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Morell further suggested that the U.S. should respond in a
significant way to the alleged Russian actions and he has given interviews
supporting reports that the CIA believes Russia tried to influence the election
in favor of President-elect Donald Trump.
Absent from the news media coverage of Morell’s statements
is that he is known for his leading role in helping to craft the infamously
misleading talking points used by Obama administration officials to blame the
September 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks on a YouTube video.
The news media also failed to mention that Morell, who
abruptly resigned from the CIA in June 2013, took a job that year at the Beacon
Global Strategies firm, where he still works as senior counselor.
Beacon was founded by Phillippe Reines, who served as
Communications Adviser to Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state.
From 2009-2013, Reines also served in Clinton’s State Department as the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Strategic Communications. Reines is the managing director of Beacon.
In an interview on Sunday with the Cipher Brief, Morell
commented on reports in the Washington Post and New York Times claiming Moscow
interfered in the presidential election to help Trump win – a contention the
President-elect called “ridiculous” in an interview on Sunday.
“It is an attack on our very democracy,” Morell said. “It’s
an attack on who we are as a people. A foreign government messing around in our
elections is, I think, an existential threat to our way of life. To me, and
this is to me not an overstatement, this is the political equivalent of 9/11.
It is huge and the fact that it hasn’t gotten more attention from the Obama
administration, Congress, and the mainstream media, is just shocking to me.”
Morell further asserted that the U.S. most respond overtly
to the attack:
He stated:
The third implication is we need to respond to the Russian
attack. We need to deter the Russians and anyone else who is watching this—and
you can bet your bottom dollar that the Chinese, the North Koreans, the
Iranians are all watching. We need to deter all of those folks from even
thinking about doing something like this in the future.
I think that our response needs to have two key pieces to
it. One is it’s got to be overt. It needs to be seen. A covert response would
significantly limit the deterrence effect. If you can’t see it, it’s not going
to deter the Chinese and North Koreans and Iranians and others, so it’s got to
be seen.
The second is that it’s got to be significant from Putin’s
perspective. He has to feel some pain, he has to pay a price here or, again,
there will be no deterrence, and it has to be seen by the rest of the world as
being significant to Mr. Putin so that it can be a deterrent.
The interview with Morell was widely cited by the news
media.
“Former Acting CIA Director Calls Russian Interference In
Election ‘The Political Equivalent Of 9/11,’” reads a Huffington Post headline.
Business Insider ran a piece similarly titled, “Former
acting CIA Director Michael Morell: Russian meddling in US election ‘is the
political equivalent of 9/11.’”
“Ex-CIA Director: Obama Should Retaliate To Russian Election
Hacks Now,” blasted a Forbes.com headline.
Morell’s quotes were cited by USA Today, the Independent and
scores of other publications.
Morell also appeared Monday on “CBS This Morning,” where he
supported a CBS News report citing intelligence sources saying the CIA has high
confidence that the Russians attempted to influence the presidential election
in favor of Trump.
“The C.I.A. doesn’t come to a high-confidence judgment just
based on circumstantial evidence. So I think they’ve got more here,” Morell
told the news network. “I think they’ve got sources who are actually telling
them what the intent was.”
The breathless news media coverage of Morell’s recent
remarks, reviewed by this reporter, fails to mention Morell’s employment at the
firm tied to Hillary Clinton.
The coverage of Morell’s remarks also fails to take note of
his central role in crafting misleading talking points on the Benghazi attacks.
The talking points were used by United Nations Ambassador
Susan Rice on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, when she appeared on five morning
television programs to discuss the White House response to the Benghazi
attacks. In nearly identical statements, she asserted that the attacks were a
spontaneous protest in response to a “hateful video.”
Morell addressed his role in editing the talking points
during Benghazi testimony on April 4, 2014.
The Guardian reported:
In his testimony, Morell said he was deeply troubled by
allegations made by lawmakers and some in the media “that I inappropriately
altered and influenced CIA’s classified analysis and its unclassified talking
points about what happened in Benghazi, Libya in September 2012 and that I
covered up those actions.”
“These allegations accuse me of taking these actions for the
political benefit of President Obama and then secretary of state Clinton. These
allegations are false,” Morell said.
He said he and the agency could have done a better job, but
he dismissed suggestions that the CIA “cooked the books” in the assessment of
the attack.
In a briefing to senators following the attacks, Morell
claimed that references to terrorism and al-Qaeda were removed from the
Benghazi talking points to “prevent compromising an ongoing criminal
investigation.”
Morell’s assertions were contradicted by a 46-page House
Republican report from April 2013 finding the talking points were edited to
protect the State Department’s reputation.
“Contrary to administration rhetoric, the talking points
were not edited to protect classified information,” states the “Interim
Progress Report for the Members of the House Republican Conference on the
Events Surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012 Terrorist Attacks in Benghazi.”
“Evidence rebuts administration claims that the talking
points were modified to protect classified information or to protect an
investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),” the report states,
charging the talking points were “deliberately” edited to “protect the State
Department.”
States the report: “To protect the State Department, the
administration deliberately removed references to al-Qaeda-linked groups and
previous attacks in Benghazi in the talking points used by [United Nations]
Ambassador [Susan] Rice, thereby perpetuating the deliberately misleading and
incomplete narrative that the attacks evolved from a demonstration caused by a
YouTube video.”
Morell resigned from the CIA amid the controversy surrounding
the Benghazi attacks, saying he was stepping down to spend more time with his
family.
Morell, who was considered a favorite to lead the CIA and
spent 33 years with the agency, acknowledged in his resignation statement that
the reason for his leaving the agency may seem somewhat difficult to believe,
but “when I say that it is time for my family, nothing could be more real than
that.”
“I am passionate about two things in this world – the agency
and my family,” Morell said in the statement. “And while I have given
everything I have to the Central Intelligence Agency and its vital mission for
a third of a century, it is now time for me to give everything I have to my
family.”
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