The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
►https://theintercept.com/2017/01/11/the-deep-state-goes-to-war-with-president-elect-using-unverified-claim
Demanding that evidence-free, anonymous assertions be instantly venerated as Truth — despite emanating from the very precincts designed to propagandize and lie — is an assault on journalism, democracy, and basic human rationality. And casually branding domestic adversaries who refuse to go along as traitors and disloyal foreign operatives is morally bankrupt and certain to backfire on those doing it.