“As part of the editing process, however,
we should have made certain that several of the article’s conclusions were presented as possibilities, not as certainties," The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel wrote in a lengthy editor's note added to the article.
“We have also learned since publication, from longtime VIPS member Thomas Drake,
that there is a dispute among VIPS members themselves about the July 24 memo. This is not the first time a VIPS report has been internally disputed, but it is the first time one has been released over the substantive objections of several VIPS members,” she wrote
The Nation adds lengthy editor's note to story questioning DNC hack | TheHill
Of course we know that bogus allegation is false, because they just told you it was 3 years ago. But the conspiracy theory doesn't die does it? That's the beauty of fake news.
But everyone with a brain should remember that this was EARLY on in the investigation...way before the entire forensic chain of Russian hacking was laid out in at least declassified detail in the completed Mueller report. Which ISP they used, from which terminals, etc...they got it all. After this bogus claim from VIPS carried by the Nation...FBI figured it all out and charged the Hackers in full detail.
And second, they should also note that this "possibility" they are describing, is without evidence. ANY hack, without evidence, can be said to "possibly have been done with a thumb drive!". They have no evidence of that, at all.
The only thing they had evidence of was high transfer speeds. They falsely claimed that could only be done with a USB drive, and they had to retract that false claim. There was no evidence at all that it "was a thumb drive", the only evidence was high transfer speeds!! Bad VIPs and bad "The Nation".
And look at Marke, pushing this long debunked CT nonsense that got moved to CT forums twice on this very forum.
