Tyler Durden:
A couple of weeks ago we expressed some level of ‘amazement’ at just how sophisticated, efficient and pervasive the ‘Russian hacking’ community had become after CNN reported that they had managed to hack into a Qatari News Agency and post a ‘fake’ news story all in an apparent attempt to drive a wedge between the U.S., Qatar and some of it’s Gulf Arab neighbors.
Think about that for a minute. Set aside, if you will, the hacking event itself for just a moment and imagine how good the Russians had to be to know exactly what news story needed to be planted inside the Qatari news agency to provoke an immediate severing of diplomatic ties by numerous Arab neighboring states…it truly is mind boggling how it all played out exactly the way the Russians planned…these ‘Russian hackers’ are certainly not a bunch of amateurs.
And while that may sound like a joke, it is, quite unfortunately, not…at least it wasn’t at CNN anyway. Here are the details, as they were previously reported by CNN:
The FBI recently sent a team of investigators to Doha to help the Qatari government investigate the alleged hacking incident, Qatari and US government officials say.
Intelligence gathered by the US security agencies indicates that Russian hackers were behind the intrusion first reported by the Qatari government two weeks ago, US officials say. Qatar hosts one of the largest US military bases in the region.
The alleged involvement of Russian hackers intensifies concerns by US intelligence and law enforcement agencies that Russia continues to try some of the same cyber-hacking measures on US allies that intelligence agencies believe it used to meddle in the 2016 elections.
The Russian goal appears to be to cause rifts among the US and its allies. In recent months, suspected Russian cyber activities, including the use of fake news stories, have turned up amid elections in France, Germany and other countries.
As it turns out, it’s somewhat ironic that CNN accused Russia of spreading “fake news stories” that “have turned up amid elections in France, Germany and other countries” because, as Reuters reports today, their entire Qatari hacking narrative was all fake news.
According to reports from Qatar’s attorney general, it was an Arab neighbor state that severed ties with Doha (i.e. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and/or the United Arab Emirates) that was responsible for the hacking of Qatar’s state news agency and not the Russians.Â
CNN The Communists News Network its not real news just liberal leftists propeganda
If Russian hackers wished to drive a wedge between U.S allies by planting false news stories, would you expect them to use iPhones traceable to Russia to do it? How stupid would that be?
The Qatari Attorney General wasn’t suggesting this disproves Russian involvement. He didn’t say what the Reuter’s headline suggests he meant:
The Reuters article itself makes it clear that the headline is misleading:
Bullshit is becoming the norm.
Lying is not actually a sin among liberals. The ends justifies the means, remember.
“Tyler Durden” isn’t even a real person. And “snowflake” never meant what the right seems to think it means.
The snowflake has always been a metaphor for individuality. No two are exactly alike. They are unique, individual things, not cookie-cutter clones.
For some reason, the right seems to think the term is a powerful insult. “Think” being a figure of speech, of course. As near as I can tell, they seldom engage in such a process. The headline of an article can suggest something that the article itself directly contradicts. No problem! The difference isn’t even detected.
We call CNN the Communists News Network its all leftists liberal lies