Who Needs The Truth When You Have Mockingbird?

US Govt Just Legalized Operation Mockingbird — FBI Can Now Impersonate the Media

Claire Bernish 

"FBI agents conducting undercover investigations have now been given the green light to impersonate journalists, the Justice Department determined last week — effectively legalizing the government’s most notorious propaganda program, Operation Mockingbird.

Last Thursday, the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General published what’s become the subject of outrage for journalists, civil and constitutional rights advocates, and legal experts  — “A Review of the FBI’s Impersonation of a Journalist in a Criminal Investigation.”

Allowing agents to infiltrate media organizations for any reason threatens to utterly undermine public trust, kill the very concept of journalistic integrity, and throttle the flow of information from sources and whistleblowers concerned with the legitimacy of journalists they contact.

As shocking as the finding sounds, it only validates the practice — in fact, the report centers around a case from 2007 in which an FBI agent pretended to be an Associated Press journalist to identify an elusive suspect online. At the time, the FBI “did not prohibit agents from impersonating journalists or from posing as a member of a news organization,” the report states.

But even the ubiquitous, mainstream AP — whose outlet became an unwitting pawn for the agency — sharply criticized the DOJ’s announcement.

“The Associated Press is deeply disappointed by the Inspector General’s findings, which effectively condone the FBI’s impersonation of an AP journalist in 2007,” Associated Press Vice President Paul Colford said in a statement cited by US News. “Such action compromises the ability of a free press to gather the news safely and effectively and raises serious constitutional concerns.”

In 2007, a high school student near Seattle emailed a series of bomb threats to his school, but his use of proxy servers thwarted police efforts to learn his identity — so they asked for assistance from the FBI’s Northwest Cybercrime Task Force.

Agents devised a plan, and, as the Intercept summarized, “An undercover agent sent the student email impersonating an editor for the Associated Press. The email included links to a fake news site designed to look like the Seattle Times.”

When the student followed the links, malware revealing his actual location installed itself.

It wasn’t until an ACLU technologist accidentally discovered copies of the bogus news stories in 2014 — buried in pages the Electronic Frontier Foundation obtained from the FBI via a Freedom of Information Act request in 2011 — that the plot to pose as journalists came to light, generating massive controversy and consternation.

Furthering the contempt, FBI Director James Comey penned a letter to the editor of the New York Times defending the agency’s impersonation, dismissively stating “we do use deception at times to catch crooks, but we are acting responsibly and legally.”

The Associated Press and Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press didn’t believe either the veracity or legality of Comey’s statement, and sued the FBI to disclose documents relating to the practice — ultimately obtaining a redacted memo in which the agency acknowledged the agents violated the FBI’s own guidelines. However, the memo also stated that violation, under the circumstances, was not “unreasonable.”

A review was launched by the OIG, but Thursday’s conclusion simply confirmed the FBI’s previous finding it had done nothing wrong — and may proceed with future journalistic deception.

In June this year, the FBI firmed up its rules for when an agent can pretend to be a journalist — but the added rules haven’t quelled the ire.

As long as agents receive approval from the head of the FBI field office, the Undercover Review Committee, and the deputy director of the FBI — who then must meet with the deputy attorney general — they are free to pose as journalists during undercover investigations.

“We believe the new interim policy on undercover activities that involve FBI employees posing as members of the news media is a significant improvement to FBI policies that existed,” states the inspector general.

But no one outside the FBI or DOJ’s Office of Inspector General who grasps the grievous threat to free speech and press — or the potential slippery slope law enforcement co-opting the media represents — agrees anything short of an abolishment on the practice could be acceptable.

“The FBI guidelines adopted in 2016 in response to this incident still permit the FBI to impersonate news organizations and other third parties without their consent in certain cases, and fail to address the host of other dangers associated with FBI hacking,” Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU legislative counsel, said in a statement cited by US News.

“The Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press is deeply troubled by today’s disclosure,” David Boardman, RCFP steering committee chairman, wrote in a statement last Thursday, “that the FBI believes that there is a place in this country for federal agents to impersonate journalists. Such a policy can seriously damage the public’s trust in its free press and the ability of journalists to hold government accountable. We urge the Justice Department to take seriously the need for reform and the importance of protecting the integrity of the newsgathering process.”

Anyone with cursory knowledge of the U.S. government’s nefarious programs to control its citizenry will undoubtedly see similarities between the FBI’s fake journalism plot and the post-World War II CIA propaganda campaign, Operation Mockingbird.

To ensure support for its operations and views, the CIA clandestinely recruited American journalists and media outlets, funded the creation of student and cultural organizations, launched purely propaganda-based print media, and, ultimately, worked its way into political campaigns and employed similar methods abroad.

Mainstream outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS, and many others, actively and willingly disseminated propaganda disguised as news — through suppression, censorship, and selective focus, etc. — in the interest of the government.

Mockingbird covertly influenced national opinion for years, nefariously planting the CIA’s narrative on the unwitting collective public mind before finally being at least partially exposed over a decade later. It wasn’t until a congressional investigation in 1975 the putative full extent of the program was revealed. Although the CIA claimed it would no longer recruit journalists and media organizations into its folds, Mockingbird has oft been rumored never to have stopped.

Besides the revelations in this article concerning the FBI, documents revealed the government actively tried to influence public thought about Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange, in 2011.

It would seem Mockingbird endures to this day — and whatever premise the government claims as reason to become the American media — the public remains, for the large part, its oblivious, captive audience.

References:

http://fixamerica-fredmars.blogspot.com/2012/03/just-around-corner-or-obama-hear-and.html

http://fixamerica-fredmars.blogspot.com/2013/06/our-government-has-been-busy.html

Another One Bites the Dust?

Why does the death toll continue rise for those associated with Hillary Clinton, when she's the one who has serious health issues? 

"Maryland Doctor Who Treated Hillary Clinton For Blood Clot On Brain Mysteriously Dies!

A shocking new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) says that the infamously named “Clinton Body Count” has now increased after a Maryland (US) based doctor was discovered dead this past week under mysterious circumstances—and who had, this past June, been part of a specialized medical team that removed a blood clot from the brain of Hillary Clinton. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

According to this report, Hillary Clinton has long been known to have grave health issues since she collapsed in December, 2012, and that led to her first operation to remove a blood clot from her brain—and that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, recently stated took her 6 months to recover from.

This past summer, however, this report continues, on 30 June, SVR analysts state that Hillary Clinton collapsed on her private plan while in route to her Washington D.C. home and was unconscious when it landed at Joint Base Andrews—which is the home base of the 89th Airlift Wing that manages the flights of all top American officials, including the President.

Once landed, this report notes, Hillary Clinton was rushed by ambulance to the US Air Forces Malcolm Grow Medical Facility located on this base and put under the “urgent/immediate” care of doctors assigned to the 79th Medical Wing.

Though many aspects/details of this SVR report relating to what exactly happened when the unconscious Hillary Clinton reached the Malcolm Grow Medical Facility remain to highly classified to write about here, what is important to note is that her security guards refused to allow her to be treated, and when US Air Force doctors objected to removing her from their care, they had “numerous” weapons pointed at them—after which Hillary Clinton was taken from this medical facility by her just arrived motorcade.

With this potentially deadly situation being observed by many people, this report says, a number of them alerted Joint Base Andrews security police who put the entire base on lockdown—but was later “whitewashed/covered up” by US Air Force Colonel Brad Hoagland who told the media that “the reports of a real-world active shooter situation at the Malcolm Grow Medical Facility were miscommunicated”.

Upon leaving Joint Base Andrews with the still unconscious Hillary Clinton, SVR intelligence analysts in this report say, her motorcade rushed to a nearby (57 kilometers/36 miles) private MedStar Montgomery Medical Center hospital in Olney, Maryland, where she was rushed into emergency surgery.

The reason for Hillary Clinton’s security detail rushing her to the MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, this report explains, is due to this hospital having advanced non-invasive technology able to find blood clots in the brain—like an instrument surgeons their use to pick up light emissions from a digitized instrument, while a camera is placed above a patient’s head.

Performing the emergency brain surgery on Hillary Clinton at the MedStar Montgomery Medical Center on 30 June, this report continues, was the Islamic neurosurgeon Amjad Anaizi who is her private brain doctor whom she frequently visits at theMedStar Georgetown University Hospital near her home in Washington D.C.—and who, also, is the cousin of Hillary Clinton’s top aid Huma Abedin who is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood terror organization.

Attending Doctor Anaizi in his operating on Hillary Clinton’s brain to remove the blood clot that had rendered her unconscious, this report says, was Doctor Sandeep Sherlekar who was the on call anesthesiologist at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center—but who, exactly 3 months later, on 30 September, was discovered dead.



Doctor Sandeep Sherlekar, SVR analysts in this report explain, was a deeply loved doctor by his patients who been in practice for more than 20 years before his death, spoke multiple languages, and had previously served as the chief resident in anesthesiology at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia.

Doctor Sandeep Sherlekar, also, this report continues, was by all accounts deeply religious—and that led him, in 2012, to file a lawsuit against the Chief Executive Officer, Muhammad Ahmad Khan, and Chief Financial Officer, Vic Wadhwa, accusing them of financial crimes at the medical practice where he worked called the American Spine Center.

Working closely with agents of the US Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI), this report notes, Doctor Sandeep Sherlekar was able to aid in them, in 2014, in their securing a guilty plea against CFO Vic Wadhwa for receiving $459,000 in “kickbacks/bribes”.

SVR analysts in this report, though, note a “severe abnormality” in the events since CFO Vic Wadhwa pled guilty, due to Doctor Sandeep Sherlekar aiding the FBI, stating that as of yet he has not been sentenced for his crimes over two year later.

And in an even greater “strangulation/choking to death” of American justice, and immediately after Doctor Sandeep Sherlekar assisted Doctor Anaizi in his operating on Hillary Clinton’s brain, the same FBI agents he had helped in conviction CFO Vic Wadhwa turned on him—and on 22 September filed charges against him accusing him of the same crimes he had reported to them in 2012.

Eight days later, at about 7:15 a.m. Friday on 30 September, Doctor Sandeep Sherlekar was found dead at the entrance to the American Spine Center with local police stating that “no obvious signs of trauma were evident when police arrived, and foul play was not suspected”—or in “intelligence speak”, he was suicided.

With Doctor Sandeep Sherlekar being a devout adherent to the Hindu religion that considers suicide a murder and against the code of ahimsa (non-violence), SVR analysts in this report say, the local police reports suggesting this is why he died can be quickly discounted—with the more logical explanation of his death being simply that he knew more about Hillary Clinton then she was ever going to chance his telling anyone else.

These SVR intelligence analysts, also, note that Doctor Sandeep Sherlekar’s death fits exactly the profile of all of the other deaths associated with the Clinton Crime Family—with the victim fist “knowing to much”, then having “their personal and professional reputations destroyed”, with the final act being “their mysterious death” as a message for others to not dare cross these most dangerous of criminals.

To the American people knowing of these events this report doesn’t say—but from the past knowledge of these American’s known by just about everyone else in the world, even if they did, they wouldn’t care.

Source:

www.whatdoesitmean.com"

Yet another death with connections to Hillary Clinton.  It would seemed that if you know her well, you better not become a liability to her crime spree, or you will wind up dead. Is that why Comey and Lynch won't prosecute her for crimes while Secretary of State?

The following is from US Politics Live.

Breaking: Key Hillary Witness DIES in Car EXPLOSION!!!

"Another key Hillary witness dies in car explosion according to our source who decided to stay anonymous because as he says ,,I am afraid for my safety and the safety and well being of my family,,.


When it comes to Hillary and to all mysterious ,,suicides,, or deaths that have been striking USA lately, one can only wonder when it will all stop?

Minutes ago, there was a car accident on 401 Highway – one of the busiest highways in the world. The identity of the victims is yet to be confirmed from the police. Our source, who decided to stay anonymous told us that a key government official, that apparently helped in leaking the documents that are related to some of the biggest conspiracies in USA was in the car.

Whether he was traveling alone or he had a companion we have to wait and see for the official statement.

This is only the latest in an already enormous list of mysterious deaths surrounding her.

,,The government and the pro-government medias will do everything that is in their power to cover this up. And they will most probably succeed in this. But one thing is for sure, this is no ordinary car accident, bear that in mind,, – says our source.

So far this is everything we know."


References:

http://www.uspoliticslive.com/