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

[David Morris]

The gist of Hersh's statements:  "You shouldn't trust the Inteligence
community."  But no a shred of analysis of the report.

Matt Taibbi's article was much more substantive.

David Morris

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> 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-med
> ia-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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