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Fact-check: Fox News and Republican lawmakers push new false flag conspiracy that FBI orchestrated US Capitol insurrection
CNN ^ | June 17, 2021 | Marshall Cohen

Posted on 06/17/2021 7:20:06 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Fox News, right-wing websites and Republican lawmakers are promoting a new false flag conspiracy that the FBI orchestrated the deadly assault on the US Capitol.

The haywire theory originated from an article published Monday by Revolver News, a right-wing website. From there, it was picked up by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who used his opening segment on Tuesday night to slam the FBI, saying it played a role in the January 6 attack.

Several Republican lawmakers quickly piled on. They entered the article into the congressional record, tweeted about the Fox News segment, condemned the FBI agents who supposedly "organized and participated" in the Capitol attack, and demanded answers from the FBI director.

But here's the problem: The underlying article was nothing more than a conspiratorial web of unproven claims, half-truths and inaccurate drivel about perceived bombshells in court filings.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 20210106; capitolriot; cnn; fakenews; falseflag; fbi; insurrection; jan6; revolvernews
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To: Magnatron

>>Yep, the FBI would never do anything corrupt.
>>Would they?

Just ask Richard Jewel.


41 posted on 06/17/2021 10:10:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Another millennial reporter?

https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen


42 posted on 06/17/2021 10:12:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Paladin2

Actually, CNN is known for paying at least two of the instigators to play the role of insurrectionists. Sullivan, and his accomplice, a CNN employee or contractor who was based out of Cambodia. I think they paid about $60,000.


43 posted on 06/17/2021 11:56:39 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Responsibility2nd

CNN also referenced legal “experts” and Twitter.


44 posted on 06/18/2021 12:00:50 AM PDT by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

CNN is also the company that covered up Saddam Hussein’s torturing of one of their Iraqi employees...because they were afraid that if they objected to his treatment, they would be denied access to Iraq.


45 posted on 06/18/2021 12:02:04 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

CNN’s Jason Blair arranged?


46 posted on 06/18/2021 1:38:38 AM PDT by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
When you hear or read the words “Fact Check” get ready to hear or read a bunch of bull shit and lies because there are no facts. There is a saying that goes: If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull shit. CNN has never been able to dazzle one with brilliance, therefore they result to baffling one with bull shit. In this they have been successful.
47 posted on 06/18/2021 1:48:43 AM PDT by sport
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To: EvilCapitalist

Obvious to many


48 posted on 06/18/2021 2:52:53 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Just like the lab leak theory.

Just like hydroxycloriqine.

Lies lies lies all the time.


49 posted on 06/18/2021 3:34:24 AM PDT by Principled (Biden is illegitimate and whatever he says can be ignored. )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
These theories are just the latest example of right-wing figures deflecting responsibility for the deadly Capitol riot away from former President Donald Trump and his supporters.

"deadly Capitol riot"...

How did the "rioters" get past the heavy metal doors?

Someone from peeloser's staff opened them so this demonRAT planned 'peaceful demonstration' could go one.

50 posted on 06/18/2021 4:14:54 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It sure seems like CNN is going full bore on pushing out their version of the ‘insurrection’ and are inordinately concentrating on it even to the exclusion of tons of other fake news angles that they could be pursuing right now… … it’s like they know that the dot of light in the distance is not the end of the tunnel but a train coming at them. Maybe they are realizing just how much traction the Revolver story has and that it’s picking up steam?…. and with that in mind, they are going full pre-emptive in getting their ducks lined up with all kinds of sympathy inducing narratives.

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1405740806338605065

Case in point was the lengthy interview last night that Anderson Cooper did of Sandra Garza… she was introduced as being Brian Sicknick’s ‘life partner’. On one level, it was a highly compelling interview but as I watched it, it became immediately apparent that they really jumped the shark on this one, even for CNN.… it simply was just too well orchestrated, too ‘tugging at the heartstrings’ perfect, the dialogue was too well rehearsed so that not one second of time was wasted thinking about either questions or answers, it was too ‘covering all the bases’ of all the facets of who/what they wanted to disparage and what the narrative needed to accomplish and this continued right to the end where Garza said “Anderson, can I just say one more thing….” At that point, one couldn’t help but start wondering how many sections out of the interview were ‘focus group tested’ internally at CNN until they got the wording exactly right. It became obvious that there were endless questions of much more pertinent questions that should have been asked but weren’t for obvious reasons….

I sure hope that if I’m right about what this interview was, it gets exposed in the harshest way possible.


51 posted on 06/18/2021 4:33:50 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Crazy Right wingers use reason, rational thinking and logic to come up with their own ideas rather than believe what CNN tells them to think.


52 posted on 06/18/2021 4:35:16 AM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: EvilCapitalist

You misspelled “CNNLOL”


53 posted on 06/18/2021 4:39:54 AM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: bray

BIO: Cohen has received several awards for his coverage of the Russia probe and related court cases, including an Emmy Award and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award.
During the 2016 campaign, Cohen was a producer and researcher for CNN’s Political Unit, where he worked on the network’s debates, town halls and other special events. He was part of the team that earned an Emmy Award nomination for producing CNN’s presidential debates.


54 posted on 06/18/2021 5:07:04 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Why would FBI instigators be even listed.? They would just be ignored.
I believe there were Antifa instigators posing as Trump supporters that drummed up the crowd.
You can spot some of them in the videos. Black outfits, backpacks. They came ready to cause a riot.


55 posted on 06/18/2021 6:59:53 AM PDT by Vinnie ( )
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Yeah, those right wing nuts!

They thought Russia didn’t steal 2016 and the virus was bio-engineered!
.
.

Yes..crazy people right?

lol

CNN is like the worst marxist propaganda outlet I’ve ever seen.


56 posted on 06/21/2021 6:55:03 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

One should never believe something until CNN denies it.


57 posted on 06/21/2021 6:57:16 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: al baby

Lynne was da bomb in her time but she’s a killer.


58 posted on 06/21/2021 6:58:24 PM PDT by OKSooner (Well, son of a bitch.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
But here's the problem: The underlying article was nothing more than a conspiratorial web of unproven claims, half-truths and inaccurate drivel about

We've know and proven this for decades about CNN, MSNBC, NCB, CBS, ABC, PBS, all the leftist print media, and leftist radio.

59 posted on 06/21/2021 7:05:06 PM PDT by meadsjn (, )
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