{"id":33134,"date":"2019-04-21T13:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T17:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=33134"},"modified":"2019-04-21T13:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T17:45:16","slug":"operation-crossfire-hurricane-blown-wide-open-with-mueller-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=33134","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Operation Crossfire Hurricane&#8221; Blown Wide Open with Mueller Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/maxresdefault-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79322\" src=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/maxresdefault-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Origin of Operation \u201cCrossfire Hurricane\u201d<\/h1>\n<p>Leo Goldstein<br \/>\nScience Defies Politics<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Needs update!\u00a0 (See\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/trump-russia-investigation-obama-administration-origins\/\">The Real Origination Story of the Trump-Russia Investigation<\/a>\u00a0and more recently published evidence)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>2018-09-18<\/em>. It\u2019s possible that the DNC and\/or Hillary campaign started preparing the \u201cRussian collusion\u201d story immediately after the initial attribution\u00a0of the DNC network breach to Russia by CrowdStrike on May 6 (rather than on June 12, as assumed in the article.)\u00a0That better explains the hiring of Christopher Steele in early June, the issuing of a visa to Natalia Veselnitskaya on June 1, the strange text of the email introducing Veselnitskaya to Trump Jr., and the meetings between Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS with her immediately before and after her meeting with Trump Jr.\u00a0\u00a0<span id=\"more-4201\"><\/span>With this correction, the facts and conclusions of the article stand.<\/p>\n<p><em>2018-08-17 update: added more evidence confirming that transfer of large batches of the DNC files to WikiLeaks and The Hill predated the launch of the conspiracy theory of Trump-Putin collusion by the DNC\/Hillary on July 18, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2018-08-16 update: Christopher Steele\u2019s firm Orbis was hired by the DNC contractor Fusion GPS in June\u00a0 2016, likely in reaction to the leaks which the DNC misattributed to Russia. Given that he started \u201creporting\u201d within less than three weeks from hiring, Steele\u2019s task was to fabricate evidence in support of allegations of Trump-Putin collusion.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2018-08-10 update: Christopher Steele was on the FBI\u2019s payroll while compiling his phony Trump dossier, shown by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vault.fbi.gov\/records-between-fbi-and-christopher-steele\/records-between-fbi-and-christopher-steele-part-01-of-01\/view\">FBI payroll forms declassified<\/a>\u00a0on August 3. H\/t\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truepundit.com\/fbi-paid-100k-for-concocted-trump-dossier-during-election-john-mccain-help-broker-deal-with-comey\/\">TruePundit which broke this story<\/a>\u00a0in September 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The media and the Democratic Party\u2019s obsession with the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory originates from events during April-June 2016. The media operations by the Democratic Party and the media echo-chamber have distorted not only the information about the relevant events, but even the background political picture of April 2016. Then, the Democrats and Hillary were the natural preference for Putin because of their traditionally softer stance on foreign policy. Certain policies of Hillary and Obama were especially beneficial to Russia: Obama\u2019s promise to Medvedev to be more accommodating towards Russia after the 2012 elections, Uranium One, the Clinton Foundation, the common cause against fracking and pipelines in the U.S., etc.<\/p>\n<p>CrowdStrike, the DNC cyber-security contractor, INCORRECTLY attributed the DNC network breach to the Russian government. CrowdStrike attributions were just a marketing gimmick. They were unverifiable and rarely taken seriously \u2013 until the DNC incident. The DNC and Hillary acted upon the attribution and constructed a conspiracy theory in which Putin ordered the hacking of the DNC network and subsequent mass distribution of the exfiltrated documents to help Trump beat Hillary. Such actions were against Russian interests and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/why-has-fbi-accepted-dncs-russian-hacking-claims\/\">very unusual for Russian intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The DNC and Hillary resolved the contradictions in their theory by claiming collusion between Trump and Putin and made this theme one of the main lines of their campaign. Obama\/Hillary loyalists in the FBI\/DOJ developed this theory and probably hid key facts from the intelligence community:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all the data about hacking had come from the DNC and\/or its shady contractor CrowdStrike; everyone else relied on this data and methodology used by CrowdStrike<\/li>\n<li>the link between the leaks and hacks had been likely manufactured by the DNC and\/or CrowdStrike and certainly not established independently<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Driven by their conspiracy theory, Hillary indulged in anti-Russian rhetoric, and the Obama administration drove relations with Russia to the worst point in the last 40 years. Since the elections (and started by Obama and Hillary), the Democrats, the hard left, and the institutions owned by them have been pushing Trump to aggravate the conflict. But let\u2019s proceed in chronological order.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"contd\"><\/a>During the summer and September of 2015, the DNC ignored FBI warnings about alleged Russian hackings. The DNC discovered suspicious activity on its network on April 28, 2016, and\u00a0called its lawyer, Marc Elias.<\/p>\n<p>How dumb are they? If they get sick, do they call a lawyer or a doctor? And they had their doctor \u2013 an IT department that was supposed to secure their network immediately react to any breach and to suggest an external contractor if it was unsure that it could handle the situation. This party ruled the U.S. for eight years \u2013 we should be happy we\u2019re still alive.<br \/>\nOn May 6, after more than a week of waffling, the DNC brought in cyber-security contractor CrowdStrike, which was selected based on affinity rather than on merit. \u201cWithin 10 seconds,\u201d in its own words, CrowdStrike determined not one but two breaches and named the culprits behind them \u2013 Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear \u2013 alleged by CrowdStrike to be Russian elite hacker units of FSB and GRU. It was CrowdStrike\u2019s fraud as usual. Identifying a sophisticated hackers\u2019 group solely off breach characteristics (malware, methods, external domains, ip addresses, etc.) is impossible. But such identification is neither verifiable nor useful, so CrowdStrike and a few other companies who practiced it had nothing to fear. Most likely, the DNC and Hillary believed in CrowdStrike\u2019s misattribution of the incident to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unbelievable, but for the next five weeks the DNC and CrowdStrike passively observed as the intruders stole sensitive documents. At least, this was a scenario described by top officials in the DNC and CrowdStrike. This happened due to CrowdStrike\u2019s incompetence and the DNC\u2019s trust in the Russian government. Later, the DNC acknowledged that it had no problem sharing information (which likely included U.S. military and intelligence classified data) with the Russian government. They hid their dirty secrets only from the American people!<\/p>\n<p>The DNC also refused to let the FBI access its network, not even to make disk images for forensics. Notice that they denied the FBI access to its network while\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/11\/07\/donna-brazile-dnc-watched-russians-steal-data-for-whole-month-so-they-could-win-state-primaries\/\">intentionally allowing GRU and FSB<\/a>\u00a0(as they thought) to access it and all the classified information within it. Thus, DNC officials serving at that time are indictable for espionage against the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>On June 12, Assange of Wikileaks declared that he possessed internal DNC documents and was going to publish them. Surprised, the DNC and Hillary\u2019s campaign decided to pre-empt and even exploit this publication. On June 14, the DNC announced the network breach through a WaPo article. A few minutes later, CrowdStrike published alleged technical details on its website. Both blamed the Russian government. The DNC said that only a few documents had been compromised, including an opposition research on Trump. This was an open invitation for WikiLeaks to publish that opposition research.<\/p>\n<p>On June 15, somebody calling himself Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility for the hack and posted several internal DNC documents on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/guccifer2.wordpress.com\/\">guccifer2.wordpress.com<\/a>. The opposition research was among the published files. Independent internet researchers discover Russian fingerprints \u2013 the opposition research file shows an error message in Russian! Furthermore, this and three other Word files showed that they had been last saved by user name \u0424\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0441 \u042d\u0434\u043c\u0443\u043d\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447, supposedly in honor of Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926), the founder of a repressive GPU NKVD and predecessor of KGB. The media was ecstatic about a rare event when the words of the DNC seemed true. The narrative was established:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>these and later DNC documents came from Russian government hacking rather than released by conscious insiders or hacks by one or more individual hackers<\/li>\n<li>Guccifer 2.0 is a front for a Russian intelligence operation<\/li>\n<li>CrowdStrike is an authority in breach detection and attribution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All three parts of this narrative are wrong. The MSM didn\u2019t question why the \u201celite hackers\u201d opened and saved the pilfered files, why the\u2019ve done it on a computer with Russian settings, and why they elected an exotic username. Aside from that, speaking Russian, being a Russian citizen, and working for Russian intelligence are three different things. About half of native Russian speakers are neither Russian citizens nor residents. Most Russian speakers who write in English as well as Guccifer 2.0 are probably U.S. citizens and residents. Only a small fraction of Russian citizens and residents work for the Russian intelligence or military.<\/p>\n<p>Who is Guccifer 2.0 and why did he release files with artfully planted Russian fingerprints? He is not a front for the Russian intelligence, as the DNC and MSM think. He is probably not Romanian, as he initially claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most knowledgeable independent investigators think that Guccifer 2.0 is a\u00a0<em>Donkey in the Bear Costume<\/em>, a creation of the DNC and\/or CrowdStrike. According to this opinion, the DNC and\/or CrowdStrike created the Guccifer 2.0 website and Twitter account, modified the opposition research and some harmless DNC files by planting the \u201cRussian fingerprints,\u201d and dumped them on the website to support their Russian hacking narrative and to bring media attention to the DNC smears against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer another theory. Guccifer 2.0 is a real person, although more than one person might have called themselves this name. WikiLeaks might have received different batches of the DNC\/DCCC\/HRC documents from different hackers or leakers. But Guccifer 2.0 did hack the DNC network and exfiltrated incriminating documents. Between June 12 and 14, CrowdStrike modified the opposition research and other files using a virtual machine with Russian settings, the user name \u0424\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0441 \u042d\u0434\u043c\u0443\u043d\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447, and future time, and fed them to the hacker. They didn\u2019t know the hacker\u2019s identity, but knew it was not the Russian government. The DNC might have not known of this little operation. Either way, the Democrats continued to believe that Russia was behind the leaks.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2016 (in the second half of June, according to some \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Ag5La\">sources<\/a>\u201c) another DNC contractor called Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele. He was expected to start reporting in just days, giving him practically no time to collect information from sources in Moscow, even if he had them.\u00a0 But Steele worked in Russia for only three years in the early \u201990s, and probably didn\u2019t visit Moscow for twenty years. Thus, Steele was hired to fabricate \u201cevidence\u201d of a Trump-Putin collusion.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climateaudit.org\/2018\/03\/11\/arrest-of-the-lurk-banking-trojan-gang\/#comment-780280\">Steve McIntyre wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>In my opinion,\u00a0<strong>the purpose of Steele Dossier was no more and no less than to precipitate an FBI announcement that Trump was under FBI investigation for collusion with Russia. A categorical announcement would have killed Trump candidacy and delivered election to Hillary. Classic Dem dirty tricks.<\/strong>\u00a0For that purpose, it didn\u2019t matter whether the dossier ultimately stood up to the light of day or not. By the time that the FBI abandoned the investigation, it would be too late.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But Comey didn\u2019t deliver what Brennan and Clapper and Clinton wanted during the campaign. Only much later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fusion GPS said it had paid Steele\u2019s firm Orbis only $168,000. This amount would be hardly sufficient to bribe a Kremlin janitor, leaving nothing to Orbis. Fusion GPS, which received more than $1M from Perkins Coie, could not expect Orbis to collect any non-public information for such a small fee. My best guess is that Steele fabricated the whole \u201cdossier\u201d himself using his Russian experience acquired mostly from his work for MI6 in London in order to imitate the writing style of native Russian speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Steele and\/or Fusion GPS produced a series of ridiculously absurd \u201creports\u201d that became known as Steele dossier. The only public version of which is published by BuzzFeed. The first \u201cSteele report\u201d (2016\/080) dated June 20 starts with \u201c<em>Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance<\/em>\u201c \u2014 it looks like Steele has mistaken Trump for Angela Merkel or Justin Trudeau. Then this piece makes bizarre claims, including \u201d<em>According to Source D, where s\/he had been present, TRUMP\u2019s (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Mrs OBAMA (whom he hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes \u2026<\/em>\u201d The style and substance reflect the disturbed state the dossier writer. This piece also leaves the impression that Steele hadn\u2019t received specific guidance on what he had to write. Meanwhile, the leaks continue.<\/p>\n<p>On July 16, Guccifer 2.0 offered WikiLeaks about 1GB of leaked DNC documents. Mueller\u2019s \u201cGRU indictment\u201d contains slightly different, but compatible dating:<\/p>\n<p><em>After failed attempts to transfer the stolen documents\u00a0<strong>starting in late June 2016, on<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>or about July 14, 2016,<\/strong>\u00a0the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, sent\u00a0<\/em><em>Organization 1\u00a0<\/em>[WikiLeaks]<em>an email with an attachment titled \u201cwk dnc linkl.txt.gpg.\u201d The\u00a0<\/em><em>Conspirators explained to Organization 1 that the encrypted file contained\u00a0<\/em><em>instructions on how to access an online archive of stolen DNC documents. (<\/em>para 48b)<\/p>\n<p>Also, in an article dated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/288119-new-guccifer-20-dump-highlights-wobbly-dems-on-iran-deal\">07\/18\/2016 09:33 AM EDT<\/a>\u00a0The Hill reported that it had received a new batch of documents from Guccifer 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary, convinced that Guccifer 2.0 was a front for the Russian government, concluded that Putin had betrayed her. Probably at that time she decided to invent a narrative that she is tough on Russia while Trump is Putin\u2019s puppet. It was summer 2016, and people did not know that the MSM shifted from being biased to being totally fake news. Hillary\u2019s plan worked.<\/p>\n<p>On July 18, Hillary\/DNC launched the Trump-Putin conspiracy theory through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/aided-by-wapo-china-interfered-in-the-2016-elections-against-trump\/\">WaPo<\/a>\u00a0(<em>Trump campaign guts GOP\u2019s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine<\/em>, Josh Rogin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160719144802\/https:\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/global-opinions\/trump-campaign-guts-gops-anti-russia-stance-on-ukraine\/2016\/07\/18\/98adb3b0-4cf3-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html\">12:21pm<\/a>) and NY Mag (<em>Is Donald Trump Working for Russia?<\/em>\u00a0Jonathan Chait,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160720230905\/http:\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2016\/07\/donald-trump-working-for-russia.html\">1:44pm<\/a>). The NY Mag\u2019s piece is a purported analysis of multiple pieces. It couldn\u2019t have been written in an hour and a half. Note that WaPo was also a conduit for the DNC to announce its theory that the Russian government had hacked its network. That proves beyond a reasonable doubt that these publications took part in a media operation by Hillary and\/or the DNC. The MSM was happy to oblige: it picked up both stories and has been running them nonstop. The WaPo article mentioned Paul Manafort.<\/p>\n<p>The WaPo article started with \u201c<em>The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won\u2019t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces \u2026<\/em>\u201d. Was this statement true? No, it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>The original platform draft did not call for giving weapons to Ukraine. At a platform committee meeting that took place about a week before the Convention, delegate Diana Denman proposed an amendment including \u201c<em>providing lethal defensive weapons<\/em>\u201d to Ukraine. The committee has appropriately corrected the language and softened the message to \u201c<em>providing appropriate assistance<\/em>.\u201d See Byron York,\u00a0<em>What really happened with the GOP platform and Russia<\/em>\u00a0and his earlier article in the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Has Trump intervened in this issue? No, he hasn\u2019t. Ballotpedia noted: \u201c<em>One striking element of the 2016 Republican platform debate was the lack of intervention by the Trump campaign. While some Trump staffers monitored the deliberations, they didn\u2019t try to dictate outcomes. \u201cThey have not strong-armed the delegates,\u201d noted Perkins, comparing the Trump platform effort in Cleveland to previous nominees\u2019 tactics.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Was anything in the narrative that Trump was \u201csoft on Russia\u201d true? Nothing. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prod-static-ngop-pbl.s3.amazonaws.com\/media\/documents\/DRAFT_12_FINAL%5b1%5d-ben_1468872234.pdf\">2016 RNC platform<\/a>\u00a0says: \u201c<em>We support maintaining and, if warranted, increasing sanctions, together with our allies, against Russia unless and until Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity are fully restored. We also support providing appropriate assistance to the armed forces of Ukraine and greater coordination with NATO defense planning.\u201d It also says: \u201cIn all of our country\u2019s history, there is no parallel to what President Obama and his former Secretary of State have done to weaken our nation.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entire affair was a fabrication by Hillary\u2019s campaign and the DNC aided by the fake news media, intelligence agencies, and Obama\/Hillary loyalists in the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>The 3rd \u201cSteele report\u201d (2016\/095), probably received by the DNC during the July 20-25 period, mentioned the DNC leaks, the WikiLeaks, and Paul Manafort for the first time.\u00a0It\u2019s likely that Steele had learned the new party line from the media, but it\u2019s also possible that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/hillarys_boys_helped_steele_write_the_dossier.html\">Hillary\u2019s boys<\/a>\u201d told him what to write. This Steele piece just added made up details to the WaPo article. From its summary:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cSuggestion from source close to TRUMP and MANAFORT that Republican campaign team happy to have Russia as media bogeyman \u2026\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cTRUMP associate admits Kremlin behind recent appearance of DNC e-mails on WikiLeaks, as means of maintaining plausible deniability\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nDon\u2019t ask me why \u201cTrump associate admits\u201d something on behalf of Kremlin \u2013 the whole Steele dossier consists of such rubbish. This \u201creport\u201d has no date and is estimated to be between the dates of the 2nd and 4th ones.<\/p>\n<p>The July 22 WikiLeaks dump revealed that the DNC had cheated Bernie out of likely victory<br \/>\nin the primaries. The Democratic National Convention starts on July 25 with a huge scandal caused by this\u00a0revelation. Hillary blames Russia and Putin, while the MSM echoes. Hillary, the DNC, and the media conclude that Putin is behind the leaks and therefore behind Trump. Now it\u2019s official \u2013 Hillary runs against Vladimir.\u00a0The 4th \u201cSteele report,\u201d dated July 26, is almost entirely devoted to alleged Russian cyber-operations.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Strzok and Lisa Page watched the Democratic National Convention. From the\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Appendix%20C%20-%20Documents.pdf\">Strzok-Page texts<\/a><\/u>\u00a0on July 28-30 (Texts from Mr. Strzok are on the left, texts from Ms. Page are on the right):<\/p>\n<pre>What Does the US Government Know About Russia and the DNC Hack? \u2013 Lawfare <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/what-does-us-government-know-about-russia-and-dnc-hack\">https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/what-does-us-government-know-about-russia-and-dnc-hack<\/a><\/u><\/pre>\n<pre>Interesting. Good comments about Comey, \r\ntoo [?] Trump and the Powers of the \r\nAmerican Presidency, Part III - Lawfare \r\n<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/trump-and-powers-american-presidency-part-iii\">https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/trump-and-powers-american-presidency-part-iii\u00a0<\/a><\/u><\/pre>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<pre>Stupid *ss Bernie supporters shouting no more war so that he couldn't be heard hardly at all. I'm sorry, they're idiots.<\/pre>\n<pre>They really are. And he was a \r\nreally important speaker for them.<\/pre>\n<pre>I know. I'm really angry.<\/pre>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<pre>Trump &amp; Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing\r\n<u><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/trump-putin-yes-it-s-really-a-thing\">http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/trump-putin-yes-it-s-really-a-thing<\/a><\/u><\/pre>\n<pre>This article highlights the thing \r\nI mentioned to you earlier, asking \r\nif Bill [Priestap] had noted it to \r\n7th floor. l'm going to send it to \r\nhim I'm not going to be able to hold \r\nout until Obama [probably refers to \r\nhis convention speech - LG] \r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<pre>Hi. I\u2019ll be glad when the convention is\r\n over ... l'm exhausted. [Why to watch \r\nthe Democratic National Convention? Oh, \r\nwell - to know the Party line \u2013 LG]<\/pre>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<pre>No. Need to go see andy [McCabe?]<\/pre>\n<pre>And I'm not surprised. All indications \r\nare he's a d*ck. Want to hear about it \r\nof course.<\/pre>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<pre>Hey if you discussed new case with Andy would appreciate any input\/guidance before we talk to Bill at 3. Let me know I'm happy to come up if that's easier. <strong>News breaking Russians hacked Clinton email. Yeah Kortan [FBI head of public affairs]\u00a0<\/strong><strong>told us DCCC and Hillary Campaign hacked.<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre>Hi. l'm partial to any woman \r\nsending articles about how nasty \r\nthe Russians are.<\/pre>\n<pre>hate them. I think they\u2019re probably the worst. Very little I find redeeming about this. Even in history. Couple of good writers and artists I guess.<\/pre>\n<pre>\u2026 f*cking conniving cheating savages. \r\n[I feel ashamed of such countrymen - LG]<\/pre>\n<p>Probably after watching the Democratic Party convention and reading media reports and Steele pieces conveying the Democratic narrative, Strzok was urged to act. On July 31, (two days after this conversation) he and a few other Obama\/Hillary loyalists in the FBI and DOJ started\u00a0<em>Crossfire Hurricane<\/em>, a spying operation against candidate Trump that quickly morphed into a no-holds-barred crackdown attempt against Trump and the Republican party.<\/p>\n<p><em>Crossfire Hurricane<\/em>\u00a0was not an investigation into some staffers in the Trump campaign, but into Trump himself. Based on articles in the partisan and unaccountable media that originated from the DNC and Hillary campaign, Strzok and his accomplices started spying on candidate Trump and his electoral campaign. On August 1, Lisa Page texted to Strzok: \u201c<em>l mean seriously. What in the hell is this guy talking about? Donald Trump Gives Questionable Explanation of Events in Ukraine\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/2arMCyV\">http:\/\/nyti.ms\/2arMCyV<\/a><\/u>. How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/2aFY026\">http:\/\/nyti.ms\/2aFY026<\/a><\/u><\/em><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Only after launching\u00a0<em>Crossfire Hurricane<\/em>, Strzok met an Australian diplomat and Clinton Foundation donor Alexander Downer who alleged that George Papadopoulos had told him in May 2016 that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Clinton. I don\u2019t know what Papadopoulos told Downer, but thousands of emails from Hillary\u2019s illegal bathroom email server leaked from 2012 to 2013. Anybody could guess that Moscow and Beijing received their copies. That happened long before the alleged 2015-2016 DNC hacking.<\/p>\n<p>In this connection, note how the task of Strzok and this team to bury the investigation into Hillary\u2019s bathroom server tied their hands in the handling of the 2016 DNC network leaks. They were sure that Hillary would become president and they were afraid to pursue any leads that might connect Hillary and any server. So, they chased Trump. Within a couple of weeks, CIA Director John Brennan and other parts of the Obama administration joined the\u00a0<em>Crossfire Hurricane<\/em>. The DOJ, FBI, CIA, DHS, and other arms of the Obama administration incited top Republican Senators against Trump, spread anti-Trump propaganda through media leaks, and even boosted the DNC\/Hillary conspiracy theory of a Trump-Putin collusion using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2016\/10\/07\/joint-statement-department-homeland-security-and-office-director-national\">national security announcements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This post expands my article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2018\/08\/the_dnc_leaks_and_crossfire_hurricane_a_timeline.html\"><strong><em>The DNC Leaks and Crossfire Hurricane: A Timeline<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<em>American Thinker<\/em>.\u00a0See also\u00a0my piece\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2018\/07\/13\/dangerous-pseudo-science-in-cyber-security\/\"><em>Dangerous Pseudo-Science in Cyber Security<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in WUWT.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>All this became possible only because of the almost certainty that Hillary would become the next president. Victor Davis Hanson eloquently explains that in his articles\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/01\/expected-clinton-victory-explains-federal-employee-wrongdoing\/\"><em>Hillary\u2019s \u2018Sure\u2019 Victory Explains Most Everything<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/hillary-clinton-presidency-leakers-lawbreakers-rewarded\/\"><em>If Only Hillary Had Won \u2026<\/em><\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>See also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2018\/06\/25\/the_mysterious_seven_preludes_of_the_fbis_trump-russia_probe.html\"><em>Seven Mysterious Preludes to the FBI\u2019s Trump-Russia Probe<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Lee Smith.<\/p>\n<p>A billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer has recently revealed his wish for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/notes-2018-q3\/\">NUCLEAR WAR<\/a>\u00a0to get rid Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Some sources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/climateaudit.org\/\">Steve McIntyre, ClimateAudit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/g-2.space\/\">Adam Carter, g-2.space<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jeffreyscarr\">Jeffrey Carr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theforensicator.wordpress.com\/\">theforensicator.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nef4rhc.wordpress.com\/\">Skip Folden<\/a>\u00a0(<em>added later on the day of publication<\/em>) \u2013\u00a0<strong>disappeared from the web<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loadedforguccifer.wordpress.com\/\">David Blake<\/a>\u00a0(<em>added on 2018-08-16<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2017\/08\/blowing-the-whistle-on-bad-attribution\/\">Krebs on Security: Blowing Whistle on Bad Attribution<\/a>\u00a0(<em>added on 2019-01-07<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/tag\/apt-28\/\">Krebs on Security: Security Firm Redefines APT: African Phishing Threat<\/a>\u00a0(added on 2019-01-07)<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published on 2018-08-08.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2018-08-16: timing of the 2015 call from FBI to DNC corrected from summer to\u00a0<strong>summer or September<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Continues\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/crossfire-hurricane-notes\/\">Origin of Operation \u201cCrossfire Hurricane\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong>: Steele might have learnt what the DNC wanted him to write about Trump directly from the DNC, rather than indirectly through MSM. DOJ official Bruce Ohr reportedly communicated with Steele in the time when his wife Nellie Ohr worked for Fusion GPS that hired and worked with Steele.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The leaked \u201copposition research\u201d (mostly smear) on Trump consisted of 230 pages. Only one short paragraph was devoted to allegations about Trump\u2019s relations and attitudes towards Russia. Thus, neither the DNC nor Hillary campaign believed around May 2016 that there was even a small impropriety in Trump\u2019s connections with Russia.\u00a0 The opposition research file was apparently dated December 2015, but the DNC allowed it to leak between late April to early June of 2016 (likely on June 12-14), then advertised it in the WaPo article on June 14, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal media attitude toward Putin changed from lukewarm to hostile almost overnight between July 16 and July 21, simultaneously with the creation and adoption of the Trump-Putin conspiracy theory as a major part of the Democratic Party line.<span id=\"more-4245\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Evidence from media coverage in May-August 2016<\/h4>\n<p>To avoid cherry picking, I sampled the mainstream media articles using Google Search. The anti-Russian hysteria and accusations of Trump-Putin collusion started on July 18 after the DNC and Hillary campaign had learned that WikiLeaks was going to publish a large cache of leaked DNC documents, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2018\/08\/the_dnc_leaks_and_crossfire_hurricane_a_timeline.html\">planted media stories<\/a>\u00a0with bizarre allegations ranging from\u00a0<em>Trump is strangely accommodating to Russia<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>Trump is Putin\u2019s puppet<\/em>. In a few days, hysteria grew into a frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>The results from the first page of Google searches for\u00a0<em>Hillary Putin<\/em>\u00a0for May to August 2016, conducted with cleared cookies and cache, and reviewed by me manually:<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 2016<\/strong>: zero results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>June 1 \u2013 July 15, 2016<\/strong>: mixed results. The liberal media tends to like Putin and to think that Putin would prefer Hillary. From the first page:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>06-05<\/strong><\/em>: Moderate conservative\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>\u00a0writes about alleged \u201cPutin\u2019s Army of Internet Trolls\u201d influencing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/paulroderickgregory\/2016\/06\/05\/putins-army-of-internet-trolls-is-influencing-the-hillary-clinton-email-scandal\/\">Hillary\u2019s email scandal<\/a>. Notice that it talks about the old Hillary emails, the emails that had leaked from her illegal server during and prior to 2013.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>06-15<\/strong><\/em>: Another\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>\u00a0article by the same author develops the same idea based on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/paulroderickgregory\/2016\/06\/15\/what-russias-dnc-hack-tells-us-about-hillary-clintons-private-email-server\/\">DNC announcement in WaPo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>06-16<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0<em>Observer<\/em>\u00a0publishes an article\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/vLsZN\">Vladimir Putin Has Everything He Needs to Blackmail Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0<em>American intelligence officers are asking not \u2018if\u2019 but \u2018when\u2019 the Kremlin will dip into its arsenal of Clinton collateral<\/em>. If Putin can blackmail Hillary, then Putin is more likely to prefer Hillary as president.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>06-17<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0<em>CNN<\/em>\u00a0likes Putin and shows how\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2016\/06\/17\/exp-gps-putin-on-hillary.cnn\">Putin likes Hillary<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/KaIpG\">archived<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>07-04<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0<em>CNN<\/em>\u00a0publishes\u00a0<em>Putin\u2019s Pick: Clinton or Trump<\/em>? The article is thoughtful and measured. It\u2019s hard to imagine such an article in CNN today. The article concludes that, on balance, Putin would prefer Hillary:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThough Putin has repeatedly promised to \u201cwork with any U.S. president,\u201d he insists that Russia should be treated like an equal partner, and that the United States should not act from a position of strength and exclusivity \u2014 a message the next American president should take to heart. Clinton vs. Trump. Of the two candidates, Hillary Clinton is most likely to heed this message.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>After July 18, 2016<\/strong>: all hell breaks loose.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>07-21<\/strong><\/em>: The Atlantic publishes a hatchet editorial by its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcitation.org\/71VGRQe0u\"><strong><em>It\u2019s Official: Hillary Clinton Is Running Against Vladimir Putin<\/em><\/strong>.<\/a>\u00a0<em>Fulfilling what might be the Russian autocrat\u2019s dearest wish, Trump has openly questioned whether the U.S. should keep its commitments to NATO.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The claim in the subtitle, alleged on an \u201cedited transcript\u201d of the same day\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/9LAWa\">NYT interview<\/a>\u00a0with Trump, is FALSE. But also note the sharp change of the tone of the liberal media towards Putin, and its clumsy hawkishness. Reading the interview in hindsight, one notices that the NYT interviewers attempted to entrap Trump into \u201c<em>questioning U.S. commitments to NATO<\/em>\u201d at least four times. Sanger and Haberman are NYT jornos.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SANGER:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0\u2026 If Russia came over the border into Estonia or Latvia, Lithuania, places that Americans don\u2019t think about all that often, would you come to their immediate military aid?\u00a0<\/em>[Attempt #1]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>TRUMP:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<strong>I don\u2019t want to tell you what I\u2019d do because I don\u2019t want Putin to know what I\u2019d do.<\/strong><\/em>[sic!]<em>\u00a0I have a serious chance of becoming president and I\u2019m not like Obama, that every time they send some troops into Iraq or anyplace else, he has a news conference to announce it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SANGER:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0They are NATO members, and we are treaty-obligated \u2014\u2014\u00a0<\/em>[Attempt #2]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>TRUMP:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0We have many NATO members that aren\u2019t paying their bills.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SANGER:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0That\u2019s true, but we are treaty-obligated under NATO, forget the bills part.\u00a0<\/em>[Attempt #3; WTF]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>TRUMP:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0You can\u2019t forget the bills. They have an obligation to make payments. Many NATO nations are not making payments, are not making what they\u2019re supposed to make. That\u2019s a big thing. You can\u2019t say forget that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SANGER:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0My point here is, Can the members of NATO, including the new members in the Baltics, count on the United States to come to their military aid if they were attacked by Russia? And count on us fulfilling our obligations \u2014\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>TRUMP:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0Have they fulfilled their obligations to us? If they fulfill their obligations to us, the answer is yes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>HABERMAN:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>And if not?\u00a0<\/em>[Attempt #4]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>TRUMP:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0Well, I\u2019m not saying if not. I\u2019m saying, right now there are many countries that have not fulfilled their obligations to us.\u00a0<\/em>[All attempts are rebuffed without questioning any U.S. commitments to NATO. Trump did not question even commitments to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania that had been questioned by prominent Republicans before him.]<\/p>\n<p>That leaves the impression that the most respectable (in 2016) MSM publications, the NYT and the Atlantic, coordinated with the DNC and\/or Hillary campaign. Another impression is that the Atlantic\u2019s editorial might have been written before the NYT interview happened, based on a\u00a0<em>promise<\/em>of the answers the NYT interviewers would elicit from Trump.<\/p>\n<h4>The screenshots of Google searches<\/h4>\n<p><strong>May 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-May.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4248\" src=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-May.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-May.png 768w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-May-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-May-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-May-50x50.png 50w\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-June.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4247\" src=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-June.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-June.png 768w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-June-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-June-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-June-50x50.png 50w\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>July 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-July.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4246\" src=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-July.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-July.png 768w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-July-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-July-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-July-50x50.png 50w\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>August 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-August.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4249\" src=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-August.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-August.png 768w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-August-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-August-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/defyccc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hillary-Putin-2016-August-50x50.png 50w\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>The Top Attribution Authority<\/h4>\n<p><em>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday said she is certain Russia was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). \u201cThe Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee,\u201d she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/757982461531869184\">told<\/a>\u00a0MSNBC during an interview at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. \u201c<strong>There is no question about that. My source is not the Intelligence Committee of the Congress of the United States.\u00a0It is what I know: They have hacked.\u00a0That\u2019s a fact.<\/strong>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/289295-pelosi-its-a-fact-russia-hacked-dnc\">The Hill, 2016-07-26<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Pelosi, a world-renowned expert in cyber security, energy, atmospheric physics, meteorology, biochemistry, and all other sciences and technologies,\u00a0<em><strong>knew that for a fact<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0long before the NSA, DHS, DNI, or CIA had an opportunity to even ask for evidence.\u00a0 Hillary Clinton, an expert of the same standing, shared her confidence. When Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton\u00a0<em>knew something for a fact<\/em>, who could dare question that \u201cfact?\u201d Certainly not government agencies.<\/p>\n<h4>Remarks<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>All past attributions of network security breaches to foreign governments based directly or indirectly on methods or announcements of CrowdStrike, FireEye, SecureWorks, and Fidelis should be voided and re-analyzed. From now on their past \u201cfindings\u201d and their methods should not be used for attribution.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Where is the \u201cTrump Tower meeting\u201d on (June 8) between Trump\u2019s son and Veselnitskaya and Trump\u2019s joke that Putin might find old Hillary\u2019s emails (July 31)? They are not relevant for the discussed events. Neither meeting foreign citizens nor joking about Hillary\u2019s mishandling of classified information is a misconduct or evidence of a possible crime. These and other non-events have been \u201cpulled by ears\u201d by the DNC and compliant media to support their narratives. Both narratives of Russian elections hacking and Trump-Putin collusion narratives are fabrications that originate in the DNC and Hillary campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The planted WaPo article\u00a0<em>Trump campaign guts GOP\u2019s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine<\/em>\u00a0also mentions Paul Manafort, a former adviser to Ukrainian president Yanukovich, as \u201cevidence\u201d that Trump had colluded with Putin against Ukraine. This is what passes for logic in the MSM. Apparently, Mueller has been persecuting Paul Manafort based on WaPo fake news. For Paul, it\u2019s a combination of good news and bad news. The good news is that if he walks out of the current trial free he can sue WaPo and its owner, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com. The bad news is that Robert Mueller and his buddies are extremely motivated to not let this happen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>According to\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/aFI3u\">Reuters<\/a><\/u>, Robert Mueller even investigated the 2016 Republican National Convention!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In January 2017, one of CrowdStrike\u2019s attribution to its leading scarecrows\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2018\/07\/13\/dangerous-pseudo-science-in-cyber-security\/\">Fancy Bear was accidentally checked<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and proven false. CrowdStrike was exposed as a fraud and inept outfit, but the exposure had no durable adverse effect on CrowdStrike. On May 17, 2017, the DOJ announced the appointment of Robert Mueller as the special prosecutor, and CrowdStrike announced a $100M round of financing at the valuation of $1B! The same day match might have been a coincidence, but the return of Robert Mueller to a position of power in the DC has been anticipated for some time. A top Crowdstrike officer and shareholder Shawn Henry joined CrowdStrike from the position of Executive Assistant to FBI Director. Robert Mueller and was in touch with him after resignation. The business idea for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/robert-mueller-more-conflicts-of-interest\/\">CrowdStrike was almost certainly discussed in the office of FBI Director Robert Mueller<\/a>\u00a0in early 2012. The incorrect claim that Russian interference in the 2016 election was in favor of Trump has been entirely derived from the opinion and \u201cdata\u201d provided by CrowdStrike. Robert Mueller probably took CrowdStrike\u2019s words as a holy writ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2016\/07\/dnc_wikileaks_hack_outs_hillary_shill_at_washington_post.html\">DNC Wikileaks Hack Outs Hillary Shill at Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0(American Thinker, 2016-07-25). The shill is Greg Sargent, not any of the authors who posted the DNC claim that it had been hacked by Russia or that Trump weakened the GOP platform on Russian-Ukrainian conflict. I wonder how many WaPo editors and authors are not DNC shills?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/0lnik\">Hillary Clinton Warns Against Treating Donald Trump as \u2018Normal\u2019 Candidate<\/a>\u00a0(NYT, 05\/22\/2016) de-legitimized Trump from the start:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u201cI do not want\u00a0<strong>Americans and, you know, good-thinking Republicans<\/strong>, as well as Democrats and independents, to start to believe that this is a normal candidacy,\u201d Mrs. Clinton said of Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, she said this. Americans and good thinking Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/defyccc.com\/crossfire-hurricane-notes\/#contd\">https:\/\/defyccc.com\/crossfire-hurricane-notes\/#contd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}