{"id":60481,"date":"2016-12-15T16:41:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T20:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60481"},"modified":"2016-12-15T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T20:41:03","slug":"uk-ambassador-met-podesta-email-leaker-washington-insider-not-russian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60481","title":{"rendered":"UK Ambassador Met Podesta Email Leaker–Washington Insider, Not Russian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UK Ambassador Craig Murray: \u201cI\u2019ve met the person who leaked them [Podesta emails], not Russian \u2013 it\u2019s an insider\u201d<\/h2>\n

ALEX CHRISTOFOROU
\n<\/a>The Duran<\/p>\n

The irony is that the CIA is accusing another country of interfering with local elections.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Duran posted<\/a> yesterday that \u201cthose who are actually in a position to know and whose record of truthfulness is beyond doubt confirm that the DNC and Podesta leaks were not done by Russia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This diverges greatly from the CIA\u2019s assessment that the hack was carried out\u00a0by Russia, citing \u201canonymous sources\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Duran wrote<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

Craig Murray, Britain\u2019s former ambassador to Russia and a close friend of Julian Assange<\/strong>, has now confirmed that he knows the identity of the person who leaked the DNC and Podesta leaks to Wikileaks, and that this person is not Russian and has no connection to the Russian government.<\/p>\n

On the contrary, he is a Washington insider.<\/p>\n

Craig Murray has moreover told the Guardian that he has actually met with this person.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyone wanting to know more of what Craig Murray is saying should read his statement<\/a> on his blog. Indeed it should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in the truth of this affair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an interview with Sputnik News today<\/a>, Murray noted\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThey plainly have no idea what\u2019s happening or they would be taking action against\u00a0people. So the CIA is simply lying about\u00a0knowing what\u2019s happening and knowing who the people are. They don\u2019t know, if they knew they would act.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Murray made the point that the US Federal Bureau of\u00a0Investigation (FBI) has declined to\u00a0support the CIA\u2019s allegation that a hack took place, as well as pointing out the obvious irony at play\u2026mainly that the CIA is accusing another country of interfering with local elections\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FBI has rather more integrity. It\u2019s a domestic law enforcement agency and putting out\u00a0total lies is not in\u00a0the normal FBI playbook. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s never happened, but\u00a0it\u2019s not normally how it operates whereas of\u00a0course, lies and deceit are stock-in-trade for\u00a0the CIA.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is extremely amusing for\u00a0the CIA to\u00a0be accusing another country of\u00a0interfering in\u00a0domestic elections, when interfering in\u00a0other country\u2019s domestic elections on\u00a0scores of\u00a0occasions is what the CIA has done to\u00a0effect regime change for\u00a0the last 70 years so really; this is almost beyond\u00a0satire.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today Zerohedge posted another article\u00a0authored by Craig Murray<\/a>, which once again states that the US election hack had absolutely no connection to Russia, and was indeed an inside job.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I have watched incredulous as the CIA\u2019s blatant lie has grown and grown as a media story \u2013 blatant because the CIA has made no attempt whatsoever to substantiate it. There is no Russian involvement in the leaks of emails showing Clinton\u2019s corruption. Yes this rubbish has been the lead today in the Washington Post in the US and the Guardian here, and was the lead item on the BBC main news. I suspect it is leading the American broadcasts also.<\/p>\n

A little simple logic demolishes the CIA\u2019s claims. The CIA claim they \u201cknow the individuals\u201d involved. Yet under Obama the USA has been absolutely ruthless in its persecution of whistleblowers, and its pursuit of foreign hackers through extradition. We are supposed to believe that in the most vital instance imaginable, an attempt by a foreign power to destabilise a US election, even though the CIA knows who the individuals are, nobody is going to be arrested or extradited, or (if in Russia) made subject to yet more banking and other restrictions against Russian individuals? Plainly it stinks. The anonymous source claims of \u201cWe know who it was, it was the Russians\u201d are beneath contempt.<\/p>\n

As Julian Assange has made crystal clear, the leaks did not come from the Russians. As I have explained countless times, they are not hacks, they are insider leaks \u2013 there is a major difference between the two. And it should be said again and again, that if Hillary Clinton had not connived with the DNC to fix the primary schedule to disadvantage Bernie, if she had not received advance notice of live debate questions to use against Bernie, if she had not accepted massive donations to the Clinton foundation and family members in return for foreign policy influence, if she had not failed to distance herself from some very weird and troubling people, then none of this would have happened.<\/p>\n

The continued ability of the mainstream media to claim the leaks lost Clinton the election because of \u201cRussia\u201d, while still never acknowledging the truths the leaks reveal, is Kafkaesque.<\/p>\n

I had a call from a Guardian journalist this afternoon. The astonishing result was that for three hours, an article<\/a>\u00a0was accessible through the Guardian front page which actually included the truth among the CIA hype:<\/strong><\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

The Kremlin has rejected the hacking accusations, while the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has previously said the DNC leaks were not linked to Russia. A second senior official cited by the Washington Post conceded that intelligence agencies did not have specific proof that the Kremlin was \u201cdirecting\u201d the hackers, who were said to be one step removed from the Russian government.<\/em><\/p>\n

Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, who is a close associate of Assange, called the CIA claims \u201cbullshit\u201d, adding: \u201cThey are absolutely making it up.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI know who leaked them,\u201d Murray said. \u201cI\u2019ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it\u2019s an insider. It\u2019s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf what the CIA are saying is true, and the CIA\u2019s statement refers to people who are known to be linked to the Russian state, they would have arrested someone if it was someone inside the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica has not been shy about arresting whistleblowers and it\u2019s not been shy about extraditing hackers. They plainly have no knowledge whatsoever.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

But only three hours. While the article was not taken down, the home page links to it vanished and it was replaced by a ludicrous one repeating the mad CIA allegations against Russia and now claiming \u2013 incredibly \u2013 that the CIA believe the FBI is deliberately blocking the information on Russian collusion.<\/strong> Presumably this totally nutty theory<\/a>, that Putin is somehow now controlling the FBI, is meant to answer my obvious objection that, if the CIA know who it is, why haven\u2019t they arrested somebody. That bit of course would be the job of the FBI, who those desperate to annul the election now wish us to believe are the KGB.<\/p>\n

It is terrible that the prime conduit for this paranoid nonsense is a once great newspaper, <\/strong><\/u>the Washington Post, which far from investigating executive power, now is a sounding board for totally evidence free anonymous source briefing of utter bullshit from the executive.<\/p>\n

In the UK, one single article <\/a>sums up the total abnegation of all journalistic standards. <\/strong>The truly execrable Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian writes \u201cFew credible sources doubt that Russia was behind the hacking of internal Democratic party emails, whose release by Julian Assange was timed to cause maximum pain to Hillary Clinton and pleasure for Trump.\u201d Does he produce any evidence at all for this assertion? No, none whatsoever. What does a journalist mean by a \u201ccredible source\u201d? Well, any journalist worth their salt in considering the credibility of a source will first consider access.<\/strong> Do they credibly have access<\/strong> to the information they claim to have?<\/p>\n

Now both Julian Assange and I have stated definitively the leak does not come from Russia. Do we credibly have access? Yes, very obviously. Very, very few people can be said to definitely have access to the source of the leak. The people saying it is not Russia are those who do have access. After access, you consider truthfulness<\/strong>. Do Julian Assange and I have a reputation for truthfulness? Well in 10 years not one of the tens of thousands of documents WikiLeaks has released has had its authenticity successfully challenged. As for me, I have a reputation for inconvenient truth telling.<\/p>\n

Contrast this to the \u201ccredible sources\u201d Freedland relies on. What access<\/strong> do they have to the whistleblower? Zero. They have not the faintest idea who the whistleblower is. Otherwise they would have arrested them. What reputation do they have for truthfulness<\/strong>? It\u2019s the Clinton gang and the US government, for goodness sake.<\/p>\n

In fact, the sources any serious journalist would view as \u201ccredible\u201d give the opposite answer to the one Freedland wants.<\/strong> But in what passes for Freedland\u2019s mind, \u201ccredible\u201d is 100% synonymous with \u201cestablishment\u201d. When he says \u201ccredible sources\u201d he means \u201cestablishment sources\u201d. That is the truth of the \u201cfake news\u201d meme. You are not to read anything unless it is officially approved by the elite and their disgusting, crawling whores of stenographers like Freedland.<\/p>\n

The worst thing about all this is that it is aimed at promoting further conflict with Russia. This puts everyone in danger for the sake of more profits for the arms and security industries \u2013 including of course bigger budgets for the CIA. As thankfully the four year agony of Aleppo comes swiftly to a close today, the Saudi and US armed and trained ISIS forces counter by moving to retake Palmyra. This game kills people, on a massive scale, and goes on and on.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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