Posted on 04/17/2021 7:21:34 AM PDT by george76
Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald just highlighted an interesting point about the reporting by The New York Times on the so-called “Bountygate” story the outlet broke in June of last year about the Russian government trying to pay Taliban-linked fighters to attack US soldiers in Afghanistan.
“One of the NYT reporters who originally broke the Russia bounty story (originally attributed to unnamed ‘intelligence officials’) say today that it was a CIA claim,” Greenwald tweeted. “So media outlets — again — repeated CIA stories with no questioning: congrats to all.”
Indeed, NYT’s original story made no mention of CIA involvement in the narrative, citing only “officials,” yet this latest article speaks as though it had been informing its readers of the story’s roots in the lying, torturing, drug-running, warmongering Central Intelligence Agency from the very beginning. The author even writes “The New York Times first reported last summer the existence of the C.I.A.’s assessment,” with the hyperlink leading to the initial article which made no mention of the CIA. It wasn’t until later that The New York Times began reporting that the CIA was looking into the Russian bounties allegations at all.
This would be the same “Russian bounties” narrative which was discredited all the way back in September when the top US military official in Afghanistan said no satisfactory evidence had surfaced for the allegations, which was further discredited today with a new article by The Daily Beast titled “U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops”.
The Daily Beast, which has itself uncritically published many articles promoting the CIA “Bountygate” narrative, reports the following:
It was a blockbuster story about Russia’s return to the imperial “Great Game” in Afghanistan. The Kremlin had spread money around the longtime central Asian battlefield for militants to kill remaining U.S. forces. It sparked a massive outcry from Democrats and their #resistance amplifiers about the treasonous Russian puppet in the White House whose admiration for Vladimir Putin had endangered American troops.
But on Thursday, the Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had “low to moderate” confidence in the story after all. Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven — and possibly untrue.
So the mass media aggressively promoted a CIA narrative that none of them ever saw proof of, because there was no proof, because it was an entirely unfounded claim from the very beginning. They quite literally ran a CIA press release and disguised it as a news story.
This allowed the CIA to throw shade and inertia on Trump’s proposed troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and Germany, and to continue ramping up anti-Russia sentiments on the world stage, and may well have contributed to the fact that the agency will officially be among those who are exempt from Biden’s performative Afghanistan “withdrawal”.
In totalitarian dictatorships, the government spy agency tells the news media what stories to run, and the news media unquestioningly publish it. In free democracies, the government spy agency says “Hoo buddy, have I got a scoop for you!” and the news media unquestioningly publish it.
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 is 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 people are too propagandized 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.
This isn’t Operation Mockingbird. It’s so much worse. Operation Mockingbird was the CIA doing something to the media. What we are seeing now is the CIA openly acting as the media. Any separation between the CIA and the news media, indeed even any pretence of separation, has been dropped.
This is bad. This is very, very bad. Democracy has no meaningful existence if people’s votes aren’t being cast with a clear understanding of what’s happening in their nation and their world, and if their understanding is being shaped to suit the agendas of the very government they’re meant to be influencing with their votes, what you have is the most powerful military and economic force in the history of civilization with no accountability to the electorate whatsoever. It’s just an immense globe-spanning power structure, doing whatever it wants to whoever it wants. A totalitarian dictatorship in disguise.
And the CIA is the very worst institution that could possibly be spearheading the movements of that dictatorship. A little research into the many, many horrific things the CIA has done over the years will quickly show you that this is true; hell, just a glance at what the CIA was up to with the Phoenix Program in Vietnam will.
There’s a common delusion in our society that depraved government agencies who are known to have done evil things in the past have simply stopped doing evil things for some reason. This belief is backed by zero evidence, and is contradicted by mountains of evidence to the contrary. It’s believed because it is comfortable, and for literally no other reason.
The CIA should not exist at all, let alone control the news media, much less the movements of the US empire. May we one day know a humanity that is entirely free from the rule of psychopaths, from our total planetary behavior as a collective, all the way down to the thoughts we think in our own heads.
May we extract their horrible fingers from every aspect of our being.
These conglomerates, AT&T for example, rely on government subsidies for their communication satellites. The government needs them for the bandwidth they "rent" on those same satellites.
Is the CIA a bunch of psychopaths or a bunch of sociopaths? As I understand it, psychopaths just mess with your mind. Sociopaths actually want you dead. Maybe they’re a little of both.
“One of the NYT reporters who originally broke the Russia bounty story (originally attributed to unnamed ‘intelligence officials’) say today that it was a CIA claim,” Greenwald tweeted. “So media outlets — again — repeated CIA stories with no questioning: congrats to all.”
Pure evil.
They need to go. Hard.
Agree with this posting.
I follow Caitlin Johnstone. I don’t agree with her on everything (climate), but I think she works overtime trying to shake people from their slumber.
Our Founding Fathers have spun themselves to dust.
White liberal 'elite' spooks taking down our country for the benefit of themselves, Yale and other nose in the air assh*les. I sure wish these thugs would point out a first world free country run by 'intelligence' coup members or military coup members... 'cause they're ain't one... they all become hellholes.
"All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus," Rhodes told the Times in May. "Now they don't. They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow and Cairo.Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change."
"They literally know nothing." --Ben Rhodes, Obama Deputy National Security Advisor
This is bad. This is very, very bad. Democracy has no meaningful existence if people’s votes aren’t being cast with a clear understanding of what’s happening in their nation and their world, and if their understanding is being shaped to suit the agendas of the very government they’re meant to be influencing with their votes, what you have is the most powerful military and economic force in the history of civilization with no accountability to the electorate whatsoever. It’s just an immense globe-spanning power structure, doing whatever it wants to whoever it wants. A totalitarian dictatorship in disguise."
It's not "in disguise", it's right out in the goddamn open.
This is nothing less than the Deep State and the globalists telling you, Joe Sixpack, they don't care if you have 800K in the bank and are active in your local GOP and church, they are now completely in sway, in fact we have never seen the Deep State completely control every member of the First Family, and by association, the Secretary of State (Hunter met with Blinken at least 7 times in the White Hut), and other members of the Cabinet who have been bought off with PLA money.
So the Deep State has finally thrown down the gauntlet: they monitor every. single. thing. you. do., they know you like Trump and you don't like Xiden, or Xi, or Schmerkel, or Soros.
The Deep State, in a short 30 years, have reduced the Presidency to a puppet-state paupership because they want to keep their personal revenue streams -- millions and billions -- also flowing into their grifter globalist machinery. Their velvet-glove tyranny doesn't. come. cheap.
We are in a hell of a fix now. History has very little guidance -- none -- on how to restore a still-young representative democracy that has slid into a bloodless one-party coup by its intelligence community, and with the acquiesence of its military. The latter is true calumny.
At least Ancient Greece and Rome have terrible histories to share on what happens after representative democracies were finally destroyed -- The Year of Four Emperors springs foremost to mind, or perhaps the tyrannical rulers and the debauchery that hallmarked the stretch from Caligula to Nero.
The only silver lining is, we know exactly who is to blame, and another black swan event would literally unwind the conspiracy, while it would probably also unwind the Republic.
The CIA has ALWAYS been/created/creating the “news”, starting after WWII and increasing and total control, etc. soon after that and ALL this time.
They are both. They are also ALL Satanists posing as christians, agnostics, unaffiliated,etc.
Yes, the CIA is PURE EVIL as you said. If more people don’t realize that we all are in for a world of mass-murder (first happening in the U.S.) by the CIA and ALL their domestic and foreign enemy cohorts.
All of them and Fox News, OANN, and ALL news sites, etc. are some to a lot or all government operatives on there.
Other humans are inanimate robotic objects to be used like a tool to a sociopath.
Operation Phoenix...
“The Program was designed to identify and “neutralize” (via infiltration, capture, terrorism, torture, and assassination) the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong). The CIA described it as “a set of programs that sought to attack and destroy the political infrastructure of the Viet Cong”. The major two components of the program were Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) and regional interrogation centers. PRUs would kill and capture suspected VC. They would also capture VC and civilians who were thought to have information on VC activities. Many of these people were then taken to the interrogation centers where some were tortured in an attempt to gain intelligence on VC activities in the area. The information extracted at the centers was then given to military commanders, who would use it to task the PRU with further capture and assassination missions”
Excerpted from here...
http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Vietnam/sub5_9b/entry-3358.html
If the Marxists take full change, you can bet your bippy these tactics would be employed to root out Patriots.
“If the Marxists take full change, you can bet your bippy these tactics would be employed to root out Patriots.”
already been done. What do you think happened to the TeaParty?
Who exactly is it that was goosing QAnon?
The entire relationship of Fed.gov to the States is a psyops at this point...
Yes, and it is COMMUNISM, not “marxism” or “socialism”, etc. And the CIA didn’t capture/torture VC, etc. the CIA captured/tortured those that were against the VC so that the CIA could keep getting as many of our military killed by the VC as the CIA could.
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