One of the most overlooked political changes in the past 5 years is how much Dems have come to worship, revere and trust the US Security State - especially FBI and CIA - while Republicans regard these agencies with extreme distrust and contempt.
Dems love the US Security State.
Dems love the US Security State.
I should note: it's not just FBI and CIA that are wildly popular with Democrats, while those US Security State agencies are regarded with skepticism by Republicans.
It's also true of the Dept of Homeland Security, created by Bush/Cheney in 2002. Dems revere it; GOP does not.
It's also true of the Dept of Homeland Security, created by Bush/Cheney in 2002. Dems revere it; GOP does not.
This unhinged NYT article and the cheering of it by the usual establishment mavens perfectly illustrates both the idiocy and utility of blaming US social strife on a few dozen Russians bots in St. Petersburg.
US elites are great! Anger in the US is due to Kremlin manipulation:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/us/womens-march-russia-trump.html?smid=tw-share
US elites are great! Anger in the US is due to Kremlin manipulation:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/us/womens-march-russia-trump.html?smid=tw-share
NY Times
How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step
As American feminists came together in 2017 to protest Donald Trump, Russia’s disinformation machine set about deepening the divides among them.
US elites spend many billions of dollars every two years on campaigns -- *billions.
CIA and MI6 collaborate with Omidyar, Soros and other liberal billionaires to fund the fraudulent "disinformation" industry.
But yeah, a few fake FB posts are the cause.
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/
CIA and MI6 collaborate with Omidyar, Soros and other liberal billionaires to fund the fraudulent "disinformation" industry.
But yeah, a few fake FB posts are the cause.
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/
Harper's Magazine
Bad News, by Joseph Bernstein
Selling the story of disinformation
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Do you see why elite credentials are so meaningless?
When CIA brazenly dusts off one of its crusted, old Cold War scripts about Kremlin contamination and re-deploys it for the Trump era, it's not just MSNBC wine moms who swallow that shit up but also Yale's Jacob Urowsky Prof.
When CIA brazenly dusts off one of its crusted, old Cold War scripts about Kremlin contamination and re-deploys it for the Trump era, it's not just MSNBC wine moms who swallow that shit up but also Yale's Jacob Urowsky Prof.
Obama, 2016, when neocon @JeffreyGoldberg
demanded to know what he wouldn't arm Ukraine: "Ukraine is a core Russian interest but not an American one."
Liberals and their neocon leaders, 2022: Why, yes, I do think Ukraine is important enough to risk nuclear war over.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-strategic-nuclear-weapons-can-be-used-defend-new-regions-2022-09-22/?taid=632c32241cfac4000146b718
demanded to know what he wouldn't arm Ukraine: "Ukraine is a core Russian interest but not an American one."
Liberals and their neocon leaders, 2022: Why, yes, I do think Ukraine is important enough to risk nuclear war over.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-strategic-nuclear-weapons-can-be-used-defend-new-regions-2022-09-22/?taid=632c32241cfac4000146b718
Reuters
Russia's Medvedev: new regions can be defended with strategic nuclear weapons
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that any weapons in Moscow's arsenal, including strategic nuclear weapons, could be used to defend territories incorporated in Russia from Ukraine.
A reminder of Obama spoke and thought about Ukraine and Russia just 6 years ago.
Someone has changed, and I would suggest it's the political faction that is now in a full alignment with neocon warmongers like Bill Kristol, David Frum, all the beloved CIA/FBI/NSA cable stars.
Someone has changed, and I would suggest it's the political faction that is now in a full alignment with neocon warmongers like Bill Kristol, David Frum, all the beloved CIA/FBI/NSA cable stars.
This is a perfect illustration of how authoritarian so many Democrats are.
This Democrat doesn't know or care why career DOJ prosecutors decided the evidence was insufficient to prosecute Matt Gaetz.
What he knows is that Gaetz supports Trump, and thus wants him imprisoned:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/23/gaetz-no-charges-sex-trafficking/
This Democrat doesn't know or care why career DOJ prosecutors decided the evidence was insufficient to prosecute Matt Gaetz.
What he knows is that Gaetz supports Trump, and thus wants him imprisoned:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/23/gaetz-no-charges-sex-trafficking/
Twitter and Facebook suspended numerous fake accounts which were spreading propaganda and disinformation to support US foreign policy and the US Security State.
Turns out these fake accounts were created and controlled by the Biden Pentagon😱.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/us/politics/pentagon-social-media.html
Turns out these fake accounts were created and controlled by the Biden Pentagon😱.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/us/politics/pentagon-social-media.html
NY Times
Pentagon Orders Review of Its Overseas Social Media Campaigns
The move comes after Twitter and Facebook shut down misleading accounts that they determined were sending messages to promote U.S. foreign policy.
One of the reasons I found CIA's manufactured hysteria over "Russian interference" so laughable - other than CIA's own behavior -- is the Snowden files revealed how Obama's US Security State, along with the British, covertly manipulate populations online:
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
The Intercept
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.
When Snowden left Hong Kong and landed in Moscow to transit to Latin America, Obama officials like @brhodes
did everything possible to prevent him from leaving, to trap him in Russia.
Rhodes boasted of it in his book.
Ever since, they've use this to imply he's a Russian agent.
https://apnews.com/article/edward-snowden-russian-citizenship-441ab3c037b91145d17f2de2237f834d?taid=6331d2d3ad85850001c8e9f1
did everything possible to prevent him from leaving, to trap him in Russia.
Rhodes boasted of it in his book.
Ever since, they've use this to imply he's a Russian agent.
https://apnews.com/article/edward-snowden-russian-citizenship-441ab3c037b91145d17f2de2237f834d?taid=6331d2d3ad85850001c8e9f1
AP NEWS
Russia gives citizenship to ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Monday granted citizenship to former American intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who fled prosecution after he revealed highly classified U.S. surveillance programs to capture communications and data from around the world.
You can read Ben Rhodes in his own words, bragging in his book about he forced the Cubans to withdraw the guarantee of safe passage they had given Snowden to allow him to leave Russia, as he was desperately trying to do.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/ben-rhodes-book-proves-obama-officials
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/ben-rhodes-book-proves-obama-officials
Glenn Greenwald
Ben Rhodes' Book Proves Obama Officials' Lies, and His Own, About Edward Snowden and Russia
It is hard to overstate the sociopathy of US national security officials: their casual willingness to blatantly lie about the gravest matters is limitless.