And with the help of big names in media they’re turning journalism into an intelligence operation.
Tablet: There are two sets of laws in the United States today. One is inscribed in law books and applies to the majority of Americans. The other is a canon of privileges enjoyed by an establishment under the umbrella of an intelligence bureaucracy that has arrogated to itself the rights and protections of what was once a free press.
The media is now openly entwined with the national security establishment in a manner that would have been unimaginable before the advent of the age of the Dossier—the literary forgery the FBI used as evidence to spy on the Trump team. In coordinating to perpetrate the Russiagate hoax on the American public, the media and intelligence officials have forged a relationship in which the two partners look out for the other’s professional and political interests. Not least of all, they target shared adversaries and protect mutual friends.
Recently WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was indicted on seventeen counts of violating the espionage act for obtaining military and diplomatic secrets from U.S. Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning and publishing them in 2010. First amendment lawyers and free speech activists worry that the indictments are likely to have a “chilling” effect on the practice of journalism. Others, however, argue that the first amendment doesn’t apply to the WikiLeaks founder.
“Julian Assange is no journalist,” assistant attorney general for national security John Demers said in a press briefing last week.
The Department of Justice’s position found support, of all places, in the media. “Julian Assange himself is not a journalist,” said CNN national security and legal analyst Asha Rangappa. “He was not engaged in bona fide newsgathering or publication and put national security at risk intentionally,” Rangappa told NPR.
Who’s Asha Rangappa, you ask, and how did she become an expert on journalism?
According to a profile in Elle Magazine, she worked three years in the FBI (Robert Mueller was director) as a counterintelligence official in the New York field office before returning to her alma mater, Yale Law School, as its admissions director. In that post she became famous for destroying admissions records to prevent students from legally accessing them . With the advent of the Russiagate hoax, Rangappa has become one of the best-known faces of a new, hybrid industry in which former national security bureaucrats are rebranded as “journalists.”
Here are the people that Americans get their national security news from these days:
Before becoming a national security analyst for CNN, former director of national intelligence, James Clapper had previously been a news item himself after lying to congress in 2013 when he testified that the NSA wasn’t collecting data on Americans. He later provided inconsistent testimony to congress in 2017 when he said he had not spoken with the press about the Steele dossier while he was DNI and then admitted he’d spoken with future CNN colleague Jake Tapper about it.
Other members of CNN’s shadow intelligence organization include Josh Campbell, one-time special assistant to ex-FBI director James Comey, and CIA official Phillip Mudd. What qualifies them as journalists, as opposed to Assange? They worked in the intelligence community. more here
h/t @technofog
High-Jack Warning – You brought up Spies.
Did I miss this one or is it new?
https://intellectualfroglegs.com
The Spies Who Shagged Themselves
Better to laugh than cry…
Uncovering and reporting truth used to be what an honorable journalist did. One well known and respected journalist was Sydney Schanberg who reported on John McCain’s treason. Schanberg did not suffer the persecution to death that Assange is enduring now.
A reason to show the US flag on June 8. Remembering the USS Liberty attack on June 8, 1967
OCTOBER 26 ,2017BY ROBERT DAVID STEELE
USS Liberty – a False Flag Attack “Made in the USA”
Lyndon Baines Johnson is the Traitor – His Idea, His Cover-Up
“A new book is out that indicts the US President at the time – Lyndon Baines Johnson – for being the originator of the false flag attack on the USS Liberty. [1]
As a retired spy and retired naval officer, I have long considered the USS Liberty to be the greatest atrocity prior to 9/11 committed by Zionist military forces against US interests. I have long known of the fact that LBJ – and Admiral John McCain – covered up the attack by Zionist Israel and had the military chain of command order the survivors to be silent or lose their pensions and go to jail. [2]”
“Elsewhere I learned that the USS Amberjack, a submarine, fired at least one torpedo against the USS Liberty, also by order of LBJ. [4]”
https://ahtribune.com/history/1976-uss-liberty.html
Cover-Up Alleged in Probe of USS Liberty
https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ussliberty.html
USS Liberty: Dead In The Water” (BBC Documentary 2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOH1XMAwZA
Given the raid in Australia today on ABC, it must be routine in every country.
This is an outstanding article. I mean the one posted, not the six thousand links provided by tRuth. Honey, you really need to engage in the post in question once in a while. I know. I know. You have a right to your opinions and blah blah blah. But can’t you just once try and stay on topic while you exercise your right?
Occasionally tRuth has good things to say, the USS Liberty is an absolute outrage! However, at least being close to the topic is worthwhile too. And what about those anonymouses?
When the FBI is coordinating a PDR with CNN, things have gotten out of hand. When an NYT Whoreporter is trading pussy for Senate Intelligence Committee leaks, we have gone around the bend. And nobody involved in any of this has gone to jail.
No. Just Americans.
The United States is ruled by a foreign occupation force. Who’s loyalty is not divided. But explicitly to “other than Americans”.
The incestuous relationship between far left leaning government employees and journalists who are almost exclusively far left provide all the news unfit to print.