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"The Intercept was actually for a while a unique publication and I think the vision I just described was one reason. Another was that it was intended above all else to be highly skeptical of the claims of intelligence agencies. At the time that we were doing the reporting, the attacks were coming from the NSA, the CIA, the deep state, against me, against my source Edward Snowden, and against the reporting.

"And we knew they were lying constantly and disseminating propaganda in a very powerful way. So we said, we're going to investigate them, we're going to be skeptical of them. We're going to subject their assertions to critical scrutiny.

"And I'm so embarrassed and angered that the media outlet that I created along with two other excellent journalists to do that, the only article I published about all of these documents that have emerged about Joe Biden other than a column of mine where I denounced Facebook and Twitter for censoring it, was an article in reference in passing to those documents, very snidely and dismissively to say that no one should pay attention to it because it was Russian disinformation and it cited a letter from John Brennan, James Clapper, and the rest of the goons from the CIA and the intelligence community asserting it. And worse still, that letter said we have no evidence that Russia is involved in any of this. The Intercept omitted that phrase, simply cited that letter to try to encourage people to ignore this evidence on the grounds that Russia had manufactured it and that the evidence was fabricated, even though there's never been any evidence that that has been true and everything since has disproven it, showing that Russia was not involved in any of this and nobody certainly including oe Biden disputes that these emails and other text messages are completely real and authentic."

[CIA] are trained disinformation agents, that's what they do, they lie for a living. But they are supposed to do that in other countries where they want to induce some sort of change. Overthrow a government, topple a regime, whatever "interference" the U.S. government wants to do the way we're all so upset that Russia did in 2016.

That's what they are trained to do. The law, though, and the obvious foundational prohibition on having a national security state after World War II was it was never supposed to be turned domestically. They weren't supposed to be involved in our politics or disseminating propaganda. Go turn on any of those cable networks or pick up the op-ed page of any of the biggest newspapers and you will see are ex-members of the CIA, the DOJ, the FBI, the NSA telling Americans what they ought to believe. They have infiltrated the means of communication domestically. They do it through leaks, they do it through clandestine operations and through lies. They propagandize the American people in a way that is incredibly dangerous no matter what your ideology is.