Blogging about the current American political information war, just like the endless spin cycle, replete with scorched earth character assassinations, is repetitive, predictable and disheartening. While the mainstream media and Dems hurl accusations against President Trump’s wild tweets, that allege President Obama abused his powers and wiretapped Trump Tower, the Russians launched a nuclear information war strike yesterday.
Do the mainstream media and entrenched partisans realize the scope of the Russian comprehensive strategy to destroy America’s credibility as a world leader? I doubt it. The media would rather fixate on Trump and aiding the Left in delegitimizing his presidency. Trump assists them in their efforts with his own self-absorbed, Reality TV presidency, replete with endless dramatic Twitter attacks on the media.
Several blogs, which appear to be Russian front operations, allege the CIA has used vast hacking tools to orchestrate hack attacks that look like they’re from other countries. Wikileaks released more documents on this:
“A vast portion of the CIA’s computer hacking arsenal appeared to have been exposed Tuesday by the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, which posted thousands of files revealing secret cyber-tools used by the agency to convert cellphones, televisions and other ordinary devices into implements of espionage.
The trove appeared to lay bare the design and capabilities of some of the U.S. intelligence community’s most closely guarded cyberweapons, a breach that is likely to cause immediate damage to the CIA’s efforts to gather intelligence overseas and place new strain on the U.S. government’s relationship with Silicon Valley giants including Apple and Google.”
The Russians wasted no time parlaying Trump’s latest unproven Twitter attack against the FBI and US intel agencies, as being corrupt tools used in cheap partisan political dirty tricks by President Obama, into potent disinformation dumps meant to fuel Americans’ distrust of their own government. The Russian disinformation effort also niftily used Trump’s reckless charges as the basis for their huge stink bomb, meant to steer foreign governments away from trusting the United States. This attack also follows a long Russian disinformation theme of casting US intelligence agencies as immoral and international pariahs in the world. Of course, it also deflects attention away from the Russians ruthless disinformation and intelligence operations.
American credibility took another hit, thanks to Trump’s myopic focus on himself and his image. Trump lashed out at the media and scored some cheap partisan points. The Dems and media feigned outrage, but they’re backpedaling away from their assertions of FBI wiretaps on Trump associates and transcripts of phone calls between Trump associates and the Russians, as fast as they can. While Trump, the Dems and the media wage Twitter attacks and counter-attacks on the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency and Russian influence, the Russians have used this latest partisan scorched earth media circus diversion, as cover for a global disinformation nuclear strike.
American intelligence officials were supposedly caught totally unaware by this Wikileaks hit
Americans needs an investigation into the entire corrupt 2016 election scorched earth debacle to restore confidence in the American electoral system, but who do Americans trust at this point? Kevin D. Williamson wrote about that: The Problem with Investigating Trump.
The Obama administration escaped serious mainstream media scrutiny on their corruption of executive branch institutions. Every Obama administration scandal ended up portrayed as Faux News or a partisan, racist witch hunt, so don’t expect any mainstream media honesty in reporting. The media which reports every tantalizing bit of Trump dirt they come across… without serious fact-checking…. is running away from Trump’s wiretapping charge. Andrew McCarthy at National Review and Law Newz have covered that angle:
Yes, There Could Be Serious Legal Problems if Obama Admin Involved in Illegal Surveillance
While You Weren’t Looking, the Democrat–Media Election-Hacking Narrative Just Collapsed
Take note that Trump has not responded forcefully to continued Russian and Iranian interference with US ships and planes in international territory. He can rage and bluster on Twitter about unfair reports in the media, but he hasn’t done anything to allow American forces to respond forcefully to Russian and Iranian provocations.
Sure, investigate Trump campaign connections to Russia, investigate Clinton pay-to-play and Congressional Dems Pakistani IT people, expose the details of Weiner’s laptop with over 600,000 emails, BUT never lose sight of the fact that while America play checkers, the Russian are still at their long-game, big picture chess game to destroy Americans’ trust in American civic institutions and government AND to usurp America’s leadership role on the world.
The Russians aren’t trying “to help” Trump, no matter how much Hillary and her minions say that.
The Russians want to DESTROY America… FIRST.
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