BullsFan22 said:
Irondan said:
I'm aware that FB are Russian hackers, my concern over believing an RT story that (of course) shows the USA's biggest Olympic stars dirty laundry is that it's not the typical fashion in which FB has operated up till this point. Fancy Bears has released everything to date via their website along with Twitter, which gives them full credit, but this new information has been released through a known Russian government subsidised/controlled news organization as a "leak".
It's not that I don't believe the subject matter, it's that I don't trust the messenger. I've read numerous articles and watched telecasts in the past in utter shock at how anti-American the twist to their stories are.
At the moment I write this, almost 24 hours after I initially saw this story posted it has still not been picked up by the MSM, or anyone else except for the Russians that I've found. To me, that's telling.
RT is to the Russian government as the BBC is to Great Britain's government, as ARD is to the German government, as CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and even FOX are to the US government. No mainstream media is going to go all out on its own government and expose them. Has any mainstream US media outlet gone....at all...at the exposed US Olympians named in the leaks? When they were named, they had Travis Tygart and others coming on to quickly defend the 'system' and lambasted the Russians for leaking private information. There was little to no criticism directed towards the athletes or the methods. Now they won't even bother.
RT is most certainly backed, started and funded solely or in part by the Russian Government, which if you took a second to check you would have found that. Instead you gave me an opinion that sounded very condescending to me, by the way. I'm well aware of the way the news works, thanks though.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ow-putin-clears-it-up/?utm_term=.db0c0f232ade
https://www.rt.com/usa/rt-government-broadcasting-radio/
I never said the US mainstream media isn't picking up this story, I said the MSM. That's EVERYONE except for the Russian government backed news organisation RT news.
Fancy bears released the documents that they hacked as irrefutable proof about what they claimed, now RT news is "leaking" an anti American story, based on the leak coming from Fancy Bears. Where's the documents to back it up? Why didn't Fancy Bears publish this "leak" themselves? If true, it's a huge story, but there has to be more corroboration than the Russian Governments news proxy publishing a "leaked" a story with no documents to back it up.