From: David Swanson via WarIsACrime.org <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 2:29 PM
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Subject: The Intelligence Community Is Neither
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The Intelligence Community Is Neither
By David Swanson
http://davidswanson.org/the-intelligence-community-is-neither/
At the big “Treason Summit” “Russopocalypse” “Catastrovent” on Monday,
journalist Sam Husseini tried to ask a question about banning nuclear weapons,
and was physically hauled out of the room by officials from the “Land of Press
Freedom,” Finland. Meanwhile, an Associated Press reporter was permitted to ask
a perfectly respectable question pushing a blatant lie that risks nuclear war.
Yay for press freedom!
The AP reporter claimed that “every U.S. intelligence agency has concluded
that” the Russian government interfered in the U.S. election of 2016. In fact,
the report
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that this common lie always refers to was concocted by a group of
“hand-picked” (James Clapper’s description) people from three agencies out of
18 or so. The three were the NSA, FBI, and CIA — none of which ever, ever lie
or get things wrong, ever. The INR and DIA were excluded along with all the
others.
That’s why the Associated Press told a lie. Here’s why it’s a blatant and
dangerous lie. The same report didn’t conclude a damn thing. It just
“assessed,” which is a weasel word for guessed. Of the three agencies involved,
two assessed with high and one with moderate confidence that Russia did
something or other to benefit Trump. Whether that something was revealing to
the public the DNC’s slanting of its primary against Bernie Sanders we are not
told. We are also not offered any evidence for whatever it was. We are also not
told Trump was involved in it, or offered any degree of assessment of that,
much less any evidence. We are also not given any claim that informing us about
the DNC’s shenanigans, or any other actions, had any impact on the outcome of
the election. We also are not presented any case that keeping the rigging of
primaries secret from the public is essential to the sanctity and freedom of
our democracy.
But here’s where it gets frightening. Unknown people produced an unread report
that claims very little on behalf of very few but has not only become the
gospel handed down by the “Intelligence Community,” but thousands of writers,
bloggers, and tweeters between Monday and Tuesday have announced that one must
choose either to believe this gospel or to side with The Russian Enemy. And the
unknown propagandists who produced the ridiculously vacuous report
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have been turned into The Troops, and The People Who Risk Their Lives to
Protect Us — this language now being used by all sorts of people clogging up my
social media, including some pretty well-known ones like Michael Moore.
I asked one such liberal advocate for believing the brave CIA spies who protect
us how exactly they risked their lives and what they protected him from, and he
replied that they risk their lives because Russia shoots down airplanes and
poisons people. In other words, the same crowd that claims Russia shot down a
plane over Ukraine and poisoned people in England now gets Sacred Troop status
conferred upon its additional allegations through the circular logic that
because it accused Russia of deadly crimes its accusations against Russia are
brave and not to be questioned. (Deadly crimes bombing people in Syria don’t
count because those are good decent deadly crimes.)
And here’s where this seems to take us, as some of us have been warning for a
year and a half: Endless indisputable impeachable offenses
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by Donald Trump continue to pile up. And nobody cares. Top Democrats have
found what they stand for. A sustainable earth? Peace? Justice? Social
prosperity? Clean elections?
Are you crazy? They stand for Russophobia. Now if Trump were to actually be
impeached, even if for a legitimate reason, what would be President Pence’s
best move to reassure liberals? Bombing Russia. If Democrats hold off
impeachment (something for which some of them seem willing to actually risk
their lives) what will they spend two years campaigning for the throne on?
Hating Russia, punishing Russia, attacking Russia. It’s their way to
out-Republican the Republicans, and they LOVE it. The U.S. public mostly
doesn’t care, but the ones who get involved in electoral politics are in
ecstasy.
The fate of the earth may just depend on somebody creating a television network
in the United States not dedicated to hating Russia on the one hand or basic
human decency on the other. In the meantime, a big thank you to Democracy Now
for getting this one right and having Sam Husseini on the show
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