One weird dude: the implosion of former CIA analyst Larry Johnson
https://sofrep.com/news/one-weird-dude-the-implosion-of-former-cia-analyst-larry-johnson/
Larry Johnson came onto my radar a few years back when I penned a book about Benghazi with Brandon Webb.
We were the first ones to really tell the story behind what happened
that night in Libya, and it certainly caused a bit of a dust-up. Larry
Johnson took to his website and described us both as unwitting dupes who
were being played for fools.
Now I know it is not nice to gloat,
and I should not be smugly chuckling to myself here, but there is a
kind of irony I can’t ignore in watching Larry Johnson implode in the
national media. Over time his blog (which has recently been removed
from the internet) became a mecca of weird conspiracy theories and
raving lunatic warnings. Larry it seems, went way down the rabbit hole.
Larry Johnson is another one of those weird cats who is a “former” something (CIA
analyst in this case who left the agency in the 90’s) who has become a
media commentator. Much like others I’ve profiled in the past, these
people rely on an appeal to authority when they go on the news and
insist that they have the truth because they have big three-letter
agency background.
Previously,
he had made the claim that there was an audio recording of Michelle
Obama making statements about hating white people, a claim which turned
out to be false. The pièce de résistance came just recently though when
Larry went on RT news, our favorite state-sponsored Russian propaganda
outlet, to claim that British ntelligence was illegally
spying
on Donald Trump with John Brennan and Jim Clapper’s knowledge. Larry
also appeared on Info Wars with Alex Jones to make similar claims.
Judge Napolitano at Fox News took these claims at face value and
reported them on-air.
In some interviews, Larry Johnson repeats a
completely bullshit claim that the CIA spied on the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence. SOFREP was the first to publish the real story on the Rendition, Detention, Interrogation network.
No less than Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary picked up
on the claim after hearing it on Fox News from Judge Napolitano. So
here is the path that this information took: Larry
Johnson>RT>Judge Nap>Fox News>Sean Spicer>White House.
The British government pushed back hard, stating,
“Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew
Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct ‘wiretapping’ against the
then president-elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and
should be ignored.” At this point, it is hard to say what is more
scary, that Larry Johnson is used as a source for anything or that the
White House repeats fictitious claims about our closest ally based on
outlandish statements made by people like Johnson which are propagated
by known Russian disinformation outlets.
Both Larry and Judge Nap seem to have tucked their turtle heads in
and disappeared for the time being. Hopefully in the future, Judge Nap
will be a bit more cautious about where he gets his information from.
So should the White House.
As for Larry, brother, I can’t even…