A story of a deceit: how American media turned Romanian hacker into Russian (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
10.07.2016 - 2:14
The Washington Post has published an article, the author of which claims that Russian hackers groups managed to get an access to Donald Trump’s dirty laundry. The American media snapped into the case and started hyping it up. They ended up saying that Putin runned the operation personally. One of the hackers announced he was a Romanian but the media couldn’t care less.
On the 14th of July The Washington Post published Ellen Nakashima’s article titled: «Russian government hacker penetrated DNC, stole opposition reasearch on Trump».
Elen Nakashima, former Washington Post reporter in South-Eastern Asia and now national security reporter also dealing with intelligence services and civil rights matters claims that the Russian hackers are invilved into high-profile DNC computer network breach which resulted in stealing opposition reasearch of Donald Trumps’ activity.
It's interesting that even Nakashima’s article tells us that even Crowdstrike company which tried to detect who and how got access to DNC network could not do that. Which cannot be said about hacker’s national identity – this was deteced immediately. The hackers were obviously Russian.
Moreover — the article claims that there are two hacker groups both of which “work for the Russian governent”. In the video which accompanies the article a photo of the Russian president appears at this very moment. In the best Hollywood tradition disturbing music is played.
Nakashima's scandalous version was caught by the other American media at once competing whose title was bolder. One thing remained untouched: «Russian government hackers» were the hook of all titles.
There is certain top-charts in the Western media:
— «Russian government hackers broke into DNC servers, stole Trump oppo» (Politico);
— «Russians steal research on Trump in hack of U.S. Democratic Party» (Reuters);
— «Russian gevernement-affiliated hackers breach DNC, take reasearch on Donald Trump» (FoxNews);
— «Russian government hackers steal DNC files on Donald Trump» (Guardian);
— «What Russia’s DNC Hack Tells Us About Hillary Clnton’s Private Email Server» (Forbes).
The MSNBC “Rachel Maddow Show” host went to even greater extremes.
Speaking in her traditional emotionally exaggerated manner Miss Maddow ended up blaimig Presidnet of Russia himself for organizing the hacker attack. скую атаку на НКДП.
«those hacker received the task directly from Russian government, from Vladimir Putin», — Maddow claims though there is no such direct accusation in The Washington Post article — CrowdStrike company admits that it cannot say for sure whom these hacker work for.
Of course there are no evidence of Russian special services involvement (much less Russian government or President) into NDC network breach.
But American “polotical observers” do not care for such minor details as it seems.
Then the spiralled at even greater speed: Motherboard portal published an interview with a hacker calling himself«Guccifer 2.0». According to him he took active part in breaking DNC network.
So talking to Motherboard reporter Guccifer 2.0 claimed he was not Russian but a Romanian. Moreover he threw back any allegations regarding “working for Russian fovernment”. He told that “he did not like the Russians, their foreign policy and he didn’t stand being reckoned among the Russians».
It’s interesting that on the 20the of June Ellen Nakashima published another article in The Washington Post dedicated to DNC network breach. She claimed that «the experts confirm DNC network attack by the Russian governement», she also says that «the analytics suspect Guccifer 2.0 to be a part of one of the hacker groups which broke DNC network».
So however hard mysterious Guccifer 2.0 resisted the American media had already listed him as a Russian.
The investigation is made by “Russian Spring” expert group on the basis of The Nation article and the information from open sources
