Counterpunch has the article What the Media isn’t Telling You About North Korea’s Missile Tests.

“Prior to President Trump’s inauguration, North Korea made it clear it was prepared to give the new U.S. administration time to review the policy and come up with something better than President Obama’s. The only wrinkle was that if the U.S. went full-steam ahead with its annual joint exercises with South Korea (especially if that were accompanied by more talk of “decapitation” and more flights of strategic bombers over the Korean peninsula), the North would react strongly.

In short, the U.S. did, and the North reacted.

Behind-the-scenes contacts went up and down, but couldn’t get traction. In April, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un paraded new missiles as a warning, to no effect. The regime launched the new systems, one after another. Still, Washington’s approach didn’t change.” (Analysis: Pyongyang’s view of the North Korea-U.S. crisis”, CBS News)

I already knew the gist of this story, but it adds a lot of details that I had not been following. Our esteemed Senator Ed Markey just keeps piling on fuel to this fire without a hint that this is going on in the background.

The Nation has the article A Leak or a Hack? A Forum on the VIPS Memo with dateline September 1, 2017.

Data-transfer speeds across networks and the Internet measured in megabits per second (or megabytes per second) can easily achieve rates that greatly exceed the cited reference in the VIPS memo of 1,976 megabytes in 87 seconds (∼22.71 megabytes per second or ∼181.7 megabits per second), and well beyond 50 megabytes, depending on the capacity of the network and the method of access to that network. Speeds across the network vary greatly, and sustained write speeds copied out to local devices are often quite a bit slower.

This criticism is amazingly similar to the analysis that I published on July 24, 2017 based on my own independent analysis of the VIPS report. See Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence.

I must admit that I did not read all of The Nation’s article – TL;DR – or Too long; Didn’t read. However, no matter what is the truth about this story, my point has always been that I think it is a mistake to publish an article that makes claims that you can’t really support. Claims like this destroy the author’s credibility even if the gist of the article is correct.

In a subsequent post, I talk about more information has come to light on the VIPS memo. This puts to rest my critique of the memo that I have made here.

Evidence shows DNC emails downloaded locally – NSA whistleblower.