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You should be puzzled. You should always be puzzled when people say "witnesses told us", "anonymous intelligence officials said". It's what got us into plenty o

You should be puzzled. You should always be puzzled when people say "witnesses told us", "anonymous intelligence officials said". It's what got us into plenty of wars we didn't need to be in. Especially when the authors are known to be in collusion with said intelligence agencies. > An extraordinary email uncovered under freedom of information laws raises serious questions about whether Bellingcat, the “open source” collective widely cited by mainstream journalists and loved by the CIA, collaborates directly with Western intelligence agencies. https://thegrayzone.com/2023/11/30/bellingcat-collusion-western-intelligence/ https://thegrayzone.com/2023/11/30/bellingcat-collusion-west...

jdietrich 2y ago
Pot, meet kettle: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/02/grayzone-russia-iran-support/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/02/grayzon...
- rjzzleep 2y ago
  Did you even read the article you linked? Wyatt Reed worked as a Freelance journalist, like so many other journalists. It was always public knowledge. There was no "hacked email" here. The WaPo issued a tiny correction on this smear piece at least: > correction > A previous version of this article incorrectly said that leaders of the online news site Grayzone had received payments from Iranian media, according to recently unearthed documents. The documents show that only one of the site’s editors received such payments. The article has been corrected.
r721 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone
baq 2y ago
You should also assume Russia would very much prefer the USA to keep to themselves so Putin et al. can steal the rest of the world.
mrguyorama 2y ago
Calling everything a conspiracy is the exact lack of skepticism you should not have. If you want to paint bellingcat as a tool of the CIA, you have to prove their claims to be false. If the CIA pays bellingcat to produce only factually correct information, that is still useful.
- rjzzleep 2y ago
  No. People like YOU should provide proof. Until then YOUR claims are the conspiracy. Relying purely on hearsay makes YOU the conspiracy theorist. It's absurd that I even have to say this.

jdietrich 2y ago

Pot, meet kettle: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/02/grayzone-russia-iran-support/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/02/grayzon...

rjzzleep 2y ago
Did you even read the article you linked? Wyatt Reed worked as a Freelance journalist, like so many other journalists. It was always public knowledge. There was no "hacked email" here. The WaPo issued a tiny correction on this smear piece at least: > correction > A previous version of this article incorrectly said that leaders of the online news site Grayzone had received payments from Iranian media, according to recently unearthed documents. The documents show that only one of the site’s editors received such payments. The article has been corrected.

r721 2y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone

baq 2y ago

You should also assume Russia would very much prefer the USA to keep to themselves so Putin et al. can steal the rest of the world.

mrguyorama 2y ago

Calling everything a conspiracy is the exact lack of skepticism you should not have. If you want to paint bellingcat as a tool of the CIA, you have to prove their claims to be false. If the CIA pays bellingcat to produce only factually correct information, that is still useful.

rjzzleep 2y ago
No. People like YOU should provide proof. Until then YOUR claims are the conspiracy. Relying purely on hearsay makes YOU the conspiracy theorist. It's absurd that I even have to say this.