Daily Caller: The United States government has yet to produce evidence tying the Russian government to a purported hacking operation meant to undermine the 2016 presidential election. This is despite reports from journalists stating the contrary.
Bloomberg reported Thursday, “Prodded to produce evidence by Russia, which has denied a role in hacking — and by an openly skeptical President-elect Donald Trump — the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security did so Thursday.” Other outlets such as PC Magazine and the International Business Times also interpreted the Joint Analysis Report (JAR) issued by the DHS and FBI as evidence tying Russia to a hacking operation.
The report, however, is devoid of evidence linking Russia to hackings of Democratic Party institutions and individuals. The report broadly describes how “two separate Russian espionage groups” were involved in the “the intrusion into a U.S. political party.” But there’s no specific details explaining the attribution of Russia as being behind the hacking. Eight pages of the report consist of information meant to help network administrators try and identify possible intrusions, prevent them, and what to do if they identify code the U.S. government has identified as Russian.
After the release of the JAR, the Burlington Electric Department in Vermont identified malware from the report on a laptop not attached to the electrical grid. This has been reported by both The Burlington Free Press and The Washington Post as a Russian hacking operation. But cybersecurity expert Jeffrey Carr has said that “it’s almost impossible to confirm attribution in cyberspace.”
It’s difficult to manufacture evidence of a phantasm.
Give em time.
izlamo delenda est …
There is no evidence, unless they manufacture it. 😡
But McCain, Graham and Cotton all say it’s true. It must be then, right?
Repeat fake news enough and it becomes the new truth for liberal, lazy thinking sheep and lemmings everywhere.
“This is despite reports from journalists stating the contrary.”
The irony is that the “journalists” aren’t really journalists. Propagandists, to be truthful. Herr Reichsminister Goebbels would be proud.
Most babies born today will die of old age long before there is any posted proof offered by Obama and his minions!
There are calves raised for veal that expend more energy than the average journalist . . . Credo quia absurdum.
It has reached the maximum state that the left is 180 degrees out of phase.
BO: Profile much?
Can Russia sue the Washington Post for slander?
evidence? we don’t need no stinking evidence!
“Fake, but accurate.”
Invite Putin to the Inauguration and watch liberal heads explode in glorious technicolor.