Fake News & Russian’s hacking the election is all the talk this week. But it’s all crap & speculation. All of it. We’ll make our case.

Plus the latest news from around the world that mattered this week.

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• Smith–Mundt Act – Wikipedia
• Bears in the Midst: Intrusion into the Democratic National Committee »
• ThreatConnect follows Guccifer 2.0 to Russian VPN Service
• Bear Hunting: Tracking Down COZY BEAR Backdoors
• Shiny Object? Guccifer 2.0 and the DNC Breach
• Hillary Clinton Email Targeted by Threat Group-4127 | SecureWorks
• Washington Post admits article on ‘Russian propaganda’ & ‘fake news’ based on sham research — RT America
• Unpacking the New CIA Leak: Don’t Ignore the Aluminum Tube Footnote – emptywheel
• Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House – The Washington Post
• US Intelligence Officials: Our Warnings To Europe About Russian Hacking Were Too Late – BuzzFeed News
• Hillary Clinton’s Call for Congress to Do Something About Fake News ‘Epidemic’ Is a Reminder of How Bad Her Presidency Would Have Been on Free Speech – Hit & Run : Reason.com
• Hillary Clinton Attacks Fake News, Then Gets Criticized For Her Campaign’s ‘Hypocrisy’
• Hillary Clinton throwing party to thank millionaire donors | Page Six
• Clinton Basically Admits She Learned Nothing From Losing to Trump | Observer
• Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence
• CIA Report Concludes That Russia Tried to Help Trump Win
• President Obama Orders Intel Agencies To Produce Report On Russian Election Influence | Techdirt
• Bear Hunting: Tracking Down COZY BEAR Backdoors
• Shiny Object? Guccifer 2.0 and the DNC Breach
• Hillary Clinton Email Targeted by Threat Group-4127 | SecureWorks
• Trump on Russia meddling in US election: ‘I don’t believe it’
• A house divided: The alarming response to Russian meddling in American democracy | The Economist
• Newslogue Debate
• Are We Seriously Supposed to Buy Mika Brzezinski’s Clinton Campaign Claim? | Mediaite
• Liz Wahl: ‘The Goal of Russian Media is to Undermine Faith in Our Institutions’ | Mediaite
• No, Hillary Clinton did not get more votes than any candidate ever
• WikiLeaks: CIA claim of Russian involvement in DNC leak is false says former UK ambassador
• White House suggests Trump benefited from Russia hacking – CNNPolitics.com
• NYT reporter who sold the world on WMDs, Judith Miller, is now pushing the “Russian election hack” lie [Video]
• Bipartisan group of senators calls for probe of Russian role in 2016 US elections – CNNPolitics.com
• Clinton campaign backs call for intelligence briefing before Electoral College vote – POLITICO
• CONFUSION: WH spokesman claims ‘China’ hacked election – The American MirrorThe American Mirror
• Trump, DNC, RNC Flunk Email Security Test — Krebs on Security
• Next time anyone says “Fake News” tell them to open a fucking Dictionary and use the correct term : Propaganda , and then to stop thinking like an idiot. : WikiLeaks
• Joe Rogan questioning the mainstream Russian Hacks Narrative on his Twitter – Imgur
• As Trumplethinskin lets down his hair for tech, shame on Silicon Valley for climbing the Tower in silence – Recode
• Obama Must Declassify Evidence of Russian Hacking
• Sarah Abdallah on Twitter: “This is what the MSM will never show you: Overjoyed Syrians celebrating the full liberation of #Aleppo from US-backed terrorists. #Syria https://t.co/UM5VtrHjCp”
• Saudi Arabia now employing 14 lobby firms as it fights 9/11 law | TheHill
• The long history of the U.S. interfering with elections elsewhere – The Washington Post
• The Evidence to Prove the Russian Hack – emptywheel
• Sharing National Security Letters with the Public
• WikiLeaks – The Podesta Emails
• Today’s teens are way better behaved than you were – The Washington Post
• Asa Winstanley on Twitter: “Image being shared as showing Aleppo today is actually from 2014 music video. As with Gaza, beware false info https://t.co/2SM4l8RgDF”
• andrew kaczynski on Twitter: “Here’s video of Rex Tillerson getting his “Order of Friendship” medal pinned by Putin https://t.co/oNqx0mHG7l”
• The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S. – The New York Times
• Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: “Most striking part of NYT article was the primitive nature of Podesta hack & the sheer luck of its success: hardly some masterful invasion https://t.co/uZf3pc7cAP”
• Here’s the Public Evidence Russia Hacked the DNC – It’s Not Enough
• It’s Official: Hillary Ran The Most Incompetent Campaign Ever
• The bogus claim that Obama ‘skips’ his intelligence briefings – The Washington Post
• Where was the media outrage when Obama ignored intelligence briefings on ISIS?
• President Obama Returns to DC Amid ISIS Intelligence Report Investigation – ABC News
• New DEA Rule Says CBD Oil is Really, Truly, No-Joke Illegal | Leafly
• Trump names Elon Musk, Uber CEO to advisory team | TheHill
• U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans | Foreign Policy
• ‘Anti-Propaganda’ Ban Repealed, Freeing State Dept. To Direct Its Broadcasting Arm At American Citizens | Techdirt
• United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Smith-Mundt Act)
• How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election – POLITICO
• Phil Kerpen on Twitter: “Hillary Clinton spent millions in Chicago and New Orleans to win the popular vote instead of the election. https://t.co/cJ3EEB4Pc0 https://t.co/1i2jtHbiqX”
• Clinton’s Closest Advisors Blast Huma For Derailing Campaign | Zero Hedge