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Intelligence Vets Dispute Claims of Russian Hacking

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

MEMORANDUM: Allegations of Hacking Election Are Baseless

      A New York Times report on Monday alluding to “overwhelming circumstantial evidence” leading the CIA to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin “deployed computer hackers with the goal of tipping the election to Donald J. Trump” is, sadly, evidence-free. This is no surprise, because harder evidence of a technical nature points to an inside leak, not hacking – by Russians or anyone else…

      In what follows, we draw on decades of senior-level experience – with emphasis on cyber-intelligence and security – to cut through uninformed, largely partisan fog. Far from hiding behind anonymity, we are proud to speak out with the hope of gaining an audience appropriate to what we merit – given our long labors in government and other areas of technology. And corny though it may sound these days, our ethos as intelligence professionals remains, simply, to tell it like it is – without fear or favor.

      We have gone through the various claims about hacking. For us, it is child’s play to dismiss them. The email disclosures in question are the result of a leak, not a hack… Read our full report at the link here:

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/12/us-intel-vets-dispute-russia-hacking-claims/ Other related articles::http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/12/12/cias-absence-conviction Also http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/12/historical-structural-reasons-for-skepticism-of-cia-claims-remaining-agnostic-on-claims-of-russian-hackers/ A subject to be concerned about is The Peace Movement and Resistance in Dark Times http://portside.org/2016-12-13/peace-movement-and-resistance-dark-times

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