For months, Emmanuel Macron has been claiming that Russian hackers are busily working to sabotage him and the French Presidential race. Now that the race is over, and Macron is in office, French intelligence has reported that there were no attacks originating in Russia during the election.
There was an attack, however, the sophistication of which was so low that officials say it could have been done by a teenager from a laptop computer.
As soon as the event happened, Macron campaign officials alerted the media with claims that the Russians were attacking. The timing of the claim and the frequency with which we hear similar allegations is beginning to wear thin. It’s come to the point where only the most indoctrinated low-information voters lend any credence to them at all.
While this story is getting little media coverage in the United States, it is a significant blow to the running narrative offered up by Democrats to the effect that Russian hackers cheated Hillary Clinton out of her rightful place in the White House.
In fact, officials from all over the Western world have been making claims that they have been hacked by Russia since the U.S. election in November of last year. It’s come to be seen as a mark of distinction, apparently. Even politicians who fail to win the appointment at issue manage to gain some degree of credibility if they only claim that they were hacked by Moscow, or in Hillary Clinton’s case – by Macedonia.
To see how thin the Russian hacking conspiracy theory has become, you only have to listen to Hillary Clinton’s talks from her recent speaking tour in which she blames everyone but herself for her loss last year. But she blames the Russians more than anyone. Her litany of low self-awareness assertions has been universally criticized as “cringe-worthy” and an embarrassment.
This major setback to the anti-Russia story spewed by everyone within the western establishment was delivered by Guillaume Poupard, the head of France’s leading intelligence agency, the French National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI). He told the Associated Press that they have found no evidence of Russian hackers in the cyber attack on Macron’s presidential campaign.
“The hacker attack on Macron’s campaign was so generic that it could have been done by anyone,” Poupard said.
This should be viewed as a very bad omen for Washington Democrats who are pushing the investigation into their own allegations of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign last November. To date, they have failed to produce any meaningful evidence other than conjecture and conspiracy theories about matching events and Wikileaks dumps. They have refused to allow Roger Stone, possibly the only man in America who can shed some real and new information, to testify. This is clearly because Stone’s testimony would not support the hacking claims.
But, if you wanted to place the blame on the one person most responsible for the DNC’s leaked information; John Podesta is the only real target remaining. It was Podesta who left his mobile phone in a taxi cab with an extremely insecure password setting. His phone contained files and access codes to practically everything in the DNC’s database. That includes reams of private conversations that include code which has been verified by numerous law enforcement agencies to be human sex trafficking code terms.
Of course, the biggest blow to the Russian hacking excuse remains the Vault 7 Wikileaks release, which proves that everything the Democrats claim Trump and Russia did to win the election are common tactics for the CIA. And not only that, but that the CIA has a penchant for tagging their own hacks with markers intended to make them appear to originate in Russia.
~ Liberty Planet
