According to Wired "In its statement, the FBI agreed with the DNC's implication that it had instead relied on data from Crowdstrike... The possibility that the FBI based its investigation on inferior-quality evidence is significant.."
Why does part of the official DNI Russia hacked DNC/ Fancy Bear story rely in part on information from a Russian blogger that writes about the civil war in Ukraine like Crowdstrike does? Honestly, come on guys, this is embarrassing. It gets a lot worse.
According to the DNI report "A journalist who is a leading expert on the Internet Research Agency claimed that some social media accounts that appear to be tied to Russia's professional trolls--because they previously were devoted to supporting Russian actions in Ukraine--started to advocate for President-elect Trump as early as December 2015. "
This journalist is Jessikka Aro. She works as Finnish YLE's investigative journalist and is an expert in strategic communication issues for NATO and EU institutions. Unfortunately she was also a drug dealer and according to her court papers and according to the article, a strong believer in self-medication.
Aro first came to notice when she wrote a story about Russian trolls . Since then, she has been NATO's go-to girl. Recently she crowdfunded $30,000 for hacking and OSINT tools to "further her research."
None of this says where she came from. Jessikka Aro is a protege of Aaron Weisburd and Joel Harding. I have written extensively about both of these men. Their way of protecting America is to hack and ruin American and Western-based News Websites. Weisburd takes it to the extreme and as the linked articles show his group hacks, plants evidence, and tries to "inform" the FBI or appropriate agency that you are the criminal. Because it's cyber, you may never know he was there. He badgers internet providers to take down sites, threatens people, and steals their livelihoods.
There they are giving the high-five after one successful attack on a Canadian-based news commentary website. If there was anything illegal or God forbid, immoral, why didn't they call the police?
Aaron Weisburd became a player in intelligence when Richard Clark decided to bring freelance terror hunters into the fold. He ingrained OSINT as the key Intel tool to use. Weisburd came in after the grandfather of federal OSINT broke ground for him. Steve Emerson and Rita Katz supplied most of the people on the bad lists that the Federal Government made.
Emerson, Katz, and Weisburd trained Federal Intelligence Agencies including FBI, CIA, and abroad including NATO personnel how to use OSINT techniques. For Weisburd it would only be natural to introduce his protege to NATO since they are directly involved in Ukrainian propaganda. Since I'll be getting to this in the next article, let's take a look at how intelligent the intelligence is that they generate.
In January 2015 Steve Emerson, the man that trained federal intelligence agents including the FBI how to use OSINT tools claimed on Fox News that Birmingham, England is an entirely Muslim city. The Telegraph writes " An American "terrorism expert" who claimed that Birmingham is a Muslim-only city is "clearly a complete idiot", David Cameron has said.
If Emerson is the expert they leaned on to learn this form of Intel gathering, it's not hard to see why a common cyber criminal is listed as a go-to expert in the DNI report.
According to the DNI report "Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election represent the most recent expression of Moscow's longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, but these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations."
The DNI report adds" We also assess Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. All three agencies agree with this judgment. CIA and FBI have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has moderate confidence. "
While CNN said on January 6th, "Officials said this was just one of multiple indicators to give them high confidence of both Russian involvement and Russian intentions. Officials reiterated that there is no single intercepted communication that qualifies as a "smoking gun" on Russia's intention to benefit Trump's candidacy or to claim credit for doing so."
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