Mensch connecting dots on Putin's Guccifer2, Hostkey

[flamingdem]

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[jmg257]

1. "WE just proved the Russians attacked the DNC and state voter databases"??

I guess she never read the IC report the ICA put out in January. Could have saved her a couple months...

We assess with high confidence that Russian military intelligence (General Staff Main Intelligence
Directorate or GRU) used the Guccifer 2.0 persona and DCLeaks.com to release US victim data
obtained in cyber operations publicly and in exclusives to media outlets and relayed material to
WikiLeaks.

 Russian intelligence obtained and maintained access to elements of multiple US state or local
electoral boards.
...
In July 2015, Russian intelligence gained access to Democratic National
Committee (DNC) networks and maintained that access until at least June 2016.
 The General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) probably began cyber operations aimed
at the US election by March 2016. We assess that the GRU operations resulted in the
compromise of the personal e-mail accounts of Democratic Party officials and political figures.
By May, the GRU had exfiltrated large volumes of data from the DNC.

[L. Coyote]

12. Mensch is providing new information thanks to the specifics.

And the Alfa bank server connection ties this to Trump and DeVos/Prince.

[KittyWampus]

2. "We"? She's full of shit. She isn't involved. This was known. Without her involvement.

I now am tending to classify her as a click-baiting loon.

[flamingdem]

3. I was wondering about that

I guess she's taking credit for naming them, not clear.

[womanofthehills]

5. Actually, if you read her blog, you will see the detail she goes into

https://patribotics.blog/2017/04/04/putins-hacker-wikileaks-host-pyotr-chayanov-hacked-americas-vote-system-and-the-dnc/

[womanofthehills]

4. Why so upset over a woman who is so anti-Trump and anti-Russian who seems to have good intelligence

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connections? We need everyone in this fight and she is super smart. She has a big following on Twitter - Joy Reid, John Marshall, Jester, Alexandra Chalupa, Andrea Chalupa, etc. some of her followers. Obviously they don't think she is full of shit.

[gibraltar72]

6. Thats what hooked me

Some very smart people I respect pay attention to her work. Also she gives credit to others.

[pnwmom]

10. She reported in October on the Fisa warrant -- before the BBC, The Guardian, or ANY US media source.

She reported on the probable Nunes connection in the WH on March 27, three days before the NY Times reported the same person.

She isn't a loon. She's a conservative ally, a never-Trumper with connections in the intelligence community because she -- unlike some American progressives -- didn't fall for the traitor Edward Snowden.

[L. Coyote]

14. Well, where were you when she was doing the grunt work and getting the story ahead of everyone else?

It is easy to attack others. Show us your intelligence and investigative reporting instead. Oh yeah, you've done nothing by comparison, right?

Please explain why we should care who you post personal attacks against.

Election day: FBI has FISA warrant for Trump secret server connected to Russia.

[KittyWampus]

17. LOL! I post stuff on DailyKos. And I don't waste time posting things I've spent time on

here on DU cause it would sink like a stone.

[sarcasmo]

7. Mensch is doing important work, and in case you didn't know, Mensch is a Republican.

[flamingdem]

8. A Tory, or an ex-Tory

but yes to your point.

She did post in favor of Gorsuch the other day. That was honest at least.

[L. Coyote]

15. And the best Never Trump asset we have on the conservative side. Working hard every day still.

Remember, the #TrumpRussia dossier is the product of conservative opposition research, and it helped launch the FBI investigation.
Send a thank you note to Jeb Bush.

Follow her and note the interesting retweets

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[womanofthehills]

9. from Daily Kos- Louise Mensch is not a Nutter, and she may be the reason why Biglygate is big-league

Louis Mensch has some connection to Biglygate via the depth of the current FISA warrants. She only comes to this place perhaps because like the Golden Shower dossier, the intelligence community often triangulates on the truth, if even unintentionally, and with collateral consequence.

But where it gets interesting is that the WH rogues brand her a nutter, and which she now apparently is not, making the WH rogues a part of the cover-up…

However, it seems increasingly clear that Mensch landed an extraordinary scoop that had eluded the best investigative journalists in the US.
Her explanation is that her vocal advocacy on behalf of UK and US intelligence agencies since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations about mass surveillance led her sources to trust her…

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/20/1635812/-Louise-Mensch-is-not-a-Nutter-and-she-may-be-the-reason-why-we-are-Democrats-and-love-Metallica

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[L. Coyote]

11. Unhinged British Witch has ties to Russia.

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[dalton99a]

13. Good one.

[L. Coyote]

16. Revealing her source of the dossier info, in case anyone doesn't take note of who that is.

[RealityChik]

18. I'm still on the fence on this one...

Her work is indeed engaging and if nothing else, thought provoking. But phew! What a drama queen!!! Maybe a bit of a narcissist, herself. She gets VERY defensive when people challenge her ideas or don't agree with her point of view.

She's a good place to start if you're on a deep dive for information on an issue she covers. She has some really good credible sources, but she tends to embellish sometimes. In the end, I figure if John Schindler, Adam Khan and Scott Dworkin are citing her work, I generally accept her work as, at the very least, plausible theory.

[jmg257]

19. The data base transfer stuff is pretty cool. Now

https://teapainusa.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/data-patterns-suggest-trump-towerspectrum-health-ran-a-stealth-data-machine-with-russia/

Prove collusion.

Trump/Spectrum operatives and employees in the United States could interact with this list and have no clue the origins of the data were nefarious. This plain-sight approach was the key to its success.
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Pain’s working theory is that Russia created a voter targeting database with information gleaned from hacked DNC data rolls and other data rolls “acquired” from other states to feed this growing contact database. That database originated at Russian Intelligence which was in turn replicated to Russia’s Alfa Bank. This is where the “data laundering” takes place, Alfa Bank is the pivot point where the FSB’s data fingerprints are wiped clean. Ironically Russia launders its data at the same place it launders its money.

In New York Trump Tower could merge data into this system using various legal sources as well. Spectrum Health could also add value to the data by matching names and addresses in their extensive healthcare databases to harvest email addresses and phone numbers to flesh out this list. All these changes would be promptly replicated back to Russia in a matter of hours.

Alfa Bank supposedly owns Cambridge Analytica. trump legally hired CA to help his campaign. Micro-targeting is THE whole point of the company, so so far there is nothing illegal.

Connecting info databases makes great sense if that was what was going on. Surprised it wasn't linked to Kushner's San Antonio data center (mentioned in Forbes).

Someone has to show trump, Manafort, and/or Kushner etc. KNEW that Alfa Bank aka CA was getting (illegally obtained) data from Russian State Intelligence. Seems Mensch has supplied a good cover for the the server connection stuff without proof of collusion.

[Blue_Roses]

20. I hope she has some security detail

because I worry for her safety, especially if all this is true.

[Lucinda]

21. KNR Thank you!