For almost the last year, avowedly liberal news networks have relentlessly promoted a narrative claiming Russians hacked the 2016 presidential election and helped Trump win over Hillary Clinton.
While there was no evidence of a hack by the Russian government, leftist media continues to release their fake news stories claiming the contrary.
But now, one liberal news magazine may have finally put the last nail in the coffin of the “Russian hack” narrative.
Liberal news magazine The Nation just released a story summarizing what right-wing news groups have been saying for the last year: there was no hacking by Russian government operatives.
Author Patrick Lawrence assembled the findings of months of investigations by former government officials and forensic computer experts to conclude exactly that.
Breitbart News reported:
The Nation, a leading publication of the American left for over a century, may seem an unlikely place for such a thorough refutation of one of the Democratic Party’s most salient talking points. Lawrence, however, is strikingly forthright. Calling the supposed hack and the continual allegations of collusion by President Donald Trump and his associates a “great edifice,”
Lawrence points to the central role the “DNC Hack” plays in the “Russia Gate” narrative. He writes:
Now, according to the research by the experts Lawrence cites — the group Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) — a Russian government cyberattack on the DNC’s computers is likely not a “possibility.” The group has examined several aspects of the emails’ journey to the public eye and concluded it cannot be made to comport with a hacker in the former Soviet Union. The files apparently were transferred to a data storage device at a speed not possible over the internet. Metadata also indicate that the emails were taken by someone in the Eastern Daylight Time Zone and then deliberately copy-and-pasted into a Microsoft Word file that had its language settings changed to Russian in a ruse to throw off investigators.
The conclusions of four of VIP’s investigators was unanimous. Lawrence writes:  READ ARTICLE