New analysis by intelligence experts blows away Deep State claim DNC emails ‘hacked by Russia’

By J. D. Heyes

Itâ€™s been a while since this topic was in the news but it remains one of the central claims by the Deep State alleging â€œcollusionâ€ between the 2016 Trump campaign and Mother Russia: Namely, Moscowâ€™s hackers breached Democratic National Committee computers, lifted incriminating emails harmful to Hillary Clinton, then delivered them to WikiLeaks to destroy her chances of winning the White House.

However, a new analysis of available open-source data by a former U.S. intelligence official and a cybersecurity expert reveals about as clearly as is possible â€” without having top secret clearance â€” that the Russian hacking claim is bogus.

Writing forÂ The Gateway Pundit, William Binney, a former high-ranking NSA official-turned-whistleblower, and Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and State Department counterterrorism expert, note that the FBI, NSA, and CIA all claimed that the DNC emails published by WikiLeaks on July 26, 2016, â€œwere obtained via a Russia hack.â€

However, they note, three years after the fact, no forensic evidence has yet been provided to the public to support that contention. Rather, one Deep State operative after another, along with Democrats in Congress and former Obama administration officials, have only asserted that the Russians did it.

Rather than DNC servers being hacked, however, â€œexisting evidence supports an alternative explanation â€” the files taken from the DNC between 23 and 25 May and were copied onto a file storage device, such as a thumb drive,â€ they wrote.

The former intelligence experts said that if Russian operatives had actually penetrated DNC computers the NSA would have evidence of that because â€œthe technical systemsâ€ capable of gathering it â€œhave been in place since 2002.â€

In the months since the alleged hack, the NSA had ample opportunity to make available the â€œirrefutable proofâ€ that a Russian hack had occurred, even though the DNC refused to allow the FBIâ€™s cybersecurity experts access to their servers. But the agency has never done so.Â

In fact, in a January 2017 â€œIntelligence Community Assessmentâ€ regarding the alleged hack, the NSA said it had only â€œmoderate confidenceâ€ the attack occurred, which Binney and Johnson maintain is intelligence-speak for â€œwe have no hard evidence.â€

Leaks about the NSAâ€™s capabilities by Edward Snowden in 2013 prove that the agency indeed has the ability to know whether the DNC was really hacked, they added. As such, the NSA would have said in the January 2017 assessment it had much higher â€˜confidenceâ€™ if the hacking really took place.