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An analyst on our air earlier today asserted that Julian Assange was a pedophile, and regrets saying it. In fact, CNN has no evidence to support that assertion. Assange is currently wanted for extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations there, and no evidence suggests that the women involved were minors. We regret the error.

McAfee explained to RT that the 29 December report is based on four so-called pillars: a Russian language was found in the malware allegedly used to hack DNC server, a Russian keyboard was used to penetrate US systems, the malicious code was compiled at a time that corresponded with business hours in Moscow and the IP addresses were Russian.

"If the CIA wanted to hack Russia, the things you would not do is: you would not include the English language in your software...you would certainly remove the date and time stamp from the program...and number four, you would absolutely not have an IP address that points to you," the security specialist explained, speaking hypothetically.

"And here is why it cannot possibly be an organized nation-state: because the hack on the DNC used a piece of malware a year and a half old and there have been many updates since then," McAfee said. "This was done by an independent one person kid that downloaded the software... Please, this is not an organized hack and certainly not a nation-state that did this."

Robert M. Lee, the CEO and Founder of the critical infrastructure cybersecurity company Dragos, produced a large detailed critique of the initial Grizzly Steppe report. In particular, security specialist questions the list on page 4 of the report which has a table titled 'Reported Russian Military and Civilian Intelligence Services (RIS)'.

"The list of reported RIS names includes relevant and specific names such as campaign names, more general and often unrelated malware family names, and extremely broad and non-descriptive classification of capabilities," Lee explained after examining the 13-page report.

"It was a mixing of data types that didn't meet any objective in the report and only added confusion as to whether the DHS/FBI knows what they are doing or if they are instead just telling teams in the government 'contribute anything you have that has been affiliated with Russian activity," he added in his in-depth explanation.

William Binney, an NSA security expert for 36 years, also questioned the US intelligence community's rhetoric.

"With respect to the alleged interference by Russia and WikiLeaks in the US election, it is a major mystery why US intelligence feels it must rely on 'circumstantial evidence,' when it has NSA's vacuum cleaner sucking up hard evidence galore," Binney said in Thursday's op-edge in the Baltimore Sun. "What we know of NSA's capabilities shows that the email disclosures were from leaking, not hacking."

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