CIA operaties van stiekem naar openheid in handelen: het is hier wat betreft de AIVD nog erger

Caitlin Johnstone publiceerde gisteren een artikel waarin ze aangeeft dat de CIA in tegenstelling tot eerder handelen, openlijk vertelt wat het aan (illegale) acties uitvoert. Zoals de CIA een paar jaar geleden bekend maakte dat het al jaren bezig is om acties op poten te zetten in Iran en daar uiteraard wapens levert aan gewelddadige oppositiegroepen en deze traint, al werd dat er nog net niet bij verteld, is dat standaard als de CIA de boel destabiliseert….. 

Caitlin begint haar artikel door eerst te wijzen op een relatie die ze had met een sociopaat (een psychopaat die goed is in het manipuleren van mensen*) die haar zelfs verkrachtte en naarmate de relatie langer duurde dit openlijk toegaf aan zijn vrienden, waarbij hij aangaf dat zij het wel goed vond……

Hoe langer die vreselijke situatie voortduurde, hoe meer Caitlin zich onderworpen voelde aan deze ploert die openlijk liep op te scheppen over wat hij voor elkaar had gekregen en dit als een soort van kunst propageerde……  

Caitlin vergelijkt dit met het handelen van de CIA: in vroeger jaren infiltreerde de CIA in mediaorganen, maar tegenwoordig heeft de CIA een scala aan oud-medewerkers die worden aangesteld bij deze organen en daar openlijk de mening van het publiek manipuleren met het enorme aantal leugens dat de CIA in de loop van de jaren bij elkaar heeft bedacht…….

Het is hier gelukkig nog niet zover, althans dat dacht ik in eerste instantie, echter even de grijze massa aan het werk zetten en ik kan niet naders dan zeggen dat het hier nog erger is dan in de VS…… Zo worden bijvoorbeeld op de nationale radio zenders (Radio1 en 2 plus BNR) AIVD en MIVD woordvoerders met grote regelmaat uitgenodigd, die in de meeste gevallen met leugens, valse angstzaaierij en demonisering het luisterpubliek manipuleren……** En nee, de AIVD en MIVD behoeven hier niet eens te infiltreren in de media, met grote graagte worden ze uitgenodigd en de reguliere media slikken hun woorden als zoete koek, om deze vervolgens uit te venten op hun zenders als zijnde de waarheid, zonder ook maar de vraag te stellen of wat ze uitventen wel klopt met de waarheid…… Sterker nog: er wordt zelfs geen kritische vraag gesteld als zo’n flapdrol fantast in de studio zit….. Nee, het zijn de AIVD en MIVD dus moet het wel waar zijn, ook al kunnen woordvoerders in heel veel zaken niet bewijzen wat er wordt gezegd, waarvoor men de dooddoener gebruikt als zou men met bewijsvoering mensenlevens in gevaar brengen…..

Het kan nog veel gekker in dit land: de commissie stiekem van de Tweede Kamer, waar zaken die het daglicht niet kunnen verdragen aan een aantal vertegenwoordigers van de politieke partijen worden geopenbaard…… Deze vertegenwoordigers hebben beloofd dat ze niets zullen openbaren van wat ze hebben gehoord en mochten ze dat toch doen lopen ze de kans strafrechtelijk te worden vervolgd…… Het gaat daar bijvoorbeeld om geheime militaire operaties waarbij men mensen vermoordt……. Het voorgaande in een zogenaamde democratie anno 2021, wat eens te meer aangeeft dat we niet kunnen spreken van een werkelijke democratie, immers daar moet het volk alles kunnen controleren van wat de overheden wel en niet doen en dat is hier ten enenmale onmogelijk…… 

Zo bezien is de situatie hier nog een stuk slechter dan die in de VS, zoals hieronder beschreven door Caitlin, waarin ze terecht een Twitterbericht aanhaalt van Ben Norton, die op zijn beurt een zo’n bericht van Eliot Higgins aanhaalt waarin deze erop wijst dat het zo door de politiek en reguliere media (en daarmee door het grootste deel van het publiek) zo geprezen Bellingcat***, een lobbyorganisatie is voor de NAVO (en de wapenindustrie) die erop gericht is vijanden van het westen te demoniseren >> Bellingcat een organisatie die wordt betaald door Washington…… (hiermee wordt nogmaals aangetoond dat de reguliere westerse media in feite niets meer van doen hebben met onafhankelijkheid…..)

So Much Of What The CIA Used To Do Covertly It Now Does Overtly

by Caitlin Johnstone


Listen to a reading of this article:

In
the later years of an abusive relationship I was in, my abuser had
become so confident in how mentally caged he had me that he’d start
overtly telling me what he is and what he was doing. He flat-out told me
he was a sociopath and a manipulator, trusting that I was so submitted
to his will by that point that I’d gaslight myself into reframing those
statements in a sympathetic light. Toward the end one time he told me “I
am going to rape you,” and then he did, and then he talked about it to
some friends trusting that I’d run perception management on it for him.

The
better he got at psychologically twisting me up in knots and the more
submitted I became, the more open he’d be about it. He seemed to enjoy
doing this, taking a kind of exhibitionistic delight in showing off his
accomplishments at crushing me as a person, both to others and to me.
Like it was his art, and he wanted it to have an audience to appreciate
it.

I was reminded of this while watching a recent Fox News appearance by Glenn Greenwald where he made an observation we’ve discussed here previously
about the way the CIA used to have to infiltrate the media, but now
just openly has US intelligence veterans in mainstream media punditry
positions managing public perception.

“If
you go and Google, and I hope your viewers do, Operation Mockingbird,
what you will find is that during the Cold War these agencies used to
plot how to clandestinely manipulate the news media to disseminate
propaganda to the American population,” Greenwald said.
“They used to try to do it secretly. They don’t even do it secretly
anymore. They don’t need Operation Mockingbird. They literally put John
Brennan who works for NBC and James Clapper who works for CNN and tons
of FBI agents right on the payroll of these news organizations. They now
shape the news openly to manipulate and to deceive the American
population.”

In 1977 Carl Bernstein published an article titled “The CIA and the Media” reporting that the CIA had covertly infiltrated America’s most influential news outlets and had over 400 reporters who it considered assets in a program known as Operation Mockingbird.
It was a major scandal, and rightly so. The news media are meant to
report truthfully about what happens in the world, not manipulate public
perception to suit the agendas of spooks and warmongers.

Nowadays
the CIA collaboration happens right out in the open, and the public is
too brainwashed and gaslit to even recognize this as scandalous.
Immensely influential outlets like The New York Times uncritically pass on CIA disinfo which is then spun as fact by cable news pundits. The sole owner of The Washington Post is a CIA contractor,
and WaPo has never once disclosed this conflict of interest when
reporting on US intelligence agencies per standard journalistic
protocol. Mass media outlets now openly employ intelligence agency veterans like John
Brennan, James Clapper, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Hayden, Frank
Figliuzzi, Fran Townsend, Stephen Hall, Samantha Vinograd, Andrew
McCabe, Josh Campbell, Asha Rangappa, Phil Mudd, James Gagliano, Jeremy
Bash, Susan Hennessey, Ned Price and Rick Francona, as are known CIA assets like NBC’s Ken Dilanian, as are CIA interns like Anderson Cooper and CIA applicants like Tucker Carlson.

They’re just rubbing it in our faces now. Like they’re showing off.

 


Ben Norton



@BenjaminNorton

Bellingcat got funding from the US gov-funded NED. It acts like an unofficial NATO propagandist, obsessively focusing on Western enemies.

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And
that’s just the media. We also see this flaunting behavior exhibited in
the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a
propaganda operation geared at sabotaging foreign governments not
aligned with the US which according to its own founding officials was
set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The late author
and commentator William Blum makes this clear:

[I]n
1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to “support
democratic institutions throughout the world through private,
nongovernmental efforts”. Notice the “nongovernmental” – part of the
image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny of its
funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in
the financial statement in each issue of its annual report. NED likes to
refer to itself as an NGO (Non-governmental organization) because this
helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US
government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a
GO.

“We
should not have to do this kind of work covertly,” said Carl Gershman
in 1986, while he was president of the Endowment. “It would be terrible
for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the
C.I.A. We saw that in the 60’s, and that’s why it has been discontinued.
We have not had the capability of doing this, and that’s why the
endowment was created.”

And
Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED,
declared in 1991: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years
ago by the CIA.”

In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED.

We
see NED’s fingerprints all over pretty much any situation where the
western power alliance needs to manage public perception about a
CIA-targeted government, from Russia to Hong Kong to Xinjiang to the imperial propaganda operation known as Bellingcat.


Caitlin Johnstone 


@caitoz

“The U.S. had financed some of the protester groups through the CIA aligned National Endowment for Democracy and the Open Technology Fund. If the U.S. wants to continue instigating unrest in Hong Kong it must now move those programs to the CIA and distribute the money secretly.” https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1278392633602310148 


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@MoonofA

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To further & human dignity for all people in China, the National Endowment for Democracy has funded Uyghur groups since 2004. https://www.ned.org/uyghur-human-rights-policy-act-builds-on-work-of-ned-grantees/ 

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Hell, intelligence insiders are just openly running for office now. In an article titled “The CIA Democrats in the 2020 elections“,
World Socialist Website documented the many veterans of the US
intelligence cartel who ran in elections across America in 2018 and
2020:

“In
the course of the 2018 elections, a large group of former
military-intelligence operatives entered capitalist politics as
candidates seeking the Democratic Party nomination in 50 congressional
seats—nearly half the seats where the Democrats were targeting
Republican incumbents or open seats created by Republican
retirements. Some 30 of these candidates won primary contests and became
the Democratic candidates in the November 2018 election, and 11 of them
won the general election, more than one quarter of the 40 previously
Republican-held seats captured by the Democrats as they took control of
the House of Representatives. In 2020, the intervention of the CIA
Democrats continues on what is arguably an equally significant scale.”

So
they’re just getting more and more brazen the more confident they feel
about how propaganda-addled and submissive the population has become.
They’re laying more and more of their cards on the table. Soon the CIA
will just be openly selling narcotics door to door like Girl Scout
cookies.

Or maybe not. I said my ex got more and more overt about his abuses in the later years of our relationship because those were
the later years. I did eventually expand my own consciousness of my own
inner workings enough to clear the fears and unexamined beliefs I had
that he was using as hooks to manipulate me.  Maybe, as humanity’s
consciousness continues to expand, the same will happen for the people and their abusive relationship with the CIA.

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*   Een sociopaat is simpel gezegd in feite een (gewelddadige) psychopaat die goed is in het manipuleren van anderen. Volgens DSM-IV is er maar een beperkt aantal mensen die aan deze stoornis lijdt, dit is om het zachtjes te zeggen niet waar >> een groot aantal mensen lijdt aan deze stoornis, zie het merendeel: -van de (grote) ondernemers, -van de ‘boeren’ (beter: dierenbeulen) in de intensieve veehouderij, -van de super welgestelden en -van de politici…….. Figuren die alles in het werk stellen om ergens zoveel mogelijk geld uit te peuren, dan wel meer macht te verwerven, zonder dat ze er ook maar één seconde om malen wat dit betekent voor anderen, voor dieren dan wel voor het voortbestaan van de wereld en daarmee van de mensheid in haar geheel (terwijl ze veelal zelf kinderen en kleinkinderen hebben….)…..

**  Ik neem aan dat het in de praatprogramma’s op tv niet anders is, maar dat soort programma’s volg ik al jaren niet meer >> slecht voor m’n bloeddruk (en wat betreft mijn reacties op e.e.a.: uitermate slecht voor de tv).

*** Bellingcat hier ook door media en politiek geprezen vanwege het verrichten van onzin-onderzoekswerk tbv rampvlucht MH17……. Als ik me niet vergis wordt dit onderzoek zelfs gebruikt in de rechtszaak tegen de zogenaamde daders……

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Zie ook: ‘Akerboom (chef AIVD) waarschuwt voor Corona-extremisme op straat en de sociale media, ofwel graag meer bevoegdheden, geld en censuur

Voltallige top van de
Strijdkrachten dient per direct ontslagen te worden, ze hebben zich
niet met angst- en haatzaaierij tot het volk te richten
‘ (hetzelfde wat de AIVD en MIVD doen) (en zie de links in dat bericht) 

Psst.nl, oplichters uit het leger die het volk proberen op te jutten meer geld voor Defensie te eisen‘ (!!!!)

AIVD en MIVD zouden per direct moeten worden aangeklaagd wegens onbetrouwbaarheid en misdadig angstzaaien!!

Plasterk verantwoordelijk: AIVD en MIVD worden slecht gecontroleerd, zo blijkt uit onderzoek……. Van Raak heeft medelijden met de minister…. OEI!!

Recourt over afluisterschandaal: “We moeten niet met de waan van de dag meegaan”

CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen…………

Commissie Stiekem lekkage, wat een gezeur, terwijl de democratie geweld wordt aangedaan……

Ondemocratisch instituut Commissie Stiekem wordt nog ontoegankelijker……

Zijlstra
laat klokkenluider vervolgen, ziedaar ‘de geweldige zorg’ van uw
regering, voor mensen die misdadig gedrag aan de kaak willen
stellen…….

CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz……… 

Bellingcat wordt betaald door de VS overheid ha! ha! ha! ha!‘ (het zo door politiek en media geprezen zogenaamd onafhankelijke lobbyorgaan voor de NAVO en haatzaai platform tegen o.a. Rusland)

‘VS ‘ministerie van propaganda’ had supervisie over meer dan 800 films en minstens duizend tv series……..

Iran: moderne oorlogspropaganda ingezet door VS tegen ‘ongehoorzaam land…

VS
en GB brengen propaganda die moet verdoezelen wat er echt gebeurt in
Syrië…….. Door VS gebombardeerde ‘gifgasfabriek’ niet bestaand….

Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..

Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence 

CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘ (zie ook de andere links onder dat bericht)

CIA
chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle
mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….



Massamedia VS vergeven van CIA ‘veteranen’, alsof die media nog niet genoeg ‘fake news’ ofwel leugens brengen……..

Russiagate was een middel om de Koude Oorlog tegen Rusland te doen herleven

Caitlin Johnstone heeft een opzienbarende analyse gemaakt over Russiagate die
een ander licht werpt op deze zaak: het was geen couppoging tegen
Trump, zoals o.a. Sean Davis van The Federalist concludeerde, waar hij
stelde dat de directeur van de CIA, hare bloedige kwaadaardigheid Gina Haspel,
persoonlijk de poging heeft geblokkeerd om documenten vrij te geven
die e.e.a. zouden aantonen.

Volgens
Johnstone maakt het niet uit of Davis met zijn bewering wel of geen
gelijk heeft, maar dat het wel interessant is te zien dat Haspel
flink haar best heeft gedaan om Trump te bewegen de Koude Oorlog
tegen Rusland te doen herleven en dat zij één van de architecten is
van de hernieuwde Koude Oorlog (2.0) tegen Rusland, iets dat je
overigens de hardliners van de Demoncraten uh Democraten ook kan verwijten, vergeet
niet dat deze figuren in de zak zitten van wapenfabrikanten in de
breedste zin van het woord….. (het hoeft geen betoog dat een flink
aantal Republikeinen volkomen achter deze Koude Oorlog 2.0 staat,
Republikeinen die Russiagate als een couppoging tegen Trump
zagen en zien) Het is duidelijk dat Russiagate ervoor heeft gezorgd dat deze
Koude Oorlog inderdaad opnieuw is opgetuigd….

Volgens
Johnstone is Russiagate een ‘PSYOP’ (psychologische operatie) van het
geheime diensten kartel in de VS dat meer dan 25 geheime diensten
(‘inlichtingen diensten’) telt, onderdeel van Deep State, niet om
Trump uit het Witte Huis te krijgen, maar volkomen gericht tegen
Rusland…..

Niet
Trump werd het coup-slachtoffer van Russiagate*, nee Russiagate heeft
de nieuwe Koude Oorlog opgetuigd door het mogelijk maken van een hele
berg aan (loze) beschuldigingen tegen Rusland, aldus Johnstone en
gezien de gang van zaken kan ik niet anders dan haar gelijk
geven…..

Niet
alleen Rusland is de kwaaie pier, intussen worden ook China en Iran al een paar maanden lang
aangemerkt als manipulatoren van de presidentsverkiezingen in de VS,
het gaat zelfs zover dat men nu al zegt dat wanneer Trump wint,
Rusland aan het langste eind heeft getrokken, terwijl Iran en China de
grote winnaar zullen zijn als Joe Biden wint……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Zo doorzichtig dat je je werkelijk afvraagt welke hersenloze idioten van de reguliere westerse (massa-) media deze onzin nog geloven (maar men brengt deze onzin met grote graagte in die media…..)…..

De
reguliere westerse (massa-) media doen dan ook voor bijna 100% mee aan deze
hysterie van ‘kwaadaardige inmenging’ en zo kunnen de westerse bevolkingen bijna dag in
dag uit worden gehersenspoeld met dergelijke baarlijke nonsens……. (vergeet niet dat deze media en het grootste deel van de westerse poltici het lullige Russiagate sprookje ‘nog steeds geloven’ en uitdragen, ondanks dat deze leugen aan alle kanten is doorgeprikt)

Johnstone
stelt aan het eind van haar betoog terecht dat de geheime diensten in
de VS** degenen zijn die het meest hebben geprofiteerd
van Russiagate, terwijl zij deze leugen de wereld in hebben
geholpen…..

Lees
deze uitstekende analyse van Caitlin Johnstone en onthoud e.e.a. daar ook wij de komende
maanden weer heel wat gezeur over Russische inmenging in de Tweede
Kamerverkiezingen van maart komend jaar over ons heen zullen
krijgen, sterker nog de eerste claims daarover dateren alweer van een
paar maanden geleden….. In Nederland is het wel hare D666
boosaardigheid Ollongren die telkens weer met dergelijk claims komt
aanzetten, zonder ook maar één steekhoudend bewijs te kunnen
leveren, al is dat in geval van Russiagate overal het geval, veel
hysterie plus angst- en haatzaaierij resp. voor/tegen Rusland, zonder
enig bewijs daarvoor…..

All Russiagate Did Was Advance Pre-Existing Agenadas Of The Same Spy Agencies Who Started It

by Caitlin
Johnstone

Hare bloedige kwaadaardigheid Gina Haspel, directeur van terreurorganisatie CIA

One
of the many interesting stories that has gotten lost in the shuffle
over the controversy over the horrible Trump-Biden debate and the
president’s recent Covid-19 diagnosis is the recent 
allegation
by
The
Federalist
‘s
Sean Davis

that CIA director Gina Haspel has been personally blocking the
declassification of incriminating documents pertaining to the origins
of the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory known as Russiagate.

Davis’
claim may be true or false, but it’s worth earmarking for later
reference given that we already know Haspel
has
been actively persuading
 the
US president to roll out cold war escalations against Russia, and
given that we know the only real changes of consequence that have
come about as a result of Russiagate are changes which advanced the
longstanding agendas of the same intelligence agencies who started
it.

The
mainstream Democratic partisan narrative has been that investigations
into possible collusion between the Trump camp and Moscow were
designed to ascertain whether the US government had been co-opted at
its highest levels by a hostile foreign power, with countless human
clickbait pundits claiming earlier in Trump’s term that these
investigations would result in Trump being dragged out of the White
House in chains. The mainstream Republican partisan narrative has
been that the president was the target of a soft coup attempt by the
deep state using false allegations of Russian collusion in an attempt
to remove him from office for standing up to the deep state.

Like
most partisan narratives, these are both false.

It
is correct that the conspiratorial allegations of Vladimir Putin
secretly controlling the executive branch of the US government were
bogus. It is also correct that Russiagate was a psyop advanced by
forces in the US intelligence cartel who are sometimes collectively
referred to as a part of the “deep state”, though that term
has become largely meaningless in recent years due to Trumpists
twisting its meaning into “Democrats and anyone who doesn’t like
Trump”. But both Republicans and Democrats are mistaken in
believing that Russiagate had anything to do with removing Trump from
office.

Russiagate
was never a deep state operation targeting Trump; Russiagate has
always been a deep state operation targeting Russia. You may be sure
this is true because while Russiagate has not had any significant
negative effect on Trump, it has greased the wheels for the
escalation of
many
new cold war aggressions

against Russia.


Caitlin Johnstone 


@caitoz

Russiagate wasn’t an operation by the deep state against Trump, it was an operation by the deep state against Russia. That’s why it resulted in no negative outcomes for Trump, but did facilitate mountains of cold war escalations against Russia.https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/25-times-trump-has-been-dangerously-hawkish-on-russia-ada915b07f97 

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Anyone
who was informed and unbiased knew that the Mueller investigation
would never touch Trump (even as a newbie at the time I
correctly 
called
it back in 2017
),
and anyone who was capable of counting Senate seats knew impeachment
would result in acquittal.

As
far as Trump’s presidential career is concerned all Russiagate ever
accomplished was galvanizing his Republican base around the
completely
false notion

that he is fighting the establishment.

But
what has Russiagate accomplished in relation to Russia? The political
pressure it placed on Trump to act tough on Moscow and the Democratic
Party’s baseless insistence that this administration is controlled by
Putin have ensured that there is nothing but acceleration for a
world-threatening
new cold war

which has seen nuclear treaties abandoned, a much more aggressive
nuclear posture against Russia, weapons sent to Ukraine, many
sanctions on Russia, airstrikes on Russia’s ally Syria, sanctions on
Russia’s ally Venezuela, the Iran deal shredded against urging from
Moscow, NATO expansionism and increased military activity at Russia’s
borders.

These
aggressions were all planned years in advance.
Obama
initiated them
,
the
frighteningly anti-Russiahawk
Hillary Clinton was
scheduled
to continue and expand

them, and then when that fell through the Russiagate contingency was
rolled out to ensure the US intelligence cartel would get its
long-sought campaign to shove Russia off the world stage and thereby
hamstring
its ally China
.

A
dodgy
intelligence assessment

on 2016 Russian election meddling by a
few
operatives who were hand-selected

by
notorious
Russophobe

and
known
perjurer

James Clapper combined with a steady stream of bogus “leaks”
like the
notoriously
false Steele dossier
 to
form the foundation of Russiagate, and it all came from the same spy
agencies whose agendas benefitted from Russiagate.

Catherine Herridge



@CBS_Herridge
BREAKING: The primary sub-source for the Steele dossier was deemed a possible “national security threat” + the subject of 2009 FBI counter-intel probe. According to new records, those facts were known to Crossfire Hurricane team in December 2016. @LindseyGrahamSC

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Caitlin Johnstone 


@caitoz

Why were FBI agents talking about people “scrambling for info to support certain things” at a time US intelligence officers were putting together their report on Russian election interference? Pretty sure conclusions are supposed to come after investigations. https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1309244723488530432 



Aaron Maté



@aaronjmate  Replying to @aaronjmate     Trump was right. still not put together” — strong chance that’s a reference to this: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816452807024840704?s=20 

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The
question “
Who
benefits from this?

is essential for understanding the world, and if you ask it of
Russiagate there is one power structure which stands head and
shoulders above everyone else. Yes, the mass media got a major
ratings bump from Russiagate, which is why they played along with it.
Yes, the Democratic Party got to neuter the progressive movement and
distract from its 2016 scandals, which is why they played along with
it. But in terms of actual changes that were implemented as a direct
result of Russiagate, the ones who gained the most were the US
intelligence collective whose pre-existing agendas were advanced by
it.

Not
only were pre-existing agendas against Russia facilitated by
Russiagate, but pre-existing agendas against the American left were
facilitated as well. The burgeoning swell of progressive populism
galvanized by the 2016 Sanders campaign would have made a lot of
warmongers nervous, and the opaque government agencies which
consistently
ally
themselves with status quo-loyal plutocrats

have a vested interest in protecting the class with which they are
allied. The fact that all oxygen was sucked from the progressive
movement into baseless Russia conspiracy theories served the same
intelligence cartel which initiated Russiagate.

In
January of last year a former Assistant Director for the FBI (the
same FBI which wordlessly allowed the bogus Steele dossier to
circulate despite
knowing
its intelligence had been compromised
)
admitted
that his work with the FBI had included actively sabotaging leftist
politicians in the United States to keep them out of government. This
officer’s
entire
FBI career

took place after J Edgar Hoover’s death and after COINTELPRO had
officially been ended.


Andrew Lawrence


@ndrew_lawrence  Uhhhhhhh….Fmr FBI Assistant Director just said “When I first got into the FBI one of the missions of the FBI in its counterintelligence efforts was to try to keep” progressives out of government

Embedded video

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(voor de video in dit bericht zie het origineel)

So
that’s
two
longstanding agendas of US spy agencies that were advanced by
Russiagate, a psychological operation which was launched by those
same agencies.

And
that’s all you really need to know about Russiagate: that it was
started by the same spy agencies which directly benefited from it.
Unless you were born yesterday, this will tell you that we were
conned.

And
now we’re being told that the CIA director is forcefully obstructing
transparency into the creation of that operation, even as the same
Office of the Director of National Intelligence that James Clapper
headed is
promoting
the narrative

that Iran and China are seeking to influence the US election for
Biden while Russia is seeking to influence it for Trump.


Caitlin Johnstone 


@caitoz

US Intelligence: If Trump Wins Russia Did It, If Biden Wins It Was China And Iran 

“Lastly, the dumbest thing about believing foreign nations are interfering in American democracy is believing America has any democracy to interfere with.”https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/us-intelligence-if-trump-wins-russia-did-it-if-biden-wins-it-was-china-and-iran-2fde3d11e15d 

US Intelligence: If Trump Wins Russia Did It, If Biden Wins It Was China And Iran

Back in April I said “China’s gonna be so surprised when it finds out it interfered in the November election.” medium.com

1,091  

This
narrative that we are being primed for will enable these same spy
agencies to sell the story that at least one of the governments they
have targeted for sabotage can be accused of election interference
regardless of who wins.

And
the most depressing thing about it is that they already know they’ll
be able to sell it successfully, because nobody has learned anything
over the last four years despite the transparent scam of Russiagate.
Democrats will happily keep pushing Russia conspiracy theories if
Trump wins, and Republicans will cheerfully push conspiracy theories
about China and/or Iran after a Biden win. There’s no reason to
change strategies if it’s been immensely successful. If it ain’t
broke, don’t fix it.

Watch
them.

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| October 4, 2020 at 2:28 am | Tags:
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================================== 

* Wat de
Democraten van meet af aan wisten, immers de Senaat zou nooit akkoord
gaan met een impeachment van ‘hun’ president!!

**
Niet alleen dat: alle westerse geheime diensten hebben geprofiteerd
van de Russiagate hysterie >> ze wisten daardoor veel meer bevoegdheden en geld af te dwingen (middels angst- en haatzaaierij…)…… Niet voor niets ook dat die geheime diensten
voorafgaand aan verkiezingen waar dan ook in het westen (of wat wordt
gezien als westerse landen) telkens weer lopen te mekkeren over
Russische inmenging en manipulaties, alsof men niet in staat zou zijn
om dergelijke manipulaties tegen te gaan……

Democratische Conventie: niet één woord over Russiagate domweg omdat het een leugen is

Tijdens
de gehele Democratische Conventie van 17 t/m 20 augustus, viel
letterlijk niet één keer het woord ‘Russiagate’, terwijl de
Democraten het de laatste 4 jaar wel 1.000 keer werd uitgespuugd door
de hypocriete politici van die partij. Logisch dat men er nu maar mee
is gestopt, immers het is bewezen flauwekul en alleen door de partij
in stelling gebracht om Hillary Clinton uit de wind te houden, die op
een smerige manier de voorverkiezingen van de Democraten in 2016
heeft gewonnen, ofwel:
zij heeft destijds de voorverkiezingen gestolen ten koste van Bernie Sanders……

Een lid
van Clintons verkiezingsteam, Seth Rich was zo pissig over de
handelswijze van Clinton en de top van dat team, dat hij een enorme
stapel mails van Clinton doorspeelde naar Wikileaks…… Een paar weken later
werd Rich vermoord op straat gevonden, volgens de politie een
roofmoord, hoe vreemd dan dat er werkelijk niets was gestolen van
Rich, terwijl hij ook opzichtig dure sieraden droeg……. (bovendien waarom zou je iemand 2 maal in de rug schieten als je deze wilt ontdoen van diens kostbaarheden en geld??)

Nee,
i.p.v. een Russische agent, bleek Trump de figuur die een enorme
legermacht heeft samengetrokken langs delen van de Russische
westgrens, waarbij hij nu ook nog de beschikking heeft over een
raketschild ‘tegen Iran’ maar waarvan de raketten in een mum van tijd
kunnen worden voorzien van meerdere kernkoppen en dat op raketten die
tot 5.000 kilometer kunnen vliegen, waardoor steden als Moskou en
Sint-Petersburg vanaf de voordeur van Rusland kunnen worden geraakt met kernraketten…. 

Met dat schild heeft de Trump administratie het INF-verdrag
geschonden, iets waarvan de VS en haar oorlogshond NAVO Rusland volkomen ten onrechte
beschuldigden……. (Rusland zou nieuwe raketten hebben die volgens
de VS onder dat verdrag vallen, echter op meerdere uitnodigingen van
het Kremlin om te komen inspecteren ging de VS niet in, daar de
duivelse Trump administratie dondersgoed wist en weet dat Rusland de waarheid
sprak……)

Lees het
volgende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone die dieper op deze zaak
ingaat en onder andere de stelling van Max Blumenthal steunt dat Russiagate een manier was om Trump zo onder druk te zetten dat hij wapens leverde aan Oekraïne (ben het daar deels mee eens, zeker daar ook wordt gesteld dat Obama Oekraïne niet wilde bewapenen, terwijl zijn minister van BuZa Joe Biden dat land onder druk zette het strafrechtelijk onderzoek tegen zijn corrupte zoon te stoppen, daar men anders een levering van wapens uit de VS kon vergeten):   

Dem Convention Made No Mention Of Russiagate Or Impeachment, Because They Were Fake

Caitlin
Johnstone <donotreply@wordpress.com>

The
only interesting thing about either of the conventions held by
America’s two mainstream political parties this month was not
anything that was said by the interminable parade of vapid speakers,
but rather what those speakers did not say.

Despite
their dominating mainstream news cycles for years on end, at no time
during the four-day Democratic National Convention was the word
“impeachment” ever uttered, nor was any mention made of the
Mueller investigation into allegations of collusion between Trump and
the Russian government.

Politicoreports:

Eight
months after Democrats mounted a historic effort to remove Donald
Trump from office, not a single speaker uttered the word
“impeachment” during their four-day convention.

For
Democrats to completely omit impeachment from their convention was
once unthinkable. Democrats had mounted a case that Trump had abused
his power to blackmail Ukraine into investigating his political
adversaries, including Biden. And they made an existential argument
that without removing him from office, Trump’s behavior would get
worse and democracy itself would be at risk.

Special
counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s
ties to Russia — which Democrats once thought could topple Trump
for obstruction of justice — also went unmentioned, even as it was
a defining feature of Trump’s nearly four years in office.

  

At
DNC, “the word ‘impeachment’ [was] entirely left out over the
course of the 4-night event. Mueller’s investigation of the Trump
campaign’s ties to Russia… also went unmentioned, even as it was
a defining feature of Trump’s nearly 4 years in office.”
https://t.co/Dgt9WQ3LeApic.twitter.com/q8EvEthwZq

Aaron
Maté (@aaronjmate)
August
28, 2020

“The
fact that Democrats couldn’t bring themselves to even
mention
Russiagate or Ukrainegate (the first-ever sequel to a flop?) at their
convention should maybe hasten some reflection for those who made
these issues the ‘defining feature of Trump’s nearly four years in
office,'”
quipped
incisive Russiagate skeptic Aaron Maté of the omission on Twitter.

“Next
on Unsolved Mysteries: Democrats and media allies accused Donald
Trump of being a Russian agent for four years,” Maté
added.
“They chanted ‘All Roads Lead to Putin’ and ‘The Walls Are
Closing In.’ But at their political convention, they forgot all about
it. Did Russia give them amnesia?”

“I
personally feel like if the President of the US seeking re-election
is beholden to and controlled by an adversarial foreign power, the
opposition party should find a few seconds to squeeze in a mention of
it if, you know, it wasn’t utter bullshit,”
tweetedThe
Intercept
‘s
Glenn Greenwald.

And,
of course, it was utter bullshit. And that is indeed why the
Democrats saw no need to mention it at their own four-day convention
despite dominating news cycles with it for years. Russiagate and
Ukrainegate were never the cataclysmic scandals that the Democrats
and their allied media factions portrayed them as. They weren’t even
actually about getting rid of Trump.


Glenn Greenwald



@ggreenwald

In an extremely strange and confounding development, the Democrats *never once* mentioned what this NYT columnist calls “the biggest lie in American politics” at their Convention.

In fairness, they only had 4 full nights so maybe they couldn’t squeeze in any mention of it. https://twitter.com/michelleinbklyn/status/1295743070672162821 

View image on Twitter

Michelle Goldberg



@michelleinbklyn

The biggest lie in American politics, which you hear from parts of the left as well as the right, is that Russiagate hasn’t been borne out by investigators https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1295720689043939333 



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Anyone
with an ear to the ground knew that Russiagate would fizzle, and
anyone capable of counting Senate seats knew impeachment would fail
to remove Trump. The drivers of these attention-monopolizing
narratives knew this also.

If
there’d been any solid evidence to find that the Kremlin was
blackmailing Trump, or that his campaign had conspired with the
Russian government to steal the 2016 election, the US intelligence
community would have found some of it and leaked it to
The
Washington Post

long before Trump took office. The Russiagate narrative has been
completely dismantled from the very beginning by journalists like
the
late Robert Parry
,
and then Maté after Parry’s death. There was never any real
evidence for it, and the people pushing Russiagate from the beginning
knew there was never any real evidence for it.

All
you really need to know about Russiagate was that it was started by
unsubstantiated claims by the US intelligence community, and in the
end it facilitated pre-existing plans by the US intelligence
community. Everything else in between those two points is just
empty
narrative fluff
.

In
2017
Parry
documented

how the original assessment that Russia meddled in the US election in
the first place was put forward without proof by just a couple dozen
officers from three intelligence agencies hand-picked by the
notoriously
Russophobic

then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. 
Maté
has documented

that this allegation remains just as
suspicious
and porous

as the day it was first made. Despite having sweeping investigative
powers Mueller indicted not one single American for conspiracy with
the Russian government. The recent evidence-free Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence report
did
nothing to change
 the
flimsy nature of the entire Russiagate narrative.

So
the whole thing has been plainly bogus from the beginning, with the
foundation laid by secretive and unaccountable intelligence agencies
who have
an
extensive history of lying

about exactly this sort of thing. And it just so happens to have
paved the way for operations against a longtime geostrategic foe that
were being unfolded well before Trump’s arrival in 

the White House.

This
is an excerpt from
an
article

by legendary Australian journalist John Pilger from March 2016:

In
the last eighteen months, the greatest build-up of military forces
since World War Two — led by the United States — is taking place
along Russia’s western frontier.  Not since Hitler invaded the
Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat
to Russia.

Ukraine
– once part of the Soviet Union –  has become a CIA theme park.
Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a
regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with
Nazis, literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the
political descendants of the notorious OUN and UPA fascists. They
openly praise Hitler and call for the persecution and expulsion of
the Russian speaking minority.

This
is seldom news in the West, or it is inverted to suppress the truth.

In
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — next door to Russia – the US
military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons. This
extreme provocation of the world’s second nuclear power is met with
silence in the West.

This
was all happening during the Obama administration. But he was still
more doveish than the spooks and cold warriors who drive US foreign
policy would prefer, resisting for example loud calls from the
warmongers to
arm
Ukraine
 against
Moscow and
forcibly
install a no-fly zone

in Russia’s ally Syria.

The
heir apparent to Obama’s throne, Hillary Clinton, did not suffer from
such peacenik scruples. She’d already been
making
people on both sides of the aisle nervous

with her anti-Russia hawkishness, and supported both
arming
Ukraine

and
installing
a no-fly zone

in Syria.

So
these escalations were already underway, and more were being prepared
for.

Then
what happened? Somehow a political neophyte who’d been
talking
about making nice with Russia

got in instead.

We
suddenly found ourselves bombarded with narratives from the US
intelligence community and its mass media stenographers about Russian
election meddling and Trump playing some mysterious role in it. These
narratives were pushed with steadily increasing frequency and
shrillness, with the help of a humiliated Democratic Party that stood
everything to gain by participating, until those of us who expressed
any skepticism of them at all were being accused on a daily basis by
MSM-brainwashed dupes of running psyops for the Russian government.

We
were never at any time presented with any proof of these claims which
rose anywhere near the level required in a post-Iraq invasion world,
but we were hammered with them anyway, day in and day out, year after
year.

This
ended up putting a lot of political pressure on Trump to keep
existing sanctions and military tensions with Russia, and he
ended
up adding dozens more
 new
cold war escalations including further sanctions, shredded nuclear
treaties, NATO expansionism and more. He even
armed
Ukraine
 due
to these pressures, just like the anointed queen was scheduled to do.


Max Blumenthal



@MaxBlumenthal

For years, neocons and arms industry darlings like @RepAdamSchiff have sought to re-arm Ukraine and escalate the conflict in Donbas. By stirring up Russiagate, they finally got their deadly deal. My latest: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/russiagate-helped-secure-dangerous-arms-deal/ 

How ‘Russiagate’ Helped Secure a Dangerous Arms Deal Both
Barack Obama and Donald Trump resisted sending weapons to Ukraine. Then
the investigation into Trump-Russia collusion was launched.

truthdig.com



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The
cold warriors wanted their escalations, and they got them. From
beginning to the end, that’s all this was ever about. They pushed the
narratives, the media joined in because it was
great
for ratings
,
and the Democrats joined in because it took the focus off their
2016
scandals

and gave them a kayfabe phantom to punch instead of
pushing
for actual progressive changes
.

And
now the
slow
motion third world war

between the US-centralized power alliance and the loose collective of
unabsorbed governments is right on schedule, with Biden all set and
ready to carry the omnicidal torch forward. The 2016 scandals are
well enough forgotten, no progressive changes have been made, and
there is no need to talk about Russiagate or impeachment at the
Democratic National Convention.

Because
everyone already got what they wanted. Everyone except ordinary
people, of course.

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| August 29, 2020 at 2:54 am | Tags:
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Obamagate zal als Russiagate nooit tot een bevredigende conclusie leiden: Washington is één grote stinkende politieke put

Caitlin Johnstone heeft een artikel geschreven over Obamagate* en concludeert dat dit nooit tot iets van enig
belang zal leiden. Sinds 2016 beroepen beide partijen, de Democraten
zowel als de Republikeinen, die samen met het bedrijfsleven, de
financiële sector en de geheime diensten het land besturen, zich
erop dat de andere partij ieder moment kan vallen door een enorm
schandaal, terwijl beide partijen de beschuldigingen van de ander
afdoen als nonsens…..

Volgens de Democraten gebruikt Trump ‘Obamagate’ om daarmee de aandacht af te leiden van de enorme blunders van de Trump administraite op het Coronadossier…… Johnstone gelooft daar duidelijk niet in, terwijl er wel degelijk een vorm van waarheid inzit. 

Voor de
claim van de Democraten dat de Russen de servers van het Democratic National Committee (DNC) zouden hebben gehackt
(een onderdeel van Russiagate), is
geen schijn aan bewijs geleverd en toch blijft men daar volhouden dat
dit wel het geval was, e.e.a. gesteund door de reguliere westerse (massa-)
media, die in deze op de hand van de Democraten zijn……(en media van wie de spuugrijke eigenaren Rusland het liefst zoveel mogelijk gedemoniseerd willen zien…..)

Je zou
denken dat dit allemaal van weinig of geen belang is, echter het gaat
hier wel om de VS, het machtigste land ter wereld, met meer dan 800
militaire bases over de wereld, een land dat desgewenst morgen weer
een illegale oorlog kan beginnen op basis van leugens en false flag
operaties……** 

Als je
ziet hoe smerig men in de VS bezig is om elkaar de loef af te steken
en dat geheel in het openbaar, voedt dit de vrees dat de VS tot alles in
staat is***, zelfs het voeren van een zogenaamde beperkte kernoorlog (een contradictio in terminis, immers ieder gebruik van
kernwapens zal tot een wereldwijde kernoorlog leiden waarbij men elkaar
zal proberen te vernietigen en zal men de aarde
voor de mens en een enorm aantal diersoorten onbewoonbaar maken, althans als een aantal van deze mensen en dieren zo’n oorlog al kunnen overleven….)…. 

De ruzie tussen de Democraten en de
Republikeinen toont m.i. nog eens aan dat men zelfs lak heeft aan de
eigen bevolking, men liegt er keihard op los en hoopt zo de burgers
over te halen om in november op de kandidaat van hun keus te
stemmen…… Ofwel men heeft schijt aan de kiezer, liegt die 4 jaar
lang voor en doet er nog een schep bovenop als de verkiezingen in
aantocht zijn……

En toch
doet men alles om nog enigszins aan te tonen dat men ethisch en
moreel zuiver handelt, waarden die men ook gebruikt om aan te tonen
dat de VS weer een massamoord moet plegen om ‘democratie te brengen
en corruptie uit te bannen’ in het land van keuze (dat ofwel een
strategische ligging heeft, dan wel bodemschatten heeft die de VS
voor zich wil houden, neem Venezuela dat voor beide zaken
opgaat…..)

Why
“Obamagate” Will Never Lead To Anything Of Significance

by
Caitlin
Johnstone

The
word “Obamagate” was 
thrust
into mainstream attention

by the concerted
efforts
of Trump

and his surrogates after new details on the early days of the
Trump-Russia collusion investigation emerged. These details
include 
Obama
officials (including Joe Biden)

requesting the
unmasking
of a conversation between Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey
Kislyak, the FBI’s then-counterintelligence director
discussing
trying to get Michael Flynn to lie

during his
interrogation
about the Kislyak call
,
and the revelation that there was
never
any concrete evidence

that Russia hacked the DNC.

These
are important revelations that are worthy of mainstream attention,
but like basically everything else in this stupid, stupid timeline
this issue has instead been reduced to the stagnation of vapid
partisan squabbling. Democrats and their allied media are finger
wagging at Trump for using “conspiracy theories” to
distract from his coronavirus failures, and “MAGA”****
pundits once again beating the tired old drum that this scandal
is going to bring down major Deep State players and drain the swamp
once and for all.

Ever
since 2016 both of America’s mainstream political parties have been
taking turns screaming at the top of their lungs that
earth-shattering revelations are right around the corner which are
about to obliterate the other party any minute now, and if you’re
still buying into this show I highly recommend you also take up
watching WWE*****, because you’ll definitely love it.


Consortium News


@Consortiumnews

RAY McGOVERN: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC https://consortiumnews.com/2020/05/09/ray-mcgovern-new-house-documents-sow-further-doubt-that-russia-hacked-the-dnc/ 

RAY McGOVERN: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC  For
two and a half years the House Intelligence Committee knew CrowdStrike
didn’t have the goods on Russia. Now the public knows too. Twin Pillars
of Russiagate Crumble By Ray McGovern Special to… consortiumnews.com

33

“By
any normal standard, former FBI Director Comey would now be in
serious legal trouble, as should [former Director of National
Intelligence James] Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, et
al,” Ray McGovern
wrote
for 
Consortium
News

the other day. “Additional evidence of FBI misconduct under
Comey seems to surface every week — whether the abuses of FISA,
misconduct in the case against Gen. Michael Flynn, or misleading
everyone about Russian hacking of the DNC. If I were attorney
general, I would declare Comey a flight risk and take his passport.
And I would do the same with Clapper and Brennan.”

Indeed,
this would be the “normal standard”, yet it hasn’t
happened. Neither Comey nor Clapper nor Brennan are in any legal
trouble at all, nor will they be, nor will any other major player
responsible for leading America on a crazy collusion wild goose chase
which accomplished nothing but
distracting
from real issues

and manufacturing consent for
mountains
of cold war escalations

against Russia.

You
will never see Obama or his administration officials brought down by
“Obamagate” for the same reason Trump wasn’t brought down
by the Mueller investigation:
the
swamp protects its own
.
Both Obama and Trump administrations are packed full of crooks and
mass murderers who could and should be imprisoned for any number of
offenses, but they won’t be, because that would require a
prosecutorial body that is separate from the swamp of corruption with
which both of America’s mainstream parties are inexorably interwoven.
You cannot use the swamp to drain the swamp.

Do
you know why Trump never made good on his campaign platform of
locking up Hillary Clinton? Besides the fact that their entire
conflict has always been fake, I mean? The Trump administration could
easily have found grounds upon which to prosecute Clinton if they
wanted to, but going after a loyal establishment swamp monster would
have brought the wrath of the entire swamp down upon him. As soon as
he had a political opponent in office, if not before, Trump would
himself be facing criminal prosecution. By collaborating with the
swamp you ensure your own protection, and by attacking it you ensure
your destruction.


Aaron Maté



@aaronjmate

A fundamental point that many Russiagate-peddling left pundits — including fake “adversarial” voices like @mehdirhasan — cannot process in their minds, because doing so would threaten their club membership. Russiagate helps clarify where priorities really lie. https://twitter.com/MarkSaw43180398/status/1260285597173735424 


 

Mark Sawyer


@MarkSaw43180398

Replying to @aaronjmate and 2 others

Russiagate was obviously the way for the DNC to cosmetically attack Trump without pushing back against Trump policies. Russiagate sidelined pushbacks against the Trump tax cut, and a litany of other substantive issues… issues that DNC elites actually agreed with Trump about…

668

That’s
why no serious attempt has ever been made to remove Trump from
office; he’s
been
playing nice with existing power structures

without challenging them in any meaningful way. Everyone who knew
anything was aware that the Mueller collusion would never go
anywhere, and anyone who could count Senate seats knew impeachment
would fizzle. It was all kayfabe conflict so that Trump’s
“opposition” could present the appearance of opposition
without interfering in agendas they themselves support or prosecuting
crimes of which they themselves are also guilty.

It’s
also why Obama
never
had any intention

of prosecuting Bush’s heinous war crimes, citing “a belief
that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards”.
In reality Obama always understood that in order to play the
“president” role (and enjoy its
massive
perks

for the rest of his life), he’d need to collaborate with
establishment power structures rather than upsetting them. He knew
that if he were to go after Bush he’d ensure his own destruction;
under “normal standards” prosecution is the only sane and
normal response to war crimes, but in the Mutually Assured
Destruction (MAD) environment of establishment corruption, there are no
normal standards.

I
point this out because it’s painful to watch people on both sides
continually getting their hopes up that the big KABOOM is right
around the corner which will finally vindicate their worldview and
punish their partisan rivals. It will not happen. Trump will not
drain the swamp, and neither will Biden or whatever soulless swamp
monster inhabits the White House next. You were lied to. It’s good to
be aware of surveillance abuses, mass-scale psyops and media
malpractice, but definitely abandon hope that any of this will lead
to any major changes in the establishment itself.

If
we want real change, it cannot and will not come from either of the
two mainstream political factions whose primary job is preventing
real change. It’s going to have to come from the people; we’re going
to have to find a way to punch through the propaganda brainwashing,
wake up to reality, and use the power of our numbers to force the
changes which will benefit us past all the oligarchic safeguards that
have been placed in front of us to prevent us from doing so.

This
is a lot less pleasant than believing some magical hero in a white
hat is going to ride in and do all our work for us and all we need to
do is relax and “trust the plan”. It’s a lot less
comfortable than expunging the fake two-party worldview from our
minds which vast fortunes and years of conditioning have gone into
manufacturing. But it is reality.

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*     Obamagate is m.i. niets anders dan een andere
benaming voor Russiagate, een term die Trump eerder gebruikte nadat de Democraten hem beschuldigden van samenwerking met Rusland, waarvoor men geen steekhoudend bewijs kon leveren. Onlangs werd dit woord geherintroduceerd door Trump nadat Obama zich in het openbaar met zijn Coronabeleid bemoeide.

**    Een false flag operatie is het begaan van een zware misdaad en de schuld daarvoor in de
schoenen schuiven van een ander (veelal democratisch gekozen) bewind,
een bewind dat
men in de VS wil vervangen voor desnoods een dictator, zolang deze
maar doet wat de VS wil dat er gebeurt in dat land en die voorts
fungeert als een lakei die de belangen van de VS behartigt (bijvoorbeeld
grote VS bedrijven vrijbaan geven…)….

***   Dezelfde VS dat alleen deze eeuw al 4 illegale oorlogen is begonnen, waarbij tot nu toe meer dan 2,5 mensen zijn omgekomen, ofwel die zijn in feite vermoord door de VS en haar hielenlikkende andere NAVO-lidstaten, zoals Nederland, dat in Hawija 70 mensen vermoordde middels een bombardement, waar volgens deskundigen het werkelijke aantal doden veel hoger moet liggen…… Schande dat hare CDA hufterigheid Bijleveld al stumperend een moetie van wantrouwen overleefde, terwijl zij alleen op basis van deze aanval de eer aan zichzelf had moeten houden, maar ja, het woord ‘eer’ komt in de meeste woordenboeken van politici al lang niet meer voor…..

****  WWE: World Wrestling Entertainment, je weet wel van die belachelijke worstel vertoningen, waarvan velen denken dat de aanvallen op elkaar echt gebeuren…..

***** MAGA: Make America Great Again.

Horowitz rapport vernietigend voor FBI en CIA bemoeienissen met opzetten ‘Russiagate’

Ongelofelijk
weer, het Horowitz rapport waar in te lezen is hoe men door zaken te
verdraaien, Trump probeerde te laten vallen over contacten met de
Russen….. (hoewel die psychopathische fascist wat mij betreft morgen in rook mag opgaan) De
campagne adviseur van Trump, Carter Page, werd bij de FBI door de CIA
meermaals aangewezen als een CIA informant die door de CIA werd
opgedragen om Russen te onderzoeken. Ondanks dat had de FBI het gore
lef te stellen dat Page had samengespannen (in feite tegen de VS) met de
Russen……

De FBI ging zelfs zover om bij de Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) rechtbank
meermaals te zeggen dat Page had samengespannen met de Russen……..
Een FBI advocaat met lange ervaring veranderde zelfs een email
waarin stond te lezen dat Page voor de CIA werkte, door het woord ‘niet’
toe te voegen, dus dat hij niet voor de CIA werkte…..

Lees
het volgende artikel en zegt het voort, de reguliere media, die een
paar jaar lang de bek vol hadden over ‘Russiagate’ besteden amper of
geen aandacht aan het Horowitz rapport….. Ergens ook wel logisch,
immers men zal daarmee voor de zoveelste keer alle kul, fake news en
manipulaties moeten toegeven op de eigen internet platforms, in kranten, week- en maandbladen, en op radio en tv….. Tja dat doen deze media niet graag,
die wijzen liever naar Rusland en de alternatieve (echte) media als brengers van fake news en de schuldigen die de westerse bevolkingen
 manipuleren met andere desinformatie……

Onder het artikel een link naar een bericht dat vandaag werd gepubliceerd op Information Clearing House (ICH), een bericht over hetzelfde onderwerp dat nog wat dieper op de zaak ingaat.

5
Bombshells in the Horowitz Report

by George
Washington

Wed,
12/11/2019 – 16:23

The
Dinosaur Media is 
still not
reporting the bombshells contained in the Horowitz report:

(1)
FBI officials were 
repeatedly informed
by the CIA that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had worked as
CIA asset.
Specifically, Page was tasked by the CIA to investigate Russians.

Yet
the FBI repeatedly told the FISA court that Page was conspiring with
Russians … i.e. the Russians the CIA had tasked Page to speak with.


And
a senior FBI lawyer – who Horowitz notes was “the primary FBI
attorney assigned to [the bogus Trump-Russia] investigation in early
2017” – 
changed
an email which the CIA sent the FBI
 saying
that Carter Page 
did work
for the CIA to instead say that Page did 
not work
for the CIA.


(2)
The government started spying on Carter Page and George
Papadopoulos 
before they
joined the Trump campaign … and 
after.

Why
did they start spying on Papadopoulos 
before he
joined the Trump campaign?

Well,
before he joined team Trump he worked for Republican presidential
candidate Ben Carson.

He
also was an energy expert, and he 
pissed
off a lot of people
 when
he helped push through a pipeline that cut out people with their
hands in other cookie jars.


So
Obama’s intelligence agencies may have been spying on a lot of
different Republican campaigns (Trump, Carson, etc.)

Or
they may have been spying on people threatening powers-that-be in the
pipeline business.


The
same folks were also spying on General Michael Flynn in 2015. Why?
Well, we’re sure it has nothing to do with the fact that General
Flynn announced that he was going to look into all of the corruption
in the U.S. intelligence agencies and clean them up … or that Flynn
had said that the 
U.S.
basically created ISIS

(3)
Both Page and Papadopoulos were recorded by FBI “assets”
(cough … spies   … cough) adamantly denying they were
colluding with Russia. But the FBI hid their exculpatory comments
from the FISA court.


For
example, Papadopoulos told the spies who tried to frame him (such as
Australia’s Alexander Downer and American Stefan Halper) that
colluding with Russians would be 
treason …
and that neither he or anyone else with the Trump campaign would ever
do such a thing.  But the FBI buried that statement.


(4)
Contrary to what the talking heads have insisted for years, the FBI’s
spying applications (er, FISA warrant applications) 
did rest – almost
entirely  

on the Steele Dossier.

The
Steele Dossier, in turn, was literally based on “bar room”
ramblings by drunk Ruskies and by other assorted hodgepodge of shady
characters. 


The
FBI didn’t really try to corroborate the Steele Dossier at first. But
– when the FBI 
finally did
interview the main Russian source for the Steele dossier – he said
no, the info wasn’t reliable, and he 
was
shocked that Steele peddled it
 as
confirmed:

The
still-unidentified “primary sub-source” later repudiated the
information, telling the FBI that 
Steele
misstated or exaggerated” 
what
the sub-source had told him.

For
example, it turns out that Steele’s incendiary accusation of
Trump’s alleged sexual activities in a Moscow hotel was nothing
more than unconfirmed 
rumor
and speculation.” 
The
sub-source said they were comments 
made
in jest.”
 Some
joke.

***  

The
sub-source insisted that he “
never
expected Steele to put the statements in his reports or present them
as facts.” 
Indeed,
he said he specifically warned Steele there was no proof whatsoever
because 
it
was just talk
.”

The
sub-source further explained that he was passing along 
word
of mouth and hearsay”
 and
conversations
that he had with friends over beers.”
 It
was described as 
multiple
layers of hearsay upon hearsay.”

After
Trump was elected, both the FBI and Steele were desperate to verify
anything in the dossier because the bureau had falsely sworn to the
FISA Court in October 2016 that its application information was
already verified.

The
IG report details how 
Steele
pleaded with his sub-source to “find corroboration.” The person
tried, but “could find none … zero.”


Oh,
and the FBI exaggerated prior Steele’s track record and buried his
supervisors’ criticism about his reliability.

And
the alleged “confirming, secondary sources” which the FBI
and CIA claimed corroborated the info in the Steele Dossier were
really just Steele himself gossiping to the media … while
being 
paid
by the Democrats
 to
talk to media (and Brennan, Clapper and McCabe themselves spreading
myths to the media).

(5)
Normally, a political campaign would be briefed on a
counterintelligence campaign effecting them.  The FBI claimed 
that they didn’t tell the Trump team that they were engaging in a
“counterintelligence” spying operation because that would
have tipped off the Russians.  
Specifically:

Former
Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director … Priestap, the FBI
official who approved the launch of Crossfire Hurricane, told the IG
that “he considered whether the FBI should conduct defensive
briefings for the Trump campaign but ultimately decided that
providing such briefings created the risk that ‘if someone on the
campaign was engaged with the Russians, he/she would very likely
change his/her tactics and/or otherwise seek to cover-up his/her
activities, thereby preventing us from finding the truth.’

There’s
just two wee problems with that claim …

First,
Attorney General Barr says that Obama and his CIA director
Brennan 
directly
told
 the
Russians  
about
this:

And
what I find particularly inexplicable is that they talked to the
Russians, but not to the presidential campaign. On August 4th,
Brennan braced the head of Russian intelligence. He calls the head of
Russian intelligence and says, we know what you’re up to, you better
stop it. He did it again later in August. And then President Obama
talked to President Putin in — in September and said, we know what
you’re up to, you better cut it out.

So they — they go and
confront the Russians who clearly are the bad guys and they won’t go
and talk and to the campaigns and say, you know, what is this about?

And
second, the FBI – while 
pretending to
brief Trump – actually 
used
it as an opportunity to spy on him
:

[T]he
only counterintelligence work done in this briefing was not on behalf
of or in defense of the Trump campaign, but was actually gathering
intelligence against the Trump campaign.
 

Did
they ever try to protect Donald Trump from foreign influence?”
Graham asked.

They
did not brief him,” Horowitz said.

As
a matter of fact, whenever they went in and gave him a vanilla
briefing–‘the Russians are out there, you better beware,’–didn’t
they have an FBI agent do a 302 on the defensive briefing itself?”
Graham asked.

They
sent one of the supervisory agents from the Crossfire Hurricane team
to the briefing and that agent prepared a report to the file of the
briefing,” Horowitz said.

A
302 is an FBI form used to “report or summarize the interviews that
they conduct” as part of an investigation. So the FBI “defensive
briefing” the agency said they provided to the Trump campaign was
not a defensive briefing at all, but rather an information gathering
interview for the agents surveilling those associated Trump campaign.

Yup
… no bias there.  
It’s
just 
coincidence
 that
all of the “errors” were harmful to Trump.


Tag:
Politics

=======================================

Hier de link naar het ICH bericht: ‘An Inspector General’s Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving, krijg e.e.a. niet op orde.

Robert Mueller lijdt aan dementie en maakt van Russiagate een nog belachelijker verhaal

Het verhoor door een comité van de Democraten in het Huis van Afgevaardigden van speciaal aanklager Robert Mueller n.a.v. diens rapportage over Russiagate, was een anticlimax voor de Democraten, Mueller gaf op veel vragen geen antwoord en hij gaf verder de indruk het eigen rapport niet of slecht te kennen…….

Over deze zaak hieronder twee artikelen, de eerste van Consortium News en de tweede van Zero Hedge, over dat tweede artikel het volgende:

Robert
Mueller hoogstwaarschijnlijk niet de schrijver van eigen rapport

Robert
Mueller die afgelopen week moest getuigen over ‘eigen’ rapport*,
leek voor een groot deel van de tijd wel dement, zo kon hij (als gezegd) veel vragen niet beantwoorden en niet zelden leek het erop dat hij z’n eigen
rapport niet eens kende…..

Niet zo
vreemd als je bedenkt dat het grootste deel van het team van
aanklagers dat Mueller ter zijde stond bestond uit donoren van
Hillary Clinton! (ha! ha! ha! ha!, de ware misdadiger was Clinton en met de Russiagate leugen kon ze haar eigen zeer kwalijke rol verhullen binnen de Democratische Partij, een misdadige rol van haar en haar campagneteam tijdens de voorverkiezingen t.b.v. de democratische presidentskandidaat in 2016……

Nogmaals
is duidelijk dat het team van Mueller en hijzelf geen flinter aan
bewijs hebben dat Rusland inderdaad de boel heeft gemanipuleerd…..
Je moest intussen ook wel een imbeciel zijn als je dat hele
achterlijke verhaal nog gelooft, zoals de reguliere westerse media en
het overgrote deel van de westerse politici deze nonsens keer op keer blijven herhalen als was het een feit, ondanks dat er geen bewijzen zijn die e.e.a. bevestigen….. Dit alles terwijl er meters aan bewijs zijn voor
bemoeienissen van de VS met verkiezingen in andere landen, dit nog
naast het op poten zetten van gewelddadige opstanden die met staatsgrepen moesten (en moeten) eindigen, zoals de VS al zo vaak heeft
gedaan, om nog maar te zwijgen over de illegale oorlogen die de VS keer op keer begint…….

Tyler
Durden is de schrijver van het tweede artikel hieronder dat eerder op
Zero Hedge verscheen (zie ook de link onder zijn artikel
*):

CAMPAIGN
2016
COMMENTARYINTELLIGENCELEGALMEDIAPOLITICSRUSSIARUSSIAGATE

WIKILEAKS

Democrats
Blowing on Embers With a Politicized Mueller

July
25, 2019

By Joe
Lauria
Special
to Consortium News

Former
Russiagate special counsel Robert Mueller’s appearance before the
Democratic-controlled House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on
Wednesday was an exercise by the Democrats of trying to extract
statements that would keep Russiagate alive and an attempt by the
Republicans to finish off the story once and for all.


Appearing
to be feigning, or actually suffering early signs of senility, the
nearly 75-year old Mueller disappointed both parties and the public.
He declined to answer 198 questions, according to 
a
count
 by
NBC News. When he did answer he was often barely intelligible and
mostly stuck to what was in his final report, though he often had to
fumble through pages to find passages he could not recall, eating
into committee members’ five-minute time limit.


Mueller
especially refused to comment on the process of his investigation,
such as who he did or did not interview, what countries his
investigators visited and he even dodged discussing some relevant
points of law. It was an abdication of his responsibility to U.S.
taxpayers who footed his roughly $30-million, 22-month probe.


But
when it came to making political statements, the former FBI director
suddenly rediscovered his mental acuity. He went way beyond his
report to say, without prosecutorial evidence, that he agreed with
the assessment of then CIA Director Mike Pompeo that WikiLeaks is
a “non-state, hostile intelligence agency.”


Mueller
called “illegal” 
WikiLeak‘s
obtaining the Podesta and DNC emails, an act of journalism. In the
2016 election, the Espionage Act would not apply as the DNC and
Podesta emails were not classified. Nor has 
WikiLeaks been
accused by anyone of stealing the emails. And yet the foremost law
enforcement figure in the U.S. accused 
WikiLeaks of
breaking the law merely for publishing.


Though
Mueller’s report makes no mention of 
The
Guardian
’s
tale that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort
visited 
WikiLeaks publisher
Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy, when questioned on this,
Mueller refused to refute the story, for which there isn’t a scrap
of evidence. That was another purely political and not legal
intervention from the lawman.


Russia, Russia, Russia

Mueller:
Came to when he wanted to make a political point. (Flickr)

While
Mueller concluded there was no evidence of a conspiracy between
Russia and the Trump campaign to throw the 2016 election, he has not
let up on the most politicized part of his message: that Russia
interfered “massively” in “our democracy” and is still doing
it. There was no waffling from Mueller when it came to this question.

He
bases this on his indictment of 12 GRU Russian intelligence against
who he alleges hacked the DNC emails and transmitted them
to 
WikiLeaks.
Mueller knows those agents will never be arrested and brought to a
courtroom to have his charges tested. In that sense the indictment
was less a legal than a 
political document.


Among
the inaccuracies about Russigaate that were  recycled at the
hearing is that the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) spent $1.25 million in the United States to influence the election.
That figure belonged to a unit that acted worldwide, not just in the
U.S., according to Mueller’s
 indictment.
In fact it only spent $100,000 on Facebook ads, half coming after the
election, and as even Mueller pointed out, some were anti-Trump.

Cambridge
Analytica
 had
5,000 data points on 240 million Americans, some of it bought from
Facebook, that gave an enormous advantage for targeted ads to the
Trump campaign. It 
paid at
least $5.9 million to the company co-founded by Trump’s campaign
strategist Steve Bannon. But we are supposed to believe that a
comparatively paltry number of social media messages from the
IRA
 threw the
election.

Mueller
implied in his testimony that there was a link between the IRA and
the Russian government despite an
order from
a judge for him to stop making that connection. In focusing again on
Russia, no member of Congress from either party raised the content of
the leaked emails.


IRA
headquarters in St. Petersburg (Wikimedia Commons)


For
the Democrats especially, it is all about the source, who is
irrelevant, since no one disputes the accuracy of the emails that
exposed Hillary Clinton. (That the source of authentic documents is
irrelevant is demonstrated by 
The
Wall Street Journal
 and
other major media using anonymous drop boxes pioneered by 
WikiLeaks.)
Were a foreign power to spread disinformation about candidates in a
U.S. election (something the candidates do to each other all the
time) that would be sabotage. But the leaking and publication of the
Clinton emails was information valuable to American voters.

And WikiLeaks would
have published Trump emails, but it never received any,
 Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson 
told Consortium
New
‘s
webcast 
CN
Live!

No
Power to Exonerate

With
“collusion” off the table, the Democrats have been obsessed with
Trump allegedly obstructing an investigation that found no underlying
crime. That’s something like being arrested for resisting arrest
when you’ve committed no other infraction.


In
his morning testimony, Mueller amplified the misperception that the
only reason he didn’t charge Trump with obstruction is because of a
Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel policy that a sitting
president can’t be indicted.


But
then Mueller came back from a break in the  hearing to issue a
“correction.” It was not true that he had concluded there’d
been obstruction but was blocked by the OLC policy, he said. In fact
he never concluded that there had been obstruction at all. “We
didn’t make a decision about culpability,” Mueller said. “We
didn’t go down that road.”


Instead
of leaving it at that, Mueller said in his report and testimony that
Trump was not “exonerated” of an obstruction charge. That led to
blaring headlines Wednesday morning while the hearing was still going
on. “Trump was not exonerated by my report, Robert Mueller tells
Congress,” said the BBC. “Mueller Report Did Not Exonerate Trump,
Mueller Says,” blared the 
HuffPost.


But
in what may have been the most embarrassing moment for Mueller,
Republican Congressman Michael Turner (R-OH) pointed out that a
prosecutor does not have the power to exonerate anyone. A prosecutor
 prosecutes.

Rep.
Michael Turner

Mr.
Mueller, does the Attorney General have the power or authority to
exonerate?” Turner asked the witness. “What I’m putting up here
is the United States code. This is where the Attorney General gets
his power. And the constitution … .

Mr.
Mueller, nowhere in these [documents] … is there a process or
description on ‘exonerate.’ There’s no office of exoneration at
the Attorney General’s office. … Mr. Mueller, would you agree
with me that the Attorney General does not have the power to
exonerate?”

I’m
going to pass on that,” Mueller replied.

Why?”
Turner asked.

Because
it embroils us in a legal discussion, and I’m not prepared to do a
legal discussion in that arena,” Mueller said.

Pointing
to a CNN headline that had just appeared, “MUELLER: TRUMP WAS NOT
EXONERATED,” Turner said: “What you know is, that this can’t
say, ‘Mueller exonerated Trump,’ because you don’t have the
power or authority to exonerate Trump. You have no more power to
declare him exonerated than you have the power to declare him
Anderson Cooper.”

Turner
said: “The statement about exoneration is misleading, and it’s
meaningless. It colors this investigation— one word of out the
entire portion of your report. And it’s a meaningless word that has
no legal meaning, and it has colored your entire report.”

Who
is a Spy for Whom?

Mueller
also took a pass every time the Steele dossier was raised, which it
first was by Rep. David Nunes (R-CA):

Despite
acknowledging dossier allegations as being salacious and unverified,
former FBI Director James Comey briefed those allegations to
President Obama and President-elect Trump. Those briefings
conveniently leaked to the press, resulting in the publication of the
dossier and launching thousands of false press stories based on the
word of a foreign ex-spy, one who admitted he was desperate that
Trump lose the election and who was eventually fired as an FBI source
for leaking to the press.

 “And
the entire investigation was open based not on Five Eyes
intelligence, but on a tip from a foreign politician about a
conversation involving Joseph Mifsud. He’s a Maltese diplomat who’s
widely portrayed as a Russian agent, but seems to have for more
connections with Western governments, including our own FBI and our
own State Department, than with Russia.”

When
Nunes pointed out to Mueller that Konstantin Kilimnik, a Manafort
business associate, whom Mueller’s report identifies as having ties
to Russian intelligence, was actually a U.S. State Department
asset,
Mueller refused to comment saying he was “loath” to get into it.

This
Schiff Has Sailed

The
chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff (R-CA) used the
word “lies” 19 times in his opening statement, which contained at
least that many.

The
central one was this:

Your
investigation determined that the Trump campaign, including Donald
Trump himself, knew that a foreign power was intervening in our
election and welcomed it, built Russian meddling into their strategy
and used it.

Disloyalty
to country. Those are strong words, but how else are we to describe a
presidential campaign which did not inform the authorities of a
foreign offer of dirt on their opponent, which did not publicly shun
it or turn it away, but which instead invited it, encouraged it and
made full use of it?”

Schiff
reluctantly admitted that no Trump conspiracy with Russia was
uncovered, but said the “crime” of disloyalty was even worse.

Disloyalty
to country violates the very oath of citizenship, our devotion to a
core principle on which our nation was founded that we, the people
and not some foreign power that wishes us ill, we decide who governs
us,” said Schiff.

It
was pure fantasy.

Mueller
should have taken a pass on that one too.

Joe
Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former
correspondent for 
The
Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe
Sunday
Times 
of
London and numerous other newspapers. He can be reached
at 
joelauria@consortiumnews.com and
followed on Twitter
 @unjoe .

Tags: Adam
Schiff
 Joe
Lauria
 Robert
Mueller
 Russiagate

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James
Clapper Suggests Mueller Was “Just A Figurehead” And Didn’t
Even Write His Own Report

by Tyler
Durden

Fri,
07/26/2019 – 09:30

Former
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on Thursday that
Robert 
Mueller
could just be a “figurehead” who may not have been involved
in writing “his” own report,
 according
to 
The
Gateway Pundit
.

The
comments came during a CNN interview
 discussing
why Robert Mueller didn’t seem to have “command” over the
report’s contents while testifying on Capitol Hill yesterday. 

Clapper
was heavily involved in the coup against President Donald Trump and
was an advocate for the Russia hoax theory earlier on.

Mueller’s
role was likely more of a “CEO”, he said. 
I
think his role as a special prosecutor was a lot more like a CEO
where he oversaw the operations but did not engage in interrogating
witnesses or actually writing the report.”


Elizabeth Harrington

@LizRNC

James Clapper, one of the originators of the Collusion Hoax, suggests Mueller was just a figurehead, who was not involved in writing his report

Then who did?

Anti-Trump zealots who went to Hillary’s Election wake, & represented the Clinton Foundation & Hillary’s hammer man

Embedded video

(Dit is een still van een video die ik niet kan overnemen en waar na het voorgaande niets nieuws wordt verteld dan het CEO verhaal in het begin van dit artikel op Zero Hedge, zie het origineel)

And
naturally, as the article asks, if Mueller 
didn’t write
the report, was it left to the anti-Trump zealots that filled his
team? The piece notes that nearly 
“every
single prosecutor on Mueller’s team was a Hillary/Obama donor.”

Lead
prosecutor Andrew Weissman was with Hillary Clinton on election night
and praised acting AG Sally Yates for not enforcing Trump’s travel
ban. Aaron Zebley, another Mueller team member, represented the IT
aide that smashed Clinton’s Blackberrys while under subpoena. 

Zebley
was next to Mueller on Wednesday to “advise” him on
questions and was clearly more well versed on the report than Mueller
himself was. 

Mueller’s
embarrassing testimony – during which he admitted 
he
wasn’t even familiar with Fusion GPS – 
is
being panned not only by conservatives, but also by Democrats, as
we 
reported yesterday. 

Conservative
columnist Byron York wrote yesterday:

“Mueller’s
performance raised questions that reached far beyond one appearance
before one committee.
 It
called into doubt the degree to which Mueller was in charge of the
entire special counsel investigation
.” 

Tag Politics

================================

*
Zie: ‘Michael Moore Joins Chorus Of Defeated Democrats Panning “Frail, Forgetful” Mueller Testimony

Zie ook:

WaPo waarschuwt voor Russische digitale controle over de hersenen van VS burgers

Federale rechter stelt ten overvloede dat DNC geen grond heeft voor zaak te tegen Trumps verkiezingsteam

Geheime diensten in westen geven toe dat spioneren via het G5 netwerk praktisch onmogelijk is……..

Britse regering weigert RT en Sputnik voor conferentie over persvrijheid….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

1984 het boek van George Orwell: niet langer fictie…….

Het westen vervolgt journalist Assange, Rusland laat journalist vrij na onrust over diens gevangenschap‘ (zie daarin ook de links naar andere berichten over Assange)

De sterkste beïnvloeding van de VS presidentsverkiezingen wordt als volkomen ‘legaal’ en normaal gezien

Avaaz valt met fake news en desinformatie ‘fake news en desinformatie‘ aan……’ (zie in dat bericht ook de link naar een ander artikel met een smerige rol van Avaaz)

Rob Jetten (D66 fractievoorzitter) liegt een fikse slag in de rondte in EU verkiezingspraatje

EU verkiezingen: manipulatie ook door lobbyisme is misdadig, zelfs Bas Eickhout (GroenLinks) doet hieraan mee

‘Intel processors al 10 jaar zo lek als een mandje, Intel niet een bedrijf uit Rusland of China, maar uit….. de VS!

Facebook stelt klimaatsceptisch Daily Caller aan als ‘factchecker…’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russiagate: nog overtuigd van bestaan daarvan? Lees dit!

Putin vraagt en Trump levert: een lijst met ‘alle goede zaken die Trump voor Rusland 


Russiagate: VS en buitenlandse geheime diensten hebben de VS presidentsverkiezingen in 2016 gemanipuleerd


Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!


WikiLeaks belooft The Guardian 1 miljoen dollar als het haar leugens i.z. Assange en Russiagate kan bewijzen…….

‘Banden van Trump met Rusland’ gebaseerd op FBI operatie om VS ‘burger’ (CIA) in Iran vrij te krijgen……

Putin vraagt en Trump levert: een lijst met ‘alle goede zaken die Trump voor Rusland regelde’

Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!

New York Times ‘bewijzen’ voor Russiagate vallen door de mand……

BNR ‘denkt’ als één van de vele mediaorganen nog steeds dat Russiagate werkelijk plaats vond

BBC topman waarschuwt dat de BBC haar geloofwaardigheid en reputatie kwijtraakt…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Geen rectificaties voor meer dan 2 jaar brengen van fake news over het kwaadaardig sprookje Russiagate

Bedrijf dat voor ‘Russische bots’ waarschuwde, heeft een leger met nep-Russische bots

Britse militaire geheime dienst bedient zich van moddergooien en andere manipulaties om Europese en VS politiek te manipuleren, zo blijkt uit gelekte documenten


Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax


BBC: Rusland ‘misbruikt humor’ om Russiagate te ontkrachten….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Uitgelekte telefoongesprekken tussen Trump en Putin bewijzen dat ‘Russiagaters gelijk hebben……’

Russiagate haat- en angstcampagne samenzweerders als FBI en Clinton moeten strafrechtelijk worden vervolgd

Russiagate en Assange: The Guardian wordt nu zelfs door collega’s voor zot uitgemaakt


WikiLeaks toont aan dat VS en GB een gezamenlijke gewelddadige en bedrieglijke buitenlandpolitiek voeren


En over het grote slachtoffer in het Russiagate verhaal, Julian Assange:

Belangrijk account voor de verdediging Julian Assange geblokkeerd door Twitter

Britse regering weigert RT en Sputnik voor conferentie over persvrijheid….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Julian Assange: Speciaal VN rapporteur martelen heeft grote twijfels bij onafhankelijkheid rechter

Het westen vervolgt journalist Assange, Rusland laat journalist vrij na onrust over diens gevangenschap‘ (en nog hadden de reguliere media een grote bek over Rusland, media die niet anders hebben gedaan dan collega Assange besmeuren…..)

VN rapport: Assange is gedemoniseerd en psychisch gemarteld

Media wakker geschrokken en ontwaken in Assange nachtmerrie

Julian Assange weer vervolgd wegens ‘verkrachting’, waarvoor het Zweedse OM eerder geen bewijs kon vinden……

Dag van Persvrijheid: Assange wordt zoveel mogelijk uitermate hypocriet gemeden door de pers

Julian Assange (brekend nieuws) veroordeeld tot 50 weken gevangenisstraf……

Chelsea Manning blijft voor onbepaalde tijd in de gevangenis

Julian Assanges vervolging is de genadeklap voor klokkenluiders en (echte) journalisten‘ (zie ook de iets oudere links in dat bericht)

Julian Assange gedemoniseerd door media die hem zouden moeten steunen, waren ze bevolkt geweest door echte journalisten……..

WhiteHouse: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange Asylum

De prijs op het hoofd van Julian Assange: 1 miljard dollar…..

Assange kan niet voor spionage worden vervolgd, immers hij is journalist >> aldus Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) in een video

Assange is journalist en zou alleen daarom al niet mogen worden vervolgd, een artikel o.a. voor de huidige ‘journalisten’ van de reguliere media en de gebruikers van die media

WhiteHouse: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange Asylum‘ 

Stop de isolatie van Julian Assange!’

Russiagate gelovigen krijgen nieuwe klap: WikiLeaks kreeg de DNC mails van een klokkenluider, niet van Rusland…..

De kop
dekt zo ongeveer wel het hieronder opgenomen artikel van
InformationClearing House, geschreven door Ray McGovern. Niets nieuws in
feite anders dan het bestaande nieuws van de afgelopen jaren dat er
geen bewijzen kunnen worden geleverd voor de leugens die ons dag in
dag uit over Russische manipulaties door de reguliere westerse
massamedia en politiek door de strot worden geduwd…….

Michael
Cohen die waarschijnlijk voor vele jaren achter het gaas moet, durfde
vorige week te stellen dat hij weliswaar geen directe bewijzen heeft
van het samenspannen van Trump met de Russen, maar dat hij dit kon
opmaken uit de houding van Trump en de manier waarop deze keek als
hij iets vroeg of stelde……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Let wel
beste bezoeker: Cohen zou een jurist zijn…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Trump en
zijn oorlogszuchtige roverskliek zouden moeten worden afgezet, maar
niet op de belachelijke grond dat hij zou hebben samengespannen met
de Russen, zijn andere strapatsen zijn zwaar genoeg om hem af te
zetten! Echter daar willen de democraten niet over lullen, daar hen
dat niet goed uitkomt en ze ondanks alles achter het buitenland
(terreur-) beleid van de VS staan……. Ook in dat beleid is al genoeg te vinden
voor het afzetten van psychopaat Trump……

Ongelofelijk
dat de reguliere westerse massamedia die zo’n grote bek hebben over
fake nieuws en Russische manipulaties, niet het fatsoen hebben om het
hele Russiagate verhaal, waar zoals gezegd geen millimeter aan bewijs
voor is, eens echt goed te ontleden….. Immers er is meer dan
voldoende bewijs voor misdadig handelen door het campagneteam* van
oorlogsmisdadiger Hillary Clinton, die onderzoek wist af te wentelen, middels het spuien van valse anti-Russische propaganda en hen de schuld van het lekken van de mails in de schoenen te schuiven….. 

De Russen, zouden deze mails,
waaruit misdadig handelen van Clinton en haar team blijkt, hebben
doorgezonden naar WikiLeaks, een leugen van formaat…… Niet voor niets is er na meer dan 2 jaar tijd geen flinter aan bewijs geleverd voor deze leugen (nogmaals het gaat in werkelijkheid om mails
die aantoonden dat Clinton de voorverkiezingen van de Democratische
partij voor het presidentschap in 2016 op een heel smerige manier heeft gestolen van Bernie
Sanders en niet om het manipuleren van de verkiezingen door de Russen…….)

Zoals gezegd geen nieuws, zo was al veel eerder bekend dat Seth Rich, een medewerker van het Clinton campagneteam de mails lekte naar WikiLeaks, dit uit frustratie over het stelen van de voorverkiezingen door Clinton….** 

Sorry,
Russia-gaters; WikiLeaks Got the DNC Emails From Insider, not Russia

By
Ray McGovern

VIPSers
Binney & Johnson
*** use the forensics that the FBI avoided doing.
http://theduran.com/why-the-dnc-was-not-hacked-by-the-russians/?mc_cid=ed71b42640&mc_eid=913e2dde99

March
02, 2019 “Information
Clearing House
” – Thinking back, President Barack
Obama dropped a huge hint two days before he left office, using his
last press conference to point out that the “conclusions of the
intelligence community” regarding how WikiLeaks received the DNC
emails were “inconclusive.”  The nerve!  Daring to say
that just 13 days after the U.S. intelligence Gang of Four briefed
Obama up and down on their evidence-free “assessment” that
WikiLeaks got the DNC emails via a Russian hack.


This
was one time Obama summoned the courage to face down James
(the-Russians-are-almost-genetically-driven-to-deceive) Clapper and
other intelligence chiefs.  After all, Obama is a lawyer. 
He “does evidence.”  In contrast, ex-CIA Director John
Brennan, told Congress that he does not “do evidence.”


Back
in the day, the intelligence community “did evidence.”  As
soon as the evidence-impoverished “Intelligence Community
Assessment” was published on January 6, 2017, members of Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) smelled a rat. 
That same day, former NSA Technical Director William Binney and Ray
published “The Dubious Case on Russian Hacking,”
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/01/06/the-dubious-case-on-russian-hacking/ 
].

Then
came “The Gaping Holes of
Russia-gate,”
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/05/20/the-gaping-holes-of-russia-gate/ 
], and in July 2017 VIPS published their key forensic-based study
“Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russian Hack’
Evidence,”
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/ ],
followed by “More Holes in the Russia-gate
Narrative.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/20/more-holes-in-russia-gate-narrative/ ],
by Binney and Ray.


Even
Michael Cohen admitted yesterday that he had no “direct evidence
that Mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia.” But, he
added, “I have my suspicions.”  We intelligence analysts,
back in the day, did not “do suspicions.”


There
are 1,001 other reasons to impeach President Donald Trump, if Nancy
Pelosi had the courage.  But politics, not the Constitution,
reigns supreme in the people’s House to which Founders bestowed an
orderly political process to get rid of such a president.  Shame
on them all.


Ray
came to Washington from his native Bronx in the early Sixties as an
Army infantry/intelligence officer and then served as a CIA analyst
for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of
George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included chairing National
Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily
Brief, which he briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s
five most senior national security advisers from 1981 to
1985. 
http://raymcgovern.com

This
article was originally published by “
Information
Clearing House

====================================

*   Het campagneteam waar het DNC een dikke vinger in de pap heeft. Het Democratic National Committee, ofwel DNC, gaat over o.a. de verkiezingscampagnes van de ‘Democratische’ Partij.

**  Zie: Clinton te kakken gezet: Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte‘ en: ‘WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia

*** William Edward (Bill) Binney is ex-top NSA en Larry Johnson ex-top CIA. Hier de link naar een eerder artikel dat je echt moet lezen als je geïnteresseerd bent in deze materie: ‘Bill Binney and Larry Johnson Shred Robert Mueller’s Russian Hack Fable

Zie ook:

Russiagate: VS en buitenlandse geheime diensten hebben de VS presidentsverkiezingen in 2016 gemanipuleerd

De verregaande anti-Russische propaganda in de VS en de rest van het westen

Tulsi Gabbard (pres. kandidaat VS) krijgt volgens NBC Russische steun op claim van firma die ‘Russische data’ fabriceert voor Republikeinen

De VS dreigt de grondwet te wijzigen ten voordele van censuur en de afschaffing van de vrijheid op meningsuiting

WhatsApp beperking in strijd tegen fake news

Als Martin Luther King nog zou leven was hij onderwerp van censuur en was zijn Facebook pagina verwijderd

World Economic Forum: de plek waar men elkaar feliciteert met de censuur op de sociale media

Massamedia VS vallen keihard door de mand met ‘vers’ geschoten Russiagate bok >> publiek wordt om vertrouwen gevraagd

Jacht in VS op alternatief (echt) nieuws in volgend stadium: journalist wordt vastgehouden zonder aanklacht

Lichtgelovige ‘atheïst’ gelooft Russiagate leugens….

NewsGuard, het nieuwste wapen van Big Brother VS tegen de alternatieve media

Netflix censureert aflevering van humoristisch programma, ‘na een geldig verzoek’ op grond van Saoedische wetgeving….

Bedrijf dat voor ‘Russische bots’ waarschuwde, heeft een leger met nep-Russische bots

New York Times te kakken gezet met haar berichtgeving over Russische manipulatie voor midterm verkiezingen

VS begint ‘troll farm’, alsof Hollywood en de massamedia al niet genoeg VS propaganda maken……….

Britse militaire geheime dienst bedient zich van moddergooien en andere manipulaties om Europese en VS politiek te manipuleren, zo blijkt uit gelekte documenten

Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen

De VS heeft Syrië volgepropt met ‘jihadisten’ en wapens

Democraten deden zich voor als Russen in false flag operatie om Roy Moore (Republikein) zwart te maken tijdens verkiezing…..

Der Spiegel, groot bestrijder van ‘fake news’ bracht zelf jarenlang dit soort ‘nieuws’

‘Fake news’: alternatieve media en bloggers in het westen zouden onzin brengen, echter niet als dit soort groepen wat roepen in landen die het westen niet welgevallig zijn

Russiagate: de westerse massamedia gebruiken propaganda om het volk te manipuleren, precies waar ze Rusland van beschuldigen

Trump (Republikeinen) wint de midterm verkiezingen, alsook de Democraten, het verschil voor mensen elders in de wereld, die onder VS terreur moeten leven, is nul komma nada……. 

Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

New York Times ‘bewijzen’ voor Russiagate vallen door de mand……

Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax‘ (Russiagate, de enorme leugen op basis waaraan we de huidige censuurgolf te danken hebben……)

‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..

‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’

Russische inmenging VS presidentsverkiezingen? ha! ha! ha! ha! Sheldon Adelson en Netanyahu zal men bedoelen!

De Israëlische manipulatie van de VS presidentsverkiezingen, gaat veel verder dan wat men Rusland in de schoenen schuift…..

‘Russiagate’: Intel-raport over Russische bemoeienis met verkiezingen opgebouwd met leugens en is politiek gemotiveerd, aldus Matlock, voormalig VS ambassadeur in Moskou

WikiLeaks belooft The Guardian 1 miljoen dollar als het haar leugens i.z. Assange en Russiagate kan bewijzen…….

Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden

New York Times: eerste Israëlische inval in Gazastrook sinds 2014 >> fake news!

Noord-Koreaans ‘bedrog met nucleaire deal’ is fake news o.a. gebracht door de New York Times

‘Fake News’ misbruikt door dictaturen en de reguliere (massa-) media

Twitter weert waarheid: Paul Craig Roberts in de ban, Roberts >> de grote criticus van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert

Trump (Republikeinen) wint de midterm verkiezingen, alsook de Democraten, het verschil voor mensen elders in de wereld, die onder VS terreur moeten leven, is nul komma nada…….

De Israëlische manipulatie van de VS presidentsverkiezingen, gaat veel verder dan wat men Rusland in de schoenen schuift…..

Kajsa Ollongren (D66 vicepremier): Nederland staat in het vizier van Russische inlichtingendiensten……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Ollongren gesteund door Thomas Boesgaard (AD), ‘Rusland verpakt het nepnieuws gekoppeld aan echt nieuws…..’ Oei!!

The Attack on ‘Fake News’ Is Really an Attack on Alternative Media

The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media “Fake News” Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq

FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..

Mocking Trump Doesn’t Prove Russia’s Guilt

CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..

Hillary Clinton en haar oorlog tegen de waarheid…….. Ofwel een potje Rusland en Assange schoppen!

Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd

‘Russische manipulaties uitgevoerd’ door later vermoord staflid Clintons campagneteam Seth Rich……… AIVD en MIVD moeten hiervan weten!!

Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!

VS ‘democratie’ aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!

Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump

Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..

Flashback: Clinton Allies Met With Ukrainian Govt Officials to Dig up Dirt on Trump During 2016 Election

FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information

Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election

Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media

CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence

Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..

Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)

RT America één van de eerste slachtoffers in een heksenjacht op westerse alternatieve media en nadenkend links……

Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….

Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat

Mediaorgaan Sinclair dwingt ‘TV ankers’ propaganda op te lezen (Sinclair bedient rond de 70% van de VS bevolking van ‘lokaal nieuws’)

Ex-CIA agent legt uit hoe de VS schaduwregering en deep state werken, ofwel de machinaties achter de schermen……

‘Russiagate’ een nieuwe ongelooflijke aanklacht van de Democraten…….

VS demoniseert Russiagate critici als Jill Stein…..

De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

Britse en VS manipulaties van verkiezingen en stimulatie van conflicten middels psychologische oorlogsvoering‘ (voor VS manipulaties van verkiezingen elders, liggen er ‘metersdikke’ dossiers, o.a. in te zien op WikeLeaks)

Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”

Facebook Blocks Links to Free Speech Competitor ‘Minds’

Lichtgelovige ‘atheïst’ gelooft Russiagate leugens…..

Ongelofelijk
maar waar: Sam Harris, volgens de schrijver van het hieronder
opgenomen artikel, Caitlin Johnstone, een goeroe van de atheïsten,
heeft laten weten dat hij het verhaal gelooft dat Rusland de
presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 heeft gemanipuleerd, ondanks dat daar
totaal geen bewijs voor is gegeven en dat na 2 jaar lang leugens over deze zaak (zonder dat men in die tijd met bewijzen kwam…)….

Harris
liet als atheïst o.a. weten het niet te begrijpen dat mensen een
geloof omarmen, een geloof bijvoorbeeld in een god, waarvoor elk
bewijs ontbreekt…….. Nu doet deze Harris precies hetzelfde als
christenen doen, geloven in een zaak die niet te bewijzen is, daar
deze nooit heeft plaatsgevonden….

Je
vraagt je wellicht af waarom Harris gelooft dat Rusland de
verkiezingen manipuleerde, wel dat is héééél simpel: de geheime
diensten van de VS zeggen dat het zo is……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Als er nu één ding duidelijk is, is het wel het feit dat de geheime
diensten in de VS vooral goed zijn in liegen, zelfs als het tegendeel
meer dan bewezen is, neem de leugens die hebben geleid tot de
illegale oorlog in 2003 van de VS en haar NAVO partners tegen Irak.
De claim dat Irak massavernietigingswapens had, was al 10 keer naar
de prullenbak verwezen door het VN team van wapeninspecteurs o.l.v.
Blix…….

Credulous
Atheist Believes Evidence-Free Establishment Russia Narrative

by Caitlin
Johnstone

The
other day RT reporter Dan Cohen 
flagged how
New Atheism guru Sam Harris recently had a shady cold war manipulator
on his podcast promulgating the establishment narrative that Russian
hackers and trolls interfered in the 2016 US election, despite the
fact that there is no more publicly available evidence for this than
there is for the existence of biblical Jehovah. I find this both
fascinating and hilarious.

Listen
to New Atheist guru 
@SamHarrisOrg faithfully
accept 
@NewKnowledgeAI disinformation
warrior 
@noUpside‘s
claim that there’s no doubt Russia meddled in the 2016 election
because “the intelligence agencies know it
happened” 
https://t.co/GHf94ZAEtB HT @Whtaplpic.twitter.com/Hgf4PQzTA9

Dan
Cohen (@dancohen3000) 
January
16, 2019

(uiteraard is dit niet de ‘video’ die bij het Twitterbericht hoort, echter in deze gesproken tekst gaat Harris uitvoerig in op de leugen die men ‘Russiagate’ is gaan noemen, voor het origineel klik hier)


Harris,
author of 
The
End of Faith
 and
commonly mentioned in the same breath as atheistic thought leaders
like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, once wrote the
following:

“While
believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness
or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds
immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our
discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about
things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling
that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still
have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at
sea, will be thought insane.”

Belief
in the establishment Russia narrative is very much the same. As Ray
McGovern of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity recently
documented in 
an
excellent article
 for Consortium
News
 titled
“A Look Back at Clapper’s Jan. 2017 ‘Assessment’ on
Russia-gate”, the entire election meddling narrative was built
upon an ODNI* assessment by two dozen analysts hand-picked and
overseen by James Clapper. McGovern notes how Clapper, then the
Director of National Intelligence, is notorious for having helped
sell the lies that led to the Iraq invasion, for lying to congress
about NSA surveillance, and for 
multiple
instances
 of
claiming that Russians are 
genetically
predisposed
 to
nefarious behavior.

We
the public have never seen the evidence that led to this extremely
shady assessment’s findings, yet those findings have gradually been
integrated into mass media reports as infallible fact upon which the
rest of the establishment Russia narrative has been built. Like
belief in mainstream religions, the only reason its lack of evidence
fails to come into question is because it has been made popular by
mainstream politicians and credulous media talking heads who have
been reporting it as fact day in and day out for two years, without
adding any solid, tangible evidence to the equation beyond the
unsubstantiated say-so of intelligence agencies with an extensive
record of lying to the public to manufacture support for preexisting
geopolitical agendas. It’s an entirely faith-based narrative, only
instead of placing faith in the words of priests and books authored
by long-dead men, faith is placed in the authoritative say-so of the
imperial intelligence community.

Sam Harris

@SamHarrisOrg

I really enjoyed speaking with Renee DiResta about information warfare. We live in interesting times…@noUpside https://samharris.org/podcasts/145-information-war/ 


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8:31 PM – Jan 2, 2019

Waking Up Podcast #145 – The Information War | Sam Harris

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Renée DiResta about Russia’s “Internet Research Agency” and its efforts to amplify conspiracy thinking and partisan conflict in the United…

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It’s
funny then, given the aforementioned quote, that Harris escalated
his 
already
highly credulous
 relationship
with the CIA Russia narrative in a podcast earlier this month titled
The
Information War

in which he nodded faithfully along with a guest whose organization
was recently exposed as having manufactured the appearance of Russian
election meddling in an Alabama Senate race. His guest, Renee
DiResta, is named in a December 
New
York Times
 report
 for
her involvement in a project by narrative control firm New Knowledge,
which claims in an internal document to have “orchestrated an
elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the
[Alabama Senate candidate Roy] Moore campaign was amplified on social
media by a Russian botnet.” This same narrative control firm which
manufactured the bogus story that Moore was being amplified by
Russian bots also authored two reports on Russian social media
meddling for the US Congress in December which 
set
off a week’s worth of hysterical shrieking headlines
.

At
no time in Harris’ interview with DiResta does he question any of her
cold war rhetoric or baseless assertions, and indeed he eggs her
along with agreeable questions along the lines of the CIA/CNN Russia
narrative.

“Many
people, certainly most Trump supporters, continue to doubt whether
Russia interfered in anything in 2016,” Harris said, as though
skepticism of the unproven claims of shady intelligence agencies is a
bad thing, then asked point-blank, “Is there any basis for doubt
about that at this point?”

“Nope,”
DiResta replied.

“This
is just crystal clear as a matter of what our intelligence services
tell us, and a matter of what people like you can ascertain by just
studying online behavior?” Harris helpfully added.

“It
happened,” DiResta replied. “There’s really nothing else to
say about it. The intelligence agencies know it happened, foreign
governments know it happened, the platforms acknowledge it happened.

There
may be some small group of people that continues to live like
ostriches, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”

Intelligence
agencies know something happened, therefore it happened. The Pope
knows bread and wine transubstantiates into the literal body and
blood of Jesus Christ, therefore it happens. Sam Harris went right
along with this, completely unquestioning like a good little cult
member.

Aaron Maté

@aaronjmate

Silly Republican, as if a $100k social media campaign “could have affected the closely fought Senate race” in 2017.

Oh wait, that’s also the prevailing liberal supposition about a ~$100k Russian social media campaign in a 2016 presidential race. Never mind!

Dan Cohen

@dancohen3000

Replying to @dancohen3000

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is “exploring” whether the @NewKnowledgeAI disinformation operation violated state campaign laws and is “worried that the operation could have affected the closely fought Senate race.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/27/disinformation-campaign-targeting-roy-moores-senate-bid-may-have-violated-law-alabama-attorney-general-says/ 


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8:05 PM – Dec 27, 2018

In an
article for 
The
Nation
,
journalist Aaron Maté breaks down how the data within the
establishment Russia narrative itself shows that Russia’s social
media involvement in US politics was “small, amateurish, and
mostly unrelated to the 2016 election,” with only a tiny
fraction of the Russia-based Internet Research Agency’s US content
having anything to do with the election at all, a very small amount
of funds allocated to the total project, and making up an
infinitesimally small percentage of total social media content viewed
by Americans. Maté 
has
also noted
 that
the total expenditure on IRA posts for the entire US election is
actually comparable to what New Knowledge spent on its “false
flag operation” in the Alabama Senate race alone, which New
Knowledge claims was too small to have impacted the election.

If
that’s not enough reason for you to be skeptical, Maté and 
the Moon
of Alabama
 blog
 point
out that there is no evidence that the Internet Research Agency had
any intent to influence the election, nor indeed that it is anything
other than a for-profit clickbait operation. Looking at the content
of the posts we’ve been shown and the statistics we’ve been told
about them, this is very difficult to argue against, which is
probably why nobody ever tries to.

Sam
Harris the credulous atheist never brings any of this up,
uncritically letting his guest spout faith-based doctrine about both
Kremlin social media interference and Russian hacking.

“Let’s
talk about the WikiLeaks data dump,” DiResta said later in
the podcast. “So as you mentioned at the start, the GRU** had this
hack, they had these emails and they laundered these emails through
WikiLeaks. They gave them to WikiLeaks.”

There
is no more publicly available evidence that this happened than there
is that the Qur’an is the actual, literal word of actual, literal
Allah, yet Sam Harris the credulous atheist never asked her for
evidence of her claims. He uncritically let her advance not just
establishment narratives but establishment agendas as well, nodding
agreeably along as she called for social media platforms to
collaborate with intelligence agencies and grieved about America
being legally unable to respond with propaganda of its own to Russian
online manipulations.

Support
for establishment cold war narratives against Russia is not the only
front along which Sam Harris finds himself in alignment with
neoconservatism, whose push for a more aggressive posture toward the
USSR was one of the early tenets of the movement. Harris’ extensive
history of I
slamophobic
comments
 and
his 
sympathetic
attitude
 toward
the so-called “war on terror” and US military
interventionism in Muslim-majority nations play right into the hands
of neoconservative agendas in the Middle East, and he’s been 
accused
of being a closet neocon
 so
much he’s 
had
to publicly address it
.
Neoconservatives have been consistently wrong about literally
everything to do with foreign policy for decades, yet Sam Harris the
credulous atheist finds theirs a sufficiently rational ideology to
ride alongside. There is no more evidence that US interventionism in
the Middle East is helpful than there is for the existence of Vishnu,
yet Sam Harris the credulous atheist uncritically endorses it.

Establishment-fueled
Russia hysteria is a religion. It is an entirely faith-based belief
system which has 
toxic
effects on the people who subscribe to it
,
and toxic effects on the world as it manufactures support for insane
escalations between two nuclear superpowers. As we 
discussed
yesterday
,
if you don’t have a functioning radar for detecting malignant
narratives, you might get lucky and find yourself in opposition to
some pernicious belief systems, yet also find yourself selling CIA
narratives to your very large online audience as well.

Credulous
atheist Sam Harris doesn’t oppose all religions. He is critical of
some of them, and he is a zealous bishop of others.

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Hier nog een gesprek tussen Harris en Renée DiResta, ‘Waking Up Podcast #145’ waarvan zoals je ziet de afbeelding al te zien was in het op één na laatste Twitterbericht:

*  ODNI: Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

** GRU = GROe (Nederland)

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Zie ook:

Massamedia VS vallen keihard door de mand met ‘vers’ geschoten Russiagate bok >> publiek wordt om vertrouwen gevraagd

Jacht in VS op alternatief (echt) nieuws in volgend stadium: journalist wordt vastgehouden zonder aanklacht

NewsGuard, het nieuwste wapen van Big Brother VS tegen de alternatieve media

Netflix censureert aflevering van humoristisch programma, ‘na een geldig verzoek’ op grond van Saoedische wetgeving….

New York Times te kakken gezet met haar berichtgeving over Russische manipulatie voor midterm verkiezingen

Bedrijf dat voor ‘Russische bots’ waarschuwde, heeft een leger met nep-Russische bots


VS begint ‘troll farm’, alsof Hollywood en de massamedia al niet genoeg VS propaganda maken……….

Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen

Facebook: uit gelekte documenten worden de steeds veranderende regels voor censuur op dit platform openbaar gemaakt: Facebook als geheime tak van de VS overheid

Facebooks departement voor censuur: een hoognodige uitleg over een maatregel die alleen in een dictatuur thuishoort

Two More Spiegel Employees Out After Fake News Scandal Expands‘ Ofwel: het zoveelste ‘gevalletje fake news’, gebracht door de reguliere massamedia……..

Facebook censureert foto’s van verhongerende Jemenitische kinderen als ‘sexual content’

Google manipuleerde VS presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 en censureert niet alleen linkse/alternatieve sociale media

Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden

Google Maps veegt Palestijns gebied van de kaart

Twitter weert waarheid: Paul Craig Roberts in de ban, Roberts >> de grote criticus van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert

Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen

Bolsonaro, de fascistische nieuwe president van Brazilië, werd volgens Avaaz en fake news brengers als de NYT gekozen door manipulatie via WhatsApp

Facebooks zuivering van de alternatieve (nieuws) media staat nog in de kinderschoenen

Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax‘ (Russiagate, de enorme leugen op basis waaraan we de huidige censuurgolf te danken hebben……)

The US military’s vision for state censorship

Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen

Facebook censureert de waarheid over Columbus en de verovering van de Amerika’s…….

Facebook censuur gestuurd door het westers militair-industrieel complex en de NAVO in het bijzonder……….

Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone‘ (Tyler Durden op Zero Hedge)

First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were‘ (Matt Agorist op The Free Thought Project)

CNN, de grote brenger van ‘fake news!!!’

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts………

Facebook (en Twitter) onderdrukt meningsvorming door het verwijderen van (echt) onafhankelijke media

Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen de eerlijke journalistiek en oprechte opinie >> censuur…..

Facebook verlaat ‘tranding news’ voor ‘brekend nieuws’ van 80 reguliere mediaorganen, ofwel nog meer ‘fake news…..’

Facebook komt met nieuwsshows van betrouwbare media als CNN en Fox News…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Censuur op het internet met vliegende start in de VS, ‘het land van het vrije woord….’

Facebook en NAVO werken samen in censuur op niet welgevallig nieuws……

Facebook helpt Saoedi-Arabië: doodstraf door onthoofding van vrouw die het waagde kritiek te uiten…..

Aanval op alternatieve media ‘succesvol’: meer en meer sites worden van het net geweerd………

ThinkProgress eiste censuur van Facebook en werd inderdaad gecensureerd…. ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)

Facebook stelt perstituee van New York Times aan als censuur-agent…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Het echte Facebook schandaal: manipulatie van de gebruikers en gratis diensten voor eertijds presidentskandidaat Obama…….

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook doneerde aan de politici die hem in de VS aan de tand voelden >> in het EU parlement maakte hij gebruik van megalomane EU politici…..

Facebook wil samen met door Saoedi-Arabië gesubsidieerde denktank censureren…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Media Too Busy Defending John McCain to Report the News That Actually Affects You‘ Onder andere aandacht voor PRISM.

Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII……

VS gebruikt sociale media om ‘fake comment’ te verspreiden en de bevolking te hersenspoelen met leugens, ofwel ‘fake news….’

Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘ 

Facebook e.a. hebben lak aan AVG (GDPR), misbruik persoonsgegevens gaat gewoon door…….

Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….

Facebook: verrijking van oliemaatschappijen en andere grote bedrijven, plus wereldwijde corruptie…….

Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”

Facebook Blocks Links to Free Speech Competitor ‘Minds’

James Clapper (voormalig dir. National Intelligence) en John Brennan (voormalig CIA dir.) hebben het congres en de senaat bespioneerd, een misdaad van formaat

James
Clapper voormalig directeur National Intelligence en John Brennan,
voormalig CIA directeur hebben het congres en de senaat bespioneerd
in de strijd tegen klokkenluiders, zo blijkt uit een door John
Kiriakou geschreven artikel, eerder gepubliceerd op ConsortiumNews……..

De twee
verklaarden een paar documenten geheim >> 2 zogenaamde congressional
notifications*, documenten die deze spionage aantoonden,
waardoor er geen vervolging kon worden ingesteld, in een zaak die ook in
de VS als misdaad wordt gezien…… Clapper en Brennan werkten samen en deden e.e.a.
om achter de namen van eventuele klokkenluiders te komen…….

De
republikeinse senator Chuck Grassley heeft al eerder gevraagd om
openbaarmaking van de stukken, die uiteraard niets bevatten wat
geheim moet worden gehouden, maar die wel aangeven dat de 2 vervolgd
moeten worden en gevangen moeten worden gezet…. Aanvankelijk lukte het niet om deze documenten vrij te krijgen in de laatste 2 jaar van de Obama administratie, maar nadat de mensen van Obama waren vervangen door republikeinen, lukte het wel deze documenten boven tafel te krijgen.

De spionage bestond er uit dat men de commissies die de inlichtingendiensten controleren in de senaat hackte om zo achter de namen van eventuele klokkenluiders te kunnen komen, ofwel men heeft ingebroken op het email systeem van de senaat………

Zo zie
je ten overvloede nog eens hoe corrumperend en criminaliserend het
werk van geheime diensten als de CIA in werkelijkheid is en dat de
macht die deze diensten hebben, totaal onterecht is…..

Het
voorgaande geldt ook voor ons land, met het hijgerig wijzen op islam
terroristen krijgen de geheime diensten steeds meer macht en
middelen, terwijl men een echte aanslag niet eens weet te voorkomen,
zelfs niet als men één of meerdere daders in het vizier had…….. (dat geldt ook voor de inlichtingendiensten elders) Afgelopen week werd bekend gemaakt dat de 

Daarover
gesproken: enige tijd geleden werden een aantal mannen opgepakt in Nederland voor
het beramen van een aanslag, het was echter snel na dit bericht stil
en ben benieuwd hoe het er met die zaak voor staat……. Immers eerder werden dergelijke zaken met veel tamtam gebracht, waar later bleek dat men een bok had geschoten en verdachten vrijgelaten moesten worden….. Het geval
met de Russen die het OPCW gebouw zouden hebben willen hacken, is van
een zo ongeloofwaardig niveau dat ik er niet eens op in
ga………

James
Clapper and John Brennan Should Not Escape Prosecution

November 10, 2018 at 10:47 pm

Written
by 
Consortium
News

Recently
declassified documents show that the former CIA director and former
director of national intelligence approved illegal spying on Congress
and then classified their crime. They need to face punishment, writes
John Kiriakou.

(CN Opinion) — Republican
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made a 
dramatic
announcement
 this
month that almost nobody in America paid any attention to. Grassley
released a statement saying that four years ago, he asked the
Intelligence Community Inspector General to release two
“Congressional Notifications” written by former CIA Director John
Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Grassley
had had his requests to declassify the documents ignored repeatedly
throughout the last two years of the Obama administration. He decided
to try again because all of the Obama people at the CIA and DNI are
gone now. This time, his request was approved.

So
what was the information that was finally declassified? It was
written confirmation that John Brennan ordered CIA hackers to
intercept the emails of all potential or possible intelligence
community whistleblowers who may have been trying to contact the
Congressional oversight committees, specifically to the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Simply
put, Brennan ordered his people to hack into the Senate email
system—again. Grassley is the longtime chairman of Judiciary
Committee, and he was understandably appalled.

First,
let me explain what a Congressional Notification is. The CIA is
required by law to inform the Congressional oversight committees
whenever one of its officers, agents, or administrators breaks the
law, when an operation requires Congressional approval because it is
a “covert action” program, or whenever something happens at the
CIA that’s potentially controversial and the Agency wants to save
itself the embarrassment of explaining itself to Congress later.

Brennan
apparently ordered his officers to spy on the Senate. Remember, back
in 2014 his officers spied on Intelligence Community investigators
while they were writing the Senate Torture Report. This time, he
decided to inform Congress.

But
Brennan and Clapper classified the notification. It was like a taunt.
“Sure, I’m spying on Congress, which is illegal. But it’s
classified, so what are you going to do about it?”

Grassley
went through the proper channels. And even though Brennan and Clapper
essentially gave him the middle finger, he didn’t say anything
until the documents were finally declassified. He’s a bigger man
than I.

I
think Grassley missed an opportunity here, though.

First,
it’s my own opinion that John Brennan belongs in prison. He has
flouted U.S. national security laws with impunity for years. That’s
unacceptable. In these declassified notifications, he’s confessing
to hacking into the Senate’s computer system. That’s a violation
of a whole host of laws, from illegal use of a government computer to
wire fraud to espionage. There ought to be a price to pay for it,
especially in light of the fact that Brennan was the leading force
behind the prosecutions of eight national security whistleblowers
during the Obama administration, almost three times the number of
whistleblowers charged under the Espionage Act by all previous
presidents combined.

Second,
it’s a crime, a felony, to overclassify government information.
Most Americans have no idea that that’s the case. Of course, nobody
has ever been charged with it. But it’s a serious problem, and it’s
antithetical to transparency.  The CIA Inspector General said of
the notifications, “I could see no reason to withhold
declassification of these documents. They contained no information
that could be construed as sources and methods.” That’s an
admission that the notifications were improperly classified in the
first place.

Grassley
added, “There is a strong public interest in (the notifications’s)
content.  I do not believe they need to be classified at all,
and they should be released in their entirety.”

Grassley
went so far as to call out Brennan and Clapper by name. “What
sources or methods would be jeopardized by the declassification of
these notifications? After four-and-a-half years of bureaucratic
foot-dragging, led by Brennan and Clapper, we finally have the
answer: None.”

So
why weren’t they declassified four years ago? Remember, it’s
illegal to classify a crime. And it’s illegal to classify something
solely for the purpose of preventing embarrassment to the CIA. Yet
those were the very reasons for classifying the documents in the
first place. It was because Brennan and Clapper think they’re
somehow special cases. (Recall that it was Clapper who lied directly
to the Senate Intelligence Committee about intercepting the
communications of American citizens. He also did that with impunity.)

Brennan
and Clapper think the law doesn’t apply to them. But it does.
Without the rule of law, we have chaos in our country. The law has to
apply equally to all Americans. Brennan and Clapper need to learn
that lesson the hard way. They broke the law. They ought to be
prosecuted for it.

John
Kiriakou is a former CIA counterterrorism officer and a former senior
investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. John became
the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under
the Espionage Act—a law designed to punish spies. He served 23
months in prison as a result of his attempts to oppose the Bush
administration’s torture program.

By
John Kiriakou 
Republished
with permission / 
Consortium
News
 / Report
a typo

====================================

* Congressional
notifications: de CIA is bij wet verplicht om aan een commissie van
het congres door te geven als een agent, beambte of
administratiekracht de wet overtreedt in het belang van een inlichtingen onderzoek, dan wel als de wet wordt overtreden bij een actie van geheime diensten (zoals bij marteling van gevangenen, wat ook in deze zaak gebeurde….)…….

‘Russiagate’: Intel-raport over Russische bemoeienis met verkiezingen opgebouwd met leugens en is politiek gemotiveerd, aldus Matlock, voormalig VS ambassadeur in Moskou

Altijd
leuk om weer een bevestiging tegen te komen over de leugen dat
Rusland de presidentsverkiezingen in de VS heeft beïnvloed t.g.v.
Donald Trump, de ‘lichtelijk’ imbeciele psychopaat.

Er
kunnen niet genoeg van deze berichten verschijnen, zeker als je dag
in dag uit westerse ‘journalisten’, politici en ‘deskundigen’ de leugen hoort
herhalen dat de Russen wel degelijk deze verkiezingen hebben
gemanipuleerd, iets waarvoor tot op heden geen flinter bewijs is
geleverd….. Zoals er ook geen nanometer bewijs is voor Russische bemoeienis met de Brexit, de roep om onafhankelijkheid in Catalonië of verkiezingen in de EU, terwijl ook dat bijna dagelijks de revue passeert……

Lees
het hieronder opgenomen artikel en verbaas je ook over het gemak
waarmee de wereld werd en nog steeds wordt voorgelogen met een zo
doorzichtig aantal leugens….. In deze geopenbaard door Jack
Matlock, een voormalig VS ambassadeur in Moskou. Hij stelt o.a. dat de aanname dat de VS inlichtingendiensten achter deze leugens staan, op zich al een leugen van formaat is en dat het zogenaamde inlichtingen rapport vooral politiek gemotiveerd is (o.a. om Hillary Clinton uit de wind te houden en de winst van Trump bij de presidentsverkiezingen ter discussie te stellen, Ap):

Former
US Ambassador: Intel Report on Russian Interference “Politically
Motivated”

July
3, 2018 at 10:53 pm

Written
by 
Consortium
News

Prominent
journalists and politicians seized upon a shabby, politically
motivated, “intelligence” report as proof of “Russian
interference” in the U.S. election without the pretense of due
diligence, argues Jack Matlock, a former U.S. ambassador in Moscow.

(CN Op-ed) — Did
the U.S. “intelligence community” judge that Russia interfered in
the 2016 presidential election?

Most
commentators seem to think so. Every news report I have read of the
planned meeting of Presidents Trump and Putin in July refers to
“Russian interference” as a fact and asks whether the matter will
be discussed. Reports that President Putin denied involvement in the
election are scoffed at, usually with a claim that the U.S.
“intelligence community” proved Russian interference. In fact,
the U.S. “intelligence community” has not done so. The
intelligence community as a whole has not been tasked to make a
judgment and some key members of that community did not participate
in the report that is routinely cited as “proof” of “Russian
interference.”

I
spent the 35 years of my government service with a “top secret”
clearance.
 When
I reached the rank of ambassador and also worked as Special Assistant
to the President for National Security, I also had clearances for
“codeword” material. At that time, intelligence reports to the
president relating to Soviet and European affairs were routed through
me for comment. I developed at that time a “feel” for the
strengths and weaknesses of the various American intelligence
agencies. It is with that background that I read the January 6,
2017 
report of
three intelligence agencies: the CIA, FBI, and NSA.

This
report is labeled “Intelligence Community Assessment,” but in
fact 
it
is not that
.
A report of the intelligence community in my day would include the
input of all the relevant intelligence agencies and would reveal
whether all agreed with the conclusions. Individual agencies did not
hesitate to “take a footnote” or explain their position if they
disagreed with a particular assessment. A report would not claim to
be that of the “intelligence community” if any relevant agency
was omitted.

The
report states that it represents the findings of three intelligence
agencies: CIA, FBI, and NSA, but 
even
that is misleading
 in
that it implies that there was a consensus of relevant analysts in
these three agencies. In fact, the report was prepared by a group of
analysts from the three agencies pre-selected by their directors,
with the selection process generally overseen by James Clapper, then
Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Clapper told the Senate in
testimony May 8, 2017, that it was prepared by “two dozen or so
analysts—hand-picked, seasoned experts from each of the
contributing agencies.” If you can hand-pick the analysts, you can
hand-pick the conclusions. The analysts selected would have
understood what Director Clapper wanted since he made no secret of
his views. Why would they endanger their careers by not delivering?

What
should have struck any congressperson or reporter was that the
procedure Clapper followed was the same as that used in 2003 to
produce the report falsely claiming that Saddam Hussein had retained
stocks of weapons of mass destruction. That should be worrisome
enough to inspire questions, but that is not the only anomaly.

The
DNI has under his aegis a National Intelligence Council (NIC) whose
officers can call any intelligence agency with relevant expertise to
draft community assessments. It was created by Congress after 9/11
specifically to correct some of the flaws in intelligence collection
revealed by 9/11. Director Clapper chose not to call on the NIC,
which is curious since its duty is “to act as a bridge between the
intelligence and policy communities.”

Unusual
FBI Participation

During
my time in government, a judgment regarding national security would
include reports from, as a minimum, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA), and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) of
the State Department. The FBI was rarely, if ever, included unless
the principal question concerned law enforcement within the United
States. NSA might have provided some of the intelligence used by the
other agencies but normally did not express an opinion regarding the
substance of reports.

What
did I notice when I read the January report? There was no mention of
INR or DIA! The exclusion of DIA might be understandable since its
mandate deals primarily with military forces, except that the report
attributes some of the Russian activity to the GRU, Russian military
intelligence. DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, is the U.S.
intelligence organ most expert on the GRU. Did it concur with this
attribution? The report doesn’t say.

The
omission of INR is more glaring since a report on foreign political
activity could not have been that of the U.S. intelligence community
without its participation. After all, when it comes to assessments of
foreign intentions and foreign political activity, the State
Department’s intelligence service is by far the most knowledgeable
and competent. In my day, it reported accurately on Gorbachev’s
reforms when the CIA leaders were advising that Gorbachev had the
same aims as his predecessors.

This
is where due diligence comes in. The first question responsible
journalists and politicians should have asked is “Why is INR not
represented? Does it have a different opinion? If so, what is that
opinion? Most likely the official answer would have been that this is
“classified information.” But why should it be classified? If
some agency heads come to a conclusion and choose (or are directed)
to announce it publicly, doesn’t the public deserve to know that
one of the key agencies has a different opinion?

The
second question should have been directed at the CIA, NSA, and FBI:
did all their analysts agree with these conclusions or were they
divided in their conclusions? What was the reason behind hand-picking
analysts and departing from the customary practice of enlisting
analysts already in place and already responsible for following the
issues involved?

State
Department Intel Silenced

As
I was recently informed by a senior official, 
the
State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence Research did, in fact,
have a different opinion but was not allowed to express it
.
So the January report was not one of the “intelligence community,”
but rather of three intelligence agencies, two of which have no
responsibility or necessarily any competence to judge foreign
intentions. The job of the FBI is to enforce federal law. The job of
NSA is to intercept the communications of others and to protect ours.
It is not staffed to assess the content of what is intercepted; that
task is assumed by others, particularly the CIA, the DIA (if it is
military) or the State Department’s INR (if it is political).

The
second thing to remember is that reports of the intelligence agencies
reflect the views of the heads of the agencies and are not
necessarily a consensus of their analysts’ views. The heads of both
the CIA and FBI are political appointments, while the NSA chief is a
military officer; his agency is a collector of intelligence rather
than an analyst of its import, except in the fields of cryptography
and communications security.

One
striking thing about the press coverage and Congressional discussion
of the January report, and of subsequent statements by CIA, FBI, and
NSA heads is that questions were never posed regarding the position
of the State Department’s INR, or whether the analysts in the
agencies cited were in total agreement with the conclusions.

Let’s
put these questions aside for the moment and look at the report
itself. On the first page of text, the following statement leapt to
my attention:

We
did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had
on the outcome of the 2016 election. The US Intelligence Community is
charged with monitoring and assessing the intentions, capabilities,
and actions of foreign actors; it does not analyze US political
processes or US public opinion.”

Now,
how can one judge whether activity “interfered” with an election
without assessing its impact? After all, if the activity had no
impact on the outcome of the election, it could not be properly
termed interference. This disclaimer, however, has not prevented
journalists and politicians from citing the report as proof that
“Russia interfered” in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

As
for particulars, the report is full of assertion, innuendo, and
description of “capabilities” but largely devoid of any evidence
to substantiate its assertions. This is “explained” by claiming
that much of the evidence is classified and cannot be disclosed
without revealing sources and methods. The assertions are made with
“high confidence” or occasionally, “moderate confidence.”
Having read many intelligence reports I can tell you that if there is
irrefutable evidence of something it will be stated as a fact. The
use of the term “high confidence” is what most normal people
would call “our best guess.” “Moderate confidence” means
“some of our analysts think this might be true.”

Guccifer
2.0: A Fabrication

Among
the assertions are that a persona calling itself “Guccifer 2.0”
is an instrument of the GRU, and that it hacked the emails on the
Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) computer and conveyed them to
Wikileaks. What the report does not explain is that it is easy for a
hacker or foreign intelligence service to leave a false trail. In
fact, a program developed by CIA with NSA assistance to do just that
has been leaked and published*.

Retired
senior NSA technical experts have examined the “Guccifer 2.0”
data on the web and have concluded that “Guccifer 2.0’s” data
did not involve a hack across the web but was locally downloaded.
Further, the data had been tampered with and manipulated, leading to
the conclusion that “Guccifer 2.0” is a total fabrication.

The
report’s assertions regarding the supply of the DNC emails to
Wikileaks are dubious, but its final statement in this regard is
important: 
Disclosures
through WikiLeaks did not contain any evident forgeries.” 
 In
other words, what was disclosed was the truth! So, Russians are
accused of “degrading our democracy” by revealing that the DNC
was trying to fix the nomination of a particular candidate rather
than allowing the primaries and state caucuses to run their course. I
had always thought that transparency is consistent with democratic
values. Apparently those who think that the truth can degrade
democracy have a rather bizarre—to put it mildly–concept of
democracy.

Most
people, hearing that it is a “fact” that “Russia” interfered
in our election must think that Russian government agents hacked into
vote counting machines and switched votes to favor a particular
candidate. This, indeed, would be scary, and would justify the most
painful sanctions. But this is the one thing that the “intelligence”
report of January 6, 2017, states did not happen. Here is what it
said: “
DHS
[the Department of Homeland Security] assesses that the types of
systems Russian actors targeted or compromised were not involved in
vote tallying
.”

This
is an important statement by an agency that is empowered to assess
the impact of foreign activity on the United States. Why was it not
consulted regarding other aspects of the study? Or—was it in fact
consulted and refused to endorse the findings? Another obvious
question any responsible journalist or competent politician should
have asked.

Prominent
American journalists and politicians seized upon this shabby,
politically motivated, report as proof of “Russian interference”
in the U.S. election without even the pretense of due diligence. They
have objectively acted as co-conspirators in an effort to block any
improvement in relations with Russia, even though cooperation with
Russia to deal with common dangers is vital to both countries.

This
is only part of the story of how, without good reason, U.S.-Russian
relations have become dangerously confrontational. God willin and the
crick don’t rise, I’ll be musing about other aspects soon.

Op-ed
by 
Jack
Matlock
 /
Republished with permission / 
Consortium
News
 / Report
a typo

* De WikiLeaks Vault 7 en 8 documenten.

Zie wat betreft verkiezingen in de VS ook:

Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!

New York Times ‘bewijzen’ voor Russiagate vallen door de mand……

Trump (Republikeinen) wint de midterm verkiezingen, alsook de Democraten, het verschil voor mensen elders in de wereld, die onder VS terreur moeten leven, is nul komma nada…….

Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax

Russische inmenging VS presidentsverkiezingen? ha! ha! ha! ha! Sheldon Adelson en Netanyahu zal men bedoelen!

De Israëlische manipulatie van de VS presidentsverkiezingen, gaat veel verder dan wat men Rusland in de schoenen schuift…..

Zie verder:

VS heeft Rusland al 3 keer met oorlog gedreigd, de laatste 2 keer in de afgelopen 1,5 week……

Kajsa Ollongren (D66 vicepremier): Nederland staat in het vizier van Russische inlichtingendiensten……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Ollongren gesteund door Thomas Boesgaard (AD), ‘Rusland verpakt het nepnieuws gekoppeld aan echt nieuws…..’ Oei!!

The Attack on ‘Fake News’ Is Really an Attack on Alternative Media

The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media “Fake News” Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq

FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..

Mocking Trump Doesn’t Prove Russia’s Guilt

CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..

WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia

Hillary Clinton en haar oorlog tegen de waarheid…….. Ofwel een potje Rusland en Assange schoppen!

Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd

‘Russische manipulaties uitgevoerd’ door later vermoord staflid Clintons campagneteam Seth Rich……… AIVD en MIVD moeten hiervan weten!!

Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!

VS ‘democratie’ aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!

Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump

Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..

Flashback: Clinton Allies Met With Ukrainian Govt Officials to Dig up Dirt on Trump During 2016 Election

FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information

Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election

Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media

CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence

Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..

‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..

‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’

Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)

Clinton te kakken gezet: Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte

Ollongren gesteund door Thomas Boesgaard (AD), ‘Rusland verpakt het nepnieuws gekoppeld aan echt nieuws…..’ Oei!!

RT America één van de eerste slachtoffers in een heksenjacht op westerse alternatieve media en nadenkend links……

Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….

Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat

Mediaorgaan Sinclair dwingt ‘TV ankers’ propaganda op te lezen (Sinclair bedient rond de 70% van de VS bevolking van ‘lokaal nieuws’)

Ex-CIA agent legt uit hoe de VS schaduwregering en deep state werken, ofwel de machinaties achter de schermen……

‘Russiagate’ een nieuwe ongelooflijke aanklacht van de Democraten…….

VS demoniseert Russiagate critici als Jill Stein…..

De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

Britse en VS manipulaties van verkiezingen en stimulatie van conflicten middels psychologische oorlogsvoering‘ (voor VS manipulaties van verkiezingen elders, liggen er ‘metersdikke’ dossiers, o.a. in te zien op WikeLeaks)

Zie ook het volgende artikel daterend van 26 oktober 2017: ‘‘Death Sentence for Local Media’: Warnings as FCC Pushes Change to Benefit Right-Wing Media Giant‘ Met o.a.:“At a time when broadcast conglomerates like Sinclair are gobbling up new stations and pulling media resources out of marginalized communities, we still need the main studio rule to help connect broadcasters to the local viewers and listeners they’re supposed to serve.” Dana Floberg, Free Press. Vergeet niet dat bijvoorbeeld de lokale dagbladen in ons land intussen zo ongeveer allemaal zijn ondergebracht bij de grote dagbladen, allen in bezit van op winst beluste eigenaren, dan wel (beursgenoteerde) politiek rechtse organisaties, die een eigen belang hebben bij voor hen gunstig gekleurde berichtgeving in de bladen die zij onder het beheer hebben, waarbij deze eigenaren allen grote aanhangers zijn van het ijskoude, inhumane neoliberalisme en grote voorstanders zijn van de VS terreur, waar ter wereld die ook wordt uitgeoefend……..


GRU in Nederlands GROe, label veranderd op 5 oktober 2018.