Friday, March 23, 2018

Is Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 A Russian GRU Intelligence Agent?


Spencer Ackerman & Kevin Poulsen, Daily Beast: EXCLUSIVE: ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer

Robert Mueller’s team has taken over the investigation of Guccifer 2.0, who communicated with (and was defended by) longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.

Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has learned. It’s an attribution that resulted from a fleeting but critical slip-up in GRU tradecraft.

That forensic determination has substantial implications for the criminal probe into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia. The Daily Beast has learned that the special counsel in that investigation, Robert Mueller, has taken over the probe into Guccifer and brought the FBI agents who worked to track the persona onto his team.

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WNU Editor: The hack of the DNC server .... and the subsequent release of documents coupled with the release of John Podesta's emails .... is IMHO one of the main reasons why Hillary Clinton lost the campaign. The revelation that the primaries were rigged to help her win hurt her standing among the Bernie Sanders supporters, and my gut tells me that it helped to suppress that vote on election day. But is Guccifer 2.0 a GRU Intelligence agent? Spencer Ackerman & Kevin Poulsen are reporting  that because of one IP address and some other intel the U.S. intelligence community has come to the consensus that there is a very good chance that Russian military intelligence was involved in the DNC hack. One IP address linked to a website on a social media platform???? As for the rest of the article .... a lot of speculation and anonymous sources.

9 comments:

Hamilcar Barca said...

Marcel Lazăr Lehel, known as Guccifer, is a Romanian hacker responsible for a number of high-level computer security breaches in the U.S. and Romania. Lehel targeted celebrities, Romanian and U.S. government officials, and other prominent persons.

Jay Farquharson said...

Guccifer 2.0 has been identified as Sergei Afanasyev and then later, his replacement, Grigoriy Viktorovich Molchanov.

fred said...

but...but...but...that means Trump's denial about Russian involvement is...dead wrong...a lie?

Anonymous said...

Wait a minute, the democrats rigged the primary...how did they do that, and how come no one is talking about it?

War News Updates Editor said...

Anon,
You clearly are not a Bernie Sanders supporter.

fred said...

A primary is not an election rigged by an enemy nation

Anonymous said...

So what are the ramifications of a rigged primary, who was responsible, and moving forward what will be done so that it never happens again? Are we sold on stopping future hacking so that we can be as corrupt as we like as long as no one finds out?

Unknown said...

Putin ran against zero opposition, which is gauche.

Now the Democrats of the DNC rigged their primarily correctly. They had a dog and pony show.

Those are two underhanded ways to win elections.

Is one way better than the other as in less immoral or less evil?


If the Democrats would rig a primary, would they rig a general election?

You betcha!

Unknown said...

- ISIS took credit for the Las Vegas massacre. The press does not believe them.
Guccifer the 2.0 took credit for the DNC leak.

- The DNC is complaining about the the leak not their dirty laundry.

- Seth Rich gets murdered in a bad robbery and nothing is taken. Yeah, right.

- It is funny how the press and the Left loved Wikileaks during the Iraq War, but not when Wikilieaks exposes DNC memos. HYPOCRITES!