. This is supposed to explain the confusion about how many intelligence participated in preparing the report and how many agreed with its conclusions.
    You wouldn’t know it from the headlines, but nothing new has been learned since before the election (the Steele dossier being without merit). It will be interesting to see what Mueller comes up with. I hope that he avoids the “judgement” routine. That’s where the investigator can’t actually provide convincing evidence, so instead he expresses a “judgement” that a thing is so, with a given confidence level. This is where the mischief gets into a lot of IPCC global warming “science.”

  2. No one can point to a single vote, let alone vote total or Electoral College vote that the Russian’s “hacked.” Then we are told that the exposure of the internal emails of the Clinton campaign changed votes. But no one has denied the truth of the emails, only that the public was not intended to see them. So the worst that could be applied to the Russians is that they applied some sunlight to dark corners.

    If anything, the Russians would have more in common with Hillary than Trump. Russian and Hillary both are left. Russia had already paid off Hillary and her foundation. And Russia likely has already read the 30,000 deleted emails about Hillary’s yoga classes and Chelsea’s wedding.

  3. MP,
    BBC overnight had a 1/2hr piece about how the same people who hacked the US election (Russians who else) were also behind the leaking of French candidate Macron’s emails.
    The sole non-anonymous source for this report was Crowdstrike.
    If you google ‘BBC and Crowdstrike’ you see much the same ‘go to’ pattern that you’ll find with NPR and SPLC.

  4. One of the issues with Crowdstrike is that they find Russian hackers responsible for nearly everything. When some Ukrainian artillery malfunctioned, Crowdstrike blamed Russian hackers.
    You also should consider that there are enclaves of ethnic Russians throughout the nations of the old Soviet Union. A person can honestly claim to be Romanian (as Guccifer 2.0 claimed) and still be a native speaker of Russian.

  5. Russia thought Hillary would win. The fact is, HRC would ***weaken*** the military and Trump would improve it. The DNC leaks obviously made the Democrat Ruling Class look bad. (Except for Emery, he likes it.)

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