Saturday, August 24, 2019

Blown Coverage: How the Media Was So Badly Deked on Russiagate

Quickly, on Jan. 19, 2017, David Corn of Mother Jones suggested that a key Steele source was one Sergei Millian, a 38-year-old with vague connections to Trump, and a claimed but unproven pipeline to the Kremlin.

Not disclosed in the article, Source D, a supposed Trump loyalist, had a far different alleged source of knowledge than Source E, a Kremlin insider.

Then Mueller indicted George Papadopoulos for lying about his dealings with mysterious Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud, who Mueller depicted as having "Russian connections" and having told Papadopoulos about Russian "Dirt" on Hillary Clinton, while fixing him up purportedly with "Putin's niece."

While mainstream media-hyped Mifsud's Russian links, five minutes on the internet would have revealed Mifsud's close teaching colleague to be the chief security vetter of British Intelligence, Claire Smith.

Mifsud to this day has been characterized by mainstream media as a Russian spy because, as David Gergen noted on behalf of CNN, referring to the opposing commonsense view, "We don't put much stock in what they are arguing."

Of course, Dossier author Steele, retired MI-6, and his assistant, CIA contractor Nellie Ohr, were connected not only with the Clinton campaign which paid them, but more obviously with the British-American intelligence team, as cutouts to falsely procure a FISA warrant to spy on Trump.

If the true story was so obvious, why didn't our mainstream media quickly adopt it? Very simply: they didn't want the truth to get in the way of the preordained media narrative, which promised a contemporary replay of the Watergate scandal, deposing in disgrace a disliked, duly elected president.

https://www.westernjournal.com/blown-coverage-media-badly-deked-russiagate/

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