Swordsmyth
06-30-2017, 04:30 PM
The innate absurdity of the claim was immediately attacked by WikiLeaks and anti-establishment outlets who pointed out that this would necessarily need to involve full investigations from agencies like the Coast Guard, the DEA and the Energy Department in order to be true. Nevertheless, many high-profile pro-establishment outlets like Politifact (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/19/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-blames-russia-putin-wikileaks-rele/) and USA Today (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/10/21/17-intelligence-agencies-russia-behind-hacking/92514592/) found Clinton’s claims to be 100 percent true on the grounds that James Clapper, then-Director of National Intelligence and notorious Russophobic racist (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/us-anti-russia-sentiment-is-built-on-racism-xenophobia-homophobia-and-demagoguery-b1ebef57ddb6), “speaks on behalf of” all 17 intelligence agencies. To this day Politifact stands by its false claim on the basis of that same spurious assertion.
3490 fake news stories that reported that "17 intelligence agencies" made US election hacking report when only 3 did https://t.co/QGaG47rzBL
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 8, 2017 (https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/861714472586665988)
New Cracks in Russia-gate ‘Assessment’ https://t.co/pEb9Nsdobq Can you say WMD's in Iraq? Does this look like '17 intelligence agencies? pic.twitter.com/ZJkqTZtMmb (https://t.co/ZJkqTZtMmb)
— Laughing Lefty (@laughingliberal) May 23, 2017 (https://twitter.com/laughingliberal/status/867133589925888000)
It turns out, however, that in addition to Clapper’s office there were only three intelligence agencies involved in that assessment, not 17, and that the conclusions were drawn not by the actual agencies in full, but by a mere two dozen loyalists from those agencies hand-selected by Russophobic eugenicist (http://archive.is/Fw6V6#selection-2811.185-2811.291) Clapper himself. The great Robert Parry notes in his Consortium News article (https://consortiumnews.com/2017/05/23/new-cracks-in-russia-gate-assessment/) about this point, “as any intelligence expert will tell you, if you ‘hand-pick’ the analysts, you are really hand-picking the conclusion. For instance, if the analysts were known to be hard-liners on Russia or supporters of Hillary Clinton, they could be expected to deliver the one-sided report that they did.”
More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-30/new-york-times-forced-retract-longstanding-17-intel-agencies-lie-about-russian-hacki
3490 fake news stories that reported that "17 intelligence agencies" made US election hacking report when only 3 did https://t.co/QGaG47rzBL
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 8, 2017 (https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/861714472586665988)
New Cracks in Russia-gate ‘Assessment’ https://t.co/pEb9Nsdobq Can you say WMD's in Iraq? Does this look like '17 intelligence agencies? pic.twitter.com/ZJkqTZtMmb (https://t.co/ZJkqTZtMmb)
— Laughing Lefty (@laughingliberal) May 23, 2017 (https://twitter.com/laughingliberal/status/867133589925888000)
It turns out, however, that in addition to Clapper’s office there were only three intelligence agencies involved in that assessment, not 17, and that the conclusions were drawn not by the actual agencies in full, but by a mere two dozen loyalists from those agencies hand-selected by Russophobic eugenicist (http://archive.is/Fw6V6#selection-2811.185-2811.291) Clapper himself. The great Robert Parry notes in his Consortium News article (https://consortiumnews.com/2017/05/23/new-cracks-in-russia-gate-assessment/) about this point, “as any intelligence expert will tell you, if you ‘hand-pick’ the analysts, you are really hand-picking the conclusion. For instance, if the analysts were known to be hard-liners on Russia or supporters of Hillary Clinton, they could be expected to deliver the one-sided report that they did.”
More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-30/new-york-times-forced-retract-longstanding-17-intel-agencies-lie-about-russian-hacki