Premature to blame Russia for DNC hack; NSA could know who's behind it, release info as deterrent

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The rush to blame Russia for the DNC email hack is premature

There is some circumstantial evidence that the hack may have originated in Russia, but there are many questions that haven’t been resolved

Since WikiLeaks published the DNC’s hacked emails on Sunday, there has been a flurry of accusations - including from the Hillary Clinton campaign -

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While we wait to see if the NSA will take its most famous former employee’s advice, it is worth reading a thorough review of the evidence produced so far, compiled for Motherboard by Thomas Rid, a professor at King’s College London who has charted the use of hacking for espionage.

As Rid explains, the attribution of the DNC hack to Russian intelligence agents was first suggested on June 15 by CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm hired by the Democrats to investigate the possible breach of their system in May.

I felt like the trail presented by Thomas Rid was pretty convincing and well-documented.

Reading the email itself, however, shows something quite different. The complete text of the email chain makes it clear that Miranda was contributing to a thread in which officials worked together to edit a draft of a humorous press release, or “hit,” that mocked Trump for making such an outlandish suggestion.

I appreciate this article is calling out the idea that Wikileaks and other sources to be some impartial fountain of pure info.

No news or resource can be entirely impartial if they're involved in any way with interpreting the content they're releasing.
When they publish this stuff with misleading headlines, when they focus on an excerpt and ignoring the context, that's NOT impartial. It's misleading.