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Former Central Intelligence Agency Acting Director Michael Morell has claimed that the GOP presidential nominee is an unwitting intelligence agent for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Former CIA and National Security Agency director Michael Hayden believes Trump is not hostile enough against Russia. The Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign, in concert with the FBI, have accused Russia of being behind computer break-ins of the computers of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign.
The media will not call these charges for what they really are: unfounded kooky conspiracy theories. Of course, when the CIA, NSA, and FBI proffer conspiracy tales, they are not deemed as such by the corporate media, which has, for 70 years, echoed an endless stream of inane propaganda stories from the padded rooms of Langley, Virginia. The soundproofing of some conferences rooms at CIA headquarters actually make them appear "padded."
Obama administration and intelligence agencies alternate between blaming cyber-attacks in the United States on, depending what day it is, Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
Never blamed is poor U.S. computer and network security, especially that brought about by inherently insecure "cloud computing." Even the CIA has opened up insecure doors into highly-classified U.S. intelligence networks by outsourcing its cloud services to Amazon, whose owner, Jeff Bezos, owns
The Washington Post. No wonder the
Post likes to blame all the computer security hacking on Russia, China, and the rest. Bezos's paper has no interest in blaming the true culprits, cloud services firms like Amazon, for U.S. hacking debacles.
Comment: The U.S. military announced that the Russians informed them about the strikes beforehand - no surprise this time, like the Caspian Sea launch last year. However, when asked how much advance notice was given, Col. Garver replied: "it was not a lot of time, but it was enough." Ha!
Iranian experts say this move will make the liberation of Aleppo more effective; Iran and Russia's cooperation has "reached a new level. ... Iran has given its consent to Russian bombers to use the Iranian airfield and its entire infrastructure to attack positions of Daesh in Syria." Contra Mercouris above, "Such a tactical move will improve the speed and accuracy of carrying out military operations against the terrorists in Syria by shortening the distance and flight time, which will give more opportunities to the Russian air forces." Russian military experts concur.