A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Years DNC Hack. The Democratic National Committee headquarters, October 2. Sipa via AP ImagesEditors note, 912. For more than 1. 50 years, The Nation has been committed to fearless, independent journalism. We have a long history of seeking alternative views and taking unpopular stances. We believe it is important to challenge questionable conventional wisdom and to foster debatenot police it. The latest travel information, deals, guides and reviews from USA TODAY Travel. According to our research of New York and other state lists there were 53 registered sex offenders living in Kingston, New York as of November 03, 2017. Directx Shader Model 3. The ratio of. New York Terrorist Requested ISIS Flag for His Hospital Room, FBI Says. Ripper Letters. During the Autumn of Terror hundreds of letters were sent to the police and local press purporting to be written by the Whitechapel fiend. You park it, the brusque, fiftysomething attendant told me as he stared down a Tesla Model S. As far as I could tell, this Brooklyn parking garage had a simple. J3vUsao1lOg/WJx8QxO7jnI/AAAAAAAAbfA/_jru8aTCDvMzTkPCllgUzarghROxH_F9gCLcB/s1600/true-crime-new-york-city-pc-screenshot-www.ovagames.com-4.jpg' alt='True Crime New York City Pc Rip 1 Link' title='True Crime New York City Pc Rip 1 Link' />Focusing on unreported or inadequately reported issues of major importance and raising questions that are not being asked have always been a central part of our work. Ad Policy. This journalistic mission led The Nation to be troubled by the paucity of serious public scrutiny of the January 2. ICA on purported Russian interference in our 2. CIA, the FBI, and the NSA. That report concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered the hacking of the DNC and the dissemination of e mails from key staffers via Wiki. Leaks, in order to damage Hillary Clintons candidacy. This official intelligence assessment has since led to what some call Russiagate, with charges and investigations of alleged collusion with the Kremlin, and, in turn, to what is now a major American domestic political crisis and an increasingly perilous state of US Russia relations. To this day, however, the intelligence agencies that released this assessment have failed to provide the American people with any actual evidence substantiating their claims about how the DNC material was obtained or by whom. Astonishingly and often overlooked, the authors of the declassified ICA themselves admit that their judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact. That is why The Nation published Patrick Lawrences article A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Years DNC Hack. The article largely reported on a recently published memo prepared by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity VIPS, which argued, based on their own investigation, that the theft of the DNC e mails was not a hack, but some kind of inside leak that did not involve Russia. Related Article. VIPS, formed in 2. US intelligence officers with decades of experience working within the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and other agencies, previously produced some of the most credibleand criticalanalyses of the Bush administrations mishandling of intelligence data in the run up to the 2. Iraq. The most recent VIPS memo, released on July 2. Despite all the media coverage taking the veracity of the ICA assessment for granted, even now we have only the uncorroborated assertion of intelligence officials to go on. Indeed, this was noticed by The. New York Timess Scott Shane, who wrote the day the report appeared What is missing from the public report ishard evidence to back up the agencies claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack. Instead, the message from the agencies essentially amounts to trust us. As editor of The Nation, my purpose in publishing Patrick Lawrences article was to make more widely known the VIPS critique of the January ICA assertions, the questions VIPS raised, and their counter thesis that the disseminated DNC e mails resulted from a leak, not a hack. Those questions remain vital. Subsequently, Nation editors themselves raised questions about the editorial process that preceded the publication of the article. The article was indeed fact checked to ensure that Patrick Lawrence, a regular Nation contributor, accurately reported the VIPS analysis and conclusions, which he did. As part of the editing process, however, we should have made certain that several of the articles conclusions were presented as possibilities, not as certainties. And given the technical complexity of the material, we would have benefited from bringing on an independent expert to conduct a rigorous review of the VIPS technical claims. Current Issue. We have obtained such a review in the last week from Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project. He has evaluated both the VIPS memo and Lawrences article. Freitas lays out several scenarios in which the DNC could have been hacked from the outside, although he does not rule out a leak. Freitas concludes that all parties must exercise much greater care in separating out statements backed by available digital metadata from thoughtful insights and educated guesses. His findings are published here. We have also learned since publication, from longtime VIPS member Thomas Drake, that there is a dispute among VIPS members themselves about the July 2. This is not the first time a VIPS report has been internally disputed, but it is the first time one has been released over the substantive objections of several VIPS members. With that in mind, we asked Drake and those VIPS members who agree with him to present their dissenting view. We also asked VIPS members who stand by their report to respond. In presenting this follow up, The Nation hopes to encourage further inquiry into the crucial questions of how, why, and by whom the DNC e mails were made publica matter that continues to roil our politics. We especially hope that other people with special expertise or knowledge will come forward. Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher. It is now a year since the Democratic National Committees mail system was compromiseda year since events in the spring and early summer of 2. Russians acting in behalf of Donald Trump. A great edifice has been erected during this time. President Trump, members of his family, and numerous people around him stand accused of various corruptions and extensive collusion with Russians. Half a dozen simultaneous investigations proceed into these matters. Last week news broke that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had convened a grand jury, which issued its first subpoenas on August 3. Allegations of treason are common prominent political figures and many media cultivate a case for impeachment. The presidents ability to conduct foreign policy, notably but not only with regard to Russia, is now crippled. Forced into a corner and having no choice, Trump just signed legislation imposing severe new sanctions on Russia and European companies working with it on pipeline projects vital to Russias energy sector. Striking this close to the core of another nations economy is customarily considered an act of war, we must not forget. In retaliation, Moscow has announced that the United States must cut its embassy staff by roughly two thirds. All sides agree that relations between the United States and Russia are now as fragile as they were during some of the Cold Wars worst moments. To suggest that military conflict between two nuclear powers inches ever closer can no longer be dismissed as hyperbole. All this was set in motion when the DNCs mail server was first violated in the spring of 2. Russians were behind that hack and another such operation, also described as a Russian hack, on July 5. These are the foundation stones of the edifice just outlined. The evolution of public discourse in the year since is worthy of scholarly study Possibilities became allegations, and these became probabilities. Then the probabilities turned into certainties, and these evolved into what are now taken to be established truths. By my reckoning, it required a few days to a few weeks to advance from each of these stages to the next. Texarkana Gazette Texarkana Breaking News.