The U.S. Media And The National Security Establishment Work Hand-In-Hand

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan

Lee Smith, Tablet: Spies Are the New Journalists

And with the help of big names in media they’re turning journalism into an intelligence operation

There are two sets of laws in the United States today. One is inscribed in law books and applies to the majority of Americans. The other is a canon of privileges enjoyed by an establishment under the umbrella of an intelligence bureaucracy that has arrogated to itself the rights and protections of what was once a free press.

The media is now openly entwined with the national security establishment in a manner that would have been unimaginable before the advent of the age of the dossier—the literary forgery the FBI used as evidence to spy on the Trump team. In coordinating to perpetrate the Russiagate hoax on the American public, the media and intelligence officials have forged a relationship in which the two partners look out for the other’s professional and political interests. Not least of all, they target shared adversaries and protect mutual friends.

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WNU Editor: It is bad enough that former senior and partisan political operatives now host media news organizations (George Stephanopoulos comes to mind). But we now have former partisan senior intel officials being the ones who provide analysis and direction for news audiences on political stories and events. This is not a healthy sign for journalism. Not at all.