The New Red Scare
By Alexander Cockbern - From the December 2016 issue
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In early October, this assessment was endorsed by James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, and the Department of Homeland Security. Though it expressed confidence that the Russian government had engineered the D.N.C. hacks, their curiously equivocal joint statement appeared less certain as to Moscow’s role in the all-important leaks, saying only that they were “consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts.” As for the most serious intrusion into the democratic process — the election-system hacks — the intelligence agencies took a pass.
Although many of those breaches had come from “servers operated by a Russian company,” the statement read, the United States was “not now in a position to attribute this activity to the Russian Government.”
The company in question is owned by Vladimir Fomenko, a twenty-six-year-old entrepreneur based in Siberia. In a series of indignant emails, Fomenko informed me that he merely rents out space on his servers, which are scattered throughout several countries, and that hackers have on occasion used his facilities for criminal activities “without our knowledge.” Although he has “information that undoubtedly will help the investigation,”
Fomenko complained that nobody from the U.S. government had contacted him. He was upset that the FBI had “found it necessary to make a loud statement through the media” when he would have happily assisted them. Furthermore, these particular “criminals” had stiffed him $290 in rental fees...
Read more:
http://harpers.org/archive/2016/12/the-new-red-scare/
And as for the fake news the most egregious examples is a site created right here in the USA. Even Trump's son and campaign manager retweeted this sites false stories. While there may be some kind of Russian influence in the fake news scandal it's surprising to see so many people give this guy a pass:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news-writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me/
I don't care what his reasoning was he purposely created false news on a copy cat site that caused people to believe false claims and everyone seems willing to overlook it since he did it for money instead of ideology.
Anyone now can look at this guy as an example and think "Hey! They didn't do anything to him and he made a lot of money. I can do this too!"
Anything for a buck now days...
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