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ANTI-RUSSIA ‘PROPAGANDA’ GROUP URGES REPORTER TO DROP STORY ON CIA ARMING SYRIAN REBELS


Anti-Russia ‘Propaganda’ Group Urges Reporter To Drop Story On Cia Arming Syrian Rebels
Very ‘moderate’ rebels
Originally appeared at RT
A group that claims to be fighting against Russian propaganda and “fake news” is asking a reporter not to pursue information on the CIA arming Syrian rebels. PropOrNot, famous for being an ex-source for the Washington Post, says the story may fall into the wrong hands.
On Thursday, Jason Leopold, a senior investigative reporter at Buzzfeed, tweeted that he had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the CIA for documents related to the US arming Syrian rebels.
PropOrNot beseeched him to drop its case in a tweet.
Last year, the Washington Post published a front page article that cited PropOrNot, a group that, according to the site’s description, is “volunteering time and skills to identify propaganda – particularly Russian propaganda – targeting a US audience.”
The report identified more than 200 websites as “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda.”
After several complaints, The Washington Post issued a kind of retraction that said that they did not “vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s findings regarding any individual media outlet,” and PropOrNot also removed some of the sites from their list.
The FOIA request from Buzzfeed was made after President Donald Trump tweeted in July that the Washington Post “fabricated facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful spending payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad.”
Buzzfeed argues that Trump’s tweet “constitutes official knowledge that the United States had been making payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad.” They submitted a FOIA request to the CIA in September for “any and all” documents that mentioned or referenced CIA payments to Syrian rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Jason Leopold   ✔@JasonLeopold
MORE NEWS! I/@BuzzFeedNews just filed  lawsuit against CIA for all docs on arming Syrian rebels aftr Trump declassified program w/tweet pic.twitter.com/UdMYDB8PEj
PropOrNot ID Service @propornot
Guys... Don't do this. It doesn't help. Ofc we supported Syrian moderates/democrats. We should have done it more. Please don't muddy waters!
00:06 - 20 Oct 2017
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In response, PropOrNot pleaded with Leopold not to file the lawsuit, saying that it “doesn’t help.”
“Ofc we supported Syrian moderates/democrats. We should have done it more. Please don’t muddy waters!” the group tweeted.
When pressed about their response, PropOrNot said that they didn’t want the information to be obtained by Buzzfeed, because it would be disseminated to “regimes at war [with] us.”
Michael Ham @hardkoreham
Replying to @propornot @RealAlexRubi
As a taxpayer living in a democracy, I'd like to know who my money is going to.

Too high of a standard?
PropOrNot ID Service @propornot
Yes. You don't need to know anything abt classified US anything, cuz if you knew, regimes at war w us (🇷🇺🇸🇾🇰🇵) would also know, & that's Bad
03:55 - 20 Oct 2017
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“We don’t want to see any more good Syrian people get massacred by the brutally corrupt mafia-fascist regimes of Assad & Putin,” the group tweeted.
Alex Rubinstein  ✔@RealAlexRubi
.@propornot loves attacking journalists, begs Buzzfeed not to report on staffer's CIA FOIA work & can't read "views mine" in my bio https://twitter.com/propornot/status/921183621620187136 …
03:25 - 20 Oct 2017
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The groups said that if the CIA released information on which groups the US has been funding, “Trump’s Russian buddies”would “have an easier time hunting them down & bombing their whole neighborhood.”
Michael Ham @hardkoreham
Replying to @propornot @RealAlexRubi
If the Syrian rebels we armed were swell fellas, wouldn't you want that information to get out so public opinion would be influenced?
PropOrNot ID Service @propornot
Why, so Trump's Russian buddies can have an easier time hunting them down & bombing their whole neighborhood? You'd like that, wouldn't you?
03:47 - 20 Oct 2017
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In the past, PropOrNot has tweeted a Ukrainian fascist salute “Heroaim Slava!,” which means  “glory to the heroes,” to congratulate Ukrainian hackers fighting Russians.
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Mark Ames  ✔@MarkAmesExiled
Wow. The @washingtonpost anonymous source for blacklisting US journalists recently tweeted 1940s Ukrainian fascist "Heroiam Slava!" salute
05:11 - 26 Nov 2016
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