Right Wing media, and Wikileaks, are pushing back hard against the Russian hacker story and suggesting that it never happened. The facts say otherwise.

I have been watching the folks on Fox News denying the Russian hacking stories and reading it at most, if not all, of the Right Wing online news sites. (And yes that also includes the Mat-Su moron.)

According to them the leaked e-mails did not come from a hack but rather from a Democratic insider who hates Hillary Clinton.

This from something called Biz Pac: 

On Sunday, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, said he has met the person who gave the DNC emails and it was not the Russians.

“I know who leaked them,” Murray told The Guardian. “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.

Murray, who is a close associate of Wikileaks head Julian Assange, explained it further on his website. 

“As Julian Assange has made crystal clear, the leaks did not come from the Russians. As I have explained countless times, they are not hacks, they are insider leaks – there is a major difference between the two,” he wrote. “And it should be said again and again, that if Hillary Clinton had not connived with the DNC to fix the primary schedule to disadvantage Bernie, if she had not received advance notice of live debate questions to use against Bernie, if she had not accepted massive donations to the Clinton foundation and family members in return for foreign policy influence, if she had not failed to distance herself from some very weird and troubling people, then none of this would have happened.”

Now I don't know much about this Craig Murray fellow, except for the fact that the US denied him access to the country earlier this year, but his information runs contrary to what intelligence agencies seem to believe.

Intelligence agencies that also included the FBI back in 2015:

When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk. 

His message was brief, if alarming. At least one computer system belonging to the D.N.C. had been compromised by hackers federal investigators had named “the Dukes,” a cyberespionage team linked to the Russian government. 

The F.B.I. knew it well: The bureau had spent the last few years trying to kick the Dukes out of the unclassified email systems of the White House, the State Department and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff, one of the government’s best-protected networks.

The DNC did not react as quickly or as aggressively as they should have to that warning from the FBI, an agency that now claims they do not have the facts to support the idea of a Russian hack of the DNC, and it was not until around seven months later that they hired a cyberexperts to deal with the attacks.

And what did those cyberexperts find?

Funny you should ask.

Okay so the Russians really WERE caught red handed infiltrating the DNC computers.

And that of course is backed up now by the CIA, and the head of the NSA who said this: 

Michael S. Rogers, a Naval officer and NSA director since 2014, said on stage at a Wall Street Journal conference that Wikileaks was furthering a nation-state’s goals by publishing hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s presidential campaign weeks ahead of the election. 

 “There shouldn’t be any doubt in anybody’s minds, this was not something that was done casually, this was not something that was done by chance, this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily. This was a conscious effort by a nation-state to attempt to achieve a specific effect,” he said.

I know this must burn the asses of every one of those Trump supporters, but the facts are that Russia chose him to be our president. And Wikileaks, James Comey, and the useless idiot voters helped them to achieve that goal.

And those....are the facts.