Similarly, VIPS has condemned the use of вЂњenhanced interrogation techniquesвЂќ on suspected terrorists. For example, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, VIPS courageously and correctly challenged the accuracy and veracity of the CIAвЂ™s intelligence estimates that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and that he posed a threat to the United States. VIPS has a well-established record of debunking questionable intelligence assessments that have been slanted to serve political purposes. What follows is based on that article and includes my interpretation and observations regarding what The Nation reported. Not a pro-Trump publication, The Nation published an exhaustive report about an exacting forensic investigation of the DNC hack by the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), an organization of former CIA, FBI, National Security Agency, and military intelligence officers, technical experts, and analysts. The answers to those questions began to emerge thanks to an article in the Augissue of The Nation. Why would the purported victim of a crime refuse to cooperate with law enforcement in solving that crime? Is it hiding something? Is it afraid the serverвЂ™s contents will discredit the Russia-hacking story? For, when the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI learned of the hacking claim, they asked to examine the server. PalmieriвЂ™s convention damage control tale that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to hack the DNC email server.Д«ut, in their breathless coverage, the media have downplayed the very odd behavior of the DNC, the putative target of the alleged hack. Nevertheless, for reasons yet to be disclosed, ComeyвЂ™s FBI saw fit to use that same dossier as a basis for obtaining a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign in its quest to uncover Russian ties to Trump.Дespite these revelations, the mainstream media have stubbornly clung to the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Ultimately Steele produced a dossier which former FBI Director James Comey has publicly characterized as вЂњsalaciousвЂќ and вЂњunverifiedвЂќ. We now know that at about the same time that WikiLeaks made its announcement, the DNC and the Clinton campaign were funding efforts by Fusion GPS and its hireling, former British spy Christopher Steele, to dredge up anti-Trump slime purportedly from Russian sources. Well after the convention, Jennifer Palmieri, ClintonвЂ™s public relations chief, said in a March 2017 Washington Post essay that she worked assiduously during the nominating convention to вЂњget the press to focus on вЂ¦ the prospect that Russia had not only hacked and stolen emails from the DNC, but that it had done so to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary.вЂќ This caused the Clinton campaign serious political damage at the Democratic convention. Much to the embarrassment of Hillary Clinton, the released files showed that the DNC had secretly collaborated with her campaign to promote her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination over that of Bernie Sanders. On July 22, 2016, just days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks published approximately 20,000 DNC emails. He then posted online DNC computer files that contained metadata that indicated Russian involvement in the hack.

The next day, a self-described Romanian hacker, Guccifer 2.0, claimed he was a WikiLeaks source and had hacked the DNCвЂ™s server. On June 15, 2016, CrowdStrike, a private computer security company working for the Democratic National Committee, announced that it had detected Russian malware on the DNCвЂ™s computer server. Before chasing after Trump-Russia collusion in the hacking of the DNCвЂ™s email server, they need to first establish whether a hack even happened. intelligence officials say were stolen by Russia.вЂќДЄssuming NBCвЂ™s report is true, then it would appear that Team Mueller has put the cart before the horse.

NBC states that the вЂњline of questioning suggests the special counsel, who is tasked with examining whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, is looking into possible coordination between WikiLeaks and Trump associates in disseminating the emails, which U.S. According to NBC News, Special Counsel Robert MuellerвЂ™s team recently began asking witnesses вЂњpointed questionsвЂќ about whether Donald Trump was aware that the Democratic National CommitteeвЂ™s emails had been stolen before that was publicly known, and whether he was involved in their вЂњstrategic releaseвЂќ during the presidential campaign.

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