In part 1 of this article, I detailed the rise of privatized Intel<\/span><\/a>. Their history clearly shows that it wouldn’t have been possible without a helping hand from Congressional members that found out they could get their hands on top secret Intel if, and only if, they got it before it was labeled classified. <\/span><\/p>\n Although impact on policy is the subject of another article, both lobbyists and Congress found they could build or destroy any administration’s foreign policy by hiring the right Intel providers from the private sector Intel community.<\/span><\/p>\n Lobbyists found out they could run their own foreign policy to a degree by hiring some members of the Intel community that were in the policy making business. Using the same people, members of Congress figured out the same method to run around the State Department and get the Executive branch to react to their fabricated\/paid for by lobbyists Intel.<\/span><\/p>\n They provide their employers the facts they were paid to find. They provide their employers story \u00a0to the media by stretching the connecting dots or fabrication. It’s become a huge ($Billions) cottage industry and these experts won’t be challenged.<\/span><\/p>\n As I detailed in part 1, they all started out by emailing someone they knew about something they found on the internet. As they became a little more adept at Google search techniques, they found obscure facts that they sold as Intel. They emailed their Congressman and the press about their facts. <\/span><\/p>\n They gathered “letters of recommendation” from anyone that would listen to them, everywhere they went. As the doors opened they found they could make tons of money connecting the dots to whatever it was their clients hated and wanted changed.<\/span><\/p>\n When the Iraq war rolled around, some of them were part of the President’s daily briefing. We couldn’t have had the Iraq war without them. Mainstream media was inundated with material from these sources that were employed by lobbyists to get the USA to go to war.<\/span><\/p>\n Here we go again, same story, their story. <\/span><\/p>\n The Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on Russia and the 2016 elections<\/span><\/a> couldn’t have come at a better time for me. A quick look at the experts testifying shows they can be traced back to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>an out of work<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>web-designer<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>a pornographer suffering from toxic<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>black-mold<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>induced delusions<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>a gift shop employee<\/span><\/a>, a\u00a0<\/span>stay at home dad whose last job was selling underwear<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0<\/span>a man that heard coded intel messages in fax transmission beeps<\/span><\/a>. Unfortunately, this still isn’t a joke. These are the Intel experts that provide most of the Intel available in media today.<\/span><\/p>\n According to CNN<\/span><\/a>, Clint Watts, the terrorism expert that gave the expert testimony to the Senate got involved in cyber almost by accident in 2014. With Aaron Weisburd, he is a <\/span>senior fellow at the Center For Cyber and Homeland Security at The George Washington University. <\/span><\/p>\n Starting with no experience in Intel or Russian Influence Operations Watts was able to “watch and track the rise of Russia’s social media influence operations starting in 2015 and witnessed their update of an old Soviet playbook known as Active Measures.” <\/span><\/p>\n Clint Watts great breakthrough moment came when he got incensed that a Kardasian look alike Syrian girl spoke against Obama’s Syrian policy. He just couldn’t have that. It was…anti-American.<\/span><\/p>\n We are going to define the big WHO that was on trial at the Senate hearing. Let’s look at how credible the track record has been for this group of experts. Starting with election interference, we’ll look at other major international events that shaped US policy. This group shaped the news narrative of the past few years providing stories including the Russian influence and election interference, the Syrian gas attacks (past and present), and the MH-17 disaster. You won’t be surprised to know that most of the MSM information only comes from these select sources.<\/span><\/p>\n From liberal to conservative, Sanders to Trump, if you didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton the Senate hearings is all the trial by peers you are entitled to. You are on trial and like Joseph K, no one else is going to tell you why.<\/span><\/p>\n What is interesting from the above image is that redstate.com is decidedly anti-Trump conservatives. According to Weisburd and Watts both redstate.com and Trump are on Putin’s payroll along with globalresearch.ca. They don’t even need to be consistent. <\/span><\/p>\n According to Senator Mark Warner<\/span><\/a> said in the latest case, “the paid trolls apparently focused on swing states in an attempt to influence votes there \u2014\u00a0Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania\u00a0\u2014 where people were \u201creading during the waning days of the election that \u201c\u2018Clinton is sick,\u2019 or \u2018Clinton is taking money from whoever for some source\u2019 \u2026 fake news…Warner said it\u2019s crucial that investigators determine if voting results were actually affected. Each of the three states narrowly fell to Trump.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Someone please enlighten \u00a0the poor Senator that you can’t carpet bomb a large voting bloc’s families and then expect their vote. There was a good reason <\/span>Clinton stayed away from the states Warner mentioned<\/span><\/a>. The information he is quoting comes from Weisburd protege Jessika Aro, whose fabrication was included in the ODNI report in January.<\/span><\/p>\n How does the Senator know what people were reading? Warner tried to describe botnets. In reality the confused man was describing the websites that make up the propornot list. Quite recently propornot added <\/span>Rollingstone’s Matt Tiabbi<\/span><\/a> to the list. He is again referring to Weisburds work on websites and geolocating readers to find out where media influence is.<\/span><\/p>\n The Senate hearings and follow-ups are about controlling what information the general public has available to it starting with the propornot list. What they are after isn’t just to control what you read or the facts you know, this time they want to control how you think. As information policy starts to sanction these sites new domestic enemies will found in larger publications.<\/span><\/p>\n How do I know this? I’m taking an industrial view. Screw the politics. Both sides of the aisle are playing this game. All the pigs are sucking at the same lobbyist tit and selling Americans and the world out in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n If Sanders won the nomination and ran against Jeb Bush, the climate today would be the same. <\/span>Both sides of the aisle cater to large blocs that first get them through the primaries<\/span><\/a>. In a Sanders vs Bush run, these same blocs would have voted Republican. A Sanders win would have similar consequences as Trump but for different reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n Commie, commie, commie, commie…is the one thing a nationalist hates more than life itself or Russians, for that matter. Sanders would have been painted red to lose. At his victory, many of the moneyed people deep frying Donald Trump would have done it to him too. <\/span><\/p>\n The point is this problem is on both sides. It started years ago on the Republican side of the aisle. The activist groups are the largest and most well heeled that exist in the world today. Yes, it includes George Soros (Hungarian nationalist). At the street level, they are the most active and they can’t be touched in terms of contributions to campaigns.<\/span><\/p>\n The propornot story started out as a paid or placed article by these same activists. It did its job by igniting a shitstorm of anti-Russian media fallout. The same people that provided the websites on the list, testified as the experts before Congress this time, as well as multiple times before.<\/span><\/p>\n Reacting to this Google has started fact checking articles, sites, and journalists. Guess who has the fact checking job? The same experts, fact finders, <\/span>ultra-nationalist related groups<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>paid private Intel that testifies in the Senate hearings <\/span><\/a>\u00a0are now deciding what fake news is and who is responsible for it. That’s right, a former underwear salesman gets to decide if your website is paid for by Vladimir Putin.<\/span><\/p>\n RINF.com is finding this out now<\/span><\/a>. Over the course of 2 days, Google’s ultra-nationalist fact checkers decided that a teaser portion of an article reprinted from TruthOut and an article by Eric Zuesse needed to be taken down or the publisher would lose access to adsense. Adsense provides the ads that many sites earn a portion of their income with. RINF complied with the first one and the next day the demand came to take the second one down.<\/span><\/p>\n Mick Meaney who started RINF in 2004 took a principled stand and re-published the articles. According to Meaney, neither one violated Google’s TOS. He will keep publishing substantial articles regardless of the fallout. Every publisher is going to need to make a similar decision soon.<\/span><\/p>\n Once a Clint Watts has been paid for finding an enemy, he needs to find another to get paid again. And again. And again. This week it’s RINF, OpedNews.com and the Alex Jones media empire. Next week it will be the Nation, the National Interest, or the National Review. <\/span><\/p>\n In part 1, I showed finding the enemy was the reason for the no-fly lists growing so fast in the 2000’s. It is the same today as it was then. You are once again getting called the potential enemy of the state by <\/span>the same people that make money by creating threats<\/span><\/a>. The linked publication StopFake is a Ukrainian propaganda site and a Google fact checker.<\/span><\/p>\n Because you didn’t accept the “facts” they laid out in MSM with no proof, you are on Putin’ payroll. Because they are the experts that MSM goes to now, you are challenging their authority and possibly their potential income. <\/span><\/p>\n Your news organization, website, or reputation as a journalist is as easy to destroy as one single mention of it in front of Congress. Guess what? That’s exactly what they did.<\/span><\/p>\n Right now the US Congress is deciding how to legislate away the right Americans have to factual information without looking like they are trampling free speech and freedom of the press. Yes that’s being done and you are sitting there like a lump watching it happen. <\/span><\/p>\n Your politics don’t matter. This time everyone got Berned. Everyone conveniently forgets that Sanders was the first one labeled as the Kremlin candidate running against Hillary Clinton. Thanks to Aaron Weisburd work and Clint Watts testimony, the average American looks like Vladimir Putin to the US Congress. It’s called Information Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n The importance of both men in today’s news cycles can’t be overestimated. Watts and Weisburd provided the substance to Russian election interference. Watts and Weisburd’s work provided the Propornot list. Watts and Weisburd’s circle provided the information that went into the ODNI report in January on Russian 2016 election interference without proof.<\/span><\/p>\n The reason is simple. You are the Russian interference. If you wrote about or supported, Sanders, Jill Stein, or Donald Trump, you are the UNNAMED agent responsible. <\/span>Weisburd has gone as far as geo-locating where the more vocal Russian agents work<\/span><\/a> and live. And those are just engaged readers. There you are baby!<\/span><\/p>\n Since 2015 Watts and Weisburd have been working for a foreign government trying to incite US policy against Russia. Their circles which includes the Atlantic Council make up the 18th Intelligence Agency the US has at its disposal. The only difference is they are for hire by anyone who wants to prove anything. Want to prove Thailand is plotting a US takeover? Give them a call. <\/span><\/p>\n In a lot of cases this private sector Intel is the same unnamed Intelligence community planting stories in the press. They create the new round of experts. They provide most of the Intel facts\/fictions for hotspots such as Syria and Donbass that US policy has been built on. They provided all the proofs in January’s ODNI report. As ludicrous as it sounds, they are the go-to experts on Russian interference for both the MSM and the US Congress. <\/span><\/p>\n They have determined that you were the Russian interference in the 2016 election cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n Let’s look at Syria. In 2013 according to @bellingcat, Syrian president Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. This Bellingcat Intel information was part of what caused Obama to draw his red line in Syria and became widespread across the MSM.<\/span><\/p>\n “<\/span>Based on the latest findings of two prominent experts<\/span><\/a>, which appear to\u00a0<\/span>confirm other reports and investigations<\/span><\/a>, it would have been impossible for the Assad dictatorship to have perpetrated the chemical attack outside Damascus as outlined by Obama and other Western officials. Instead, it seems that the more likely culprits of the attack were foreign-backed \u201crebel\u201d groups hoping to overthrow the relatively secular regime and\u00a0<\/span>install an Islamist dictatorship<\/span><\/a>\u00a0based on Sharia law. Estimates suggest almost 1,500 people died in the attack, including more than 400 children.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The new report, entitled \u201c<\/span>Possible Implications of Faulty U.S. Technical Intelligence<\/span><\/a>,\u201d was published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group. It was written by former United Nations weapons inspector Richard Lloyd and MIT Science, Technology, and National Security Policy Professor Theodore Postol. Among other major concerns, the two experts in the field found that despite official claims and \u201cintelligence,\u201d the August 21 nerve-agent attack in East Ghouta \u201ccould not possibly\u201d have come from the center or even the Eastern edge of regime-controlled territory.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n That’s a large problem for Bellingcat which will become evident in their work on Ukraine. Why couldn’t they \u00a0place the origin of the attack? Isn’t that their claim to fame? <\/span>Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh<\/span><\/a> further destroyed the “underwear man” @bellingcat story which was corroborated by Turkish police.<\/span><\/p>\n MIT professor Theodore Postol then pulled the carpet out from under Elliot Higgins by explaining to him that Bellingcat’s smoking gun evidence (hexamine) wasn’t unique to chemical weapons. The composition is found on any battlefield because it is common in most explosives.<\/span><\/p>\n Elliot Higgins and Bellingcat information dominated the headlines even though he struck out on the facts. <\/span><\/p>\n On April 4th 2017, Bellingcat and the Atlantic Council<\/span><\/a> once again <\/span>scooped the world<\/span><\/a>, delivered <\/span>the headlines<\/span><\/a> and the <\/span>Intel the US government<\/span><\/a> acted on. <\/span>Assad had once again<\/span><\/a> used chemical weapons on the Syrian people on <\/span>April 4th 2017<\/span>. And they even covered their tails in case they were wrong. Their expert report was based on assumptions they think are true. This happens when you need to grab a headline the same day from thousands of miles away based on relevance instead of substance.<\/span><\/p>\n From Bellingcat’s report- “Another issue is that, if the Syrian regime actually did believe that the warehouse stored chemical warfare agents, then striking it deliberately was an act of chemical warfare by proxy.”<\/span><\/p>\n According to the victims, Higgins shouldn’t have given up his day job. Testimony from victims points to the<\/span> Salafists, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood insurgent coalition<\/span><\/a> as the culprits.<\/span> Leading member of the UN commission of inquiry Carla Del Ponte<\/span><\/a> told <\/span>Swiss TV<\/span> that there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof” that ISIS did it..<\/span><\/p>\n “<\/span>Patrick Lang \u2014 a former DIA<\/span><\/a>(<\/span>Defense Intelligence Agency) Colonel \u2014 does not mince words about the US attacks on Syria. Lang claims that Donald\u00a0Trump\u2019s decision to launch cruise missile strikes on a Syrian Air Force Base was based on a lie.”\u00a0<\/span> @INTEL_TODAY<\/span><\/p>\n According to the experts at Swedish\u00a0Professors &\u00a0Doctors For Human Rights\u00a0(SWEDHR)\u00a0<\/span><\/a>the chemical attack in Syria was staged.<\/span><\/p>\n “<\/span>Nothing about\u00a0what was going on\u00a0outside<\/span><\/a> the room and other evidence that would have been important in\u00a0order to\u00a0evaluate the correspondence between\u00a0the life-saving procedures and the agent that was producing those injuries… It is absolutely necessary for\u00a0an expert to\u00a0examine that evidence \u2013 what is a fact, what is a fantasy, what is a fake and trying to\u00a0deceive the public with\u00a0the political purpose of\u00a0establishing a no-fly zone in\u00a0Syria which would have enormous consequences in\u00a0geopolitical terms.”<\/span><\/p>\n The images of the White Helmets in action show scenes that are beyond absurd for treating people that have Sarmin poisoning. Without gloves, respirators, and wearing sandals the White Helmet show must go on.<\/span><\/p>\n The problem with the story is that Syria’s president Assad didn’t have chemical weapons to use. He is trying to free his country from foreign <\/span>Salafists, Al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood. He isn’t fighting a rebel insurgent coalition. The link above interviewing former DIA Chief Mike Flynn makes that painfully clear.<\/span><\/p>\n Even publications that are against Assad<\/span><\/a> don’t understand the logic of a chemical attack by him. He is winning the war and defeating ISIS. It looks like they’ll be on the propornot list soon. And it looks like the second strikeout for Bellingcat in Syria. Assad is trying to save his people, not kill them.<\/span><\/p>\n What is Weisburd and Watts reaction to this? Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Dennis Kucinich, and Ron Paul are all working for Vladimir Putin because of their principled stand on Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n Now if you’ve been paying attention, you are witnessing a buildup of facts. YOU are not on Vladimir Putin’s payroll and neither are 65 million other Americans. American and other western news sites and journalists are not on Vladimir Putin’s payroll. Assad did not attack his people with chemical weapons in 2013. All evidence is pointing to the fact he didn’t attack his people with non-existent chemical weapons in 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n We’ll get to why this is happening shortly. First, let’s look at Bellingcat involvement in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n On July 11th 2014 an event happened that shook my world, literally. <\/span>Bellingcat reported that the Russians attacked Ukrainian armed forces<\/span><\/a> from across the border in Zelenopillya. The Ukrainians suffered traumatic losses. Once again, Eliot Higgins provides the data to determine this. Once again Bellingcat was wrong about the origin of the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n This single battle marked the turning point for the entire war. The Donbass militia went on a large offensive for the first time and destroyed a big Ukrainian encampment with a rocket attack.<\/span><\/p>\n How can I afford to be so assertive? At 4:30 in the morning on July 11th every house in my town started shaking because of the massive explosions going on at Zelenopillya. I did say it shook my world, didn’t I? <\/span><\/p>\n I was between the Russian border and the camp. We could see the smoke from the rockets and <\/span>the sky was lit with the explosions<\/span><\/a>. The <\/span>explosions were loud<\/span><\/a> enough to wake the dead that morning. There were no rockets flying over my head. For Russia to fire them, that’s exactly where they would have been.<\/span><\/p>\n At that point we were under Ukrainian occupation for a couple of months. Two days before the attack on Zelenopillya happened, a Ukrainian army officer told the post master to get the children out of town within 2 days. The army was pulling out and a cleansing battalion (Donbas battalion) was coming in to weed out “separatists and supporters.” That was when I came face to face with <\/span>Mark Paslowsky, the American nazi<\/span><\/a>. The article gives his background and tells what was going on. <\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/unnamed-17.png\")
Watts<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Weisburd<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(out of work web-designer) both work as consultants and do training and research programs for a range of military(US Military, NATO, and NATO partners- Latvia, Ukraine, et al), intelligence(ODNI, CIA, FBI,NSA, et al) and law enforcement entities.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/unnamed-18.png\")
When the Washington Post first introduced propornot with Clint Watts it was signaling the beginning of a new information policy. The problem is other than RT or Sputnik, Russia doesn’t publish the news, opinion, and analysis the websites listed on propornot covers. The list itself was a copy and paste of Aaron Weisburd’s list at <\/span>aktivnye.com<\/span><\/a> and the websites are American.<\/span><\/p>\n