- Craig Murray on the ISC report on Russia Archived Message
Posted by Mary
on August 13, 2020, 3:11 pm
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The Russian Interference Report, Without Laughing August 12, 2020 Now the madding crowd has moved on, I take a mature look at the report by the Intelligence and Security Committee on Russia. It is so flawed it is tempting simply to mock it. But in fact, it is extremely dangerous. It calls expressly and repeatedly for the security services to be actively involved in “policing the democratic space” and castigates the security services for their unwillingness to interfere in democratic process. It calls for tough government action against social media companies who refuse to censor and remove from the internet material it believes to be inspired by foreign states. It specifically accepts the Integrity Initiative’s Christopher Donnelly and Ben Nimmo as examples of good identifiers of the material which should be banned – even though Nimmo is the man who stated that use of the phrase “Cui bono” is indicative of a Russian troll, and who accused scores of ordinary Scottish Independence supporters of being Russian trolls. In order for you to assess the threat of a report which specifically calls on the social media companies to ban those individuals the British government identifies as Russian trolls, and which calls on the security services to act against those people, remember Ian. Ian was identified by the British government as a Russian troll, on the word of Nimmo and Donnelly – exactly the “experts” on which this report relies. This report proposes Ian, and people like him, be banned from social media and subject to security service surveillance. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/08/the-russian-interference-report-without-laughing/ A very lengthy piece as is the actual report with 55 pages. The stooges on the committee include Failing Grayling and Milord West of Spithead, the latter being one of the warmongers' operatives. http://isc.independent.gov.uk/committee-members |
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