Washington, D.C. – A damning new technical analysis reveals that files stolen from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the 2016 election cycle were most likely downloaded to a USB drive by someone with physical access to a computer connected to the DNC network. The analysis refutes the official narrative of the files being hacked remotely by the Russians – as popularized by the U.S. corporate media, without any actual evidence ever publicly presented.

The alleged DNC hacker, Guccifer 2.0, in an interview with Motherboard in June 2016, claimed he used a zero-day exploit to bypass security on the DNC servers and steal files, which he subsequently published under the title "NGP-VAN."

While the DNC leak was quickly attributed to the Russian hackers by U.S. intelligence agencies, a document published by an individual going by the name Forensicator reveals how the 7-zip file published by Guccifer 2.0 was transferred at a speed of 23 MB/s, making it "unlikely that this initial data transfer could have been done remotely over the Internet."

"The initial copying activity was likely done from a computer system that had direct access to the data," the report from the Forensicator stated. "By 'direct access' we mean that the individual who was collecting the data either had physical access to the computer where the data was stored, or the data was copied over a local high speed network (LAN)."