Fake News Exposed: Trump CIA Nominee Didn’t Oversee Waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah

RUSH: I’m gonna tell you, folks, it really is getting to the point where you ought not believe anything. Sadly, that will never happen, but I wish it could. I wish we could get to the point where every one of you and everybody else reading the New York Times, watching CNN, wherever, NBC, ABC, CBS, just did not believe what they said.

The most recent glaring example, how many of you after the Trump nomination of Gina Haspel to become the director of the CIA, how many of you think that she ran a CIA black site in Thailand over which she supervised the torture of terrorism suspects, including approving of and administering waterboarding to a terrorist by the name of Abu Zubaydah or Zubaydah or Abu Abu, whatever, for over a year, and that she was single-handedly the face of torture in the CIA and there is no way this woman should be hired. How many of you think that that is true? Everybody in the media reported it.

Well, guess what? It isn’t true and the original sourcing has been corrected. ProPublica, which is itself an extremist radical left-wing — think of it as an open source news organization that’s largely funded by George Soros, ProPublica has retracted its report that Trump’s CIA pick oversaw waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah in Thailand. In fact, ProPublica had to draw it all back. They’ve had to issue the correction: Not only did she not oversee waterboarding or torture in Thailand, she wasn’t even there.

The ProPublica correction has not been inserted into the search results that you will get on Google. And this is standard operating procedure. This is how it’s done. You initiate the lie, you put the lie all over the world, and, if necessary, you retract it, sometimes a day later, two days later; but whenever you do it, nobody pays any attention to it.

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