{"id":310051,"date":"2017-05-27T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T11:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/believing-the-russian-hacking-claim\/"},"modified":"2017-05-27T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T11:39:41","slug":"believing-the-russian-hacking-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/believing-the-russian-hacking-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Believing the Russian \u2018Hacking\u2019 Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Government lies are common when seducing a population to support a war, but the Russian \u201chacking\u201d claims are unusual in that U.S. officials supply no evidence while the \u201cfact\u201d is just assumed, as David Swanson explains.<\/p>\n<p>By David Swanson<\/p>\n<p>When the U.S. public was told that Spain had blown up the <em>Maine, <\/em>or Vietnam had returned fire, or Iraq had stockpiled weapons, or Libya was planning a massacre, the claims were straightforward and disprovable.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7614\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/dcia-brennan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dcia-brennan-300x198.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7614\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dcia-brennan-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/dcia-brennan.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7614\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dcia-brennan-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dcia-brennan-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/dcia-brennan.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CIA Director John Brennan addresses officials at the Agency\u2019s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. (Photo credit: CIA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before people began referring to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, somebody had to lie that it had happened, and there had to be an understanding of what had supposedly happened. No investigation into whether anything had happened could have taken as its starting point the certainty that a Vietnamese attack or attacks had happened. And no investigation into whether a Vietnamese attack had happened could have focused its efforts on unrelated matters, such as whether anyone in Vietnam had ever done business with any relatives or colleagues of Robert McNamara.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is otherwise with the idea that the Russian government determined the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. U.S. corporate media reports often claim that Russia did decide the election or tried to do that or wanted to try to do that. But they also often admit to not knowing whether any such thing is the case.<\/p>\n<p>There is no established account, with or without evidence to support it, of exactly what Russia supposedly did. And yet there are countless articles casually referring, as if to established fact to the . . .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian influence in the 2016 presidential election\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/click.actionnetwork.org\/mpss\/c\/5gA\/ni0YAA\/t.27m\/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw\/h1\/yb3msEgNtgQnSaRUAKyx8l-2BG5jREOUBCn8i3xMAK-2FdmD5HN5KuZ1TeF7yeuVSqypqRA5kIOOgQnnpWXyiWGToI-2BC-2BNFY8c45T8TczaUrBqXPZCS3D8kEQLlL7Vqv72kUleg52r0vO1sKIaU9Vn6lPE7c6cPdGTIAc-2FVoeWmgFtXlDD-2F1LWnBR-2F5jG5VNEicmM-2BIY5J9ZoSEDk2GfXQxHOZ1-2FlchRtbCTSHwq5XIa1kEukT98-2FkKaleGhXolHgFDPcgdXwWTZ7fcA-2FGLuhCwZeTiv7Pw7MIEtgKcs6-2B4xfMZRE-2F-2B1iTaE6FrYTqWV7IdDyJKyyJx5nNQ0IRm4cbaVIUHH3R9Re-2B2OcmyqSFIW7OA-3D\">Yahoo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian attempts to disrupt the election\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/click.actionnetwork.org\/mpss\/c\/5gA\/ni0YAA\/t.27m\/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw\/h2\/wspANFbyofaCTRUcC3Fm5zrk-2BLpR-2BUYwiH1EUmM2ed2ETHkfqQAprsLaGKJJrbrW0fSFW2z1aVantSL89QaHB4a7JuEry6emTUtJEXUIB49gntAu7R6Qm3ZJKkCja3qlIdiZUfo6b5Ad-2Bokld3rk-2BxgXfPkTRhHPN3bSSFHcBQqj7T9a97Q0I8PDTqE3lnTrZC-2FOhgNT-2FlmuRBME4cr62LNFF1qvVxbGe8PVCt2qIk7ge-2Bgm8eFjxEkZJT7czkUKmg2Tsu3O1IB1I4Bwfowb48LiHAt8Hx56zF1NgjPa4HMsaiXlnlvLcdispGPvJ6iX6s3q1toKeaBwaRHeQzn-2FEhZhvsp-2FXj1Tllxn-2FqSC-2FRk-3D\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian \u2026 interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/click.actionnetwork.org\/mpss\/c\/5gA\/ni0YAA\/t.27m\/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw\/h3\/Fs-2F781YsFUl9vnmKXxyXHSMvNpvi4bP-2FE-2BO2iVcRJULM7UMFslPMArLtz5oz-2Brl4o8NxroQ46VjoMNQpsQ9jGhTlgTAP2jZcYkADq7I51ObZNtK-2BXy3sb-2BEDqnn8rJtcoYEKovCbx8UScy4dDLvzSPK6aE4y5d-2BaeFHul7ApDdy4vno5nWDpmecuXZqj98sZKDHE3H1IaP-2FZVt-2BOcLRUidQeiVR1qAYoZou5YlZHz2GJPAXcdxFDOhvJZ-2FTlrdrkxsBs6wjZ10OtwG8WP357ccJwKmVkeDtRRcvcQdgrG6FWrVsR2H5-2F8qCTCNsMACeRANJEHH-2FuiXTDSy8AsNcjzxsZla9DY1v1apf3ta0QENBGpOYyj07q1t2bFYjmQ5R9QS8LyDN14AyX6u9Va-2BbNbw-3D-3D\">ABC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian influence over the 2016 presidential election\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/click.actionnetwork.org\/mpss\/c\/5gA\/ni0YAA\/t.27m\/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw\/h4\/3iaThca61p2tcSwqPS1jRnWE4lMsOHiG8lGvBrsDBAKjdXf66enKP2bS693upYxepPAGPYpqz4z5uWX2hFsWXFpSTSBIntmfFP1tXOJN9MN-2BC7gBnJeZpxoO52OIhsa-2BxCTXwVc5Hi7vFpri6659C-2F5DVkn2hihqKwrgt5Zs578-2FGIQ-2BerIBfPDH-2Bunzfh93-2BH4Z-2Bmds-2F95tBH6Y9Za2n5w1GnKxlO3OMrkdhJE-2FZXNh-2BFlaYbUqYV0zIQVKHdpp7T8dJ1Q7AJa37EP-2BN3BDegqpF0xMt8TIDeee6m3CI4EExOJ5-2BCX5d3pTBUFz2ChXuoes5UPUw6A2eM4dADpE-2FQ-3D-3D\"><em>The Intercept<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201ca multi-pronged investigation to uncover the full extent of Russia\u2019s election-meddling\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/click.actionnetwork.org\/mpss\/c\/5gA\/ni0YAA\/t.27m\/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw\/h5\/AwsfuDSlzIYtA9U8AmKe9EzfEQJ6wEn5aYiOT6KwS9J27Ymc-2FaDJEBC3RMdoM8yeQDA79TCPyaEQTwOszBANkr8pDuWKvmP0x5xkrPz9xuxy-2FkQKFKcWo8JSBhLMmz3AFBsE7K3I4opyW7EX67nBk2J8XhgRt6Zz-2F1ey64VK0GyLTFGnGl-2FtI6O6fAnv4WiZP7shJ3n5oseDkasC9RKfTUl8bFaPXCmvxltr4zZ4cMmqcNo-2Bl-2FJzlYtbqi-2Fco-2FbbDKjxOoSXJSjfE5kjSmDWDqS4oPT5RKsSXsf9tOV0-2FpQ8xC7zMQKUqAHuQA2u-2B-2BlA-2BHlS0VAeDif7FmCklbR0ck5t3VsMY38XdCS3QQBzslg-3D\"><em>Time<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian interference in the US election\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/click.actionnetwork.org\/mpss\/c\/5gA\/ni0YAA\/t.27m\/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw\/h6\/Cx3MiTKZVSZsIZ976XUXkRGt8N-2F-2FSlXIYwWk-2BTRoOsCJLxgNHlM-2F-2FhY2G23pm28hfUnyUmW9ABOtXay6RHqT0AN4ysBHrlKlUq49TrIaMiPsjZUk4LhQfCczvvE3zgpqe39ZNFURpVmwk2KjQ-2BK6w6ezGFFVR0NGosS2raOpWSURO-2Fx4R2I3fzbBt3TnFNB37-2FfHev76S8dVAfm5-2Bh7TMafl7zlKx4VvaFnS6OknQkGqzAD2gTlmObtXZPMouIZUaxY0pqA1-2BqU9lIRUkBF1BztAL-2FO-2FWTOmHS60-2F5LNSZ5WG7Bfdc2o7IErsDxpBJshRMGAg-2BEsWukRZqseT-2FsstS-2F8etur26k6FpjuM3doJ6Y-3D\">CNN<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia\u2019s interference in the 2016 presidential election\u201d (<a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/05\/26\/believing-the-russian-hacking-claim\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government lies are common when seducing a population to support a war, but the Russian \u201chacking\u201d claims are unusual in that U.S. officials supply no evidence while the \u201cfact\u201d is just assumed, as David Swanson explains. By David Swanson When the U.S. public was told that Spain had blown up the Maine, or Vietnam had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}