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Who Leaked Secret U.S. War Plans to Iran?
Unlike the Case of the Supreme Court Dobbs Leaker, this time, we are going to need an answer.
Voters are plagued by scandals, scandals, and non-scandals in the current election cycle.
In the fullness of time, some of these much-ballyhooed scandals turned out to be non-scandals. (See, Russiagate.) Other would-be scandals go largely ignored by a corporate press corp for reasons we can’t begin to fathom.
The Jeffery Epstein story should have been a huge story — but it wasn’t. At least one major media outlet passed two years before it finally broke.
The coordinated mass media blackout on the so-called Lab Leak Theory also should have been a huge story. But it wasn’t.
The Supreme Court’s Dobbs verdict was leaked; authorities never unmasked the culprit. Though some Supreme Court justices have their suspicions, the public plainly wasn’t to know the identity, motivation, and method of the leaker.
The Secret Service found cocaine in the White House and failed to protect former President Donald Trump through a litany of oversights: Nothing to see here, move along, please.
Our corporate media betters are always anxious to tell us who it wasn’t — on that point, they assure, promise, cajole, threaten, persuade, and endlessly. But…