Our mainstream dinosaur media, epitomized by the disgraced Washington Post, the failingNew York Times and the Clinton News Network (CNN), is a sick trifecta of fake news that increasingly resembles state-controlled media in authoritarian countries.
This is the primary reason why I rarely link to their content. The majestic newspaper that broke the Watergate burglary is now a propaganda rag for the deep state and the intelligence community, which I insist are not one and the same.
The intelligence community is amply represented within the deep state, but not all intelligence professionals are leakers and traitors. Just a few who presume to play with classified information, dealing themselves into the great card game of American politics.
CIA officers are not supposed to operate domestically. That is in the Bible of the intelligence community, EO12333. But we see what we see. Some spooks are off the reservation.
Former DCI Brennan set a very bad example. But then, so did General Hayden. Our problems with spooks meddling in domestic politics go back further than we like to think, and a strong argument can be made that they hit their climax with the Kennedy assassination, surely the malign apex of all deep state ops.
And this past weekend, we saw the Washington Post yet again publishing the "official version" of events that the deep state wanted to plant in the media, the claim that the Obama regime "failed to punish the Russians."
The deep state will stop at nothing to perpetuate its cover story, even if Obama gets splashed with this fable of his incompetence.
The Washington Post will dance for its deep state puppeteers, and its owner, Mr. Bezos, will accede to it since he just got a fat $600 million contract for hosting the intelligence community cloud.
Julian Assange repeatedly stated, "Russia was not our source." He obviously cannot say that Seth Rich was his source, but he can pledge $20,000 for the arrest of his murderers, and you can draw your own conclusions.
In fact, when you watch the infamous video where Julian Assange refuses to confirm that Seth Rich was his source, you can actually see Mr. Assange gently nod after the 1:02 mark just before he speaks. Body language transmits more than mere words.
The murder of Seth Rich contradicts the deep state's cover story, so the investigation into his assassination is suppressed, despite the right of the Rich family to know who killed their son and why.
Gunning down Seth Rich, and then imposing a coverup before our very eyes, means that the deep state can literally kill American citizens on our own streets and get away with it. Why not? They murdered President Kennedy, in public, as he was seated next to his wife.
But ask yourself another question: The investigation into the murder of Seth Rich is frozen. Who has that kind of juice?
Worse, who could ensure that Seth Rich did not survive his critical wounding?
But bear with me. I do have a point. Vladimir Putin, who is admittedly an epic liar, insists that Russia was not the WikiLeaks source.
We see in the Vault 7 leaks, purportedly the worst breach in the history of American intelligence (but stay tuned), the capability for CIA to spoof the telltale fingerprints in malware code that security analysts use to identify hacking perpetrators.
Dubbed MARBLE, this "obfuscating" framework enables CIA to falsely pin an attack on China, Iran, Russia, or North Korea, though those who know actual NSA geeks will tell you that they joke about blaming everything on the Israelis anyway. Maybe this is why NSA only had"moderate confidence" that Russia was the culprit of the DNC and the Podesta leaks.
Three intelligence agencies weighed in on that assessment, FBI, CIA and NSA, and it was an assessment, not a formal estimate, a distinction that is lost on civilians but one that speaks volumes to intelligence insiders. Intelligence estimates include input from all seventeen intelligence agencies, and are products of the National Intelligence Council.
Only two agencies, CIA and FBI, confirmed with high confidence that it was the Russians. But Hillary Clinton will inveigh that "seventeen intelligence agencies said that it was the Russians!" Which is a dirty lie, but what do you expect from Crooked Hillary.
Kim Dotcom has offered to tell his story to the DOJ, but for a price. Among others, these two protagonists of debatable integrity, Mr. Putin and Mr. Dotcom, insist that it was not the Russians. It seems crazy to assert that Mr. Assange has more credibility and a longer track record of truth telling than everyone in this sordid mess, but that is where we are.
And to this day, after six months of endless cover stories in the American state media, no proof that it was the Russians has been published. The intelligence community leaks like a sieve, the deep state plants tall tales everywhere, yet evidence of Russian complicity has somehow not been leaked by partisan fake patriots.
The deep state leaks everything else, including the smear that President Donald J. Trump hired Russian hookers to urinate on a bed in a fancy Moscow hotel, a calumny that the FBI paid $50,000 for Mr. Steele to corroborate. And it sure did get Senator McCain exercised, but not enough to give him a stroke. I am also at risk of having a stroke, so I will not wish one on him.
Even Senator Feinstein, whom I do not like one bit, concedes that there is no evidence of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. So did that other liar, DNI Clapper. Even discredited former FBI Director Comey admitted that there is no proof. After six months of investigations.
This article links to Wired. I will still link to them. If you wish to click through and read what the Washington Post said, you can. But I will not further their propaganda by linking to them myself.
I have my limits.
This article is based on a rant that originally appeared on my Facebook page, Magic Kingdom Dispatch.
One more thing: HIS NAME WAS SETH RICH.
One more thing: HIS NAME WAS SETH RICH.