{"id":36476,"date":"2024-09-26T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=36476"},"modified":"2024-09-26T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:42:17","slug":"read-the-jd-vance-dossier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/read-the-jd-vance-dossier\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the JD Vance Dossier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re publishing the supposed Iran-hacked document. Here\u2019s why.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

KEN KLIPPENSTEIN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEP 26, 2024 (kenklippenstein.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Behold the dossier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reportedly comes from an alleged Iranian government hack of the Trump campaign, and since June, the news media has been sitting on it (and other documents), declining to publish in fear of finding itself at odds with the government\u2019s campaign against \u201cforeign malign influence.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I disagree. The dossier has been offered to me and I\u2019ve decided to publish it because it\u2019s of keen public interest in an election season. It\u2019s a 271-page research paper the Trump campaign prepared to vet now vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. As far as I can tell, it hasn\u2019t been altered, but even if it was, its contents are publicly verifiable. I\u2019ll let it speak for itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe terror regime in Iran loves the weakness and stupidity of Kamala Harris, and is terrified of the strength and resolve of President Donald J. Trump,\u201d Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign, responded when I asked him about the hack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the document had been hacked by some \u201canonymous\u201d like hacker group, the news media would be all over it. I\u2019m just not a believer of the news media as an arm of the government, doing its work combatting foreign influence. Nor should it be a gatekeeper of what the public should know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JD Vance Research Dossier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.43MB \u2219 PDF file<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On August 19, the U.S. intelligence community issued a statement on Iranian election interference, including cyber operations attempting to gain sensitive information. \u201cThis includes the recently reported activities to compromise former President Trump\u2019s campaign, which the IC [intelligence community] attributes to Iran.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 18, the intelligence community issued another statement<\/a> going into further detail about Iran\u2019s efforts. \u201cIranian malicious cyber actors\u201d were still undertaking efforts since June, the press release says, \u201cto send stolen, non-public material associated with former President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign to U.S. media organizations.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intelligence community would not confirm to me whether the stolen campaign materials included the Vance Dossier. \u201cWe don\u2019t have anything beyond what\u2019s noted in the September 18 joint statement,\u201d Lauren Frost, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told me this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRobert\u201d offered the document to me in an email from an AOL address. That\u2019s the same moniker used by the individual that reportedly provided other internal campaign materials to news media outlets. When I pressed \u201cRobert\u201d on their motives behind releasing the documents and their provenance, his reply was coarse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter. Let the media and the authorities go ahead with their own guesses and bullshits [sic]. I just want to shine some light into the dark room.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The room isn\u2019t very dark. In fact, I\u2019ve argued that while Iran, Russia, and China are attempting to stoke chaos in an already chaotic American political scene, there\u2019s no evidence that any of these often harebrained efforts<\/a> could actually swing an election outcome. These are the same \u201cactive measures\u201d that have been undertaken since the Cold War. The United States does it as well. For the intelligence community and the FBI, it is a cat and mouse game to catch the other guys. But for the American people and the 2024 elections, it is unremarkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a report<\/a> saying that \u201cthe IC has observed Tehran working to influence the presidential election, probably because Iranian leaders want to avoid an outcome they perceive would increase tensions with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But tensions between Iran and the United States are already at a fever pitch and likely to remain so, regardless of who is elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the Steele Dossier of 2016, with its golden showers and anti-Trump fanfiction. Unlike the Steele Dossier, which was both fraudulent and discredited, the Vance Dossier is factual and intelligently written. No Jason Bourne style capers appear, and there\u2019s no sleaze. Instead, the Vance Dossier enumerates pretty reasonable liabilities as a then-contender for VP nominee, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n