Operation 'Old Hat'

The White House hacking story was released - or broke - on the 8th of April.

And you read something suggesting that kind of thing here on the 2nd of April.

I know I shouldn't do this because there are some rules one of which says 'don't harass people who might end up as your opponents.'

The actor Gary Oldman doing a
Spy Master - or analyst's - face

So but what's the actual point of hacking private or at least confidential email and files of people who are in the higher circles of the White House? That's the basic question Russian media is asking in an attempt to cast doubt on suggestions the Russian government has some hand in the recent hackings.

You may recall a so-called 'Operation Aurora' in which the US government accused China and North Korea of hacking US government computers back at that time. Every year a new hacker!

There are two (well three if you include the real objectives) main aspects of the hackings, both of the White House, and currently, of TV5Monde in France.

Firstly, there are the actual people who are doing the hacking (more on this presently).

And secondly, there is the way in which general media releases the stories.

Back to the first aspect - everyone hacks everyone else; yes the Russians do it, and the Chinese, definitely Japan does it as well, the Germans have a system but it doesn't include actual computer and internet hacking of US government files, and the British have a (possibly illegal) backdoor anyway. One particular foreign country has a low latency process straight into US secret computer files and internet traffic.

None of the countries except the last one have the least bit of real access to the mainstream Western media. The CIA's media channels are too well-known for any of this to have been from them.

And so Admiral, apart from the source of info about what you had for dinner last weekend, would you like to understand what this is all about? (I'm sure you do know, but some readers here who are citizens and taxpayers might not).

In the case of a genuine external hacker, they will want to know who in the White House was talking to whom about arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the last year or two. And they will be able to tell simply by observing who jumped when the hack story came out - whether they even actually hacked anyone or not!

And in the case of the supposed Islamic State hacking of a French TV Station - cui bono.

For in this case it wasn't about information as such, it was a 'denial of service' operation. The media has theorized very quickly that Islamic State just wants to irritate and harass the French people and the French media. 

Her ex-boss was given a new identity...
As well as a fake funeral,
but you're not allowed to know that.

What strikes me as completely odd, rather than just report the facts, the media appears hell bent on speculating about who is doing things! North Korea does Sony, Russia does the White House, and Islamic State does French TV. Cases all solved. So there you go, just run along now sonny. No need for the FBI or anything like that; Rupert will tell us right off the bat.

Where is Gerald Ronson, by the way? Does anyone know? What is he up to these days? I see Ed Miliband goes to his charity do's. I wonder whether Gerald and his mates at J. Rothschild will end up with the UK bits of Total. The last time he tried this kind of stuff with his mates he went to jail, but then, European Court judges ended up saying the British Courts and prosecution were all wrong. Just shows what low latency (in this case high up in the various judiciaries) can procure for you and what harm it can do to unsuspecting people like Jesselyn Radack by comparison.

Operation 'Old Hat.' Is that what it's called? Never saw that in any mainstream Western media now did you!