21st century wire say washington russian witch hunt collapse eye host patrick henningsen reveal last wednesday acr radio supposedly damn information submit fbi private cyber security contractor crowdstrike entire russian hack conspiracy theory hinge fraudulent link primary invent piece evidence include us intelligence assessment mean correct back nov 1st say russian hack story hoax design distract explosive content dnc podesta email leak also bolster fail hillary clinton campaign discredit donald trump somehow league evil russians.if keep press story hurt credibility democratic party still refuse admit abject failures corruption within political organization.now question remain millions us taxpayer money hollywood congressman adam schiff ringleaders lindsey graham waste do try look tough russia trump hold accountable anyone end discover schiff feinstein graham mccain many others washington do extreme damage american interest long run national security story us congressman neomccarthyite adam schiff become ridiculous-looking caricature late justin raimondo antiwar.comthe allegation accept incontrovertible fact mainstream media russian intelligence service hack democratic national committee john podesta email effort help donald trump get elect recently suffer blow may recover.crowdstrike cybersecurity company hire dnc determine hack account take single day determine identity culprits say two group hackers name fancy bear cozy bear affiliate respectively gru russian military intelligence fsb russian security service.how know allege hacker group associate know individuals way connect russian intelligence instead identify tool use time dirty work nature target characteristics base history past intrusions.yet jeffrey carr cyberwarfare experts point methodology fatally flaw important know process attribute attack cybersecurity company nothing scientific method write carr claim attribution testable repeatable hypothesis never prove right wrong neither claim attribution admissible criminal case make claim abide rule evidence i.e hearsay relevance admissibility liken attribution claim hack incidents cybersecurity company intelligence assessments carr note unlike government agencies cia company never hold account miss come cybersecurity estimate attribution one hold company make claim accountable way prove whether assignment attribution true false unless criminal conviction hacker catch act government employee leak evidence lack accountability may change however crowdstrike case attribute hack dnc russians fall apart seam like cheap sweater.to begin crowdstrike initially gauge certainty identity hackers medium confidence however late development announce late december tout washington post boost high confidence reason newfound near-certainty discovery fancy bear also infect application use ukrainian military target separatist artillery ukrainian civil war post report crowdstrike hire dnc investigate intrusions whose find describe new report always suspect one two hacker group strike dnc gru russia military intelligence agency medium confidence say crowdstrike co-founder dmitri alperovitch high confidence unit gru crowdstrike dub unit fancy bear crowdstrike publish analysis claim malware program supposedly unique fancy bear x-agent infect ukrainian target application use gps geo-locate ukrainian position turn application ukrainians result huge losses july august 2014 russian-backed force launch most-decisive attack ukrainian force result significant loss life weaponry territory ukrainian artillery force lose 50 weapons two years conflict 80 d-30 howitzers high percentage loss artillery piece ukraine arsenal alperovitch tell pbs news hour ukraine artillery men target hackers call fancy bear target dnc time target cell phone try understand location russian artillery force actually target open battle variant malicious code see dnc tell nbc news prove dnc hacker 400-pound guy bed trump opine first presidential debate russians.the problem analysis true turn crowdstrike estimate ukrainian losses base blog post pro-russian blogger eager tout ukrainian losses ukrainians deny furthermore hack attribution base hackers use malware program call x-agent supposedly unique fancy bear since target ukrainian military crowdstrike extrapolate hackers work russians.all somewhat plausible except two things begin jeffrey carr point december others begin realize x-agent unique fancy bear cite find eset another cybersecurity company write unlike crowdstrike eset assign apt28/fancy bear/sednit russian intelligence service anyone else simple reason malware deploy long control hacker deploy developer create reverse-engineered copy modify share redeploy anyone word malware deploy malware enjoy fact source code x-agent use dnc bundestag tv5monde attack obtain eset part investigation investigations able retrieve complete xagent source code linux operate system eset could others foolish baseless claim crowdstrike x-agent use solely russian government source code anyone find use secondly estimate crowdstrike use verify ukrainian losses supposedly base data respect international institute strategic study iiss iiss disavow debunk claim international institute strategic study iiss tell voice america crowdstrike erroneously use iiss data proof intrusion iiss disavow connection crowdstrike report ukraine ministry defense also claim combat losses hack never happen crowdstrike report use data inferences analysis draw data belong solely report author iiss say inference make reductions ukrainian d-30 artillery hold 2013 2016 primarily result combat losses conclusion ever suggest one believe accurate one iiss researchers produce data say think tank dramatically low estimate ukrainian artillery assets howitzers 2013 part reassessment reallocation units airborne force never attribute reduction combat losses iiss researcher say explain reallocation occur prior two-year period crowdstrike cite report vast majority reduction actually occur crimea/donbass add refer 2014 russian invasion ukraine definitive evidence cite alperovitch effectively debunk indeed debunk carr late last year ignore media rush prove russians hack dnc order trump presidential ambition exposure voice america crowdstrike falsification ukrainian battlefield losses supposedly solid proof attribute hack gru final nail crowdstrike coffin continue story antiwar.comread russian hack news 21st century wire russian hack filessupport 21wire subscribe become member 21wire.tv collapse russia hack witch hunt end well congress america