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From Snowden To Russia-gate – The CIA And The Media
The promotion of the alleged Russian election hacking in certain media may have grown from the successful attempts of U.S. intelligence services to limit the publication of the NSA files obtained by Edward Snowden.
In May 2013 Edward Snowden fled to Hongkong and handed internal documents from the National Security Agency (NSA) to four journalists, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Ewen MacAskill of the Guardian and separately to Barton Gellman who worked for the Washington Post. Some of those documents were published by Glenn Greenwald in the Guardian, others by Barton Gellman in the Washington Post. Several other international news site published additional material though the mass of NSA papers that Snowden allegedly acquired never saw public daylight.
In July 2013 the Guardian was forced by the British government to destroy its copy of the Snowden archive.
In August 2013 Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for some $250 million. In 2012 Bezos, the founder, largest share holder and CEO of Amazon, had already a cooperation with the CIA. Together they invested in a Canadian quantum computing company. In March 2013 Amazon signed a $600 million deal to provide computing services for the CIA.
In October 2013 Pierre Omidyar, the owner of Ebay, founded First Look Media and hired Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. The total planned investment was said to be $250 million. It took up to February 2014 until the new organization launched its first site, the Intercept. Only a few NSA stories appeared on it. The Intercept is a rather mediocre site. Its management is said to be chaotic. It publishes few stories of interests and one might ask if it ever was meant to be a serious outlet. Omidyar has worked, together with the U.S. government, to force regime change onto Ukraine. He had strong ties with the Obama administration.
Snowden had copies of some 20,000 to 58,000 NSA files. Only 1,182 have been published. Bezos and Omidyar obviously helped the NSA to keep more than 95% of the Snowden archive away from the public. The Snowden papers were practically privatized into trusted hands of Silicon Valley billionaires with ties to the various secret services and the Obama administration.
The motivation for the Bezos and Omidyar to do this is not clear. Bezos is estimated to own a shameful $90 billion. The Washington Post buy is chump-change for him. Omidyar has a net worth of some $9.3 billion. But the use of billionaires to mask what are in fact intelligence operations is not new. The Ford Foundation has for decades been a CIA front, George Soros' Open Society foundation is one of the premier "regime change" operations, well versed in instigating "color revolutions".
It would have been reasonable if the cooperation between those billionaires and the intelligence agencies had stopped after the NSA leaks were secured. But it seems that strong cooperation of the Bezos and Omidyar outlets with the CIA and others continue.
The Intercept burned a intelligence leaker, Realty Winner, who had trusted its journalists to keep her protected. It smeared the President of Syria as neo-nazi based on an (intentional?) mistranslation of one of his speeches. It additionally hired a Syrian supporter of the CIA's "regime change by Jihadis" in Syria. Despite its pretense of "fearless, adversarial journalism" it hardly deviates from U.S. policies.
The Washington Post, which has a much bigger reach, is the prime outlet for "Russia-gate", the false claims by parts of the U.S. intelligence community and the Clinton campaign, that Russia attempted to influence U.S. elections or even "colluded" with Trump.
Just today it provides two stories and one op-ed that lack any factual evidence for the anti-Russian claims made in them.
In Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options the writers insinuate that some anonymous writer who published a few pieces on Counterpunch and elsewhere was part of a Russian operation. They provide zero evidence to back that claim up. Whatever that writer wrote (see list at end) was run of the mill stuff that had little to do with the U.S. election. The piece then dives into various cyber-operations against Russia that the Obama and Trump administration have discussed.
A second story in the paper today is based on "a classified GRU report obtained by The Washington Post." It claims that the Russian military intelligence service GRU started a social media operation one day after the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was illegally removed from his office in a U.S. regime change operation. What the story lists as alleged GRU puppet postings reads like normal internet talk of people opposed to the fascist regime change in Kiev. The Washington Post leaves completely unexplained who handed it an alleged GRU report from 2014, who classified it and how, if at all, it verified its veracity. To me the piece and the assertions therein have a strong odor of bovine excrement.
An op-ed in the very same Washington Post has a similar smell. It is written by the intelligence flunkies Michael Morell and Mike Rogers. Morell had hoped to become CIA boss under a President Hillary Clinton. The op-ed (which includes a serious misunderstanding of "deterrence") asserts that Russia never stopped its cyberattacks on the United States:
Russia’s information operations tactics since the election are more numerous than can be listed here. But to get a sense of the breadth of Russian activity, consider the messaging spread by Kremlin-oriented accounts on Twitter, which cybersecurity and disinformation experts have tracked as part of the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy.
The author link to this page which claims to list Twitter hashtags that are currently used by Russian influence agents. Apparently the top issue Russia's influence agents currently promote is "#merrychristmas".
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When the authors claim Russian operations are "more numerous than can be listed here" they practically admit that they have not even one plausible operation they could cite. Its simply obfuscation to justify their call for more political and military measures against Russia. This again to distract from the real reasons Clinton lost the election and to introduce a new Cold War for the benefit of weapon producers and U.S. influence in Europe.
None of the Russia-gate stories so far has held up to scrutiny. There is no proof at all, nor reasonable evidence, that Russia interfered in elections in the U.S. or elsewhere. There is no evidence of "collusion" with the Trump campaign.
One of the most complete debunking of the false claims can be found in the recent London Review of Books: What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Russian Hacking. Consortium News has published many pieces on the issue as well as analyses and warnings of what may follow from it. Many other writers have caught up and debunk the various false claims. The Nation lists various cases of journalistic malpractice with regard to Russia-gate.
The people who promote the "Russian influence" nonsense are political operatives or hacks. Take for example Luke Harding of the Guardian who just published a book titled Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win. He was taken apart in a Real News interview (vid) about the book. The interviewer pointed out that there is absolutely no evidence in the book to support its claims. When asked for any proof for his assertion Harding defensively says that he is just "storytelling" – in other words: its fiction. Harding earlier wrote a book about Edward Snowden which was a similar sham. Julian Assange called it "a hack job in the purest sense of the term". Harding is also known as plagiarizer. When he worked in Moscow he copied stories and passages from the now defunct Exile, run by Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames. The Guardian had to publish an apology.
The Mexican government controls the media by buying an immense amount of advertisement. It thus guarantees income as long as its political line is followed. The U.S. government has its own ways of controlling the media. In the 1950s to 1970s the CIA ran Operation Mockingbird which gave it control over much of the news and opinion output in U.S. media. During that time up to 400 main stream journalists were working for the CIA.
The method of control has likely changed. The handling of the Snowden affair lets one assume that the CIA induces billionaires to buy up media and to implement the CIA's favored policies through them. We do not know what the billionaires get for their service. The CIA surely has many ways to let them gain information on their competition or to influence business regulations in foreign countries. One hand will wash the other.
James Clapper as Director of National Intelligence, John Brennan as CIA head and James Comey from the FBI "assessed" that Russia influenced the U.S. presidential election. Annex B of their report, which hardly any report bothered to mention, read:
Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact. Assessments are based on collected information, which is often incomplete or fragmentary, as well as logic, argumentation and precedents.
That sentence is the core of Russia-gate. There are lots of claims, assertions and judgments but no proof at all that any of the alleged Russian influence really happened.
It is probably due to the undue influence of the intelligence services that media have adopted that Annex B standard fro themselves. With regards to Russia (and other issues) assertions are now enough – there is no need to investigate, to find the truth or to verify claims.
How will that system work if an accident happens, some jet gets shot down and the issue escalates. Will there be any reporter left in the main stream media who is allowed to ask real questions?
Hausmaus @ 206 said…
You need some help to avoid being naive and for how critical reading works.
Sorry…but you are projecting HM…
It’s the German people who are indoctrinated with a guilt complex that they can never get over…
And I know Germany very well…my father was stationed in Bielefeld [British base] for six years…I was there for three as a child and went to school there grades one through three…
Learned German quickly as children do…but have sadly forgotten most of it by now…
I remember an old lady ‘Frau Konopka’ who would sing little Hitler diddies to her grandchildren…in secret…because already [in 1960s] it was huge taboo…
But the old people still remember the people’s champion…
Those statistics about war production…while very true… have nothing to do with the issue under discussion…ie the Socialist platform of the regime…which was very real…
Here is British historian AJP Taylor…
Germany’s economic recovery, which was complete by 1936, did not rest on rearmament…
…it was caused mainly by lavish expenditure on public works, particularly on motor roads, and this public spending stimulated private spending also, as [British economist John Maynard] Keynes had said it would.
A. J. P. Taylor, From Sarajevo to Potsdam (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), p. 140
Here I will cite an acclaimed historian who is very anti-Nazi…
“The regime insisted that it was not the rule of one social class above all others, and by granting everyone opportunities to rise, it in fact demonstrated class neutrality …
These measures did indeed break through the old, petrified social structures. They tangibly improved the material condition of much of the population.”
Joachim Fest, Hitler (New York: 1974), pp. 434-435
Trump just gave one trillion dollars plus to the wealthy…
Supposedly the ‘middle class’ gets a tax break too…but here is how it breaks down…
An American earning $25,000 a year will get exactly $50 dollar tax break…
An American earning $750,000 a year will get $50,000…
The guy earning 30 times more gets 1,000 times bigger break…a fairness ratio if you will of 33 to 1…in favor of the high income earner…
In Hitler’s Germany of the 1930’s corporate tax rates doubled…from 20 percent to 40 percent…
R. Grunberger, The Twelve-Year Reich (1971), p. 177
Look at some of the customer reviews there on Amazon…even children of Holocaust survivors are interested in this intentionally buried aspect of Nazi history…
Corporate profits were kept to moderate levels…shareholder dividends were kept to six percent…
D. Schoenbaum, Hitler’s Social Revolution (1980), pp. 144, 145
I have cited only respected historians here…
There is no question that wikipedia is biased as Elsi noted…
But the bias is in favor of the standard neoliberal, Atlanticist doctrine…although everything I have presented from wikipedia is supported by citations from respected historians…
So it is useless to argue something here without anything to back it up…Hitler’s economy was much more fair and just than the debt slavery and wage slavery we have today in the so-called ‘free’ West…
Of course they do not want you to know this fact…it would be very dangerous…
Which is exactly why we should make efforts to get to truths that are deliberately hidden from us…
As for your comment here…
You feed the animals first before you slaughter them.
What is that…?
A jingle or has this something to do with anything meaningful…?
What kind of clever jingle would one say about the police state we live in where ‘law enforcement’ guns people down like shooting soda cans…?
Over 1,000 a year…that’s three civilians a day…
Maybe we could say…’they don’t even feed us before they shoot us down…’
Posted by: FB | Dec 29 2017 15:12 utc | 209
Hi Monsieur. FB,
First of all, I must say that I thought that you would have stopped writing at this thread…( in fact, I wonder for how long we will be allowed to continue talking here….
Second, thank you very much for your detailed account of moving and interesting moments of the memorable series Seventeen Moments of Spring.
I was sure any “curious” person would find the series a treasure, not only, as you found out, by its accurate account of historical events which could be unknown for many, but also by its aesthetics, sobriety and excellent performances…even when touching very emotional moments like the furtive encounter of Mr. Stierlitz and his wife at Elefant, just after his mission was prorogatted by Moscow, only for them to be able to watch to each other in the distance fro a moment…so that not arising suspiccions on the apparently single Mr. Bolzen…Initially, I thought he was not to show any emotion at all, for the woman´s despair, as it would be mandatory for any foreign agent in public view, but, when the camera approaches, his eyes….well…never a look could express so much suffering, pain, nostalgia,…and never a scene could better express the harshness of an spy work…The same you can feel when Mr. Svedeborg forgot about just an important detail on his mission in Switzerland, about a flower vase which might be visible in the window´s flat of his contact there before he was able to go up, which took him, first, to get caught, and then, to finally get dead….This is also, I fear, along with the vicissitudes of Pastor Shlag ( remember when the elder pastor starts his crossing through the snowy mountains in Switzerland, just Mr.Stierlitz had not all with him on the success of his mission seeing him walking away in such clumsy way… ) an homage to those Germans participating in the resistance to the Nazi regime….
I was also grabbed by the episodes where Kathe was in danger, wishing that the next episode were alluding more details on what was going on with her…I liked poor Helmut a lot…even in his obviously mind damaged state, he was able to differentiate among what is tolerable, even being at war, and what not….I think that it is also a homage to all those Germans who at certain point felt that the Nazi regime was deadly wrong….
Third, by the way, you seem to know the German language, by your use of German words/expressions, are you of German descent?
You seem also to be fond on bird watching….something proper of kinda contemplative people…
Did you know that I happen to live in a crossroad for birds from around the world?
Yes, I live very near Txingudi Bay….although I have no idea about geese…and not interested in birds until just recently during my short travels in solitude through Spain ….But, when I am at night quietly reading at my lap top, during season change, I usually hear the flocks of birds passing over my home, making a lot of noise…wondering always how is that they get orientated at night…. and where they could were going…. as always happens to me when I watch any aircraft very high in the sky at sunset….They usually come to confirm, if it were not so obvious by the climate at the time, as sometimes happens here, that the winter is coming….
So, you are fond on birds and also now you seem, besides, to be very knoledgeable in aircrafting….
Did you know that, when I was just a child, I was always wishing to become an aircraft pilot in spite of being a girl?
Just had to forgot about that when around seven or eight years old I became myopic….That was a tragedy for me….but overcome it….In exchange, I guess, I became an impenitent traveller….Dad was a sailor….but, he did not want any of his children would be one….because of the dangers and sufferings of working in the sea…although he took great troubles to teach us to swim, even in the wild deep waters of the Cantabric Sea…He used to carry me on his back…and swim very, very far… inside the sea….He had a long and great scar in his back….
Thank you for the series on WWII, I think that this is from the same production of another series another commenter at other some blogs called “Sergei” provided to me on the Korean War. I will put the link in case you could be interested:
The Korean War. Russian Documentary Film (English Subtitles)
StarMediaEN
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P.S: There are cliques at every of the supposed “alt-media”…I have been targeted by some of them at Saker´s and Fort Russ…Just you deviates from their line a bit, wait for them to come in mass, even when some never contribute with anything to the blog in question…I fear that some are people from the “alt-right”, by their behavior, gross language, hate for communists, black and Arabic people and women in general…Others are staff trying to neutralize anybody deviating form the blog´s broadcasting goal
Posted by: elsi | Jan 13 2018 19:09 utc | 261
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