The Seth Rich Laptops, the FBI, and 9/11
"People with nothing to hide don't try to hide nothing." - Ty Clevenger
Ty Clevenger's still fighting to see what's hidden away by the FBI on the Seth Rich laptops.
“Yesterday the government asked for more time to respond to U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant's September 29, 2022 order directing the FBI to produce all records related to Seth Rich's laptop. Somewhat relatedly, the FBI is withholding three reports produced by CrowdStrike in August of 2016 regarding the purported hack of the Democratic National Committee.”
“First the laptop. The FBI wants two more weeks so it can prepare a motion for reconsideration.”
Sure, guys. Anything you say.
Ty writes:
“The order itself is pretty straightforward, at least with respect to Seth's personal laptop, because it directs the FBI to ‘produce the information it possesses related to Seth Rich's laptop and responsive to Plaintiff's FOIA requests within 14 days of this Order’. On the other hand, the order does not discuss Seth's work laptop, which is also in the possession of the FBI.”
So, just a reminder: there are two laptops. At least two.
And the FBI? They got 'em both. Of course they do.
Seth Rich and Russiagate
A major part of the Seth Rich controversy is the idea that he may have been involved with, or have been the source of, the DNC leaks. Of course we then saw Maestro Guccifer take to the InterTube stage and declare... whatever he declared. And so Hillary grinned. Russiagate was established. Vladimir Putin had personally overseen this infamous hack of Hillary's personal property and probably contributed a few lines of slick code of his own (KGB Spy School you know - they're good) and this was all to deny her that much deserved crown...
According to Tucker Carlson, according to Foreign Policy Magazine, the chief reason Biden and his playmates objected to the Turkey peace agreement in April of this year between Russia and Ukraine was that Russia had to pay for denying Hillary her presidency.
So years after that horrendous hoax was debunked, they're still going on about it in the DNC in Washington? And you thought you'd seen everything?
What did Tulsi call them? A cabal of elitist warmongers? Something like that.
But let's take a step back. And see how ridiculous this whole thing has been right from the get-go. Here's all you need. There are countless clips available out there, somehow evading the vigilant Googel censors, but this is by far the best of the lot. This is the only one you need.
Try to keep Tomi Collins out of your purview as you watch. This has nothing to do with loving freedom. This is all about data bits and data bytes. And time stamps. And transmission speeds. This one’s with Bill Binney, a mathematician rather than a computer scientist with an extraordinary acumen.
(This evidently flew under the radar for most people - much too technical. At time of writing it's got only 56 K views in four years (uploaded 16 July 2018) so that should tell you something.)
But it's not hard to follow Bill's logic if you take it step by step.
Good old Guccifer - was it one crackerjack or two or a team - predictably didn't think of everything but screwed up in a majorly way. Good old G published the full file system data on the storage for the leaks. This data includes the time stamps for each file. Those stamps include when each file was created.
By using his own people to sort it out, Bill was able to see how one file download followed another, when each file arrived, and, given the file's size, the speed of that file’s transfer.
As Bill mentions, he enlisted the help of associates on several continents. Using the fastest pipes available, they tried to match the speeds of the Guccifer transfers. They couldn't. The closest they got was about 25% of the speed of the Guccifer transfers. The speed of the Guccifer transfers instead resembles that of a USB thumb - meaning the leaks were done with direct access to the DNC servers.
Bill talks about not being able to say whether the leaks were an "inside job". Of course. That's a political rather than a technical issue. But the leaks themselves did indeed happen "on the inside" - with direct access to the computer hardware. There’s no other way.
All the while the bobbing boob-tube talking heads don't even dare talk about this (Tomi above and Jimmy Dore being exceptions, bless 'em) because those pretty action news anchors don't have the requisite grey matter to grasp what it's about and/or their bosses can't either and/or they're all sure that you the viewer won't be able to figure it out and/or they might prefer leaving things hanging in the air to stoke some Russophobia and boost their Nielsens.
And so Russiagate could go on for three years. Three years. Putin did it! Of course he did! And hey, what do you think - could Covid have come out of a lab? And about that Hunter Biden laptop - that's not Russian disinformation like 141 experts said without even looking at the data?
Gosh.
(Not to step on tender things here, but how could all those experts again certify that the 2020 elections were the most secure ever when they couldn't possibly have had time to conduct an audit of a single precinct, much less the entire country? You remember how quickly, how instantaneously, they all said the elections were OK - and yet the audits, when actually conducted, dragged on for months? Are they really that stupid? Or do they just think the viewers are?)
And what did happen to Seth Rich? And how could the FBI have 20,000 (twenty thousand) documents on Seth Rich? Twenty-thousand? What kind of documents? And they still haven't properly looked into them?
The first WikiLeaks bomb, in July 2010, contained 90,000 documents, of which 15,000 were withheld for “harm minimisation”. The next bomb came in October of the same year - the Iraq War Logs. That comprised nearly 400,000 documents. But, as you can read above at Ty’s blog, the FBI now petitioned the court to give them 60 (sixty) years to review 20,000 Seth Rich docs.
Next thing you know, they'll be telling people that 9/11 was preventable.
Aw, come on, man.
A Good American
The following is a full-length movie available on YouTube. It's the story of Bill Binney and the NSA and 9/11.
Contemplating the enormity of data in the digital age, Bill realised that reading the actual contents of communications was mostly a waste of time at the macro level. The systems in operation for undersea cables, for example, siphon off a few days of traffic at a time for further analysis, as much as the buffers can handle. There are only so many hours in which to dig up whatever can be found before the data has to be pushed out to make room for the next batch.
So what Bill is saying, and he says it's based on an old idea he brought back, is that it's more important to know who you know rather than what you know - that is, at least until you start to see the patterns emerge. And then and only then do you look into the content of communications.
It's all about metadata - about who connects to who and how often.
Bill and his old buddies from the NSA, successively ousted to make way for a new multi-billion dollar snake-oil show orchestrated by, amongst many others, Michael Hayden, decided to yank out the data available before 9/11 to see if Bill's old system would have prevented 9/11.
You could never guess what they found.
The film's one hour thirty-six minutes. Warning: this film starts with some stark audio images. But get the popcorn.
“The fun never stops.” - Ty Clevenger
Postscript: Jimmy Dore
Seems it’s 66 years now. Those poor overworked servants of the people…