.@BGrueskin chides US media for embracing the Steele dossier, but in the process he does what he's criticizing: accepting partisan-tied, evidence-free Russiagate claims as fact. nytimes.com/2021/11/15/opi…
The claim of Russian "hacking into Democrats' emails" is full of evidentiary holes, heavily caveated in Mueller's report, & was generated by another Clinton contractor, Crowdstrike, which later admitted that it had no evidence.
(realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/…)
The claim that a Russian troll farm used "Facebook and other social media companies to foment dissent and unrest" is a joke. The posts were juvenile, barely seen, barely about the election, and mostly came *after* the election.
(thenation.com/article/archiv…)
(realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/…)
The Senate Intel claim that Kilimnik is "a Kremlin agent" has zero supporting evidence & is contradicted by ample countervailing facts, including KK's extensive State Dept. ties. Note that no US intel/security agency has adopted that characterization. (realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/…)
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Just recently, Congress defeated @JamaalBowmanNY’s measure to have a *debate* on whether to authorize US military operations in Syria. I wonder if this news that the US massacred civilians in Syria and then extensively covered it up for two years will change that:
As I wrote in September, the US is occupying Syria to steal its oil/agricultural resources and effectively prolong the 10-year dirty war, all while lying to the US public. Perhaps news of this massacre will finally spark some discussion about that. mate.substack.com/p/to-keep-troo…
US airstrikes killed a reported 64 civilians in Syria on March 18, 2019. Central Command spent 2+ years hiding evidence. A whistleblower who challenged the cover-up, DoD IG official Gene Tate, was forced out of his job in October 2020. A major scandal. nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/…
As I said earlier this week, for Russiagate -- especially the US media -- there is no rock bottom. There's a lot more corrections to be made. mate.substack.com/p/russiagate-h…
1/ David McCloskey is a former CIA analyst on Syria & author of "Damascus Station", a new spy thriller drawing on his experience.
We did a long interview that I think upends conventional narratives around the 10-year Syria war. thegrayzone.com/2021/11/09/fmr…
Some highlights:
2/ I asked ex-CIA analyst David McCloskey if there was any debate over the fact that, as Jake Sullivan told Hillary Clinton in Feb 2012, "Al Qaeda is on our side in Syria." Heavy US weaponry even ended up in AQ's hands.
Were there any misgivings about siding with Al Qaeda?
3/ Ex-CIA analyst David McCloskey: the US effectively siding with Al Qaeda in Syria was "a tremendously problematic aspect of the conflict."
.@ErikWemple is holding Steele dossier dupes accountable. But in the process he tries to make other Russiagate fiction look credible, e.g. the Senate Intel report. Like Steele, that report makes outlandish, unsupported claims undermined by the available evidence.
Senate Intel's biggest "finding" is that K. Kilimnik is a Russian spy, a claim Mueller & FBI never made. For good reason: it's a joke, as all the evidence shows.
New @PushbackShow: Former House Intel investigator Kash Patel, who helped expose the Steele dossier fraud, on Steele's return and the overlooked, suspicious role of another Clinton campaign contractor, CrowdStrike, which accused Russia of hacking the DNC.
FBI's use of a Clinton-hired fabulist, Christopher Steele, is understood to be a scandal.
It hasn't sunk in that FBI's use of another Clinton contractor, CrowdStrike, for the Russian hacking allegation, is a scandal too. I suspect that'll change.
Here's how Comey explained it:
Former House Intel investigator Kash Patel on the FBI's failure to directly investigate the DNC servers: "When we asked them why... They just said: 'CrowdStrike's great. We can trust them.'"