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

[Jochen Stremmel]

It's not the sources, Thomas, it's the logic.

2017-01-26 14:47 GMT+01:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:

> 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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