Bellingcat rips off “intelligence agency of the people” motto WikiLeaks popularized, when in fact it’s far from it. It is faux WikiLeaks funded by national security state grant $$$ and allied think tank projects. Barely a footnote in history compared to impact WikiLeaks has had 
Not even the US government which backs Eliot and Bellingcat’s organization believes it is the “intelligence agency of the people.” Otherwise, officials would feel threatened and have a grand jury investigating Bellingcat so they could shut them down.
Bellingcat is the Wormtongue of WikiLeaks wannabe organizations that don’t even want to be WikiLeaks - and aren’t even accepting leaks. But they are deceptively engaged in information operations that are influenced by Western countries’ security apparatuses
Certainly, we know they're not a non-state "intelligence agency of the people." Which likely makes them a state-identified "intelligence agency of the people," a group Mike Pompeo or John Bolton can laud as their preferred alternative to WikiLeaks-style groups.
Eliot Higgins has a sad about "Assange stans" upset that he fuels public mobbing of a publisher. Also Grayzone journalists make him feel small.
Everyone, social media is just too hard for Eliot. Better phone his think tank friends so we're swiftly censored for challenging him.
Everyone, social media is just too hard for Eliot. Better phone his think tank friends so we're swiftly censored for challenging him.
