[Peace] News From Neptune #451 notes

[J.B. Nicholson]

I wrote:
> Washington Post on cryptography company, Crypto AG
> http://archive.ph/pk2nu
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/ 

Now there is:

A followup Chris Hedges interview to this with William Binney (Intelligence Analyst & 
NSA whistleblower)
https://cdnv.rt.com/files/2020.04/5e92b3e285f540458b47569d.mp4 -- the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsbDRDNHGYc -- the video
https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/485560-binney-cia-intelligence-coup/ -- a 
transcript will likely show up here

Binney talks about civil liberties, the constant attack on privacy, some of the means 
by which: one's presence can be tracked, people can be physically burned (Binney 
alleges that there are the means to use microwave radiation to burn skin from a 
distance), and one's commonly-used technology (your tracker/cell phone, your 
"Internet of Things" devices, etc.) can be spied upon to make it rat you out all the 
time, everywhere you go, and even when you think some of these devices are turned off.




Doesn't William Binney have some connection to the allegations that Russia "hacked" 
the DNC emails and gave them to WikiLeaks?

Binney is also the one who spoke of the effort of a number of people including the 
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity conducted to test the widely repeated 
claim Hillary Clinton made about Russians somehow breaking the DNC's security to 
obtain a copy of emails and then conveying that data to WikiLeaks for publication 
(https://wikileaks.org//dnc-emails/). What they discovered completely debunked 
Clinton's claim.

20m34s into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjHs-E2e2V4 Abby Martin talks with Bill 
Binney about how we know the DNC emails were leaked from the inside and not obtained 
remotely over the Internet (a claim he's made consistently for years on a variety of 
news outlets):

> Abby Martin: Let's move on to the allegations of Russian hacking into Podesta's
> email account in the DNC. Can you first go over the evidence that Muller claims to
> have that proves that it's Russia?
> 
> Bill Binney: Well you see, I really don't know of any evidence that Mueller has
> because he's never made it public. So, the only evidence I have is what's made
> public. And from that it went into the Rosenstein indictment, you know the
> Guccifer 2 and the DC Leaks data. And they talked about that as the evidence for
> the indictments and so on. You know they claimed that Guccifer 2 is a Russian, but
> the timestamps that we have on the programming inside the data that was published
> by Guccifer 2 shows timestamps that are consistently inside the United States. But
> that's not the real issue, the real issue was with the data itself and how quickly
> it was downloaded, it was incompatible with a transfer across the net to anywhere
> or any distance. If it went beyond the high-speed line that you had dedicated to
> you, then it slowed down.
> 
> Abby Martin: Explain that in laymen's terms -- why you think this was an inside
> leak as opposed to a hack?
> 
> Bill Binney: Okay, well, the fastest download speed we had was a 49.1 megabyte
> rate. Which meant that the hacker was taking the data out at that rate across the
> network, where ever they were. You know they could be local, they could be
> anywhere. Well, we said okay, what is the capacity of the lines going across to
> Europe? And at that point everything failed -- you couldn't get it across that
> fast. But you could to a thumb drive or something local. Some of our people
> disagreed with that, they said they thought it could. So we said, okay we'll try 
> it. So we've got hacker friends in Europe trying to -- and a friend in the US to
> put up a gigabyte of data and say 'Here, try to pull it across, see how fast you
> can get it.'. And the fastest they could get was from a data center in New Jersey
> to the UK in London. And that was 12.0 megabytes per second -- less than
> one-fourth the necessary capacity to transmit the data alone.
> 
> Abby Martin: Well, what about the timestamps: do you think that Russia could have
> been throwing off analysts by planting false timestamps?
> 
> Bill Binney: First off, to understand the massive surveillance that is involved:
> everything is captured by NSA. So, NSA should have some of that evidence
> somewhere. And they have failed to come forward, even the ICA -- the Intelligence
> Community Assessment -- that Russia "hacked it", you know? NSA had "moderate
> confidence".
> 
> Abby Martin: Right, what does that mean?
> 
> Bill Binney: That means we have no evidence.
> 
> Abby Martin: Because the other intelligence agencies said they had confidence but
> the NSA said they had "moderate confidence".
> 
> Bill Binney: You see, they aren't relevant. When it comes to communication, NSA is
> the only one that matters. The rest of them don't.
> 
> Abby Martin: And did they explain what the "moderate confidence" that they had
> meant?
> 
> Bill Binney: No. I mean, to me, that's language for 'I have no evidence.'.
> 
> Abby Martin: I wanted to get this out of the way because it's always interested me
> because you claim that British diplomat Craig Murray corroborates this--
> 
> Bill Binney: Yep.
> 
> Abby Martin: --he claims that he handed over a drive to someone.
> 
> Bill Binney: Well, he talked to somebody who was involved in transferring the
> data, yeah.
> 
> Abby Martin: So he, himself, talked to someone.
> 
> Bill Binney: But even from the forensic evidence based on the WikiLeaks exposure
> of data that they published there were multiple ways that they got it.
> 
> Abby Martin: Then who else has corroborated your findings?
> 
> Bill Binney: A number of technical people, people in the Veteran Intelligence
> Professionals for Sanity and others around the world, by the way.
So there is no evidence that these emails came from Russians breaking into the DNC's 
computers remotely over the Internet. The Russiagate line that Hillary Clinton and 
"every Blairite, every Clintonite, by the BBC, by CNN, by the Guardian, the New York 
Times and the Washington Post" (per former Ambassador Craig Murray in his blog on 
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/08/in-the-world-of-truth-and-fact-russiagate-is-dead-in-the-world-of-the-political-establishment-it-is-still-the-new-42/) 
repeats widely is false.

So how did the data get to WikiLeaks?

John Kiriakou brought up Craig Murray in Kiriakou's interview with Redacted Tonight's 
Lee Camp:

Starting at 3m55s into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrVWeA2QmWk

> Lee Camp: And this is one of the many holes in the Muller report, which still
> found no collusion, but they [the FBI] didn't even talk to Julian Assange.
> 
> John Kiriakou: They never even /asked/ to talk to Julian Assange.
> 
> Lee Camp: It's amazing.
> 
> John Kiriakou: And I'll tell you who else they didn't talk to was Ambassador Craig
> Murray. Craig's the former ambassador to Uzbekistan. He came here [to the US]
> right around that time in 2016 to participate in a Sam Adams award ceremony. Sam
> Adams is a group of retired CIA, NSA, other intelligence officers and we were
> giving an award. Well, Craig loves to go out drinking after these award
> ceremonies. That night he didn't. That night he said he had an important meeting.
> As it turned out his important meeting was to meet someone who he's never named
> who gave him a thumb drive with all of the information on it -- all of the DNC
> emails--
> 
> Lee Camp: Wow.
> 
> John Kiriakou: --which he then took to WikiLeaks.
> 
> Lee Camp: Wow.
> 
> John Kiriakou: So if he has come out to confess that it was not a hack, not a
> Russian hack, [saying] 'I physically carried the documents to WikiLeaks', why did
> the FBI never want to interview him?
> 
> Lee Camp: That's incredible, I didn't even know that detail. But there's been a
> lot of other evidence brought forward that this was not a hack, it was a leak. It
> was from the inside.
> 
> John Kiriakou: It was; Bill Binney, the former Technical Director at the NSA has
> said repeatedly -- including in the Oval Office -- that the rate of speed with the
> information was uploaded shows -- proves -- that it could not possibly have been
> done remotely. It had to have been done on- site on a thumb drive.
> 
> Lee Camp: Yeah, but that upends the whole 'Russia did it' idea so we can't have
> that.
So it's quite possible that Seth Rich, former DNC employee, copied the emails from 
the DNC server to a USB key (thumb drive) and gave that thumb drive to Craig Murray 
who met Rich on the night of the Sam Adams award ceremony. Seth Rich would later be 
murdered on the streets of Washington, D.C. not far from where he worked for the DNC. 
And Murray took that thumb drive to WikiLeaks.

This is not a far-fetched chain of events according to Ed Butowsky who is suing a 
number of parties:

http://lawflog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019.07.15-Amended-complaint-stamped.pdf
> Michael Gottlieb, Meryl Governski, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Brad Bauman, The
> Pastorum Group, Leonard A. Gail, Eli J. Kay-Oliphant, Suyash Agrawal, Massey &
> Gail LLP, Gregory Y. Porter, Michael L. Murphy, Bailey & Glasser LLP, Turner
> Broadcasting System, Inc., Anderson Cooper, Gary Tuchman, Oliver Darcy, Tom Kludt,
> The New York Times Company, Alan Feuer, Vox Media, Inc., and Jane Coaston
claiming that the negative press about Seth Rich's involvement ('Seth Rich is not 
involved, Russia did it!') hurt Butowsky's business. Butowsky's lawyer is Ty 
Clevenger who has written about this case on his blog at http://lawflog.com/?p=2210 .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGac4K4KuPo -- RT's report on Butowsky's lawsuit.

https://www.blackagendareport.com/russiagate-fanatic-michael-isikoffs-curious-project 
-- Black Agenda Report article which also talks about a project Russiagate-supporter 
Michael Isikoff started trying to distract people from paying attention to any news 
which says Seth Rich had anything to do with the DNC emails, or that those emails 
were leaked and not illicitly obtained by Russians via the Internet.

Garrison transcribed and summarized some part of that conversation between Hersh and 
Butowsky:

> Seymour Hersh: I'll tell you what I know. What I know comes off an FBI report.
> Don’t ask me how. You can figure out I’ve been around long enough. This is
> according to the FBI report. What they find is he [Rich] makes con[tact]. First of
> all, you have to know, you have to know some basic facts. One of the basic facts,
> is there’s no DNC or Podesta email that exists beyond May 22nd, May 21st, 22nd,
> the last emails from either one of those groups. And so what the report says is
> that sometime in late spring—we're talking about June, you know, summer and June
> 21st, late spring would be after, I presume . . . I don't know. I just say late
> spring, early summer, he [Rich] makes contact with Wikileaks. That's in his
> computer and he makes contact. They [FBI investigators] found what he had done. He
> had submitted a series of documents, of emails, some juicy emails from the DNC. He
> offered a sample, an extensive sample—y’know I'm sure dozens of email—and said, “I
> want money.”
> 
> Later Wikileaks did get the password. He had a Dropbox, a protected Dropbox, which
> isn’t hard to do. I mean you don't have to be a wizard, IT wizard. Y’know he was
> certainly not a dumb kid, and they got access to the Dropbox. He [Rich] also, and
> this is also in the FBI report, he’d also let people know with whom he was
> dealing, and I don’t know how he dealt—I’ll tell you about Wikileaks in a second.
> I don’t know how he dealt with Wikileaks—the mechanism. But he also, the word was
> passed, according to the FBI report, “I also shared this box with a couple of 
> friends, so if anything happens to me, you’re not, it’s not going to solve your
> [their?] problem.” OK? I don’t know what that means, I don’t know what he was …
> anyway, but Wikileaks got access and before he was killed.
> 
> Ed Butowsky: But what you’re saying is that he uploaded stuff into the Wikileaks
> dropbox and they pulled it down and that’s where the Podesta and DNC emails came
> from.
> 
> Seymour Hersh: It doesn’t preclude Russians also hacking them! I just don’t think 
> that. Y’know it’s always Occam's Razor. Wikileaks got ‘em.
> 
> Ed Butowsky: Yeah, I know. I understand. But I wanta stay focused on one thing 
> just for a moment. You saw the FBI report?
> 
> Seymour Hersh: No. I have somebody on the inside. Y’know I’ve been around a long 
> time and I write a lot of stuff. I have somebody on the inside who will go and
> read a file for me. And I know this person is unbelievably accurate and careful.
> He’s a very high-level guy and he’ll do a favor.
> 
> Ed Butowsky: And is there any way we can get our hands on the report?
> 
> Hersh responded that he could not risk exposing his high-level FBI source by
> sharing a document even if he could get one. He then asked Butowsky to tell him
> what he knew:
> 
> Seymour Hersh: My pen is down. I’m not quoting you about anything. I know that. 
> What do you know?
> 
> Ed Butowsky: I know that Julian Assange told a friend of mine who met with him 
> that he got the emails from Seth Rich.
> 
> Seymour Hersh: Whoa!
> 
> Ed Butowsky:  And they’re very personal friends.
> 
> Hersh said that he had been working on the story since August 2016 because he
> foresaw that Russia would be blamed for the email leaks.
> 
> Seymour Hersh: I’ve been doing this story since the late summer because I smelled 
> it, I smelled it in August. OK? That the fallback was going to be Russia.