Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Seven times 'disinformation' turned out to be just the opposite

 At the heart of the second trial to come out of Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion probe is a story of disinformation

  • Marc Elias, general counsel for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, testified both during a House Intelligence Committee investigation in 2017 and recently during Durham's ongoing probe that he was the one who hired the opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump.
  • Fusion GPS went on to commission former MI6 agent Christopher Steele to create the infamous "Steele dossier," which purported to show collusion between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin.
  • The federal government used the now-discredited dossier to obtain a warrant to surveil former Trump 2016 campaign aide Carter Page.

The origins of COVID-19

  • Prominent mainstream media outlets either ignored the Hunter Biden story or cast doubt on its authenticity
  • 51 former intelligence officials signed a public letter dismissing the report as Russian disinformation
  • Only in recent months have government officials and the nation's most prestigious media outlets admitted the authenticity of the laptop, which revealed a trove of details that are now being used as part of a government probe into Biden’s taxes

COVID-19 vaccines as a panacea

  • First made available as a means to limit transmission of the virus and end the pandemic
  • Assertions questioning the efficacy of the vaccine were deemed "misinformation" by Big Tech companies and the Biden administration, which categorized many such assertions as "conspiracy theories"
  • Doctors who spread misinformation could be disciplined by state medical boards and risk losing their licenses
  • The CDC has backtracked on the vaccine as a method of public health and pandemic control, citing new data

The mistreatment of the Jan. 6 defendants

  • The Justice Department has arrested nearly 900 people for charges related to the COVID-19 incident, imprisoning most without trial.
  • Several have said the FBI, Justice Department, and federal prison officials under the Biden administration violated their civil and constitutional rights.

Critical race theory in schools

  • The National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to Biden asking his administration to investigate threats against public school officials.
  • In the letter, the NSBA specifically referred to parents who protested the teaching of CRT in the classroom as "domestic terrorism."
  • Less than a week later, Attorney General Merrick Garland sent out a memo warning that the Justice Department is "committed to using its authority and resources to discourage" the "threats" as well as "identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/here-are-7-times-disinformation-turned-out-be-just-opposite

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