{"id":403335,"date":"2019-04-19T01:17:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-guccifer-2-0-gaps-in-muellers-full-report-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T01:17:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:17:14","slug":"the-guccifer-2-0-gaps-in-muellers-full-report-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-guccifer-2-0-gaps-in-muellers-full-report-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Guccifer 2.0\u2019 Gaps in Mueller\u2019s Full Report \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Like Team Mueller\u2019s indictment last July of Russian agents, the full report reveals questions about<em> Wikileaks\u2019 <\/em>role that much of the media has been ignoring, writes Daniel Lazare.<span id=\"more-35287\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><u><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/tag\/daniel-lazare\/\">By<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Daniel Lazare<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><em>Special to Consortium News<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Daniel-Lazare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Daniel-Lazare-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-27056\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-27056\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Daniel-Lazare-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span>s official Washington pores over the Gospel According to Saint Robert, an all-important fact about the Mueller report has gotten lost in the shuffle.\u00a0 Just as the Christian gospels were filled with<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Historical-Jesus-Comprehensive-Gerd-Theissen\/dp\/0800631226\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Theissen+historical+jesus&amp;qid=1555606526&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1\">holes<\/a>,<\/span> the latest version is too \u2013 particularly with regard to <em>WikiLeaks<\/em> and Julian Assange.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The five pages that the special prosecutor\u2019s report devotes to <em>WikiLeaks<\/em> are essentially lifted from Mueller\u2019s <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/file\/1080281\/download\">indictment<\/a><\/span> last July of 12 members of the Russian military intelligence agency known as the GRU.\u00a0 It charges that after hacking the Democratic National Committee, the GRU used a specially-created online persona known as Guccifer 2.0 to transfer a gigabyte\u2019s worth of stolen emails to <em>WikiLeaks<\/em> just as the 2016 Democratic National Convention was approaching.\u00a0 Four days after opening the encrypted file, the indictment says, \u201cOrganization 1 [i.e. WikiLeaks] released over 20,000 emails and other documents stolen from the DNC network by the Conspirators [i.e. the GRU].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35305\" style=\"width: 1258px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-5.00.53-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-5.00.53-PM.png\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35305\" class=\" wp-image-35305\" alt=\"Barr holding press conference on full Mueller report, April 18, 2019. (YouTube)\" width=\"1248\" height=\"612\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35305\" class=\" wp-image-35305\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-5.00.53-PM.png\" alt=\"Barr holding press conference on full Mueller report, April 18, 2019. (YouTube)\" width=\"1248\" height=\"612\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-35305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Attorney General William Barr holding press conference on full Mueller report, April 18, 2019.<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> (YouTube)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Mueller\u2019s report says the same thing, but with the added twist that Assange then tried to cover up the GRU\u2019s role by <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/wikileaks-founder-addresses-death-of-dnc-staffer-seth-rich-in-fox-news-interview\">suggesting<\/a><\/span> that murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich may have been the source and by telling a congressman that the DNC email heist was an \u201cinside job\u201d and that he had \u201cphysical proof\u201d that the material was not from Russian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">All of which is manna from heaven for corporate news outlets eager to pile on Assange, now behind bars in London.\u00a0 An April 11, 2019, <em>New York Times<\/em> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/11\/us\/politics\/julian-assange-wikileaks-russia.html\">news analysis<\/a>,<\/span> for instance, declared that \u201c[c]ourt documents have revealed that it was Russian intelligence \u2013 using the Guccifer persona \u2013 that provided Mr. Assange thousands of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee,\u201d while another <em>Times <\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/11\/us\/politics\/wikileaks-assange.html\">article<\/a><\/span> published shortly after his arrest accuses the <em>WikiLeaks<\/em> founder of&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/04\/18\/the-guccifer-2-0-gaps-in-muellers-full-report\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Team Mueller\u2019s indictment last July of Russian agents, the full report reveals questions about Wikileaks\u2019 role that much of the media has been ignoring, writes Daniel Lazare. 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