John Chuckman

COMMENTS POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY SCOTT RITTER IN CONSORTIUM NEWS

 

“The Spy Who Failed

“Oleg Smolenkov’s role as a CIA asset and the use of his data by the director of the CIA to cast doubt over the 2016 U.S. presidential election”

 

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/14/the-spy-who-failed/

 

Were it not so powerful militarily and financially, the United States would be the laughingstock of the world.

This entire business about a CIA Russian spy is just another avenue travelled in America’s nonstop Russophobia lunatic wanderings.

The DNC material was not hacked as a number of true experts have told us, including the key one now languishing in a British prison.

Putin had no plan because nothing ever happened.

Nothing.

And I think we’ve all seen that when Putin plans something, it happens.

The article is interesting for its laying out of elaborate security procedures – kind of a high-level, almost academic “police procedural” – but I do feel in the end it is not that helpful, much as I respect Scott Ritter expertise.

When nothing has happened, it does seem a bit odd to scrutinize every piece of fiber and bit of dust and to construct a massive scenario of “what ifs.”

Meanwhile, the murder of Seth Rich, a genuine and meaningful event, goes virtually uninvestigated.

No wonder you are in so much trouble, America, and no wonder you make so much trouble for others.

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Response to a comment saying, “Clods like these (add the Clintons) should have their post-employment millions confiscated and put on trial”

Sorry, but “Big Intelligence” is always a failure, and on many levels.

It is not a matter of any “clods.”

It is a matter of the very nature of the institution and the nature of the people who use its output.

The CIA only has a good record at doing bad things.

I refer to its operations side and the havoc and violence they have released through the decades.

They are an army of richly-equipped thugs without uniforms, interfering in the business of others, “lying, cheating, and stealing.”

The true intelligence gathering and evaluating side of things fails and always has to a great extent.

 

https://chuckmanwords.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/why-the-cia-always-will-be-a-costly-flop/