Cheerful Charlie
Contributor
Today, Friday 7-06-17, I was watching Rachel Maddow.
People here probably remember the story where a 25 year old contractor, Reality Leigh Winner, got arrested for smuggling out an NSA document and sending it to a media outlet, The Intercept. She was caught because the printer fingerprinted the document.
She was arrested and 2 days later The Intercept published.
A few days later, somebody sent a purported NSA secret document to Rachel Maddow. Something didn't look right so it was carefully examined. It was a faked cut and paste job, including some of the same watermarks in the Intercept document. Hmmmmm. Somebody is ratfucking with MSNBC. Who? Don't know yet. But Rachel assures us with a big smile, they are working on it.
So who could be doing this? Russia? Somebody in the administration? Some dirty trick playing third party? Why? Possible to send a bad document, expose it as a fraud and bring harm to MSNBC's credibility. An attempt to destroy Rachel Maddow like Dan Rather. This document was created sometime after Ms. Winner was arrested but before The Intercept published their version.
This is beyond fake news. Apparently somebody is putting a lot of effort into this.
Stay tuned.
People here probably remember the story where a 25 year old contractor, Reality Leigh Winner, got arrested for smuggling out an NSA document and sending it to a media outlet, The Intercept. She was caught because the printer fingerprinted the document.
She was arrested and 2 days later The Intercept published.
A few days later, somebody sent a purported NSA secret document to Rachel Maddow. Something didn't look right so it was carefully examined. It was a faked cut and paste job, including some of the same watermarks in the Intercept document. Hmmmmm. Somebody is ratfucking with MSNBC. Who? Don't know yet. But Rachel assures us with a big smile, they are working on it.
So who could be doing this? Russia? Somebody in the administration? Some dirty trick playing third party? Why? Possible to send a bad document, expose it as a fraud and bring harm to MSNBC's credibility. An attempt to destroy Rachel Maddow like Dan Rather. This document was created sometime after Ms. Winner was arrested but before The Intercept published their version.
This is beyond fake news. Apparently somebody is putting a lot of effort into this.
Stay tuned.
