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Someone Has Officially Called the CIA’s Bluff Over Russia
Submited by Alice Salles via TheAntiMedia.org,
The scapegoating of Russia is now so widespread, Dirty Wars author and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill took to The Intercept to call the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on its bluff.
In the article, “Obama Must Declassify Evidence Of Russian Hacking,” Scahill and Jon Schwartz called out U.S. intelligence agencies for their record of deceit, asserting that the American people are not going to simply “take their word for it.”
“U.S. intelligence agencies have repeatedly demonstrated that they regularly both lie and get things horribly wrong,” the article argues. But when it comes to the CIA’s case against Russia’s alleged interference with the latest U.S. presidential elections, it’s impossible to claim the hearsay is based on facts if evidence is not made available to support the agency’s claims.
Nevertheless, Scahill and Schwartz argue, it’s possible that Russia may have pulled some strings. But even if the Kremlin had its reasons and acted on them, America is the country with the long history of election meddling — not Russia.
Take Hillary Clinton’s comments on the Palestinian elections, for instance. A leaked audio recording from 2006 revealed then-senator Clinton advocated doing “something to determine who was going to win” in Palestine’s elections. And yet here she is, hoping to use the “Russia did it” talking point to give censorship a boost. The CIA has its own history of meddling in foreign elections.
In order to give Barack Obama’s administration that extra push to release any “proof” the CIA has that the 2016 U.S. elections were “rigged,” the Intercept’s duo encouraged feds or whistleblowers to use the publication’s secure drop link, where a “patriotic whistleblower” within the U.S. intelligence community may drop the leak that proves Russia is behind President-elect Donald Trump’s win. “[W]e will verify its legitimacy and publish it,” they added.
This response seems fitting. After all, assertions are not evidence, and major publications like the Washington Post have been basing their Russia-related reports using nothing but assumptions.
Using an anonymous source, for instance, the WaPo reported that “[U.S. intelligence] agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others.” But Reuters has since reported that “[the] overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election.” This means the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) “has not endorsed [the CIA’s] assessment because of a lack of conclusive evidence.”
Caitlin Johnstone put it best in an article for Newslogue:
“Believing something the CIA says is like trusting a meth addict with your car, and trusting the CIA when they’re working with the Washington Post is like trusting a meth addict with your car and leaving your kid in the back seat with the house keys and money for Taco Bell.”
Unless proof is produced either by the CIA or a whistleblower, partisan voices crying wolf in Washington and in the media will continue to run on empty, feeding their base with nothing but “fake news.” But wasn’t that what we were told to unite over so we could “fight” it effectively? Here’s your chance, Mr. President.
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In “War is a Racket”, Two-time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote: “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.”
Sound familiar? Why does US media blackout all mention of the competing plans for Syria? Russia wants to build a pipeline the US want’s to build a pipeline, get the picture? History repeats itself!
We know the CIA lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. We know the CIA lied about Iran/Contra. We know the CIA over turned governments around the globe. At this point no one believes them anymore. That’s the price of being a liar!
The CIA Says They Did NOT TELL The WASHINGTON POST That “Russia Hacked Election In Favor Of Trump”!
http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-cia-says-they-did-not-tell-the-washington-post-that-russia-hacked-election-in-favor-of-trump/
The CIA is so corrupt the entire building should be entombed in cement along with the agents who are mostly Reptilian clones. I mean GOD DAMMIT, how much can we take from these bastards.
jdp….NO, THE CIA CAN’T DISCLOSE THEIR SOURCES OR THE INFORMATION ITS ABOVE TOP SECRET, NOT EVEN CONGRESS NOR THE PRESIDENT ARE CLEARED TO SEE THE EVIDENCE BUT TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT WE NEED A NEW ELECTION. THE TWIN TOWERS FELL BY SABOTEURS. EVEN BUILDING 7 AND A FEW BLOCKS AROUND CARS BUSES WERE ALL BURNED AND DESTROYED. BUT IT WAS THE WMD GUYS IN IRAQ. ONLY THE TRUTH BE TOLD AND IT WON’T BE BY THE CORRUPT CIA,OR HDS, NSA.
jdp… what do we do to the Agency that lies about Russia hacking? have Trump close them down, put their leaders in jail and every one else [MSM, DEMS AND REPS ]involved pushing the narrative of the hacking without proof.
JDP…RUSSIAN HACKING, YES WE GOT THE PROOF ITS IN THE TYPE WRITER WAITING A SIGNATURE.
BIN, please stop Obama’s video at the bottom of every page. I turn him off in less than one second!!!!!