‘Ray McGovern: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC’

Last weekend, Consortium News published  this latest by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the falseness of Russia-gate.

Link:

Ray McGovern: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC


I want to share the following readers comment:

For two and a half years the House Intelligence Committee knew CrowdStrike didn’t have the goods on Russia. Now the public knows too.

Twin Pillars of Russiagate Crumble

Maybe so. I sure that this is correct. But, so what. Everyone ‘knows’ those devious Russians hacked the DNC. I would love this silly assertion not to be the case but this is how propaganda and manipulation works. It’s all about inference, and associationist thinking which slowly seeps into the popular consciousness and is taken to be objective ‘truth’.

“The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performace as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyses in a way in which he would recognise as infantile withing the sphere of his own interests. He becomes a primitive again. His thinking becomes associative and affective … Information is plentiful and readily available. But this does not seem to make any difference … he is impatient of long complicated arguments. All of which goes to show that without the initiative which comes from immediate responsibility, ignorance will persist in the face of masses of information however complete and correct.”  

[Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, by Joseph Schumpeter, 1942]

Sorry, I have to call it like I see it.

—Francis Lee, May 10, 2020