Their assertions don’t hold water in the
light of four facts:
1. Russia’s cyber warfare system is still mostly a "black hole" for the
West. Although it is highly effective, very little is known about its
methods of operation, organizational structures, scale of cooperation
with counterparts in other countries, and the tools and resources at
its disposal.
Had any branch of Russian intelligence been responsible for the hacking
the Democratic party’s servers, no obvious signatures, such as the
terms "Fancy Bear," and “Cozy Bear” that were discovered, would have
been left behind for investigators to find.
But
although the current crisis may be glossed over in the interim to allow
the convention and nomination to take its course, the Clinton campaign
up until November is more than likely to be bedeviled by fresh e-mails
leaked via WikiLeaks or other means that are just as embarrassing.
2. Intelligence organizations, including those of Russia, are usually
fully focused on seeking security, strategic and economic data. It is
hard to see Russian military intelligence, whose resources are
stretched, expending time and manpower on digging out the DMC;s
views
of Bernie Sanders’ religiosity.
3. Then, too, CrowdStrike’s claim to have cracked the case in two hours
is hardly credible. Getting to the bottom of an APT (Advanced
Persistent Threat) calls for extra-powerful computers, working in
conjunction with the internet service provider (ISP), and consuming
weeks, if not months of analysis.
4. Attributing the hacking attack to the Russians provided US
agencies
with a convenient reminder that the most notorious leaker of classified
US documents, Edward Snowden, still lives safe from prosecution in
Russian exile, and that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, remains in
asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in Britain.
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