{"id":97709,"date":"2016-12-12T10:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp\/?p=97709"},"modified":"2016-12-12T10:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:36:17","slug":"the-kafka-esque-cia-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/2016\/12\/the-kafka-esque-cia-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kafka-esque CIA Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\"><strong>CRAIG MURRAY, <\/strong>a former British Ambassador, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-12-11\/former-uk-ambassador-blasts-cias-blatant-lies-shows-little-simple-logic-destroys-the\">writes<\/a> at\u00a0<em>Zero Hedge:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I have watched incredulous as the CIA\u2019s blatant lie has grown and grown as a media story \u2013 <strong><em>blatant because the CIA has made no attempt whatsoever to substantiate it<\/em><\/strong>. There is no Russian involvement in the leaks of emails showing Clinton\u2019s corruption. Yes this rubbish has been the lead today in the Washington Post in the US and the Guardian here, and was the lead item on the BBC main news. I suspect it is leading the American broadcasts also.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A little simple logic demolishes the CIA\u2019s claims.<\/strong> <!--more-->The CIA claim they \u201cknow the individuals\u201d involved. Yet under Obama the USA has been absolutely ruthless in its persecution of whistleblowers, and its pursuit of foreign hackers through extradition. <em><strong>We are supposed to believe that in the most vital instance imaginable, an attempt by a foreign power to destabilise a US election, even though the CIA knows who the individuals are, nobody is going to be arrested or extradited<\/strong><\/em>, or (if in Russia) made subject to yet more banking and other restrictions against Russian individuals? Plainly it stinks. The anonymous source claims of \u201cWe know who it was, it was the Russians\u201d are beneath contempt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>As Julian Assange has made crystal clear, the leaks did not come from the Russians.<\/strong> As I have explained countless times, they are not hacks, they are insider leaks \u2013 there is a major difference between the two. And it should be said again and again, that if Hillary Clinton had not connived with the DNC to fix the primary schedule to disadvantage Bernie, if she had not received advance notice of live debate questions to use against Bernie, if she had not accepted massive donations to the Clinton foundation and family members in return for foreign policy influence, if she had not failed to distance herself from some very weird and troubling people, then none of this would have happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The continued ability of the mainstream media to claim the leaks lost Clinton the election because of \u201cRussia\u201d, while still never acknowledging the truths the leaks reveal, is Kafkaesque.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRAIG MURRAY, a former British Ambassador, writes at\u00a0Zero Hedge: I have watched incredulous as the CIA\u2019s blatant lie has grown and grown as a media story \u2013 blatant because the CIA has made no attempt whatsoever to substantiate it. There is no Russian involvement in the leaks of emails showing Clinton\u2019s corruption. Yes this rubbish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97710,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97709\/revisions\/97710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}