Glenn Greenwald Confirms CIA Bias Against Trump, BBC Loses It - YouTube
It's
always a pleasure to watch Glenn Greenwald being interviewed by the
BBC. When you watch these confrontations, it is immediately obvious who
is the journalist and who the stenographer.
This clip should be watched in conjunction with his excellent new piece
on the "Trump dossier" in the Intercept. He makes the important point
there that the collusion between the Democratic Party and the CIA to big
up dubious "intelligence" on Trump is not just cynical politicking; it
undermines any future, evidence-based efforts to expose Trump.
In addition, so obviously victimising Trump is almost certain to
exacerbate the very conditions that led to him being popular in the
first place. This is liberal politics as self-harm.
Greenwald:
There is a real danger here that this maneuver can harshly backfire, to
the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want
to oppose him. If any of the significant claims in this “dossier” turn
out to be provably false — such as Cohen’s trip to Prague — many people
will conclude, with Trump’s encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN
and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are
deploying “Fake News” to destroy him. In the eyes of many people, that
will forever discredit — render impotent — future journalistic exposés
that are based on actual, corroborated wrongdoing.
Beyond that,
the threat posed by submitting ourselves to the CIA and empowering it to
reign supreme outside of the democratic process is — as Eisenhower
warned — an even more severe danger. The threat of being ruled by
unaccountable and unelected entities is self-evident and grave. That’s
especially true when the entity behind which so many are rallying is one
with a long and deliberate history of lying, propaganda, war crimes,
torture, and the worst atrocities imaginable.
https://theintercept.com/…/rex-tillerson-doesnt-sound-like…/
https://youtu.be/fERGqflABPw
