New investigation should be opened that examines pivotal role played by the Agency in scandal that was used to mobilize liberal support for regime change in Russia and war in Ukraine.

As I have noted previously, the Russiagate saga, which I and others have described as a hoax, is intimately tied to a vicious element of Russphobia that is integral to mainstream US and western culture. Russophobia created a receptive popular audience for mis/disinformation, one readily manipulable by propagandists.

Patrick Lawrence celebrates Jacob Seigel’s essay in Tablet magazine on the “hoax of the century.”

Former CIA deputy director Mike Morell admits that the Biden campaign triggered the false claim that the Hunter laptop story was “Russian disinformation.”

According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which provides the public, policymakers, and scientists with the information needed to reduce manmade threats, we presently live in a time of unprecedented danger. The Bulletin’s 2023 Doomsday Clock now stands at only 90 seconds before midnight.

The press declared war on Donald Trump. They lost

Jeff Gerth’s investigation for The Columbia Journalism Review exposes the dark heart of the news media’s coverage of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

Russiagate began sometime prior to June 2016, not after the presidential election in November, as is often said, as an anti-Trump political project (exactly why, how, and by whom remain unclear, and herein lies the real significance of the largely bogus “dossier” and the still murky role of top US intel officials in the creation of that document).

Bob Woodward said readers were ‘cheated’ by media’s Russiagate coverage

Last week Matt Taibbi, with access to Twitter’s internal papers, debunked the fake Hamilton 68 propaganda dashboard that was used to create many stories about alleged Russian disinformation. I had done similar five years earlier but had no access to the original data. There were enough secondary indications to conclude that the dashboard was a sham. Still, have the case made with primary data is a valuable addition.