Thursday, November 08, 2018

Surefire Intelligence is the best story of 2018

So a 20-something year old troll Jacob Wohl attempts to smear Special Counsel (and former FBI director) Robert Mueller, who promptly reports the case to the FBI.  The smear campaign was supposedly a result of extensive investigation by a private Israeli intelligence firm.

 Turns out, it doesn't really take the federal government to solve the case.  It just takes, I don't know, a few minutes of web searches by Aric Toler, a writer for the open investigation community Bellingcat.  Toler takes maybe 15 minutes off his work on Russia, quickly revealing evidence of Wohl's ties to the so-called "Surefire Intelligence" and right-wing conspiracy-pushing websites. Wohl seemed to have tried to create a facade of credibility for his private intelligence firm, but it quickly falls apart with a little scrutiny.

Check out the Bellingcat article above, or take a quick look below, it's really quite something....



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