CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains reasons to doubt 'Russian hacking' story
Channel: Jason Zenith
Date: 2019-08-16

CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Explains The Reasons to Disbelieve That Russia Hacked Democratic Party Emails

Career CIA Analyst Ray McGovern (ret.) explains why it is doubtful that Russia is the source of the damning emails of Democratic Party eminence grise John Podesta and of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that were published by WikiLeaks. (By the way, for what it is worth, WikiLeaks head Julian Assange has repeatedly and strongly denied that Russia was the source.) And Podesta simply gave out his email password to scammers who used a phishing ruse, so there was no hacking (breaking into a computer database) involved with his emails.

The NSA would have records of the computer traffic showing any such transfer of data from the DNC computer to overseas. They obviously don't. Pretending to need to protect "sources and methods" is nonsense as it has been thoroughly exposed (by the NSA documents revealed by Edward Snowden, and in public presentations by NSA veteran William Binney) that the NSA runs a gigantic global electronic surveillance network, including  details of how it intercepts all Internet traffic that crosses borders, as well as all the internal traffic of some countries, especially the U.S. So there is no "secret" to protect. 

McGovern points out that Reagan ordered the public release of sensitive intercepts of Libyan calls to prove Libya's guilt in the bombing of the LaBelle discotheque in Germany. (Similarly, during the Cuban missile crisis, president Kennedy had UN ambassador Adlai Stevenson show U-2 surveillance photos of Russian missile emplacements in Cuba, likewise giving insight into sensitive U.S. surveillance techniques.) The point being that if you're going to accuse Russia of "attacking American democracy" and committing "an act of war" (John McCain) that is the same as the "bombing of Pearl Harbor" (Jerrold Nadler), you ought to produce some ACTUAL EVIDENCE!

McGovern references Binney, a former career NSA officer who was a senior technical employee, and  Snowden, the former contractor who gave journalists NSA documents detailing some of the massive global surveillance operations of the NSA.

Since this interview, vwteran NSA technical experts Binney and Kurt Wiebe have analyzed the download speed of the Democratic Party data, and determined that it could not possibly have been transferred over the Internet but rather conforms to the speed of copying to a flash drive. Time and location stamps also confirm it was an inside job, probably by Democratic Party employee Seth Rich, who was subsequently murdered in Washington, D.C., outside his home at 4 AM, a crime that remains unsolved.  WikiLeaks has offered a $25,000 reward in the Rich murder case, strongly suggesting he was their source.

Just because U.S. secret police organs like the CIA and FBI (which both have decades-long records of fraud, dissembling, and disinformation production to achieve nefarious political ends- and are murderous to boot) assert something, is no reason to accept it as factual. Especiallly when they produce zero evidence or even any explanation of why what they say is true. Other reasons for doubt: the FBI warned the DNC about its computer vulnerability, and the DNC ignored the FBI; Podesta was spoofed by a phishing exploit and gave out his (easily cracked in any case) email account password; the unsolved murder of Clinton campaign aide Rich, which the District of Columbia police labeled a "botched robbery" because nothing was taken from the victim, prompting speculation in rightwing media that the victim was killed because he gave the data to WikiLeaks. 

Very damaging to the Democratic Party "Russia hacked us" hoax is the fact that the DNC refused to let the FBI examine its computer! And to this day, hasn't. It also denied the Department of Homeland Security permission to help the DNC plug its computer vulnerabilities.

On the other hand, if Russia HAD done it, then Americans should say Hooray for Russia! Russia would deserve thanks for providing important, true, relevant information which made the American electorate better informed to judge candidate Hillary Clinton. Unlike U.S. election "meddling," which is malign, this was beneficial. Voters learned Clinton's true positions, as well as the unethical behavior of the DNC in sabotaging the campaign of Bernie Sanders.

Bourgeous jabberers periodically prattle that "a well-informed electorate is vital to democracy." You didn't hear them saying that about THIS. 

I guess they don't really mean it.

This clip is from "Behind the CIA's Cover Ops Against Trump- - with Ray McGovern" an interview of McGovern and Ted Rall by Brian Becker on his show "Loud & Clear," dated December 1st, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gMd64Jb0k8