Posted on 04/08/2022 10:17:44 AM PDT by xzins
(Via NBC) – […] three U.S. officials told NBC News this week there is no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine. They said the U.S. released the [mis]information to deter Russia from using the banned munitions.
[…] Coordinated by the White House National Security Council, the unprecedented intelligence releases have been so frequent and voluminous, officials said, that intelligence agencies had to devote more staff members to work on the declassification process, scrubbing the [mis]information so it wouldn’t betray sources and methods.
[…] The idea is to pre-empt and disrupt the Kremlin’s tactics, complicate its military campaign, “undermine Moscow’s propaganda and prevent Russia from defining how the war is perceived in the world,” said a Western government official familiar with the strategy.
Multiple U.S. officials acknowledged that the U.S. has used [mis]information as a weapon even when confidence in the accuracy of the information wasn’t high. Sometimes it has used low-confidence intelligence for deterrent effect, as with chemical agents, and other times, as an official put it, the U.S. is just “trying to get inside Putin’s head.” (read more)
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Remember when they said Russia was going to attack on Wednesday? Always thought that was weird.
I figured they were buying time for someone’s teams to finish up some operation.
“...they are going to come after you?”
THAT would precipitate a GREAT misfortune.
But the feral swine would approve.
Anyone, who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.!” - (Voltaire)
Noblesse Oblige.
I’ll repeat what I have been saying on this subject for months...nay, years.
The US CIA and State Department are the most advanced and effective information warfare organization in human history.
Nobody else comes close.
Definitely among the best.
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