Authored by Pepe Escobar via Asia Times,
The massive WikiLeaks Vault 7 release is an extremely important public service. It’s hard to find anyone not concerned by a secret CIA hacking program targeting virtually the whole planet – using malware capable of bypassing encryption protection on any device from iOS to Android, and from Windows to Samsung TVs.
Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
New revelations from Wikileaks’ 'Vault 7' leak shed a disturbing light on the safeguarding of privacy. Something already known and largely suspected has now become documented by Wikileaks. It seems evident that the CIA is now a state within a state, an entity out of control that has even arrived at the point of creating its own hacking network in order to avoid the scrutiny of the NSA and other agencies.
Government employees swear an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.
Intelligence workers are no different …
And yet former CIA counterterrorism officer and former senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kiriakou writes:
The American Media Hide From The Truth
Paul Craig Roberts
A CNN insider claims that the network is run, quite literally, by the CIA in order to control the news the American public get to hear. In a series of astonishing claims made to Victurus Libertas, an alleged CNN staffer has confirmed what former host and three-time Emmy award winning journalist Amber Lyon said in 2012 – namely that the U.S. Deep State force the network to publish and broadcast government propaganda. According to the insider – NBC, Huffington Post, New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox are all infiltrated to some degree by the Central Intelligence Agency too.