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@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan Why does Trump enact Neocon policies like the coup in Venezuela and putting troops in Syria in the first place? It needs to be explained why CrowdStrike told the story they told to WAPO on June 13, 2016--indirectly--that Fancy Bear did NOT steal the emails.

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan That makes them look stupid when Guccifer 2.0 shows up and claims he stole the emails. When you look at Shawn Henry's declassified testimony to Congress, it APPPEARS that CrowdStrike thought Cozy Bear could have stolen the emails. CrowdStrike admitted they did not witness...

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan ...most of the documents being exfiltrated, and cannot prove the Russians did it, only that they STAGED documents for exfiltration.

That is NOT setting the table for the "Russians stole the emails and gave them to Wikileaks" scenario. So, why were at the DNC?

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan This thread includes Donna Brazile's version of what happened, which suggests DNC people put CrowdStrike on "stand down" orders:

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@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan There is something in Shawn Henry's classified testimony that makes one thing that most of us who question the Russian Hacking story have a hard time assimilating---The FBI did not rely on CrowdStrike's evidence. What they relied on was in the Mueller indictment of the...

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan ...12 Russian names---The narrative is that there was a server leased by Russian GRU intelligence agents inside the US and the FBI found it and seized it. The GRU agents stupidly loaded key loggers on the DNC network that transmitted key stokes to that server, INCLUDING THEIRS.

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan Do I believe that GRU leased server story? Not until someone with credibility verifies it. Like everything else about this thing, it makes no damn sense at all.

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan Look, Cozy Bear, if that hack existed, had the opportunity to steal every damn thing on that network they wanted, so why the hell was Fancy Bear in the DNC network, and why did they behave in there like they wanted to be caught?

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan I'll tell you one thing, Comey and the others knew it didn't sound right that they did nothing while Cozy Bear romped around in that network unchallenged. What they needed was a kind of shell game, and that was what Fancy Bear was. Hide the email theft behind Fancy Bear...

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan ...and forget about Cozy Bear. We're supposed to believe that the media knew about this and never questioned it even though it was like having an NFL linebacker in a dress competing in the Miss America pageant. It's absurd.

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan Durham just indicted someone who might be able to supply some of these answers, but solely indicting him for lying to agents might just constitute Durham committing a reversible error. We'll have to see.

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan A lot of people rely on what Dmitri Alperovitch said about Russian intelligence agencies to justify the appearance of a second group hackers on the DNC network when it is really asinine of Putin to have allowed it when it was unnecessary.

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan Alperovitch answered that question of why Fancy Bear would show up in the DNC network by claiming the Russian intel services compete with each other. Other international observers of Russian intelligence provide another narrative.

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent Moscow-based military analyst, told The Associated Press that if “the SVR runs into military intelligence, they have to share it with the GRU; that means they try not to run into military intelligence and tell their agents not to report

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan anything military even if they know it. The other way around, military or GRU assets are asked never to report anything political.”

The AP asked about the stupid Fancy Bear/Cozy Bear story, and tried to explain so as not to get in the middle of the DNC hack story:

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan But in the case of the alleged U.S. election-related hacking, he said, “I believe that was an inter-service operation, because it’s not military but they (GRU) gained some kind of hacking access and then they shared it with the FSB and the SVR.”

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan The AP reporter did not bother to ask how this could be since COZY BEAR HACKED THE DAMN DNC NETWORK FIRST and had the run of the place for a year, thanks to James Comey and John Brennan. If it was interservice operation, GRU would know SVR already owned the DNC network.

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan Nothing gets rid of evidence better than the total chaos of a raging fire, or the stampede of a panicking crowd. By adding Fancy Bear and Guccifer 2.0, the "Interagency" inside and out of government created enough confusion to keep people looking in the wrong places.

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan apnews.com/c91253cf51b446…

@MichaelWeddle15 @with_integrity @stranahan Evidence Cozy Bear, if the hack existed, stole emails and/or electronic documents from DNC and caused to create the need to sow chaos and confusion around stolen DNC documents as they show up.

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