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Newly Published Clinton Email Reveals How Government Manipulates Media
Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
A Hillary Clinton staffer planted questions in a CBS 60 Minutes interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, according to email records released this week. At the time of the interview in early 2011, Assange had already leaked sensitive, embarrassing information from the State Department. The unclassified staff email to Clinton, released amid her ongoing email scandal, demonstrates not only that the former Secretary of State and her staff were out to discredit Assange, but that the government manipulates media and wields heavy influence over it.
In an email from January 28, 2011, Philip J. Crowley, then Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, alerted Hillary Clinton that 60 Minutes conducted an interview with Assange set to air on the 30th. As Crowley informed her, “We had made a number of suggestions for outside experts and former diplomats to interview to ‘balance’ the piece.” This statement alone shows the access to media that powerful government agents enjoy.
He goes on to further reveal that influence: “60 Minutes assures me that they raised a number of questions and concerns we planted with them during the course of the interview,” Crowley said, suggesting the interview would not be embarrassing to Clinton or the State Department: “We will be prepared to respond to the narrative Assange presents during the program.”
The 2011 interview features a younger looking Assange with interviewer Steve Kroft.
Several minutes into the conversation, Kroft asks Assange point-blank if he is a “subversive.” Interestingly, the only politician Assange names directly in his response is Clinton herself: “I’m sure there are certain views among Hillary Clinton and her lot that we are subverting their authority. But you’re right, we are subverting illegitimate authority. The question is whether the authority is legitimate or whether it is illegitimate.”
Kroft pushed Assange regarding accusations that sensitive information about government operators was leaked to terrorists: “There have been reports of people quoting Taliban leaders saying they had the names of these people and they were going to take retribution,” he commented. Assange retaliated that the Taliban is not a coherent group, though he did not deny the dangers of releasing information.
Other notable, potentially planted statements and questions?
“There’s a perception on the part of some people who believe that your agenda right now is anti-American,” Kroft said to Assange, who dismissed that notion by highlighting the fact that Americans send Wikileaks information and it is in the “revolutionary” spirit to do so.
Kroft pushed, “Someone in the Australian government said that, ‘Look, if you play outside the rules you can’t expect to be protected by the rules.’ And you played outside the rules. You’ve played outside the United States’ rules.” Assange reminded him that he had not sought out classified information and rather, it was provided to him. He explained:
“There is the First Amendment. It covers the case. And there’s been no precedent that I’m aware of in the past 50 years of prosecuting a publisher for espionage. It is just not done. Those are the rules. You do not do it.” Assange dismissed ideas that he should be prosecuted.
When accusing Assange of espionage didn’t work, Kroft tried another angle. He suggested that if Julian Assange was not punished, it would set a dangerous precedent for others to leak classified documents. Kroft said:
“…if they don’t come after you now that what they have done is essentially endorsed small, powerful organization with access to very powerful information releasing it outside their control. And if they let you get away it, then they are encouraging —”
Assange interrupted:
“Then what? They will have to have freedom of the press?” After a brief and tense exchange, Assange asserted, “If we’re talking about creating threats to small publishers to stop them publishing, the U.S. has lost its way. It has abrogated its founding traditions. It has thrown the First Amendment in the bin. Because publishers must be free to publish.”
Ironically, throughout their conversation about free speech and the freedom of the press, Kroft was feeding him questions straight from the mouth of government — more specifically, a government agency with a probable vendetta against Assange for releasing embarrassing information.
The government is no stranger to manipulating the media. It was recently revealed that the CIA heavily influenced the bin-Laden-themed film, Zero Dark Thirty. The military regularly reviews films with military-subject matter and helps dictate content. The New York Times presented information in a way that deceptively downplayed the CIA’s operations in Syria, a move many view as a consequence of the agency’s decades-old efforts to manipulate the media.
News of the State Department’s manipulation of Assange’s interview is not a revelation. Nevertheless, it constitutes yet another crack in the facade of carefully crafted sound bites and the subtle, yet potent, manipulation of information.
As Edward Snowden, who recently joined Twitter, posted,
New government doc states @60Minutes planted government questions to shape @Wikileaks interview. If true, sad to see. pic.twitter.com/IJxK8tlfr8
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 1, 2015
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Ministry of Truth peddling official lies. h/t to whoever first said this.
Carey Wedler is pretty hot...but she voted for Obama. Not sure I can excuse her for that...
It used to be, that the media was the government's watchdog. Now they are the governments mouthpiece.
Wrong. They are the FED's Mouthpiece and COLLABORATORS with the Government.
I am shocked, shocked! to hear that media manipulation is going on in this establishment!
Its as if people have just woken up to this fact. Its called propaganda. Shit half the stories on this site reflect someones propaganda. I've read stories on zerohedge almost back to back about China first becoming the next reserve currency, then how fucked they truly are. Everyone has an angle. Someone gets paid for their option or to read a teleprompter. Same as it ever was.
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed.”
Though the author is unknown it was attributed to Samual Clemens which is ironic. Even the attribution of a popular saying on misinformation is misinformed. So what else is new?
The reports of Clemens' death were greatly exaggerated until they weren't.
Politicians may have influence over media, but banksters controlling corporatocracy have control over both of them.
Himmler would be jealous of these assholes
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Don't know about Himmler, but J. Goebbels certainly was jealous--and expressed this out loud and in writing. He considered Hollywood to be unsurpassable masters of the art.
Well, whoever controls the NSA is in on it, too. They could very easily tell us all about the Clinton emails and Lois Lerner's emails also, for that matter.
The US Deep State owns all the media now and has for decades:
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director, cited by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing DemocracyOT Berkley and Hemeroids
http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/04/30/did-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-trigge...
Question:
There are two kinds of people in this world, cheap and easy. You have to pick one, and I have never met anyone that is both...Except, the presstitutes of the media whorehouse and politicians.
Oh, by the way, I forgot, Fuck You Hillary & Bill!
That William Colby quote can't be verified and we can't ask him because he died in an unfortunate boating accident. Wait...
It is interesting to see how Dr. Joseph Farrell ties your comments into his presentation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1svGIBKaE_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6ZVVlCK-0
"How Government Manipulates Media"
The gubmint is MSM and vice-versa. Nothing new about that, they run the show and call the shots.
Hell most of their "reporters" would drop to their knees and give Barry a blow job on camera if asked.
The good news for the MSM is that there are still millions of mouth breathing morons that believe their fucking lies.
I had always second-guessed myself - thinking maybe I was overly paranoid with respect to the power gov't wields in they way of surveillance and influencing the media - it's nice to be vindicated and realize I wasn't crazy. However, it's extremely saddening and disturbing to see how bad things have become.
Sure the Madame Secretary halted this injustice immediately. She is above aroach.
Awkward, but nice.
These types of revelations will matter exactly when our dear leaders' credibility is lost AND their loss of credibility is directly associated with a tangible loss of comfort and privilege on the part of a majority of society.
Until then; yeah, whatever.
So, never.
if an entity is regulated by the government (FCC), it is the government.
U R our BTCH
http://www.internetsociety.org/regulation
+1
Very concise statement of truth.
well... that won't reach the meanstream media for sure...
and nobody cares anyway so ignorance if bliss I guess...
that's why I don't read the common newspapers anymore.
Interested, what uncommon newspapers do you read? WSJ?
My local rag is 12 pages long on some days, including inserts.
Holy shit! The Government manipulates the press! Someone tell caitlyn before it's too late!
This is why Gerald celente calls them presstitutes!!!
ehhh, I mean this was huge huge deal for the government and if all they could muster was getting 60 minutes to raise a few additional questions in their interview then I couldnt care less.
Well there is that whole rape charges for not wearing a condemn with the woman's knowledge during consensual sex thing.
As proof of the headline and associated summary; the proof will be the story will not make the news. Unless the statement below is true.
However, I did hear from a "government official" that the DOD working through the Obama Administration to pressure Mrs. Clinton to drop out of the race in favor of Jeb to continue the neo-conservatives agenda of which Jeb and family are co-founders and sponsors according to another "DOD insider" familiar with the situation and "experts" agree.
The notion of Wikileaks - a clearinghouse for mass-distro of Establishment secrets - is a brilliant, obvious thing in the internet age.
It is unfortunate the narcissistic clown Julian Assange is the frontman though - he is a gift for the Barry Clintobushes of the world who need a sock puppet to discredit the whole thing.
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"Secretary of State and her staff were out to discredit Assange"
No target is too low to be off the radar with these people.
maybe the emails will reveal something of her personal enemies list, Hillary Mil-ham Clint-Nixon
on this matter the entire history of the Iraq war is really up for grabs, whatever anyone thinks of our state department. Jeb Bush has taken the position that the war was wrong and Obama was wrong to pull out our troops. recall Tim Russert interviewing Colin Powell on the Red Sea prior to the war, and when the question got tough the camera went off Powell. Powell asked for the camera to be returned (this tells you THEY are working the camera, okay) Powell referred to the person controlling the camera as Elizabeth. later Russert had a boating accident. Jeff Gannon (likely MK Ultra product) walked into a Bush conference unvetted. Bernstein documented the chill cast over the media by making journalists apply for security clearances. all that stuff about a free press was over, and Obama has done nothing to fix any of the wrongs that were done, instead he bombs wedding parties with drones and gets Facebook to ban the APP. he worse than Bush because he pretends to be something better but great civilizations often turn bad at the end of milleniums, and that historical confluence appears to be holding up
But wait, the 60 Minutes interview with Putin was completely free from govenrment influence, right? Ole Charlie R is no tool of the government, right?
I honestly can't remember the last time (besides the Putin interview) that I watched 60 min for more than 3 minutes
Kroft, 69, a 1967 graduate of Syracuse University and a member of the university's board of trustees, said in a statement Wednesday that he and his wife "are committed to each other." He said the affair had "no impact whatsoever" on his performance as a journalist.
http://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/01/syracuse_alum_st...
Kroft doesn't understand that lack of character impacts everything one does. Everything.
In a sane era, Steve Kroft's career would now be over.
Wonder when he'll be promoted.
How come Hillary didn't attack Julian for being a supposed rapist?
Probably because she specializes in defending rapists and attacking their victims.
Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote this passage in his 1972 opinion for the Court in Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley, “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”
Marshall’s passage embodies the fundamental First Amendment principle that government regulations that discriminate against speech on the basis of content or viewpoint are suspect.
Ask Tim Russert.
If you loved 0d30, you're gonna really love the movie coming out about Benghazi.
http://sofrep.com/?attachment_id=13757
Goebbels was a rookie hack compared to the US deep state
If interested in the topic, William Shirer's "History of the Third Reich" is a great (albeit, lengthy) read. I am currently half way through.
I was fascinated how millions of people could be coerced/duped/terrorized into compacency in the face of Hitler's overreach of power and humanitarian atrocities.
The parallels with modern day US are astounding. Like the German people, we are sitting by idly while our liberties are being stripped away. The active propaganda and manipulation of the media. On and on...scary parallels...
You might want to ask yourself why Shirer got so many plane rides around Germany by Hermann Goring. Some wonder about Shirer's socialist leanings and how The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (published in 1960) is at variance with his own diaries. Here's an Historian (vilified) that you might find interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLloM6ufVgk
Mencius Moldbug nails the iron polygon and the power structure in the ussa.
Post from 2007 but you wouldn't know it.
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/iron-polygon-power-...
The key to power in the Fourth Republic is that no one who has power wants anyone to think of them as having power. For example, in the traditional iron triangle, legislators do not have power. They are just expressing the will of the people. Civil servants do not have power. They are just making public policy. Lobbyists do not have power. They are just communicating their concerns.
This is a profoundly Orwellian situation. The root of the problem is that the modern English language has no word which means "power," but carries only positive associations.
Perhaps the most important fact about power is that the powerful are almost always sincere. They honestly believe they are doing good. Every Sauron considers himself a Boromir. And - as Acton observed - every Boromir has an inner Sauron. Since this is widely recognized, and since "power" is generally associated with "evil," the people in the US who have actual power do not and cannot think of themselves as having power.
Thanks Hillary, now that you've made it cool, everybody in government is going to try to manipluate the press
The filth of HilLiary is washing away...
No only does the media do it, they feel like they were born to do it. Journalism is dead. Only former MSM shills teach the college courses.
What can't the seven trillion dollars printed by the greedy socialist jew FED banksters under Obama buy? It's bought 95% of the media, 95% of the democrat party, the republican leadershit, even the Supreme Court....Think Phag marriage and Obowelcare.
Secretary of State Blumenthal probably pulled a few strings to get this leaked in an attempt to bolster the government's street cred.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/cant-protect-it-dont-colle...
NSA has no ability to protect the information it collects. That is what they don't want you to notice.
NSA, and the entire US government, are playing the game of information control and losing against the internet and the world's hackers.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/measures-of-propagandas-ef...
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/peak-information/