U4ISQ2L2ZxE/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Sift Heads World Act 6 Hacked Downloads' title='Sift Heads World Act 6 Hacked Downloads' />Intel Vets Challenge Russia Hack Evidence Consortiumnews. In a memo to President Trump, a group of former U. S. intelligence officers, including NSA specialists, cite new forensic studies to challenge the claim of the key Jan. Russia hacked Democratic emails last year. Editors Note This VIPS Memo included two mistaken dates. Neither affected the Memos main conclusion i. July 5, 2. 01. 6 intrusion into DNC emails that was blamed on Russia could not have been a hack by Russia or anyone else. The portions of the Memo affected by the mistaken dates have been corrected. A short explanation of the corrections 1 June 1. VIPS memo erroneously stated was the day Crowdstrike said malware had been found on the DNC server and claimed there was evidence the malware was injected by Russians. On the following day the 1. Guccifer 2. 0 claimed responsibility for the hack and claimed to be a Wiki. Leaks source. 2 Although the VIPS Memo indicated, correctly, that on June 1. Guccifer 2. 0 posts a document that the forensics show was synthetically tainted with Russian fingerprints, other language in the Memo was mistaken in indicating that evidence of such tainting was also found in the Guccifer 2. July 5. MEMORANDUM FOR The President. FROM Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity VIPSSUBJECT Was the Russian Hack an Inside Job Executive Summary. Forensic studies of Russian hacking into Democratic National Committee computers last year reveal that on July 5, 2. DNC computer. After examining metadata from the Guccifer 2. July 5, 2. 01. 6 intrusion into the DNC server, independent cyber investigators have concluded that an insider copied DNC data onto an external storage device. Then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper right talks with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, with John Brennan and other national security aides present. Photo credit Office of Director of National IntelligenceKey among the findings of the independent forensic investigations is the conclusion that the DNC data was copied onto a storage device at a speed that far exceeds an Internet capability for a remote hack. Of equal importance, the forensics show that the copying was performed on the East coast of the U. S.  Thus far, mainstream media have ignored the findings of these independent studies see here and here. Independent analyst Skip Folden, who retired after 2. IBM Program Manager for Information Technology, US, who examined the recent forensic findings, is a co author of this Memorandum. He has drafted a more detailed technical report titled Cyber Forensic Investigation of Russian Hack and Missing Intelligence Community Disclaimers, and sent it to the offices of the Special Counsel and the Attorney General. VIPS member William Binney, a former Technical Director at the National Security Agency, and other senior NSA alumni in VIPS attest to the professionalism of the independent forensic findings. The recent forensic studies fill in a critical gap. Why the FBI neglected to perform any independent forensics on the original Guccifer 2. FBI, CIA, and NSA, who wrote the Intelligence Community Assessment dated January 6, 2. NOTE There has been so much conflation of charges about hacking that we wish to make very clear the primary focus of this Memorandum. We focus specifically on the July 5, 2. Guccifer 2. 0 hack of the DNC server. In earlier VIPS memoranda we addressed the lack of any evidence connecting the Guccifer 2. Wiki. Leaks, and we asked President Obama specifically to disclose any evidence that Wiki. Leaks received DNC data from the Russians see here and here. Addressing this point at his last press conference January 1. Intelligence Community Assessment of January 6 expressed high confidence that Russian intelligence relayed material it acquired from the DNC to Wiki. Leaks. Obamas admission came as no surprise to us. It has long been clear to us that the reason the U. M4yTPWm2E/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Sift Heads World Act 6 Hacked Downloads' title='Sift Heads World Act 6 Hacked Downloads' />S. Russian hack to Wiki. Leaks is because there was no such transfer. Based mostly on the cumulatively unique technical experience of our ex NSA colleagues, we have been saying for almost a year that the DNC data reached Wiki. Leaks via a copyleak by a DNC insider but almost certainly not the same person who copied DNC data on July 5, 2. From the information available, we conclude that the same inside DNC, copyleak process was used at two different times, by two different entities, for two distinctly different purposes 1 an inside leak to Wiki. Leaks before Julian Assange announced on June 1. DNC documents and planned to publish them which he did on July 2. The January 6 Intelligence Community Assessment by handpicked analysts from the FBI, CIA, and NSA seems to fit into the same agendadriven category. DNC bias toward the Clinton candidacy and 2 a separate leak on July 5, 2. Wiki. Leaks might later publish by showing it came from a Russian hack. President This is our first VIPS Memorandum for you, but we have a history of letting U. S. Presidents know when we think our former intelligence colleagues have gotten something important wrong, and why. For example, our first such memorandum, a same day commentary for President George W. Bush on Colin Powells U. The most notable conspiracy theory was floated by neoNazi hacker Weev, who said that he had hacked Kesslers account. Weev, whose real name is Andrew Auernheimer. When youre sharing your screen for a business or school presentation, you dont want any notifications popping up, like a sext, a calendar notification for your. This July, we asked for software tips from the 2017 Microsoft Office National Champions, a set of charming teens who are officially the best at using PowerPoint, Word. N. speech on February 5, 2. U. S. attack Iraq and justify the war on intelligence that we retired intelligence officers could readily see as fraudulent and driven by a war agenda. Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the United Nations on Feb. Iraq had WMD, but the evidence proved bogus. The January 6 Intelligence Community Assessment by hand picked analysts from the FBI, CIA, and NSA seems to fit into the same agenda driven category. Sift Heads World Act 6 Hacked Downloads' title='Sift Heads World Act 6 Hacked Downloads' />It is largely based on an assessment, not supported by any apparent evidence, that a shadowy entity with the moniker Guccifer 2. DNC on behalf of Russian intelligence and gave DNC emails to Wiki. Leaks. The recent forensic findings mentioned above have put a huge dent in that assessment and cast serious doubt on the underpinnings of the extraordinarily successful campaign to blame the Russian government for hacking. The pundits and politicians who have led the charge against Russian meddling in the U. S. election can be expected to try to cast doubt on the forensic findings, if they ever do bubble up into the mainstream media. But the technical limitations of todays Internet are widely understood. We are prepared to answer any substantive challenges on their merits. You may wish to ask CIA Director Mike Pompeo what he knows about this. Our own lengthy intelligence community experience suggests that it is possible that neither former CIA Director John Brennan, nor the cyber warriors who worked for him, have been completely candid with their new director regarding how this all went down. Copied, Not Hacked. As indicated above, the independent forensic work just completed focused on data copied not hacked by a shadowy persona named Guccifer 2. The forensics reflect what seems to have been a desperate effort to blame the Russians for publishing highly embarrassing DNC emails three days before the Democratic convention last July. Since the content of the DNC emails reeked of pro Clinton bias, her campaign saw an overriding need to divert attention from content to provenance as in, who hacked those DNC emails The campaign was enthusiastically supported by compliant mainstream media they are still on a roll. The Russians were the ideal culprit. Windows 2003 Server Dvd Images. And, after Wiki. Leaks editor Julian Assange announced on June 1.