Stinko creeps — at the New York Times and Washington Post — were caught doing their "Rooskies did it" dance again

30 June 2020

How this latest round of "Russians did it" nonsense got started

From AntiWar:

On Friday, The New York Times claimed that President Trump received a briefing on intelligence that said Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill US and NATO troops, citing anonymous intelligence officials who were “briefed on the matter.”

Media outlets and Trump’s political opponents jumped on the story, accusing Trump of ignoring the intelligence and putting US troops in danger.

Anonymity then corrected anonymity

This third go-round being reported on the basis of Modernity's happily tweeted informality:

A U.S. intelligence official claims that intelligence reports alleging Russia offered bounty payments to Taliban militants to target American forces in Afghanistan were “uncorroborated” and hence not presented to President Trump as part of his briefings on national security matters.

The unidentified intelligence official told [— this link goes to Twitter —] CBS News’ Catherine Herridge that the National Security Agency assessed that the intelligence collection report “does not match well-established and verifiable Taliban and Haqqani practices” and lacks “sufficient reporting to corroborate any links.”

The report reached “low levels” of the National Security Council but did not travel further up the chain of command — and was not included in briefings with the president or vice president — because it was deemed “uncorroborated” and there was dissent in the intelligence community about the veracity of the allegations.

Let's evaluate how the intelligence leaks process works

First:

some Adam Henry

in vaguely named US "intelligence"

calls someone at the New York Times up

and 'sez'

"the Russians did it!"

Then, the:

always eager to attack President Trump

editors at the NYT

agree that they should publish

this completely unverified story

posthaste!

And they do.

Meanwhile:

not wanting to be left behind

in such a joy-filled revivification

the very long-running

and

completely fact-lacking

RussiaGate episode —

meaning the allegation that

Trump is a Putin puppet —

the Washington Post's

equivalent ration of Donald-hating

stinko creeps

do the same thing.

This, also on the basis of a thoroughly uninvestigated anonymous morsel of bullshit.

Oh my . . .

. . . what should we do now?

The rest of the Press asks itself.

Why, let's call up yet another Mr or Mizz Wily Anonymous!

We will see whether anything about this Money for Death story is true!

So, CBS News does.

And now

We have a Third Anonymous Source denying what the — first, second, or non-existent — Intel lip-flapper had purportedly told the Times and the Post.

And get this!

Let's report this (unverifying) correction of the original story on Twitter!

Can't be too formal in these grand (and forgetfully forgetting) days of American crumbling.

The moral? — If it has "intelligence says" attached to it, it's a Big Lie

But fear not Paranoia Purveyors:

the Great American War Machine

rolls happily along —

with The New York Times'

and

Washington Post's

drum-beating

gunpowder-flaming

cannons-spitting

approval.

Happy days.

I do wonder what the long string of reasonably ethical former Times and Post editors would think of these folk, who took their places, during our Great Age of Lies and media-based propagandizing.

I am fairly sure that a few throats would be cut, as those ghosts return.

Genuine integrity has its fire.

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Stinko creeps — at the New York Times and Washington Post — were caught doing their "Rooskies did it" dance again