In an interview with me, ex-House intel investigator & national security official Kash Patel says that hidden docs expose more gaping evidentiary holes in some of US intel & Mueller probe's most explosive Russiagate claims. The public has a right to know. realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/…
US intel claims of "sweeping and systematic" Russian interference have been widely accepted as unquestioned Truth, without scrutinizing the actual evidence. I laid out the flaws in July 2019, "Crowdstrikeout" (realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/…). This interview bolsters that skepticism.
Biggest evidentiary hole starts w/ Crowdstrike, DNC contractor that first accused Russia of DNC hacking. CEO admitted in December 2017 that CS had no "concrete evidence", but that was buried until May 2020. And it's still buried in practice: no major media outlet has reported it.
To Kash Patel, it is "outrageous" that FBI allowed Crowdstrike, a private DNC contractor, to control the forensics. Crowdstrike CEO Shawn Henry - a former Mueller deputy - "totally took advantage of the situation to the unfortunate shortcoming of the American public."
Crowdstrike produced several reports on the DNC hack, in draft, redacted form for the FBI. The FBI, Mueller, and the Senate Intel Committee used these reports. Four years later, the public still has not seen them.
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Remember when Senate Intel called Kilimnik a Russian spy & Russiagaters claimed vindication? I showed that SSCI had no evidence & ignored countervailing facts. I also reported that FBI had not changed its assessment that KK only has vague RU intel "ties." realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/…
No one tried to refute my reporting, opting for Russiagate fan fiction instead. Well today FBI issued an alert for Kilimnik on old warrant. Look how they describe him: he is "assessed by the FBI to have ties to Russian Intelligence." FBI, unlike SSCI, still not calling him a spy.
Now ask yourself: if FBI is not describing Kilimnik as a "Russian intelligence officer", how could Senate Intel Committee, with far less investigative powers & info, know something they don't? What Mark Warner has is an imagination, and an extremely credulous media to lap it up.
.@NYTBen's latest on Syria's economic and food crisis continues what is becoming one of Western media's most cherished traditions: giving crippling, murderous and illegal US sanctions only a single, passing, and buried mention. nytimes.com/2021/02/23/wor…
The fact that US sanctions destroy Syria's economy & prevent reconstruction isn't a secret. Trump envoy James Jeffrey openly brags that the US "crushed [Syria]’s economy through sanctions."
BTW, @NYTBen's "Western sanctions" is another misnomer. These are *US sanctions*, under the Caesar Act. They explicitly target Syria's reconstruction and any global entity that somehow helps it. That's why the UN Special Rapporteur calls them illegal. thegrayzone.com/2021/01/14/un-…
He says we're "Kremlin-sympathising media.” @olliecarroll, what do you mean by this? I advocated Biden’s victory — does that make me "White House-sympathising media"?
And if media is a schoolyard where we all have to pick sides, are you saying you're "Downing Street-symphasising media" -- aka a state propagandist? Journalists, I think, should sympathize with people and facts, not governments -- no matter which side of the schoolyard may agree.
Quite possible these files were hacked. The group that released it is anonymous and UK gov't has previously claimed a hack. Curious to see this label applied to @TheGrayzoneNews leaks that challenge Western narratives, versus say Intercept leaks on China & Iran that advance them.
New @PushbackShow: Kash Patel, whose work on the House Intel Committee helped unearth major misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe, says top intel officials have blocked the release of documents that expose more malpractice and critical evidentiary holes.
For people who read my July 2019 piece "Crowdstrikeout" (realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/…) & follow-ups, this interview bolsters the major evidentiary gaps I highlighted on US intel's most pivotal -- and largely unquestioned -- claims about "sweeping and systematic" Russian interference.
It is crazy how freely "genocide" is used, when the sources are A) US gov't-funded fraudster Adrian Zenz (thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-…) B) Mike Pompeo, citing Zenz.
Credible sources say there's repression, a draconian response to Uyghur militant violence. (thegrayzone.com/2020/12/25/vet…)
Here's @TheIntercept claiming that Xinjiang is "the site of a genocide against Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic groups." According to who, Mike Pompeo? TI would never say this about Gaza, where repression is far worse. Parroting US state propaganda even engulfs the "adversarial."
@ryangrim@jeremyscahill Is TI in the business now of letting Mike Pompeo decide for you what constitutes a "genocide"? This is straight-up propaganda in your pages.