matt

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The US Government secretly redefining journalists it doesn't like as "information brokers" in order to attack them with the CIA is horrific crime against the constitution. It's also braindead branding, because "information broker" sounds waaay cooler than "journalist."

Below is the latest chapter in the White House's increasingly Soviet refusal to speak of the nation's biggest press freedom case—a case new reports say was only brought to grant legal cover for a CIA rendition op. They have stone-walled for months. (cf: mediaite.com/tv/i-emailed-yo…)

BIG: On Sunday, a new report claimed the US secretly considered killing Julian Assange, and laid criminal charges against him primarily to "legalize" a kidnap operation. Now the former CIA Director who pushed the scheme has—in a failed damage control effort—confirmed it is true.

The two decades since 9/11 have been a litany of American destruction by way of American self-destruction, with secret policies, secret laws, secret courts, and secret wars the US government has repeatedly denied, disclaimed, and distorted. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p…