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WSJ’s Tulsi Gabbard Hoax Is Straight From The Russia-Collusion Playbook
The real story is not the supposed scandal. It is the relentless recycling of the same hoax playbook and the media’s grotesque complicity.
WSJ's Gabbard Hoax Is Straight From The Russiagate Playbook
The real story is not the supposed scandal. It is the relentless recycling of the same hoax playbook and the media’s grotesque complicity.
thefederalist.com
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is under attack again. A so-called “whistleblower” filed a complaint against her alleging wrongdoing so sensitive that its details supposedly could not be disclosed. The complaint was reviewed and closed because it lacked credibility. That determination was made by Tamara Johnson, a career official who served as the acting inspector general of the intelligence community during the Biden administration. That should have been the end of the story.
Instead, the secrecy surrounding the complaint has been repackaged as proof that something terrible must have occurred. The absence of evidence is now being marketed as evidence itself.
Enter The Wall Street Journal. In a breathless piece published this week, the WSJ reported on the existence of this “sensitive” complaint while strongly implying that its classification alone suggests guilt. To heighten the drama, the article likens the episode to a John le Carré novel. At that point, the piece collapses into accidental self-parody.
By invoking le Carré, the authors inadvertently describe their own method with remarkable precision. Invent or exaggerate something supposedly sensitive. Elevate the classification itself into the story, and let the audience infer guilt from secrecy alone. This is not journalism. It is narrative laundering, where insinuation substitutes for evidence and secrecy substitutes for proof.
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In a manner uncannily reminiscent of a le Carré plot, Brennan, Clapper, and Comey solved the problem of how to launder a known fabrication into an intelligence product by embedding it in a highly classified annex of the ICA. The mere fact of its inclusion was then leaked to the media, with CNN breaking the story just days before Trump was sworn in, ensuring his presidency would be immediately engulfed by a manufactured scandal. That is how a lie that the FBI already knew to be false acquired the appearance of gravity solely because it was secret.
The Ukraine impeachment followed the same template. A so-called “whistleblower” complaint about a phone call President Trump had made was treated as inherently damning, not because it was substantiated, but because it was designated as sensitive. When President Trump released the actual transcript of the phone call to strip away the manufactured secrecy surrounding the complaint, it quickly became clear that no misconduct had occurred. By that stage, however, the false narrative was already entrenched, driven not by facts but by the earlier insinuation that something bad must have happened. Incredibly, the Ukraine whistleblower was represented by the same lawyer now behind the Gabbard complaint, laying bare the recycled playbook at work.
The current attack on Gabbard follows this same template almost perfectly. A politically motivated individual files a baseless complaint. The complaint is wrapped in classification. That classification is then used to imply obstruction, delay, and wrongdoing even after the complaint is deemed not credible.
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The real story is not the “scoop” or the supposed scandal. It is the relentless recycling of the same weaponized secrecy playbook and the media’s grotesque complicity each time, deployed to suppress anyone pursuing real accountability. Gabbard’s work cuts through that pattern, and the intensity of the backlash against her only underscores the point.
Commentary:
Even secrecy itself can be weaponized and used to create chaos and sow distrust.
Thanks to complicit and biased media, just about anything can be made to look possible and provable. As a private citizen.
Each day more and more people are starting to realize/notice there are elements of the U.S. intelligence apparatus that are targeting Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard and Secy. of War Pete Hegseth The need for control is a reaction to fear, and Tulsi Gabbard has the DC Intelligence Community very worried.
The impeachment process was based upon a lie that Trump had threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine, over quid pro quo conditions, yet they insisted that there was sensitive reasons surrounding the incident and why they refused to name the whistleblower.
But that a rigged showpiece to begin with, and in both instances secrecy was used to keep the truth hidden and the implications were all that were needed to attack Trump, and by extension, those who supported Trump.
So, yes, secrecy is often used to provide an excuse as to why the evidence can not be presented & shared with the American public.
Nancy Pelosi explained this good detail, but of course she used the context by projecting this onto republicans.
User Clip: Pelosi explains “The Wrap-Up Smear”
June 22, 2017, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi talks about the political tactic called “The Wrap-Up Smear.” She is explaining to her audience how Republicans use this tactic, but of course, if she were being honest, both Parties use this tactic all the time.
www.c-span.org
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