Russia hacked US shit-storm dying fast death, real SS on the way.

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Here is Seymour Hersh on the media's treatment of the 
allegations:


'Hersh denounced news organizations as “crazy town” for 
their uncritical promotion of the pronouncements of the 
director of national intelligence and the CIA, given their 
track records of lying and misleading the public.

“The way they behaved on the Russia stuff was outrageous,” 
Hersh said when I sat down with him at his home in 
Washington, D.C., two days after Trump was inaugurated. 
“They were just so willing to believe stuff. And when the 
heads of intelligence give them that summary of the 
allegations, instead of attacking the CIA for doing that, 
which is what I would have done,” they reported it as 
fact. Hersh said most news organizations missed an 
important component of the story: “the extent to which the 
White House was going and permitting the agency to go 
public with the assessment.”

Hersh said many media outlets failed to provide context 
when reporting on the intelligence assessment made public 
in the waning days of the Obama administration that was 
purported to put to rest any doubt that Russian President 
Vladimir Putin ordered the hacking of the DNC and Clinton 
campaign manager John Podesta’s emails.

(...)

“It’s high camp stuff,” Hersh told The Intercept. “What 
does an assessment mean? It’s not a national intelligence 
estimate. If you had a real estimate, you would have five 
or six dissents. One time they said 17 agencies all 
agreed. Oh really? The Coast Guard and the Air Force — 
they all agreed on it? And it was outrageous and nobody 
did that story. An assessment is simply an opinion. If 
they had a fact, they’d give it to you. An assessment is 
just that. It’s a belief. And they’ve done it many 
times.”'

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/25/seymour-hersh-blasts-media-for-uncritically-promoting-russian-hacking-story/


I guess Hersh now also belongs on the growing list of 
people who are "f* stupid"...

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