Worth a listen: Malcolm Nance interviewed on my local station WAMC
Submitted by Fedup on Thu, 01/05/2017 - 3:26pm
Malcolm Nance is a counterterrorism expert and Intelligence Community member, author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller Defeating ISIS.
His most recent book is The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election.
Listen to the interview here:
http://wamc.org/post/counterterrorism-expert-malcolm-nance
Comments
A hack on hacking.
He claims he knows 100%that Russian intelligence (at the direction of Putin) hacked the DNC servers and were being watched in real time doing it.
Which begs the question: why didn't the watchers stop the info from being taken?
Also says we can discount anything Julian Assange says because CIA and President more believable.
Says Trump 'co-opted' by Putin and that Trump is fomenting sedition by 'diminishing' the role of intelligence community.
Supports McCain and Graham hearings.
Spencer Ackerman wrote the book forward. Tells you all you need to know about his biases.
Just another loudmouth neocon creep worried about his and his buddies gravy train being derailed post-inauguration.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
These folks don't seem to grasp aristotelian reasoning.
A. Only someone with access to the emails could have released them
B. The Russians nefariously obtained access to the emails by "hacking"
therefore ...
C. The emails were released by the Russians?
Say what? If the Russians were observed hacking the system in real-time, then guess what? The observers had also hacked the system! And who knows who else hacked the system? And that would only give us a list of people who obtained access to the system by nefarious hacking, rather than by, you know -- working at the DNC and having legitimate access to the system. or, working at the DNC and nefariously obtaining access by guessing their coworkers passwords. Or whatever.
It's so fiercely stupid that it makes me want to cry.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
thank you, NHK, for looking at the link so I don't have to /eom
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
Dear Not Henry Kissinger.
Hope you are well. This letter is just to advise you that Mr. Nance probably said the least untruthful thing he could think of.
Sincerely yours, Jame Clapper.
My gut is telling me, don't trust this guy
I'm not able to form a logical case against him at this time. It's this strange feeling I'm being lied to and a vague discomfort with his words.
He uses 'Steal' when really isn't the accurate term 'influence'. To my mind there is a rather large difference in regards to this matter.
He seems to be rather full of himself. For me this is always a red flag.
He indicts WikiLeaks and Julian as useful tools or worse. Which sure looks to me part of the continuing effort by the PTB to discredit the one who has exposed the PTB so painfully.
The Julian says an insider provided the info, Mark Rich is murdered, Julian offers reward to find the killer(s) train of events speaks to the truth of the issue more clearly to me than the Russia did it scenario.
But, again, this feeling of unease about Malcom isn't based in logic. It's based on the (all to familiar) feeling of being lied to.
I'll be following this thread for awhile. I expect I may find some insights in the comments that will help me to see this more clearly.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
Small correction: it's Seth Rich who was possibly murdered
Marc Rich was the corrupt wealthy businessman and fraudster on the lam, whom POTUS Bill Clinton pardoned as he was leaving office, in one of the more blatant and shameless Democratic party donor pay-to-play deals.
duh,, sorry, thanks
I'm gonna blame it on the chemo. I am NOT getting old!!!
I'll leave it as is.. you fixed it for me.. thank you.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
I used to
have some respect for Malcolm.
Then he started selling his information to the highest bidder with the greatest fear factor requirements.
Bottom line: He specializes in promoting fear over true information. And the general public, plus many of those in power, gobble that shit right up.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Glenn Greenwald refutes Malcolm Nance
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/12/democratic-echo-chamber-inc...
"Please clap." -- Jeb Bush
WikiLeaks has more credibility than the CIA
Despite Malcolm Nance's infamous tweet, WikiLeaks has never been caught disseminating false information. Unlike the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
I continue to be mystified about how revealing to the
electorate unsavory truths about the gangrenous corruption within the DNC can be construed as "stealing" an election, or indeed, of doing anything wrong at all -- regardless of who may have been responsible for the revelations.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Public Radio pushing 'It's the Russians wot done it!'
Say it ain't so!?
If anything's hacktackular these days, it's so-called 'Public Radio'*.
*Founding Client Member of ClintonWorld™
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Isn't it
sad what has happened to a great institution when it was formed?
Big damn
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Yep!
I stopped listening to them after they heavily pushed Bush's Iraqi debacle.
Can't stand to hear their 'fake news' when fiddling with the dial.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
I agree with untimely
The Podesta's emails showed how the DNC was doing everything it could to slant the election in Hillary's favor and to boost Trump to be the person she ran against.
No one cared about what the contents of the emails stated, they focused on trying to find someone to blame for their information getting out.
I was reading some comments from a counterpunch article last night and so many people 'liked' all the comments of how Russia hacked Vermont's electrical grid even though that story has been debunked.
Isn't there a saying that a lie can be halfway around the world before truth gets its pants on?
When you work to promote the most dangerous of opponents
in an election.
Who are you working for?
The people?
Or yourself.
I have zero compassion for Bill and Hill. I can not find it in me.
Is that a definition of hate?
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
Worse.
It's complete indifference. Part of the hologram of their existence blinked out.
So I don't hate Hillary and Bill!?
umm... Passionately hoping someone suffers and having no compassion for their suffering, doesn't seem like indifference to me.
I hate to be a hater but damn, I hate those two.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
I just want them to go away - far, far away -
and never come back, and never be mentioned in the media again.
Fat chance, unfortunately.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
I think we have every right to hate them
for the betrayals they're responsible for, Obama too. They quite obviously feel the same way about us, so all's fair for us to hate them.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Well I'm sorry, but that book title alone
tells me I need not bother. Thanks for trying but no, I don't want to spend my time listening to someone who really thinks the Russians did it to steal an election. As others out here have already said, the fact that no one cares what was in those emails and only worries about who leaked them speaks volumes on motive for spreading such stories, IMHO. CYA. And sells books.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Thanks Malcolm Nance, for helping
to spread anti-Russian bullshit far and wide. How patriotic of you. Of course it's already so thick you can cut it with a knife, but I'm sure your contribution has been noted.
native
bill hicks
had a (comedic) riff about a newly inaugurated president being taken downstairs in the white house and shown, by the national security guys, a never-before-seen film, clearer than Zapruder's, shot from a better vantage point , of JFK being shot, and then being asked if he had any questions. Wonder if Trump tomorrow will be shown that (fictional) film to prove Putin made Oswald do it.
bygorry
I expected a completely different ending to your sentence.
.
Thought you would say:
"…to prove what happens to presidents who defy the Agency's authority."
There was trouble brewing over the CIA false flag of the Bay of Pigs, staged by the US Neocon-nazis in their post WWII quest for revenge against the Russians. And, of course, they couldn't seem to come up with a photograph of the Russian missiles in Cuba. Photoshop had not been invented yet.
Reading between the lines of the current CIA "narrative" is telling….
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-pub...
well yeah
that too
bygorry
Not necessary !!!
Sen. Schumer already told him!
I have been expecting a false flag attack soon
either before or right after Trump is sworn in. Or maybe another financial meltdown which will further curtail what is left of our civil rights. But now I think that they are spreading false news hysteria instead.
There's that bill in the NDAA about developing a new government office that will deal with supposed fake news that won't be tolerated any longer.
Except that our government has been spreading their own fake news of propaganda against us for decades.
They have known for over 6 months that Hillary's email server was hacked because huma Abedin told judicial watch that during her deposition.
So now you have to ask yourself why are they pushing this Russian BS so hard?
I still think it's because they have been planning for a war with Russia for over a year and they want people to get behind the war.
It's too damn bad that people are falling for their lies. Again.
"Russian hacking" is just the latest "Gulf of Tonkin incident"
Like in 1964, when LBJ was already in the process of lying us into a war, even as he was running as the peace candidate.
I used to like Malcolm Nance
I used to like Malcolm Nance, because he spoke truth to power regarding torture during the Bush administration.
But his new incarnation as a TV "expert" claiming "WikiLeaks tried to steal the 2016 election" is disappointing. He was all-in for Hillary, and the title of his book hints that he was banking on a Hillary win.
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
Democrats and NPR
Pathetic fucking losers.