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September 19, 2016

Hackers May Fake Documents, Congress Publishes False Ones

Filed under: Cybersecurity,Government,Government Data — Patrick Durusau @ 12:47 pm

I pointed out in Lions, Tigers, and Lies! Oh My! that Bruce Schneier‘s concerns over the potential for hackers faking documents to be leaked pales beside the mis-information distributed by government.

Executive Summary of Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden (their title, not mine), is a case in point.

Barton Gellman in The House Intelligence Committee’s Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Snowden Report leaves no doubt the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) report is a sack of lies.

Not mistakes, not exaggerations, not simply misleading, but actual, factual lies.

For example:

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Since I’m on record claiming the report is dishonest, let’s skip straight to the fourth section. That’s the one that describes Snowden as “a serial exaggerator and fabricator,” with “a pattern of intentional lying.” Here is the evidence adduced for that finding, in its entirety.

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“He claimed to have obtained a high school degree equivalent when in fact he never did.”

I do not know how the committee could get this one wrong in good faith. According to the official Maryland State Department of Education test report, which I have reviewed, Snowden sat for the high school equivalency test on May 4, 2004. He needed a score of 2250 to pass. He scored 3550. His Diploma No. 269403 was dated June 2, 2004, the same month he would have graduated had he returned to Arundel High School after losing his sophomore year to mononucleosis. In the interim, he took courses at Anne Arundel Community College.
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See Gellman’s post for more examples.

All twenty-two members of the HPSCI signed the report. To save you time in the future, here’s a listing of the members of Congress who agreed to report these lies:

Republicans

Democrats

I sorted each group in to alphabetical order. The original listings were in an order that no doubt makes sense to fellow rodents but not to the casual reader.

That’s twenty-two members of Congress who are willing to distribute known falsehoods.

Does anyone have an equivalent list of hackers?

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