Jeff
Bezos is the richest man in the world, with a fortune now topping $100
billion, generated primarily by the astounding success of Amazon. Since
2013, he is also owner of The Washington Post, one of the most
transparently anti-Trump newspapers in the nation. Bezos, Amazon and
the Post are entitled to take whatever political positions they want.
But Bezos’ relationship with the CIA is extremely troubling.
It’s
no secret The Washington Post has force-fed America the idea that
Donald Trump’s victory was the result of “collusion” between members of
his campaign and the Russians, with the implication that Trump himself
was involved. Consider the source, but columnist Glen Greenwald
eviscerated one of its many stories on the subject, calling it “classic
American journalism of the worst sort,” explaining that its “key claims
are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous
officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims about what
the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains
completely secret.”
That story — and the complete lack of journalistic integrity it
demonstrated — was hardly an outlier. The Post published another piece
so egregiously sloppy, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi characterized it as
an “astonishingly lazy report” that has “no analog that I can think of
in modern times.” (Coming from Rolling Stone, that’s saying something.)
It was about 200 websites the Post labeled as “routine peddlers of
Russian propaganda.” Despite Post columnist Craig Timberg’s assertion
there were independent teams of researchers making the claims, Taibbi
reveals the meat of the report relied on an organization known as
PropOrNot, which he describes as a group that offered “zero concrete
evidence of coordination with Russian intelligence agencies.”
Zero critical skills have also been a staple at the paper. Post writer
Adam Entous attempted to turn a joke made by House Majority Leader
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — “I think Putin pays Trump” — into another piece
about Russian collusion. The Post also ran a discredited piece
insisting Assistant U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to
resign. It was a lie about James Comey being fired after requesting
more funds for investigations, and it was soon debunked by then-acting
FBI Director Andrew McCabe. Then there was yet another deliberately
misleading story about Trump “leaking” classified intel to the Russians
— before the Post revealed that every president “has broad authority to
declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures
broke the law” … in paragraph seven.
Post reporter Josh Rogin is in a class by himself. As The Daily Wire
revealed last February, Rogin managed to get three major stories wrong
in the space of only 10 days, two of which falsely perpetrated the
Trump administration “chaos” narrative.
And last Friday it was revealed that ostensibly objective Post report
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