{"id":22270,"date":"2016-12-14T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T20:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22270"},"modified":"2016-12-14T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T20:13:44","slug":"someone-has-officially-called-the-cias-bluff-over-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22270","title":{"rendered":"Someone Has Officially Called the CIA\u2019s Bluff over Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Someone Has Officially Called the CIA\u2019s Bluff over Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The scapegoating of Russia is now so widespread,\u00a0Dirty Wars\u00a0<\/i>author and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill\u00a0took to\u00a0The Intercept<\/i><\/a>\u00a0to call the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on its bluff.<\/div>\n
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In the article, \u201cObama Must Declassify Evidence Of Russian Hacking,\u201d Scahill and Jon Schwartz called out U.S. intelligence agencies for their record of deceit, asserting that the American people are not going to simply \u201ctake their word for it<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cU.S. intelligence agencies have repeatedly demonstrated that they regularly both lie and get things horribly wrong<\/i>,\u201d the article\u00a0argues<\/a>. But when it comes to the CIA\u2019s case against Russia\u2019s alleged interference with the latest U.S. presidential elections, it\u2019s impossible to claim the hearsay is based on facts if evidence is not made available to support the agency\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Scahill and Schwartz\u00a0argue<\/a>, it\u2019s possible that Russia may have pulled some strings. But even if the Kremlin had its reasons and acted on them, America is the country\u00a0with the long history of election meddling<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 not Russia.<\/p>\n

Take Hillary Clinton\u2019s comments on the Palestinian elections, for instance. A leaked audio recording from 2006 revealed then-senator Clinton\u00a0advocated<\/a>\u00a0doing \u201csomething to determine who was going to win<\/i>\u201d in Palestine\u2019s elections. And yet here she is, hoping to use the \u201cRussia did it\u201d talking point to\u00a0give censorship a boost<\/a>. The CIA has its own\u00a0history<\/a>\u00a0of meddling in foreign elections.<\/p>\n

In order to give Barack Obama\u2019s administration that extra push to release any \u201cproof\u201d the CIA has that the 2016 U.S. elections were \u201crigged,\u201d the\u00a0Intercept<\/i>\u2019s duo encouraged feds or whistleblowers to use the publication\u2019s secure drop\u00a0link<\/a>, where a \u201cpatriotic whistleblower\u201d within the U.S. intelligence community may drop the leak that proves Russia is behind President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s win. \u201c[W]e will verify its legitimacy and publish it<\/i>,\u201d they\u00a0added<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Someone Has Officially Called the CIA\u2019s Bluff over Russia The scapegoating of Russia is now so widespread,\u00a0Dirty Wars\u00a0author and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill\u00a0took to\u00a0The Intercept\u00a0to call the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on its bluff. In the article, \u201cObama Must Declassify Evidence Of Russian Hacking,\u201d Scahill and Jon Schwartz called out U.S. intelligence agencies for their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14582,8803,9909,14585,584,694,14584,14583,5567,5906],"class_list":["post-22270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alice-salles","tag-antimedia","tag-jeremy-scahill","tag-jon-schwartz","tag-obama","tag-russia","tag-russian-hacking","tag-scapegoating","tag-the-intercept","tag-us-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22271,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions\/22271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}