{"id":53698,"date":"2020-06-15T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53698"},"modified":"2020-06-15T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:55:22","slug":"ray-mcgovern-how-an-internet-persona-helped-birth-russiagate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53698","title":{"rendered":"RAY McGOVERN: How an Internet \u2018Persona\u2019 Helped Birth Russiagate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

RAY McGOVERN: How an Internet \u2018Persona\u2019 Helped Birth Russiagate<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Guccifer 2.0 turns four years old today and the great diversion he took part in becomes clearer by the day, writes Ray McGovern.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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F<\/strong>our years ago today, on June 15, 2016, a shadowy Internet persona calling itself \u201cGuccifer 2.0\u201d appeared out of nowhere to claim credit for hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee on behalf of WikiLeaks<\/em> and implicate Russia by dropping \u201ctelltale\u201d but synthetically produced Russian \u201cbreadcrumbs\u201d in his metadata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks largely to the corporate media, the highly damaging story actually found in those DNC emails \u2014 namely, that the DNC had stacked the cards against Bernie Sanders in the party\u2019s 2016 primary\u2014 was successfully obscured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The media was the message; and the message was that Russia had used G-2.0 to hack into the DNC, interfering in the November 2016 election to help Donald Trump win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost everybody still \u201cknows\u201d that \u2014 from the man or woman in the street to the forlorn super sleuth, Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, who actually based indictments of Russian intelligence officers on Guccifer 2.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blaming Russia was a magnificent distraction from the start and quickly became the vogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soil had already been cultivated for \u201cRussiagate\u201d by Democratic PR gems like Donald Trump \u201ckissing up\u201d to former KGB officer Vladimir Putin and their \u201cbromance\u201d (bromides that former President Barack Obama is still using). Four years ago today, \u201cRussian meddling\u201d was off and running \u2014 on steroids \u2014 acquiring far more faux-reality than the evanescent Guccifer 2.0 persona is likely to get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s how it went down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 \u2014 June 12: WikiLeaks<\/em> founder Julian Assange announced he had \u201cemails related to Hillary Clinton which are pending publication.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 \u2014 June 14: DNC contractor CrowdStrike tells the media that malware has been found on the DNC server and claims there is evidence it was injected by Russians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RAY McGOVERN: How an Internet \u2018Persona\u2019 Helped Birth Russiagate Guccifer 2.0 turns four years old today and the great diversion he took part in becomes clearer by the day, writes Ray McGovern. Four years ago today, on June 15, 2016, a shadowy Internet persona calling itself \u201cGuccifer 2.0\u201d appeared out of nowhere to claim credit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6963,14697,14679,28719,7000,880],"class_list":["post-53698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-democratic-national-committee","tag-dnc","tag-guccifer-2-0","tag-ray-mcgovern","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53699,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53698\/revisions\/53699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}