{"id":77083,"date":"2017-07-06T22:08:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T02:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77083"},"modified":"2017-07-06T22:08:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T02:08:29","slug":"deep-state-unleashes-triple-whammy-media-blitz-ahead-of-trump-putin-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77083","title":{"rendered":"Deep State Unleashes Triple-Whammy Media Blitz Ahead Of Trump-Putin Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

It’s been relatively quiet in the last few weeks on the\u00a0“the Russians did it, and Trump’s Putin’s best-buddy”<\/em>\u00a0propaganda-fest, but it appears the Deep State had\u00a0three stories tonight<\/strong>\u00a0– just hours ahead of Trump’s face-to-face with Putin – claim\u00a0Russian hackers are targeting US nuclear facilities<\/strong>, the Russians are\u00a0nonchalantly stepping up their spying,\u00a0<\/strong>and that\u00a0Russia alone interfered with the US election<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

With all eyes on the ‘handshake’ as Putin and Trump come face-to-face for the first time as world leaders, it seems the Deep State is desperately fearful of some rapprochement, crushing the need for NATO, and destroying the excuses for massive, unprecedented military-industrial complex spending.<\/p>\n

And so, three stories (2 anonymously sourced and one with no facts behind it) in The New York Times (who recently retracted their “17 intelligence agencies” lie<\/a>) and CNN (where do we start with these guys? let’s just go with full retraction of an anonymously sourced lie about Scaramucci and Kushner and the Russians<\/em><\/a>) should stir up enough angst to ensure the meeting is at best awkward and at worst a lose-lose for Trump (at least in the eyes of the media).<\/p>\n

First off we have the ‘news’ that\u00a0hackers have reportedly been breaking into computer networks of companies operating United States nuclear power stations, energy facilities and manufacturing plants<\/strong>,\u00a0according to a new report by The New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The origins of the hackers are not known.\u00a0<\/strong>But the report indicated that an\u00a0\u201cadvanced persistent threat\u201d actor<\/strong>was responsible, which is the language security specialists often use to\u00a0describe hackers backed by governments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The\u00a0two people familiar with the investigation<\/strong>\u00a0say that, while it is still in its early stages, the hackers\u2019 techniques mimicked those of the organization known to cybersecurity specialists as\u00a0\u201cEnergetic Bear,\u201d the Russian hacking group<\/strong>\u00a0that researchers have tied to attacks on the energy sector since at least 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Bloomberg piled on…<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0chief suspect is Russia,<\/strong>\u00a0according to\u00a0three people familiar with the continuing effort<\/strong>\u00a0to eject the hackers from the computer networks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So that’s that 5 people – who know something – suspect it was the Russians that are hacking US nuclear facilities (but there’s no proof).<\/p>\n

Next we move to CNN<\/a>\u00a0who claim a\u00a0‘current and former U.S. intelligence officials’<\/strong>\u00a0told them that\u00a0Russian spies have been stepping up their intelligence gathering efforts in the U.S. since the election, feeling emboldened by the lack of significant U.S. response to Russian election meddling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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“Russians have maintained an aggressive collection posture in the US, and their success in election meddling has not deterred them,”\u00a0<\/strong>said a former senior intelligence official familiar with Trump administration efforts.<\/p>\n

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“The\u00a0concerning point with Russia is the volume of people that are coming to the US.<\/strong>\u00a0They have a lot more intelligence officers in the US” compared to what they have in other countries, one of the former intelligence officials says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, according to Steve Hall, retired CIA chief of operations, the Russians could also be seeking more information on Trump’s administration, which is new and still unpredictable to Moscow<\/p>\n

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“Whenever there is a deterioration of relations between countries \u2014 the espionage and intelligence collection part becomes that much more important as they try to determine the plans and intentions of the adversarial government,”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So that’s more anonymous sourcing about Russian spies… doing what they would normally do during a presidential transition.<\/p>\n

And so finally, a third story – with\u00a0CNN\u00a0<\/a>trotting out former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper,\u00a0<\/strong>to pin the ‘Russians did it’ tail on the “this is why we lost the election” donkey…<\/p>\n

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Former DNI James Clapper: I think Russia\u2019s goal here is to \u201cprep the battlefield\u201d for the 2018 elections https:\/\/t.co\/lkEj7yTPQd<\/a><\/p>\n

— CNN (@CNN) July 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n