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A world waits for Putin's play (w/ Dmitri Alperovitch)

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

42K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Last week, State Department spokesperson Ned Price, fielded tough questions from AP reporter Matt Lee about the US Government's claims that Russian forces were planning to mount a phony false flag attack in order to provide a pre-text for an invasion of Ukraine. It was a classic moment in which a Biden Administrative Official was forced to answer that most fundamental of questions that should always be asked when the government makes bold assertions about the perfidy of a foreign power. What's the evidence? Price declined to do so leaving the press and much of the public leaving to wonder, does US intelligence really have the goods to back up its claims? Or was this just one more front in a much larger information warfare battle in which the Biden Whitehouse is trying to spook the Kremlin to forgo its plans to seize control of a neighboring country? As the world sits on edge of what Putin may or may not do, we talk to cyber security expert Dmitri Alperovitch about what we should expect over the next several weeks.


GUEST:


HOSTS:

  • Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
  • Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
  • Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)


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Transcript

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0:00.0

We told you a few weeks ago that we have information indicating Russia also has already prepositioned

0:07.2

a group of operatives to conduct a false-lag operation in eastern Ukraine.

0:11.5

So that, Matt, to your question, is an action that Russia has already taken?

0:14.9

It's an action that you say that they have taken, but you have shown no evidence to

0:21.4

confirm that.

0:22.4

And I'm going to get to the next question here, which is, what is the evidence that they

0:26.1

have? I mean, this is like crisis actors, really, this is like Alex Jones' territory

0:30.9

you're getting into now.

0:33.4

What evidence do you have to support the idea that there is some propaganda film in the

0:38.8

making?

0:39.8

Matt, this is derived from information known to the US government, intelligence information

0:45.0

that we have declassified.

0:46.6

I think you know.

0:47.6

Okay, well, where is it?

0:48.8

Where is this information?

0:50.5

It is intelligence information that we have declassified.

0:52.9

Well, where is it?

0:53.9

Where is the declassified information?

0:55.5

I just delivered it.

0:57.5

No, you made a series of allegations.

1:00.5

Would you like us to print it out at the top of it?

1:02.7

Because you will see a transcript of this briefing that you can print out for yourself.

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