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Still no evidence WHATSOEVER of election hacking by Russians

By Matthew Vadum ——--January 5, 2017

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We are 15 days and 16 hours away from the inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States and there is still no publicly available evidence — NOTHING AT ALL — demonstrating the Russian government or Russian-backed cyber militias hacked anything to help Trump win the election.
Earlier this week, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks told Sean Hannity, as he has many times before, that his group’s “source is not the Russian government and it is not a state actor.” Say what you will about Assange but he’s not known for lying. An absence of proof is, of course, not a problem for the Left. Facts rarely are. Citing various supposed authorities — as opposed to evidence– media outlets continue to report that this supposed hacking evidence exists. In rhetoric, this is called the “argument from authority.” Just keeping saying all the experts agree and wear down your opposition. Sometimes it works. As the Daily Caller’s Alex Pfeiffer reports:
Bloomberg reported Thursday, “Prodded to produce evidence by Russia, which has denied a role in hacking — and by an openly skeptical President-elect Donald Trump — the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security did so Thursday.” Other outlets such as PC Magazine and the International Business Times also interpreted the Joint Analysis Report (JAR) issued by the DHS and FBI as evidence tying Russia to a hacking operation.
The report, however, is devoid of evidence linking Russia to hackings of Democratic Party institutions and individuals. The report broadly describes how “two separate Russian espionage groups” were involved in the “the intrusion into a U.S. political party.” But there’s no specific details explaining the attribution of Russia as being behind the hacking. Eight pages of the 13-page report consist of information meant to help network administrators try and identify possible intrusions, prevent them, and what to do if they spot code the U.S. government has said belongs to Russian intelligence.
So this Joint Analysis Report is nothing. And yet all these trained seals in the media keep insisting there is proof that Russians engaged in hacking and that it had an impact on the election. This is insanity. But there are very few people pointing this out. Tucker Carlson stands almost alone among TV personalities in saying the emperor has no clothes. A couple days ago he beat up a wuss named Paul Davies, editorial page editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hardly a fair fight, I know, but somebody has to go after these people.

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Matthew Vadum——

Matthew Vadum,  matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.

His new book Subversion Inc. can be bought at Amazon.com (US), Amazon.ca (Canada)

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