Julian Assange’s Intel Friend: It Was ‘Insider Leaks,’ Not Russian ‘Hack’

Craig Murray, who has served as an intelligence analyst, a British ambassador to Uzbekistan and chancellor of the University of Dundee, dropped a bombshell clarification about the ongoing furor of U.S. election hacks, saying he knew first-hand who breached the computerized walls – and it wasn’t a Russian.

It also wasn’t a hack, Murray said, in a piece on his blog entitled “The CIA’s Absence of Conviction.”

Rather, it was a leak, he said – something that’s completely different and a nuance the media’s failing to note.

Zero Hedge had the story:

“Murray, wrote yesterday: ‘As Julian Assange has made crystal clear, the leaks did not come from the Russians. As I have explained countless times, they are not hacks, they are insider leaks – there is a major difference between the two. …

“‘I know who leaked them. I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.

“In other words, Murray – a close friend of Julian Assange – says he knows for a fact that there were no hacks at all … instead, an American insider leaked the information to Wikileaks.”

Murray referenced the realities of the surveillance state we all live under nowadays, where online information is swept and stored in massive data bases and it’s never entirely clear who has access – or who can get access.

He writes, again from Zero Hedge:

“And once the super surveillance state has intercepted and stored all that highly incriminating material, you never know if some decent human being, some genuine patriot, from within the security services is going to feel compelled to turn whistleblower.”

The actual creator of the National Security Agency’s massive digital surveillance program, Mark Binney, who later turned whistleblower on the government’s spy activities, confirmed the leaker hailed not from Russia, but from within America’s own intelligence services.

“Murray confirmed … by email that Binney was ‘on the mark,’” Zero Hedge reported. “In other words, Russia did not hack the Democratic party emails. Instead, an American intelligence whistleblower leaked them.”