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Re:A CIA Officer Visits Moscow, Returns with Mysterious, Cri... by slacka on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:23AM (#24915191)
Your source, Bill Binney, is not credible. For example he claims he can "prove" Russia did not hack the DNC in 2016.[1] His claims are easily debunked by anyone with basic networking experience.[2]

[1] https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/02/...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180802/07182740351/as-dn...

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Re:A CIA Officer Visits Moscow, Returns with Mysterious, Cri... by sterlind on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:40AM (#24915303)
Wow, Binney's analysis of it being a thumb drive leak is pretty laughable. Apparently the fact that the files came from FAT is a smoking gun, or Wikileaks "conspired" to doctor them like that.

So much more likely that Wikileaks, or one of the hackers, simply copied them to a thumb drive at some point.

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Re:A CIA Officer Visits Moscow, Returns with Mysterious, Cri... by ecommerceguy on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:52AM (#24915366)
Bill Binney is an American patriot and I believe not one person in the NSA would disagree. He is quite simply a legend in no such agency. Not sure what hive mind you crawled out of but please go back.
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Re:A CIA Officer Visits Moscow, Returns with Mysterious, Cri... by boomboomsubban on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:03AM (#24915422)
Wouldn't such bullshit accusations just make him more of a legend in the NSA? It's not like they have a record of speaking honestly to the press.
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