{"id":36044,"date":"2018-07-19T08:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36044"},"modified":"2018-07-19T08:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:05:03","slug":"the-intelligence-community-is-neither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36044","title":{"rendered":"The Intelligence Community Is Neither"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Intelligence Community Is Neither<\/a><\/h3>\n
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At the big \u201cTreason Summit\u201d \u201cRussopocalypse\u201d \u201cCatastrovent\u201d on Monday, journalist Sam Husseini tried to ask a question about banning nuclear weapons, and was physically hauled out of the room by officials from the \u201cLand of Press Freedom,\u201d Finland. Meanwhile, an Associated Press reporter was permitted to ask a perfectly respectable question pushing a blatant lie that risks nuclear war. Yay for press freedom!<\/p>\n

The AP reporter claimed that \u201cevery U.S. intelligence agency has concluded that\u201d the Russian government interfered in the U.S. election of 2016. In fact, the\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0that this common lie always refers to was concocted by a group of \u201chand-picked\u201d (James Clapper\u2019s description) people from three agencies out of 18 or so. The three were the NSA, FBI, and CIA \u2014 none of which ever, ever lie or get things wrong, ever. The INR and DIA were excluded along with all the others.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the Associated Press told a lie. Here\u2019s why it\u2019s a blatant and dangerous lie. The same report didn\u2019t conclude a damn thing. It just \u201cassessed,\u201d which is a weasel word for guessed. Of the three agencies involved, two assessed with high and one with moderate confidence that Russia did something or other to benefit Trump. Whether that something was revealing to the public the DNC\u2019s slanting of its primary against Bernie Sanders we are not told. We are also not offered any evidence for whatever it was. We are also not told Trump was involved in it, or offered any degree of assessment of that, much less any evidence. We are also not given any claim that informing us about the DNC\u2019s shenanigans, or any other actions, had any impact on the outcome of the election. We also are not presented any case that keeping the rigging of primaries secret from the public is essential to the sanctity and freedom of our democracy.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Intelligence Community Is Neither At the big \u201cTreason Summit\u201d \u201cRussopocalypse\u201d \u201cCatastrovent\u201d on Monday, journalist Sam Husseini tried to ask a question about banning nuclear weapons, and was physically hauled out of the room by officials from the \u201cLand of Press Freedom,\u201d Finland. Meanwhile, an Associated Press reporter was permitted to ask a perfectly respectable […]<\/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":[5493,12254,18724,512,1494,694,827,5906],"class_list":["post-36044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-david-swanson","tag-election-meddling","tag-media","tag-press","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-us-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36044","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=36044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36045,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36044\/revisions\/36045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}