{"id":23441,"date":"2016-12-12T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23441"},"modified":"2016-12-12T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:21:08","slug":"former-uk-ambassador-blasts-cias-blatant-lies-shows-a-little-simple-logic-destroys-their-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/12\/12\/former-uk-ambassador-blasts-cias-blatant-lies-shows-a-little-simple-logic-destroys-their-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UK Ambassador Blasts &#8220;CIA&#8217;s Blatant Lies&#8221;, Shows &#8220;A Little Simple Logic Destroys Their Claims&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Zero Hedge<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-12-11\/former-uk-ambassador-blasts-cias-blatant-lies-shows-little-simple-logic-destroys-the\" target=\"_blank\">Former UK Ambassador Blasts &#8220;CIA&#8217;s Blatant Lies&#8221;, Shows &#8220;A Little Simple Logic Destroys Their Claims&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Kremlin has rejected the hacking accusations, while the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has previously said the DNC leaks were not linked to Russia. A second senior official cited by the Washington Post conceded that intelligence agencies did not have specific proof that the Kremlin was \u201cdirecting\u201d the hackers, who were said to be one step removed from the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, who is a close associate of Assange, called the CIA claims \u201cbullshit\u201d, adding: \u201cThey are absolutely making it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know who leaked them,\u201d Murray said. \u201cI\u2019ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it\u2019s an insider. It\u2019s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps the CIA is telling these lies in the hopes that the insider leaker will reveal his or her identity.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero Hedge has the article Former UK Ambassador Blasts &#8220;CIA&#8217;s Blatant Lies&#8221;, Shows &#8220;A Little Simple Logic Destroys Their Claims&#8221;. The Kremlin has rejected the hacking accusations, while the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has previously said the DNC leaks were not linked to Russia. A second senior official cited by the Washington Post conceded that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23442,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23441\/revisions\/23442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}