CIA, Rick Wilson, BuzzFeed, and Evan McMuffin May Have Discredited Themselves in 24 hours

by Amna El Tawil
 
News about the new event including Russia broke the internet this morning. This time, it wasn’t about election hacks and the Democratic party. Instead, it was revealed that Russia is in possession of personal and financial information about Donald Trump. Apparently, the files also included info about Mr. Trump’s sex life. Just a few hours later, Kremlin denied having such files and the President-elect reacted on Twitter, accusing media of witch hunt and an unfair treatment.
 
The BuzzFeed website published a series of memos which have been floating around for months, containing terrible information about Mr. Trump. You can see those files here. Some allegations made in the memos refer to efforts to influence the elections as well as Trump’s sexual conduct as previously mentioned.
 
John Podhoretz of the New York Post slammed BuzzFeed for the inappropriate behavior and questions their integrity and credibility. He wrote: “Readers of this newspaper know well not to include me among Trump’s supporters. But the scurrilousness of what BuzzFeed has done here is so beyond the bounds of what is even remotely acceptable it should compel even those most outraged by Trump’s political excesses to come to his defense and to the defense of a few other people mentioned in these papers whose names are also dragged through the mud.
 
There is literally no evidence on offer in these memos or from BuzzFeed that any single sentence in these documents is factual or true. What’s more, we know most major news organizations in America had seen them and despite their well-known institutional antipathy toward Trump, had chosen not to publish them or even make reference to them after efforts to substantiate their charges had failed.
 
BuzzFeed tells us that “the document was prepared for political opponents of Trump by a person who is understood to be a former British intelligence agent.” Indeed, the memos are designed to read as though they were cables sent from the field to the home office. And they should set off the bull detector of every rational person who reads them.”
 
Podhoretz also mentions that what he learned in more than three decades of experience as a journalist is that “intelligence” source is one of the shadiest sources a person can have. He points out that a real journalist should always be skeptical when intelligence agents are sources to their stories. He also adds: “At a moment when journalists are up in arms about “fake news,” what BuzzFeed has done here is take the fake news to a new level. Its editor, Ben Smith, acknowledges “there is a serious reason to doubt the allegations.” In other words, there is almost certainly fake news inside these memos, and it might all be fake, or some parts of it might be true but buried so deeply under falsity that it would be impossible to separate it outThe fake news will become more sophisticated, and fake, ambiguous, and spun-up stories will spread widely,” warned an important American editor at the end of December 2016. His name: Ben Smith. His publication: BuzzFeed.”
 
This morning, Trump took to Twitter to deny these rumors referring to them as a complete and total fabrication and utter nonsense.
 


WikiLeaks reacted too.

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Today, rumors started circling around that the entire story is a hoax and 4chan is in the middle of it. The TownHall reports: “What’s worth talking about, however, are swirling claims on Reddit that 4chan users on the board /pol/ completely made the entire thing up. According to a variety of posts on the pro-Trump subreddit r/The_Donald, a user on /pol/, a 4chan board, made up the most salacious story in the report. He then mailed it to anti-Trump Republican strategist Rick Wilson, who then went to the CIA. The story was then included in the dossier published Tuesday by BuzzFeed News. If this is true, this effectively means that 4chan trolled the U.S. intelligence system and the majority of the U.S. media with what’s basically Donald Trump erotic fanfiction, which is terrifying.”
 
Reddit has a special thread about this subject that you can see here.
 

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Rick Wilson denied this report.
 


 
If these allegations turn out to be true, it would mean that Rick Wilson along with BuzzFeed and other media representatives who fed on this story lost their credibility in a single day.

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3 thoughts on “CIA, Rick Wilson, BuzzFeed, and Evan McMuffin May Have Discredited Themselves in 24 hours”

  1. The clownish CIA is like a bad version of the keystone cops! What a complete and utter disgrace. And to think taxpayers have to give their hard money for this useless bunch.

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