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RobSmith at 07:38, November 27, 2025

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Guccifer 2.0: Spelling, grammar, and general cleanup, typos fixed: amatuerish → amateurish

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RobSmith at 22:38, March 4, 2019

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 :*June 15, 2016: “Guccifer 2.0” affirms the DNC statement; claims responsibility for the “hack;” claims to be a WikiLeaks source; and posts a document that the forensics show was synthetically tainted with “Russian fingerprints;"
-VIPS noted {{Quotebox|"We do not think that the June 12, 14, & 15 timing was pure coincidence. Rather, it suggests the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it came from a Russian hack.}}</small>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref><ref>''[https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/ A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack], Former NSA experts say it wasn’t a hack at all, but a leak—an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system'', By [[Patrick Lawrence]], ''[[The Nation]]'', August 9, 2017.</ref> Adam Carter writes, {{quotebox|"one particular group would have been particularly desperate precisely at that time, for the emergence of a narrative about Russian hackers to discredit proper leaks / justify claims that all leaks are 'probably doctored' and they will have very likely known [Warren] Flood too.<br>That group is the Clinton Campaign.<br>As of June 12th, [2016] they were in a position where [[Julian Assange]] had just announced WikiLeaks' upcoming release of [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary's emails]], she was still under [[FBI]] investigation, and [[Trump]] was attacking Hillary for her use of a private server with his supporters frequently chanting "lock her up!" at rallies.<br>The campaign was in a desperate position and really needed something similar to a Russian hacker narrative and one where they would be fortunate to have a seemingly clumsy hacker that leaves lots of 'fingerprints' tainting files and bringing the reputation of leaks into question... Sure enough, 2-3 days later, Guccifer2.0 - the world's weirdest hacker - was spawned and started telling lies in an effort to attribute himself to the malware discoveries, etc."<ref>http://g-2.spac/#7</ref>}}
+VIPS noted {{Quotebox|"We do not think that the June 12, 14, & 15 timing was pure coincidence. Rather, it suggests the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it came from a Russian hack.}}</small>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref><ref>''[https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/ A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack], Former NSA experts say it wasn’t a hack at all, but a leak—an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system'', By [[Patrick Lawrence]], ''[[The Nation]]'', August 9, 2017.</ref> Adam Carter writes,
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 :*June 15, 2016: “Guccifer 2.0” affirms the DNC statement; claims responsibility for the “hack;” claims to be a WikiLeaks source; and posts a document that the forensics show was synthetically tainted with “Russian fingerprints;"
-VIPS noted {{Quotebox|"We do not think that the June 12, 14, & 15 timing was pure coincidence. Rather, it suggests the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it came from a Russian hack.}}</small>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref><ref>''[https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/ A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack], Former NSA experts say it wasn’t a hack at all, but a leak—an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system'', By Patrick Lawrence, ''[[The Nation]]'', August 9, 2017.</ref> Adam Carter writes, {{quotebox|"one particular group would have been particularly desperate precisely at that time, for the emergence of a narrative about Russian hackers to discredit proper leaks / justify claims that all leaks are 'probably doctored' and they will have very likely known [Warren] Flood too.<br>That group is the Clinton Campaign.<br>As of June 12th, [2016] they were in a position where [[Julian Assange]] had just announced WikiLeaks' upcoming release of [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary's emails]], she was still under [[FBI]] investigation, and [[Trump]] was attacking Hillary for her use of a private server with his supporters frequently chanting "lock her up!" at rallies.<br>The campaign was in a desperate position and really needed something similar to a Russian hacker narrative and one where they would be fortunate to have a seemingly clumsy hacker that leaves lots of 'fingerprints' tainting files and bringing the reputation of leaks into question... Sure enough, 2-3 days later, Guccifer2.0 - the world's weirdest hacker - was spawned and started telling lies in an effort to attribute himself to the malware discoveries, etc."<ref>http://g-2.spac/#7</ref>}}
+VIPS noted {{Quotebox|"We do not think that the June 12, 14, & 15 timing was pure coincidence. Rather, it suggests the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it came from a Russian hack.}}</small>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref><ref>''[https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/ A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack], Former NSA experts say it wasn’t a hack at all, but a leak—an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system'', By [[Patrick Lawrence]], ''[[The Nation]]'', August 9, 2017.</ref> Adam Carter writes, {{quotebox|"one particular group would have been particularly desperate precisely at that time, for the emergence of a narrative about Russian hackers to discredit proper leaks / justify claims that all leaks are 'probably doctored' and they will have very likely known [Warren] Flood too.<br>That group is the Clinton Campaign.<br>As of June 12th, [2016] they were in a position where [[Julian Assange]] had just announced WikiLeaks' upcoming release of [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary's emails]], she was still under [[FBI]] investigation, and [[Trump]] was attacking Hillary for her use of a private server with his supporters frequently chanting "lock her up!" at rallies.<br>The campaign was in a desperate position and really needed something similar to a Russian hacker narrative and one where they would be fortunate to have a seemingly clumsy hacker that leaves lots of 'fingerprints' tainting files and bringing the reputation of leaks into question... Sure enough, 2-3 days later, Guccifer2.0 - the world's weirdest hacker - was spawned and started telling lies in an effort to attribute himself to the malware discoveries, etc."<ref>http://g-2.spac/#7</ref>}}
 ==References==

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 ==Guccifer 2.0==
-On June 15, 2016 the first Guccifer 2.0 document was created by Warren Flood at 13:38 EDT, modified by [[Феликс Эдмундович]] (Felix Edmunovich, the Russian patronymic of Felix Edmunovich Dzerzhinsky, founder of the [[KGB]] - a blatantly amatuerish attempt to create [[Russia]]n fingerprints) thirty minutes later at 14:08 EDT. A document that Flood authored in 2008, and that was attached to one of [[John Podesta]]'s emails, was used by Guccifer 2.0 as a template into which he then copied the contents of the Trump Opposition Research, copied from this file: https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/fileid/26562/7365 (which is also attached to [https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26562 this leaked email]). It is Flood's document that the "CONFIDENTIAL" text in the background derives from.
+On June 15, 2016 the first Guccifer 2.0 document was created by Warren Flood at 13:38 EDT, modified by [[Феликс Эдмундович]] (Felix Edmunovich, the Russian patronymic of Felix Edmunovich Dzerzhinsky, founder of the [[KGB]] - a blatantly amateurish attempt to create [[Russia]]n fingerprints) thirty minutes later at 14:08 EDT. A document that Flood authored in 2008, and that was attached to one of [[John Podesta]]'s emails, was used by Guccifer 2.0 as a template into which he then copied the contents of the Trump Opposition Research, copied from this file: https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/fileid/26562/7365 (which is also attached to [https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26562 this leaked email]). It is Flood's document that the "CONFIDENTIAL" text in the background derives from.
 Guccifer 2.0 is a [[2016 Hillary Clinton campaign]] [[false flag]] operation set up to discredit the [[Seth Rich]] revelations at [[Wikileaks]].<ref>https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/30/controversy-over-wikileaks-podesta-emails-opens-debate-future-journalism</ref><ref><small>Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which includes among members two former Technical Directors of the [[National Security Agency]], has repeatedly called attention to its conclusion that the DNC emails were leaked — not “hacked” by Russia or anyone else.<br>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/27/did-sen-warner-and-comey-collude-on-russia-gate/<br> In analyizing the time sequence:

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 :*June 15, 2016: “Guccifer 2.0” affirms the DNC statement; claims responsibility for the “hack;” claims to be a WikiLeaks source; and posts a document that the forensics show was synthetically tainted with “Russian fingerprints;"
-VIPS noted {{Quotebox|"We do not think that the June 12, 14, & 15 timing was pure coincidence. Rather, it suggests the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it came from a Russian hack.}}<br></small>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref> Adam Carter writes, {{quotebox|"one particular group would have been particularly desperate precisely at that time, for the emergence of a narrative about Russian hackers to discredit proper leaks / justify claims that all leaks are 'probably doctored' and they will have very likely known [Warren] Flood too.<br>That group is the Clinton Campaign.<br>As of June 12th, [2016] they were in a position where [[Julian Assange]] had just announced WikiLeaks' upcoming release of [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary's emails]], she was still under [[FBI]] investigation, and [[Trump]] was attacking Hillary for her use of a private server with his supporters frequently chanting "lock her up!" at rallies.<br>The campaign was in a desperate position and really needed something similar to a Russian hacker narrative and one where they would be fortunate to have a seemingly clumsy hacker that leaves lots of 'fingerprints' tainting files and bringing the reputation of leaks into question... Sure enough, 2-3 days later, Guccifer2.0 - the world's weirdest hacker - was spawned and started telling lies in an effort to attribute himself to the malware discoveries, etc."<ref>http://g-2.spac/#7</ref>}}
+VIPS noted {{Quotebox|"We do not think that the June 12, 14, & 15 timing was pure coincidence. Rather, it suggests the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it came from a Russian hack.}}</small>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref><ref>''[https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/ A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack], Former NSA experts say it wasn’t a hack at all, but a leak—an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system'', By Patrick Lawrence, ''[[The Nation]]'', August 9, 2017.</ref> Adam Carter writes, {{quotebox|"one particular group would have been particularly desperate precisely at that time, for the emergence of a narrative about Russian hackers to discredit proper leaks / justify claims that all leaks are 'probably doctored' and they will have very likely known [Warren] Flood too.<br>That group is the Clinton Campaign.<br>As of June 12th, [2016] they were in a position where [[Julian Assange]] had just announced WikiLeaks' upcoming release of [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary's emails]], she was still under [[FBI]] investigation, and [[Trump]] was attacking Hillary for her use of a private server with his supporters frequently chanting "lock her up!" at rallies.<br>The campaign was in a desperate position and really needed something similar to a Russian hacker narrative and one where they would be fortunate to have a seemingly clumsy hacker that leaves lots of 'fingerprints' tainting files and bringing the reputation of leaks into question... Sure enough, 2-3 days later, Guccifer2.0 - the world's weirdest hacker - was spawned and started telling lies in an effort to attribute himself to the malware discoveries, etc."<ref>http://g-2.spac/#7</ref>}}
 ==References==

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 On June 15, 2016 the first Guccifer 2.0 document was created by Warren Flood at 13:38 EDT, modified by [[Феликс Эдмундович]] (Felix Edmunovich, the Russian patronymic of Felix Edmunovich Dzerzhinsky, founder of the [[KGB]] - a blatantly amatuerish attempt to create [[Russia]]n fingerprints) thirty minutes later at 14:08 EDT. A document that Flood authored in 2008, and that was attached to one of [[John Podesta]]'s emails, was used by Guccifer 2.0 as a template into which he then copied the contents of the Trump Opposition Research, copied from this file: https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/fileid/26562/7365 (which is also attached to [https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26562 this leaked email]). It is Flood's document that the "CONFIDENTIAL" text in the background derives from.
-Guccifer 2.0 is a [[2016 Hillary Clinton campaign]] [[false flag]] operation set up to discredit the [[Seth Rich]] revelations at [[Wikileaks]].<ref>https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/30/controversy-over-wikileaks-podesta-emails-opens-debate-future-journalism</ref><ref><small>Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which includes among members two former Technical Directors of the [[National Security Agency]], has repeatedly called attention to its conclusion that the DNC emails were leaked — not “hacked” by Russia or anyone else.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/27/did-sen-warner-and-comey-collude-on-russia-gate/</ref> In analyizing the time sequence:
+Guccifer 2.0 is a [[2016 Hillary Clinton campaign]] [[false flag]] operation set up to discredit the [[Seth Rich]] revelations at [[Wikileaks]].<ref>https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/30/controversy-over-wikileaks-podesta-emails-opens-debate-future-journalism</ref><ref><small>Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which includes among members two former Technical Directors of the [[National Security Agency]], has repeatedly called attention to its conclusion that the DNC emails were leaked — not “hacked” by Russia or anyone else.<br>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/27/did-sen-warner-and-comey-collude-on-russia-gate/<br> In analyizing the time sequence:
 :*June 12, 2016: Assange announces WikiLeaks is about to publish “emails related to [[Hillary Clinton]];”
-:*June 14, 2016: DNC contractor Crowdstrike, (with a dubious professional record and multiple conflicts of interest) announced that malware has been found on the DNC server and claims there is evidence it was injected by Russians;
+:*June 14, 2016: DNC contractor [[Crowdstrike]], (with a dubious professional record and multiple conflicts of interest) announced that malware has been found on the DNC server and claims there is evidence it was injected by Russians;
 :*June 15, 2016: “Guccifer 2.0” affirms the DNC statement; claims responsibility for the “hack;” claims to be a WikiLeaks source; and posts a document that the forensics show was synthetically tainted with “Russian fingerprints;"
-VIPS noted {{Quotebox|"We do not think that the June 12, 14, & 15 timing was pure coincidence. Rather, it suggests the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it came from a Russian hack.}}<br></small>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref>
+VIPS noted {{Quotebox|"We do not think that the June 12, 14, & 15 timing was pure coincidence. Rather, it suggests the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it came from a Russian hack.}}<br></small>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref> Adam Carter writes, {{quotebox|"one particular group would have been particularly desperate precisely at that time, for the emergence of a narrative about Russian hackers to discredit proper leaks / justify claims that all leaks are 'probably doctored' and they will have very likely known [Warren] Flood too.<br>That group is the Clinton Campaign.<br>As of June 12th, [2016] they were in a position where [[Julian Assange]] had just announced WikiLeaks' upcoming release of [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary's emails]], she was still under [[FBI]] investigation, and [[Trump]] was attacking Hillary for her use of a private server with his supporters frequently chanting "lock her up!" at rallies.<br>The campaign was in a desperate position and really needed something similar to a Russian hacker narrative and one where they would be fortunate to have a seemingly clumsy hacker that leaves lots of 'fingerprints' tainting files and bringing the reputation of leaks into question... Sure enough, 2-3 days later, Guccifer2.0 - the world's weirdest hacker - was spawned and started telling lies in an effort to attribute himself to the malware discoveries, etc."<ref>http://g-2.spac/#7</ref>}}
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 On June 15, 2016 the first Guccifer 2.0 document was created by Warren Flood at 13:38 EDT, modified by [[Феликс Эдмундович]] (Felix Edmunovich, the Russian patronymic of Felix Edmunovich Dzerzhinsky, founder of the [[KGB]] - a blatantly amatuerish attempt to create [[Russia]]n fingerprints) thirty minutes later at 14:08 EDT. A document that Flood authored in 2008, and that was attached to one of John Podesta's emails, was used by Guccifer 2.0 as a template into which he then copied the contents of the Trump Opposition Research, copied from this file: https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/fileid/26562/7365 (which is also attached to [https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26562 this leaked email]). It is Flood's document that the "CONFIDENTIAL" text in the background derives from.
-Guccifer 2.0 is a [[2016 Hillary Clinton campaign]] [[false flag]] operation set up to discredit the [[Seth Rich]] revelations at [[Wikileaks]]. Adam Carter writes, {{quotebox|"one particular group would have been particularly desperate precisely at that time, for the emergence of a narrative about Russian hackers to discredit proper leaks / justify claims that all leaks are 'probably doctored' and they will have very likely known [Warren] Flood too.<br>That group is the Clinton Campaign.<br>As of June 12th, [2016] they were in a position where [[Julian Assange]] had just announced WikiLeaks' upcoming release of [[Hillary's emails]], she was still under [[FBI]] investigation, and [[Trump]] was attacking Hillary for her use of a private server with his supporters frequently chanting "lock her up!" at rallies.<br>The campaign was in a desperate position and really needed something similar to a Russian hacker narrative and one where they would be fortunate to have a seemingly clumsy hacker that leaves lots of 'fingerprints' tainting files and bringing the reputation of leaks into question... Sure enough, 2-3 days later, Guccifer2.0 - the world's weirdest hacker - was spawned and started telling lies in an effort to attribute himself to the malware discoveries, etc."<ref>http://g-2.spac/#7</ref>}}
+Guccifer 2.0 is a [[2016 Hillary Clinton campaign]] [[false flag]] operation set up to discredit the [[Seth Rich]] revelations at [[Wikileaks]]. Adam Carter writes, {{quotebox|"one particular group would have been particularly desperate precisely at that time, for the emergence of a narrative about Russian hackers to discredit proper leaks / justify claims that all leaks are 'probably doctored' and they will have very likely known [Warren] Flood too.<br>That group is the Clinton Campaign.<br>As of June 12th, [2016] they were in a position where [[Julian Assange]] had just announced WikiLeaks' upcoming release of [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary's emails]], she was still under [[FBI]] investigation, and [[Trump]] was attacking Hillary for her use of a private server with his supporters frequently chanting "lock her up!" at rallies.<br>The campaign was in a desperate position and really needed something similar to a Russian hacker narrative and one where they would be fortunate to have a seemingly clumsy hacker that leaves lots of 'fingerprints' tainting files and bringing the reputation of leaks into question... Sure enough, 2-3 days later, Guccifer2.0 - the world's weirdest hacker - was spawned and started telling lies in an effort to attribute himself to the malware discoveries, etc."<ref>http://g-2.spac/#7</ref>}}
 ==References==