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>>> A NEW REPORT OUT TONIGHT Ultimate Feast ends.
>>> A NEW REPORT OUT TONIGHT REVEALS THAT RUSSIAN
DISINFORMATION TEAMS HAVE
TARGETED THE SPECIAL COUNSEL.
TWO REPORTS COMMISSIONED BY THE
SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
AND FOCUSED ON THE INTERNET
RESEARCH AGENCY, THE RUSSIAN
TROLL FARM, ROBERT MUELLER
INDICTED LAST FEBRUARY.
ACCORDING TO ONE OF THEM, "WHAT
IS CLEAR IS THAT ALL THE
MESSAGING CLEARLY SOUGHT TO
BENEFIT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND
SPECIFICALLY DONALD TRUMP.
THE GOAL WAS TO REINFORCE
TRIBALISM TO POLARIZE AND
DIVIDE, TO EXPLOIT SOCIETAL
FRACTURES, BLUR THE LINES
BETWEEN REALITY AND FICTION,
ERODE OUR TRUST IN MEDIA
ENTITIES AND THE INFORMATION
ENVIRONMENT IN GOVERNMENT, IN
EACH OTHER AND IN DEMOCRACY,
ITSELF.
ITSELF. THE INTERFERENCE IS STILL ACTIVE
AND ONGOING.
AND ONGOING. AND NOTABLY THE TROLLS HAVE
TRIEDED TO CREATE AND AMPLIFY
THE NARRATIVE THAT THE WHOLE
INVESTIGATION WAS NONSENSE.
THAT COMEY AND MUELLER WERE
CORRUPT AND THE EMERGING RUSSIA
STORIES WERE A WEIRD CONSPIRACY
PUSHED BY LIBERAL CRY BABIES."
WHO ELSE?
WHO ELSE? THE ONLINE POSTS RECEIVED NEARLY
264 MILLION ENGAGEMENTS AS
THEY’RE CALLED ACROSS PLATFORMS.
THAT INCLUDES LIKES, RETWEETS,
SHARES.
SHARES. WITH US TO TALK ABOUT THIS
TONIGHT, AND IN SERIOUSNESS,
MALCOLM NANTZ, VETERAN OF NAVY
INTELLIGENCE, SPECIAL OPS,
HOMELAND SECURITY.
HOMELAND SECURITY. 35 YEARS WORKING IN
COUNTERTERRORISM.
COUNTERTERRORISM. HIS LATEST BOOK IS CALLED "THE
PLOT TO DESTROY DEMOCRACY: HOW
PUTIN AND HIS SPIES ARE
UNDERMINING AMERICA AND
DISMANTLING THE WEST."
MALCOLM, MOST PEOPLE IF YOU ASK
THEM WILL SAY, YEAH, THE SCHOOLS
ARE IN TERRIBLE SHAPE EXCEPT THE
ONE MY KID GOES TO.
SO AS A CONSUMER MATTER, I’M
GUESSING A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK,
I’M TOO STARTMART FOR THIS, I’M
GOING TO GO FOR THIS PROPAGANDA,
THAT COULDN’T WORK ON ME.
TELL US WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE,
WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE IN 2016,
WHAT IT STILL LOOKS LIKE ON OUR
PHONES TONIGHT.
PHONES TONIGHT. >> WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IS
INFORMATION FLOWING INTO YOUR
TELEPHONE, WHAT YOU THINK YOU’RE
GETTING ACROSS F FACEBOOK AND
ALL THESE OTHER MEDIA SOURCES
AND, OF COURSE, THE FAKE MEDIA
AS DONALD TRUMP CALLS IT, IS
JUST A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF YOUR
DAY.
DAY. WHETHER YOU’RE LISTENING TO A.M.
RADIO, WHETHER YOU’RE READING
THINGS ON TWITTER OR LOOKING AT
PHOTOS ON INSTAGRAM OR
PINTEREST.
PINTEREST. WHAT RUSSIA HAS DONE HERE AND
WHERE THE TRUE BRILLIANCE OF
THIS OPERATION COMES FROM IS WAY
BACK IN THE EARLY 2000s THE
RUSSIAN MILITARY CONDUCTED A
STRATEGIC STUDY AND STARTED
CARRYING OUT A DISINFORMATION
PLAN IN WHICH THEY SAID THAT
INSTEAD OF CARRYING OUT KINETIC
WARFARE AGAINST YOUR ENEMIES,
THE BEST THING WE CAN DO IS
CREATE A DISINFORMATION AND
FRAME AROUND THAT NATION TO THE
POINT WHERE OVER TIME AS WE’RE
CONSTANTLY TEARING THEM APART
AND FEEDING THEM WITH FALSE
INFORMATION, THEY WOULD ACTUALLY
WELCOME AN INVASION, SO RUSSIA
HAS DONE THAT TO THE UNITED
STATES.
STATES. AND IT BEGAN WAY BEFORE 2016.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE
EARLIEST REFERENCES I HAVE WITH
RELATION TO DONALD TRUMP SHOWS
IT STARTED BACK IN 2011 WITH
MARIA BUTINA AND THE NRA
CONTACTS, CONTACTS WITH THE
FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN RIGHT
AND THE ALT-RIGHT IN THE UNITED
STATES.
STATES. RUSSIA WAS PUSHING THESE
DISINFORMATION THEMES THEN.
THEN IN 2013, THEY STOOD UP THE
RUSSIAN FEDERATION INTERNET
RESEARCH AGENCY WHICH BUILT ALL
OF THESE MEMES WHICH BECAME THE
CRUISE MISSILES OF FAKE NEWS AND
DISINFORMATION DESIGNED TO DO
WHAT IT DID TODAY, TAKE
ONE-THIRD OF UNITED STATES
POPULATION AND MAKE THEM REFUSE
TO BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAY BEFORE
THEIR VERY EYES AND MAY HAVE
ELECTED A PRESIDENT IN THE
PROCESS.
PROCESS. >> AND ONE OF YOUR LONGHELD
BELIEFS WHICH SIMULTANEOUSLY
BREAKS MY HEART IS THEY WERE SO
GOOD AT PICKING APART OUR
DIFFERENCES, DIVIDING AMERICAN
AGAINST AMERICAN AND KNOWING
SUCH AN INCREDIBLE COST/BENEFIT
ANALYSIS, IT COST THEM NOTHING,
KNOWING HOW TO DO IT EASILY THAT
YOU WON’T BE SURPRISED IN THE
END IF THEY HAD AMERICAN HELP.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
>> ABSOLUTELY. THE COST OF THIS MISSION BY
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE AND THAT’S.
WHAT CARRIED THIS OUT.
THE AGENCY WAS A SUBCONTRACTOR
TO RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
IN THE FSB, RUSSIA’S NATIONAL
SECURITY AGENCY.
SECURITY AGENCY. THEY NOW OWN THE MINDSET OF ONE
THIRD OF THIS NATION.
THEY MANAGED TO NOW MAKE US NOT
BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT WE
BELIEVED BEFORE.
BELIEVED BEFORE. THAT DIVERSITY AN AMERICAN
FACTOR WHICH MADE US GREATER.
THEY HAVE PLAYED ON THE THEMES
OF FAR-RIGHT CONSPIRACY
THEORISTS FROM THE 1960s.
THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY, A
SIDELINE GROUP.
SIDELINE GROUP. YOU KNOW, THE FARTHEST EXTREMES
OF THE LIBERTARIAN PARTIES.
THEY HAVE AMPLIFYIED RACISM TO
THE POINT WHERE THE ALT-RIGHT,
STEVE BANNON’S OWN CREATION OF
GAMERS IS NOW THE WHOLLY OWNED
SUBSIDIARY OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
AND ARE BELIEVERS IN DAVID DUKE,
THE KU KLUX KLAN, RICHARD
SPENCER, THE NEO NAZI, AND
ROBERT SPENCER, THE ISLAMOPHOBE,
TO THE POINT WHERE THEY’RE
MAINSTREAMED.
MAINSTREAMED. THIS IS HOW EFFECTIVE THIS
INFORMATION WARFARE CAMPAIGN HAS
BEEN CARRIED OUT AND LET ME TELL
YOU, THIS REPORT SHOWS HOW THEY
WENT AFTER TO SUPPRESS THE
VETERAN VOTE AND THERE’S NO
DOUBT IN MY MIND OR ANYBODY
ELSE’S IN THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY THAT DOESN’T BELIEVE
THAT IT TOOK AMERICAN CITIZENS
TO ASSIST THEM IN REALLY GETTING
DOWN TO WHERE THESE VOTERS WERE
WHO NEEDED TO BE SUPPRESSED AND
THEY DID IT IN SUCH A FASHION,
ONE OF THEIR TWITTER GROUPS HAD