Ray McGovern
Consortium News
Consortium News
Now
that the media has been exposed for wrongly siding with the
intelligence agencies, how will it handle Devin Nunes’s criminal
referrals in Deep State-gate?, asks Ray McGovern.
Readers of The Washington Post on
Monday were treated to more of the same from editorial page chief Fred
Hiatt. Hiatt, who won his spurs by promoting misleading “intelligence”
about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and suffered no consequences,
is at it again.
This
time he is trying to adjust to the fading prospect of a Deus ex Mueller
to lessen Hiatt’s disgrace for being among the most shameless in
promoting the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
He
is not giving up. When you are confident you will not lose your job so
long as you adhere to the agenda of the growing
Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank
complex (MICIMATT if you will), you need not worry about being a
vanguard for the corporate media. It is almost as though Hiatt is a
tenured professor in an endowed chair honoring Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who perhaps did most to bring us Iraqi WMD.
In his Monday column Hiatt warned:
“Trump was elected with the assistance of Russian spies and trolls,
which he openly sought and celebrated. But he did not (or so we are
told) secretly conspire with them.” In effect, Hiatt is saying, soto voce: “Fie on former (now-de-canonized) Saint Robert of Mueller; we at the Post and our colleagues at The New York Times, CNN et al. know better, just because we’ve been saying so for more than two years.”
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