The gorgeous revelations from the Twitter recordsdata because of the work of Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and Bari Weiss is offering irrefutable proof that the FBI was working to stop the election of Donald Trump. In relation to “Election Interference,” it was the FBI, not Russia.
The outcomes launched to this point element FBI giving route to Twitter concerning the 2020 Presidential Marketing campaign. I consider future releases will present proof that the FBI, together with the CIA, was working to destroy Donald Trump and forestall him from being elected.
One factor we all know with certainty is that the FBI’s Washington Discipline Workplace was speaking through electronic mail and telephone with the FBI Counter Intelligence division at FBI Headquarters about Seth Wealthy. The one purpose the FBI Counter Intelligence division can be concerned in any means with an alleged case of a routine homicide following an tried theft of Seth Wealthy is as a result of there was international involvement. The FBI is making an attempt to bury that reality.
Why is the FBI stonewalling so furiously to maintain its communications about Seth Wealthy and the alleged hack of the DNC by Russia secret? As a result of Russia didn’t hack the DNC. This isn’t my opinion. It’s a conclusion of a number of cyber safety professionals that flows from one very particular, simply examined declare made by the discredited Particular Counsel, Robert Mueller –- i.e., that Guccifer 2.0 was a fictional id created by Russian Navy Intelligence, aka the GRU. If the GRU had concocted Guccifer 2.0, then the forensic proof ought to present that this entity was working from Russia or underneath the direct management of entities linked to the GRU.
One kind of forensic proof is meta information. What’s meta information? That is geek shorthand to explain bodily data or code that’s written right into a doc created by a phrase processor software program when a doc is created. This information contains a wide range of issues, such because the date and time the doc was created or modified. It tells you who created the doc.
An examination of the Guccifer 2.0 paperwork exhibits that the meta information within the Guccifer 2.0 paperwork had been manipulated intentionally to plant Russian fignerprints. This was not an accident nor an oversight as a consequence of carelessness by some pc operator.
Particular Counsel Robert Mueller is right in stating that Guccifer 2.0 was a “fictious on-line persona. ” However he’s incorrect to say that Guccifer 2.0 was a creation of the Russian Navy Intelligence. Guccifer 2.0 seems to be a creation of the CIA and was one character in a broader scheme assembled to color Donald Trump as a lackey of Vladimir Putin.
Allow us to first stipulate that Russia and america have engaged in cyber espionage and covert motion in opposition to one another for the reason that daybreak of the web age. Throughout the U.S. Intelligence Group cyber ops are carried out by the NSA, the CIA and DIA, simply to say three of the extra outstanding members of the US Intel Group. These actions usually are referred to with the acronym, CNO—i.e., Pc Community Operations.
CNOs are labeled on the highest stage in america and usually are dealt with inside particular restricted classes generally referred to as SAPs (i.e, Particular Entry Applications). A important ingredient of those sorts of operations is to keep away from leaving any fingerprints or clues that might allow the exercise to be traced again to america. However this isn’t distinctive to america. All skilled intelligence providers all over the world perceive and follow this precept—go away no proof behind that proves you had been there.
The case implicating Russia within the hack of the DNC and Clinton emails, together with these of her marketing campaign Supervisor, John Podesta, rests on suspect meta information within the paperwork posted by Guccifer 2.0 on line. In line with Disobedient Media, “the recordsdata that Guccifer 2.0 initially pushed to reporters contained Russian metadata, a Russian stylesheet entry and in some circumstances embedded Russian error messages.”
Why would the Russians make such a mistake, particularly in such a excessive stake operation (concentrating on a nationwide election with covert motion most definitely is a excessive stake operation). Mueller and the U.S. intelligence group need you to consider that the Russians are simply sloppy and careless buffoons. These ideologically against the Russians readily embrace this nonsense. However for many who even have handled Russian civilian and navy intelligence operatives and operations, the Russians are subtle and cautious.
However we don’t have to depend on our private beliefs concerning the competence or incompetence of the Russians. We merely want to have a look at the forensic proof contained within the paperwork posted by Guccifer 2.0. We’ll take Robert Mueller and his investigators at their phrase:
- Starting in or round June 2016, the Conspirators staged and launched tens of 1000’s of the stolen emails and paperwork. They did so utilizing fictitious on-line personas, together with “DCLeaks” and “Guccifer 2.0.” (p. 2-3)
- The Conspirators additionally used the Guccifer 2.0 persona to launch further stolen paperwork via a web site maintained by a corporation (“Group 1”) [aka WIKILEAKS], that had beforehand posted paperwork stolen from U.S. individuals, entities, and the U.S. authorities. (p. 3)
- Between in or round June 2016 and October 2016, the Conspirators used Guccifer 2.0 to launch paperwork via WordPress that that they had stolen from the DCCC and DNC. The Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, additionally shared stolen paperwork with sure people. (p. 15)
An examination of these paperwork tells a really completely different story. Whereas it doesn’t reveal who or what was Guccifer 2.0, it does undermine Mueller’s declare that it was the Russians who did these dastardly deeds.
One impartial forensic pc investigator, who makes use of the title, “The Forensicator,” examined the meta information in a number of the paperwork posted by Guccifer 2.0 and found the next:
Guccifer 2.0 revealed a file on 13 September 2016 that was initially copied on 5 July 2016 at roughly 6:45 PM Japanese time. It was copied and appeared because the “NGP VAN” 7zip file.
The estimated pace of switch was 23 MB/s. Which means this preliminary information switch might NOT have been performed remotely over the Web. As an alternative, it was possible performed from a pc system that had direct entry to the information. “By “direct entry” we imply that the person who was amassing the information both had bodily entry to the pc the place the information was saved, or the information was copied over an area high-speed community (LAN).”
This preliminary copying exercise was performed on a system that used Japanese Daylight Time (EDT) settings and was possible initially copied to a pc working Linux, as a result of the file final modified occasions all replicate the obvious time of the copy, which is a attribute of the Linux ‘cp’ command (utilizing default choices).
On September 1, 2016, a subset of the preliminary giant assortment of DNC associated content material (the so-called NGP/VAN information), was transferred to working directories on a system working Home windows. The .rar recordsdata included within the ultimate 7zip file had been constructed from these working directories.
The alleged Russian fingerprints appeared within the first doc “leaked” by Guccifer 2.0– 1.doc—which was a report on Donald Trump. A forensic examination of the paperwork exhibits that given the phrase processor program used to create the Donald Trump Doc launched by Guccifer 2.0, the creator consciously and purposefully used codecs that intentionally inserted “Russian fingerprints” into the doc. In different phrases, the meta-data was purposely altered, and paperwork had been pasted right into a ‘Russianified’ phrase doc with Russian language settings and magnificence headings.
Listed below are the important thing information:
The meta information exhibits that Slate_-_Domestic_-_USDA_-_2008-12-20.doc was the template for creating 1.doc, 2.docand 3.doc. This template injected “Warren Flood” because the creator worth and “GSA” as the corporate worth in these first three Phrase paperwork. This template additionally injected the title, the watermark and header/footer fields discovered within the ultimate paperwork (with slight modifications).
The Phrase paperwork revealed in June 2016 by Guccifer 2 additionally present a “final saved as” person id written in Cyrillic. The Anglicized title is “Felix Edmundovich“, aka “Iron Felix” (the notorious director of an early Soviet spy company). If you’re a Russian cyber spy making an attempt to conduct a covert operation, why do you signal your doc with the title of one of the vital notorious leaders of Russian intelligence? Robert Mueller needs you to consider that this was simply Russian audacity.
However the meta information tells a special story. After we look at The Revision Session Identifiers aka ‘RSID’s, within the Guccifer doc, we see the identical Russian style-headings in 1.doc, 2.doc and three.doc. The doc creation timestamps on docs 1, 2 and three are also all equivalent.
On condition that MS phrase assigns a brand new random ‘RSID’ with every save when a component is added or edited (this operate permits one to trace adjustments made to a Phrase doc), the one technique to receive equivalent creation timestamps signifies that somebody both immediately edited the supply doc or that there was one empty doc open and that particular person paperwork had been copy-pasted and saved-as (1.doc), then contents deleted and new doc pasted and saved-as (2.doc), and so forth. This course of additionally explains equivalent style-sheet RSIDs.
