The Russian Hacking Fiasco
The Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin: Did the Russians hack U.S.
election databases? (Yahoo News photo illustration, photos: Maxim
Shemetov/Reuters, Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters, AP, AP)
By Mike Whitney, www.informationclearinghouse.info
May 15th, 2017
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Above Photo: The Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin: Did the
Russians hack U.S. election databases? (Yahoo News photo illustration,
photos: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters, Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters, AP, AP
May 13, 2017 "Information Clearing House" -There's no proof that Russia
hacked the US elections.
There's no proof that Russian officials or Russian agents colluded with
members of the Trump campaign.
There's no proof that Russia provided material support of any kind for the
Trump campaign or that Russian agents hacked Hillary Clinton's emails or
that Russian officials provided Wikileaks with emails that were intended to
sabotage Hillary's chances to win the election.
So far, no one in any of the 17 US intelligence agencies has stepped forward
and verified the claims of Russian meddling or produced a scintilla of hard
evidence that Russia was in anyway involved in the 2016 elections.
No proof means no proof. It means that the people and organizations that
are making these uncorroborated claims have no basis for legal action, no
presumption of wrongdoing, and no grounds for prosecution. They have
nothing. Zilch. Their claims, charges and accusations are like the soap
bubbles we give to our children and grandchildren. The brightly-colored
bubbles wobble across the sky for a minute or two and then, Poof, they
vanish into the ether. The claims of Russia hacking are like these bubbles.
They are empty, unsubstantiated rumors completely devoid of substance. Poof.
It has been eight months since the inception of this
unprecedentedly-pathetic and infinitely-irritating propaganda campaign, and
in those eight months neither the media nor the politicos nor the Intel
agents who claim to be certain that Russia meddled in US elections, have
produced anything that even remotely resembles evidence. Instead, they have
trotted out the same lie over and over again ad nauseam from every
newspaper, every tabloid and every televised news program in the country.
Over and over and over again. The media's persistence is nearly as
impressive as its cynicism, which is the one quality that they seem to have
mastered. The coverage has been relentless, ubiquitous, pernicious and
mendacious. The only problem is that there's not a grain of truth to any of
it. It is all 100 percent, unalloyed baloney.
So it doesn't matter how many Democratic senators and congressmen disgrace
themselves by lighting their hair on fire and howling about "evil Putin" or
the imaginary "threats to our precious democracy". Nor does it matter how
many hyperbolic articles appear in media alleging sinister activities and
espionage by diabolical Moscow Central. It doesn't matter because there is
have absolutely zero solid evidence to support their ludicrous and entirely
politically-based claims.
Whether Russia was involved in the US elections or not, is a matter of pure
speculation. But speculation is not sufficient grounds for appointing a
special prosecutor, nor are the lies and misinformation that appear daily in
our leading newspapers, like the dissembling New York Times, the
dissemblingWashington Post and the dissembling Wall Street Journal. The call
for a special prosecutor is not based on evidence, it is based on politics,
the politics of personal destruction. The Democrats and the media want this
tool so they can rummage through whatever private information or paperwork
anyone in the Trump administration might possess. So while they might not
dig up anything relevant to the Russia hacking investigation, they will
certainly gather enough sordid or suspicious information to annihilate the
people in their crosshairs. And that's precisely what the special prosecutor
provision is designed to do; it provides the administration's rivals with
the weapons they need to conduct a massive fishing expedition aimed at
character assassination and, ultimately, impeachment.
But, why?
Because Donald Trump had the audacity to win an election that was earmarked
for establishment favorite and globalist warmonger-in-chief, Hillary
Clinton. That's what this witch hunt is all about, sour grapes.
That's easy. Just look at a map. For the last 16 years, the US has been
rampaging across North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Washington
intends to control critical oil and natural gas reserves in the ME,
establish military bases across Central Asia, and remain the dominant player
in an area of that is set to become the most populous and prosperous region
of the world. It's the Great Game all over again, only this time-around,
Uncle Sam is in the drivers seat not the Queen of England.But why has Russia
been chosen as the target in this deep state-media scam? What has Russia
done to deserve all the negative press and unsupported claims of criminal
meddling?
But one country has upset that plan, blocked that plan, derailed that plan.
Russia has stopped Washington's murderous marauding and genocidal
depredations in Ukraine and Syria, which is why the US foreign policy
establishment is so pissed-off. US elites aren't used to obstacles.
For the last quarter of a century- since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the
dissolution of the Soviet Union- the world had been Washington's oyster. If
the president of the United States wanted to invade a country in the Middle
East, kill a million people, and leave the place in a smoldering pile of
rubble, then who could stop him?
Nobody. Because Washington owns this fu**ing planet and everyone else is
just a visitor.
Capisce?
But now all that's changed. Now evil Putin has thrown up a roadblock to US
hegemony in Syria and Ukraine. Now Washington's landbridge to Central Asia
has been split in two, and its plan to control vital pipeline corridors from
Qatar to the EU is no longer viable. Russia has stopped Washington
dead-in-its tracks and Washington is furious.
The anti-Russia hysteria in the western media is equal to the pain the US
foreign policy establishment is currently experiencing. And the reason the
foreign policy establishment is in so much pain, is because they are not
getting their way. It's that simple. Their global strategy is in a shambles
because Russia will not let them topple the Syrian government, install their
own puppet regime, redraw the map of the Middle East, run roughshod over
international law, and tighten their grip on another battered war-torn part
of the world.
So now Russia must pay. Putin must be demonized and derided. The American
people must be taught to hate Russia and all-things Russian. And, most of
all, Russia must be blamed for anything and everything under the sun,
including the firing of a completely worthless sack of sh** FBI Director,
James Comey, who- at various times in his career- "approved or defended some
of the worst abuses of the Bush administration..including torture,
warrantless wiretapping, and indefinite detention." (ACLU)
This is the low-down, good-for-nothing scalawag that the Democrats are now
defending tooth in nail.
It's pathetic.
Russia has become the all-purpose punching bag because Washington's plans
for global domination have gone up in smoke.
The truth is, Putin's done us all a big favor.
