I knew it!

<CIA can disclose info to reporters that it doesn’t have to disclose in a FOIA>

This isn’t what you might think it is.

The MSM is just an extension of the CIA, but it isn’t always clear by what mechanisms they control these seemingly impassioned reporters.

Some are flat out CIA employees, some are compromised, some are complicit.

BUT, what about the useful idiot types?

THEY are contacted by the CIA to “help” their country, they are then given false documents and info, NOT to report on mind you, but to motivate them (programming): Made-up dirt on various people, made-up reports of false enemies, evil empires, conspiring against them.

By not having to admit that a FOIA document conflicts with the programming these reporters have been fed, they can maintain a dislocation from reality.

Many reporters are very much so living in a fantasy.

https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2018/04/selective-disclosure/