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Steven, Agonal breathing is a brainstem reflex associated with hypoxia and impending death, which could have persisted even following the catastrophic cortical and cerebellar damage to JFK's brain. So, I suspect that Dr. Perry's observations in this interview are quite precise. Of course, the most salient comments are his description of the wounds-- which were inconsistent with the WCR Lone-Nut-in-the-TSBD narrative.

More reality for Kevin What's-His-Face and others living in the MAGA-verse... 1) Robert Mueller never claimed that the 2016 Trump campaign did not collude with Russia. That false MAGA trope was relentlessly repeated by Trump, Fox News, and the MAGA media after Bill Barr aborted Mueller's investigation in March of 2019, and publicly misrepresented Mueller's findings. Barr also blocked Congressional and public access to the Mueller Report, which Senate Democrats had requested prior to Barr's narrow confirmation as AG, along party lines. Barr worked hard to suppress and cover up Trump's Russiagate scandal-- just as he had worked hard to pardon Reagan and GHWB's Iran-Contra convicts in 1989. 2) Both Paul Manafort and Donald Trump, himself, repeatedly stonewalled Mueller's investigation. Trump floated pardons to witnesses and, ultimately, pardoned Manafort for committing perjury to stonewall Mueller's investigation. 3) Mueller never subpoenaed Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, or Don, Jr. 4) Trump stonewalled Mueller's written questions with repeated claims that he "could not recall" details of his 2016 campaign collusion with Russian officials. See, for example; Full text of Mueller's questions and Trump's answers | AP News

Was Israel's Strike on Iranian Embassy in Damascus an attempt to draw the US into the War? (juancole.com)

People living in the MAGA-verse need to educate themselves about the lengthy history of Donald Trump's involvement with Russia. Do they know that Kremlin lobbyist Paul Manafort's relationship with Putin's oligarch Oleg Deripaska goes back to 2005? Do they know that Manafort and Michael Flynn were in direct contact with Kremlin officials about U.S. Ukraine-related policies in the spring of 2016-- while serving as Trump's Campaign Manager and foreign policy advisor, respectively? Here's an excellent educational resource for Kevin Hofeling and others, who remain clueless about Trump's involvement with Russia. The Trump-Russia-Ukraine Timeline - Just Security

CIA 'warns Iran will attack Israel within 48 hours' as revenge for consulate strike - World News - News - Daily Express US (the-express.com)

This historical timeline is a useful educational resource for people interested in the subject of Donald Trump and Russia. There is a lot of chronological detail here. Trump and Russia go way back. And Paul Manafort's relationship with Putin's oligarch Oleg Deripaska began in 2005! The Trump-Russia-Ukraine Timeline - Just Security

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I'm Dr. Niederhut, Kevin, a graduate of Harvard Medical School. Mr. Niederhut was my father. Now, listen carefully, young man. You have poor reading comprehension skills, and I need you to pay careful attention to what I'm telling you this final time. No response necessary. And no more MAGA spam, please. You, obviously, remain ignorant of the fact that Russiagate was NOT a hoax, as Trump and his MAGA media propagandists have repeatedly claimed during the past seven years. Even the GOP Whitewater clown at CJR repeated that lie for Trump. We debunked it long ago on the 56 Years thread. Trump's "Russiagate hoax" trope is a classic example of the propaganda technique of "repeating the lie" until poorly informed people mistake it for truth. You got played. Did you read the U.S. Senate Intel Report on Russiagate that I posted for you, (above) or were you too busy Googling and posting MAGA Russiagate denial spam to read it? Fact #1: Putin actively interfered in the 2016 U.S. election on Trump's behalf. Fact #2: Trump's campaign staff had multiple meetings with Kremlin assets, before and after the November election. Fact #3: Paul Manafort met with GRU asset Konstantin Kilimnik in 2016, to share polling data, while Manafort was serving as Trump's Campaign Manager. As for the Manafort court document you posted, (above) you are, apparently, unaware that it was a preliminary court ruling by Judge Berman, from 2018. It details preliminary charges against Manafort. Fact #4: Manafort subsequently committed perjury in an effort to conceal his secret 2016 Trump campaign contacts with his GRU associate Konstantin Kilimnik. Fact #5: Manafort also had to be put in solitary confinement during Mueller's investigation, to prevent further witness tampering. He told Trump's Assistant Campaign Manager, Rick Gates, "We'll be taken care of," while Gates was facing interrogation by Mueller's team. Finally, you need to go back and carefully study the excellent February 2019 Washington Post article by Spencer Hsu about Manafort's trial and final judgment. I took the trouble of posting it for you on this thread, and you never even read, or understood, it. If you had read it, you wouldn't have posted more inaccurate MAGA spam about the case. The details of Mueller's case against Manafort can't be summarized more accurately than Spencer Hsu has done. There's a reason Hsu has been a candidate for two Pulitzer Prizes.

Geez, folks... Now I'm "helpless to navigate the propagandistic fog..." Perhaps I need to join Kevin Hofeling and Benjamin Cole in the MAGA-verse. Perhaps January 6th really was a Deep State "Patriot Purge," and perhaps Putin didn't interfere in our 2016 election to help his compromised Orange Asset become POTUS. Perhaps Stormy Daniels is Antifa and Konstantin Kilimnik works for the CIA.

Trump is hoping that one of his MAGA bombers will kill Judge Engoron and AG Letitia James before this fraud case gets resolved.

P.S. If Kevin Hofeling mistakenly believes that I'm an apologist for the Neocons, he needs to study our forum discussions about 9/11, Paul Wolfowitz, and the Neocon "War on Terror."

Addendum: Incidentally, aside from FSB recruitment of Republicans in the Trump era, how do we account for the GOP 180 -- from the 1950s to the 2020s-- on countering Russian totalitarianism? I have an hypothesis. The Cold War Republicans-- including the Dulles brothers and the CIA apparatchiks who murdered John F. Kennedy-- were more concerned about protecting corporate capitalists from communism than about protecting democracy from totalitarianism. That's why the CIA subverted democracy around the globe. But Putin's totalitarian police state is not communist. So, many Republicans today aren't really concerned about Putin's totalitarian threats to Western democracy.

It's ironic that poorly informed conservatives like Kevin Hofeling are confusing reality-based concerns about Putin's 21st century neo-Stalinist police state-- and Russian military psy ops in the U.S. and Europe-- with McCarthyism and Red Scare era HUAC paranoia. Why? Because Republicans in the 1950s were in the Cold War vanguard when it came to paranoia about the Kremlin. Nowadays, Republicans are either directly funded (or compromised) by Russia-- like Donald Trump and Ron Johnson-- or they are turning a blind eye to Putin's domestic and international crimes. Trump and his MAGA GOP cult have been shockingly silent about Putin's horrific war crimes in Ukraine, and his persecution and murders of journalists and political opposition leaders at home. Trump even declared that Putin was "a genius" after he began launching missiles into residential communities in Ukraine! Do Kevin Hofeling and Glenn Greenwald even know that Putin has been openly contemptuous of Western democracy, while funding and promoting right wing, fascist politicians, including Donald Trump, in the U.S. and Europe?

IMO, RFK, Jr. is missing a few screws. There's something seriously wrong with the guy. Why would he choose to sabotage liberal democracy? He seems to be fixated at the anger stage of unresolved PTSD, from the murders of his uncle and father. But I also wonder if anabolic steroids are messing with his cabeza. As for Trump's latest campaign blather about crime, he's talking out of his derriere, as always...

Agonal respiration, characteristic of impending death. And, yes, Ron, why and how did this ABC film get suppressed for 60 years?

Netanyahoo Bombs the Iranian Consulate in Damascus... Is Bibi trying to jump start the Apocalypse, or what?

My question. How did Trump get away with concealing the $58 million Truth Social annual loss (from 2022-23) before the company went public last week? Aren't there SEC regulations to prevent these kind of stock scams?

Ron, This immediately brings to mind Francis Ford Coppola's brilliant movie, Apocalypse Now, where Martin Sheen travels up a river to the Cambodian border to find Col. Kurtz-- a Special Forces commando who has gone rogue to create a guerilla army of indigenous people. The movie is, essentially, about Joseph Conrad's turn-of-the-century African colonial novel, Heart of Darkness, but also features many spell-binding details about Vietnam, French colonialism, and the dark side of the U.S. military industrial complex. One of the greatest movies ever made?

Ben, I see that you're still inordinately fond of the logical fallacy of overgeneralization, rather than studying the actual facts about Donald Trump, Russian ops for Trump, and Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. In fact, your erroneous post here goes to the very heart of the dispute on this thread (above) about reality vs. alternate reality in the case of Paul Manafort's career as a Kremlin lobbyist and Trump's Russiagate scandal. I would describe your MAGA logic thusly. The Deep State persecuted a POTUS, JFK, and Operation Mockingbird covered it up. Donald Trump was a POTUS. Therefore, the Deep State persecuted Donald Trump, and Operation Mockingbird covered it up.

A day late but, for those who haven't seen it, Trump's warm, heartfelt 2024 Easter greeting to America is worth reading. IMO, Donald needs to reduce his Adderall dosage... 🤣

Education Forum Easter humor update... MAGA warrior, Kevin Hofeling, posted the following diatribe about the notorious EF lib "keyboard warrior," Kirk Gallaway, today. It's even funnier than Trump's ALL CAPS Easter rant... Did Herr Hofeling know that Kirk was referring to our old MAGA friend, Mathew Koch? How will Kirk ever live this down? 😂 Hofeling: Listen up, keyboard warrior, your verbose drivel reeks of intellectual impotence. You prance around like a self-appointed gatekeeper, wielding your thesaurus like a blunt weapon. But let's dissect your pitiful attempt at wit, shall we? First, you label our new forum member as "sophomoric." Ah, the classic move of the insecure intellect: belittle those who dare challenge your echo chamber. Perhaps you should take a break from your pretentious soliloquies and engage in some actual critical thinking. It might do wonders for that intellectual constipation you're suffering from. Next, you invoke the illustrious "Koch ll." A name dropped with the reverence of a cult leader, as if it grants you access to the inner sanctum of enlightenment. But let's be real: your knowledge of Koch is about as deep as a kiddie pool. You're like a flat-earther trying to explain quantum physics—utterly out of your depth. And what's this about "militant homage" to conspiracy superheroes? Are you auditioning for the role of Captain Obvious in the next Marvel movie? Newsflash: your tin-foil hat isn't a fashion statement; it's a cry for help.

There has, certainly, been no dearth of MAGA propaganda in the U.S. media, since 2017, promoting Trump's bogus "Russiagate Hoax" trope. People interested in the disinformation should consult Kevin Hofeling's lengthy posts. We all owe Kevin Hofeling a special word of thanks for keeping us apprised of the MAGA Russiagate disinformation. Partisan Claims of 'Russia Hoax' Revived Ahead of 2020 Election - FactCheck.org Partisan Claims of ‘Russia Hoax’ Revived Ahead of 2020 Election By Saranac Hale Spencer Posted on October 9, 2020 Quick Take President Donald Trump and his supporters on social media are citing unverified “Russian intelligence” from 2016 as evidence that Hillary Clinton “was behind the entire Russian collusion hoax.” But that so-called intelligence is largely a reflection of publicly available information at the time. Federal investigations since then have documented multiple links between Trump associates and individuals tied to the Russian government. Full Story Hillary Clinton ran for president four years ago, but dubious claims about her continue to churn as the Trump administration rekindles allegations that ties between the president’s 2016 campaign and Russia are part of a “hoax.” One such claim arose shortly before the first presidential debate on Sept. 29. Clinton, of course, is not a candidate. But Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe wrote a one-page letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham on the day of the debate that said “Russian intelligence” in July 2016 had claimed that Clinton “approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.” Ratcliffe followed with an important caveat, writing that the U.S. intelligence community “does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.” Despite that unverified and questionable provenance, partisan websites and social media pages seized on the claim as proof that Clinton was responsible for the appearance of links between the Trump campaign and Russia. President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was among those who initially spread it on social media, saying, “The Russia hoax was Hillary’s plan.” In reality, the connections between Trump campaign associates and individuals tied to the Russian government during the 2016 election have been well documented in reports from special counsel Robert S. Mueller and the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee. Both found evidence that justified the investigation into those ties, although neither report found evidence of a criminal conspiracy. “In sum, the investigation established multiple links between Trump Campaign officials and individuals tied to the Russian government. Those links included Russian offers of assistance to the Campaign. In some instances, the Campaign was receptive to the offer, while in other instances the Campaign officials shied away,” the Mueller report said. “Ultimately, the investigation did not establish that the Campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities.” The Senate report, which was released Aug. 18, detailed former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s connections to Russia and Ukraine, and found “his high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services … represented a grave counterintelligence threat.” Manafort was one of six men involved with Trump’s 2016 campaign who have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of crimes uncovered during the Mueller probe. It is also well documented that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered computer networks and accounts related to the Democratic Party to be hacked in order to leak damaging information about Clinton and help Trump’s campaign. A joint assessment by the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency resulted in a 2017 report that detailed the extent of the Russian influence campaign. WikiLeaks released the information hacked by Russian government intelligence operatives and, according to the final volume of the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report, “the Trump Campaign sought to maximize the impact of those leaks to aid Trump’s electoral prospects.” The committee report said: “Staff on the Trump Campaign sought advance notice about WikiLeaks releases, created messaging strategies to promote and share the materials in anticipation of and following their release, and encouraged further leaks.” Campaign officials looked to Trump’s longtime associate and adviser Roger Stone for insights about WikiLeaks’ plans to release information, and Stone would relay his purported knowledge to Trump or senior aides, according to the report. The committee, however, couldn’t “reliably determine the extent of authentic, non-public knowledge about WikiLeaks that Stone obtained.” Neither the Mueller report nor the Senate Intelligence Committee report suggest that Clinton orchestrated any of this. But on Oct. 6, a week after his letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ratcliffe, who served as a Republican congressman from Texas until he became the director of national intelligence on May 26, said the president instructed him to declassify “additional documents.” Trump took to Twitter the same day, announcing: “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!” So far, this has included a heavily redacted memorandum from the CIA to the FBI and two pages of heavily redacted notes that former CIA director John Brennan had taken in 2016. According to Ratcliffe’s letter, Brennan’s notes said that the Russian intelligence analysis included the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.” Brennan dismissed the publication of those documents as being politically motivated. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, he called Ratcliffe’s move “selective declassification” that is “designed to advance the political interests of Donald Trump and Republicans who are aligned with him.” Brennan explained, “These were my notes from the 2016 period when I briefed President Obama and the rest of the national security council team about what the Russians were up to and I was giving examples of the type of access that the US intelligence community had to Russian information and what the Russians were talking about and alleging.” But what “the Russians were talking about” in late July 2016 merely reflected what was playing out in public at that time. In mid-June of 2016, the Democratic National Committee disclosed its servers had been hacked and the firm it hired to analyze the breach traced the hack to Russia. On July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 DNC emails, and two days later Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in an interview with CNN that the timing of the release — shortly before the Democratic National Convention — suggested that Russia was trying to help Trump’s campaign. At a July 27, 2016, press conference, Trump said he doubted that Russia was responsible for hacking the DNC computer network, but invited Russia to find Clinton’s personal emails that had been deleted before she left office. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” he said. Four days later, Clinton suggested in an interview on Fox News Sunday that Russia was helping Trump. “We know that Russian intelligence services hacked into the DNC and we know that they arranged for a lot of those emails to be released and we know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up Putin, to support Putin,” she said. Clinton’s campaign also criticized Trump’s call for the Russian government to “find” her emails. But that’s not a scandal that Clinton “stirred up.” She was responding to Russia’s actions and Trump’s words. There is no evidence that she was responsible for the federal counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign ties with Russia. The fact is, multiple federal reports, including the Mueller and Senate reports, trace the origins of the investigation to Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos. As we have written, the Department of Justice’s inspector general said the FBI launched its investigation after Papadopoulos told a “Friendly Foreign Government” (an Australian diplomat in London, according to the New York Times) that the campaign had received information about Russia having dirt on Clinton. So, claims like this one — “Hillary Clinton was behind the entire Russian collusion hoax all along” — made by Republican Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, along with a call to “#LockHerUp,” are unfounded. But that hasn’t stopped such claims from spreading. Collins’ original tweet was shared more than 14,000 times, and a conservative group called FreedomWorks made the quote into a meme that’s been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook. Other major Trump allies are spreading similar messages. Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, wrote on Facebook, with a link to the Fox News story about Brennan’s declassified notes, “CROOKED Hillary denied our country a peaceful transition of power. SHE concocted the Russia hoax!” Anti-Muslim activist Brigitte Gabriel asked for “nationally televised hearings about how the Russian probe was a HOAX.” And Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida claimed on Facebook, “The Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton regime completely fabricated the Russia hoax. It was all FAKE.” All of those assertions ignore the findings of multiple federal investigations and they eschew confirmed U.S. intelligence in favor of unverified Russian intelligence. Editor’s note: FactCheck.org is one of several organizations working with Facebook to debunk misinformation shared on social media. Our previous stories can be found here. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here for more. Sources Ratcliffe, John. Director of National Intelligence. Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham. Judiciary.senate.gov. 29 Sep 2020. Trump, Donald Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr). “OMG JUST DECLASSIFIED: The Russia hoax was Hillary’s plan, and the Obama-Biden White House was briefed on it.” Twitter. 29 Sep 2020. Mueller, Robert S. III. “Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election.” U.S. Department of Justice. Mar 2019. U.S. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Report on Russian Active Measures, Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. 2020. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Background to “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”: The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution. 6 Jan 2017. Singman, Brooke. “DNI declassifies Brennan notes, CIA memo on Hillary Clinton ‘stirring up’ scandal between Trump, Russia.” Fox News. 6 Oct 2020. Trump, Donald (@realDonaldTrump). “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!” Twitter. 6 Oct 2020. Cohen, Zachary and Alex Marquardt. “Former CIA director accuses intel chief of selectively declassifying documents to help Trump.” CNN. 6 Oct 2020. Kiely, Eugene. “Timeline of Russia Investigation.” FactCheck.org. Updated 20 Feb 2020. C-SPAN (@cspan). “Donald Trump: ‘Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.’” Twitter. 27 Jul 2016. Kiely, Eugene, et al. “How Old Claims Compare to IG Report.” FactCheck.org. 10 Dec 2019.

Honestly, Paul, Kevin's latest rant about Kirk the "keyboard warrior" is one of the funniest things I've read in a great long while. I couldn't stop laughing while reading it, and I'm sure that Kirk enjoyed the humor as well... 😂 As for political opinions, let's distinguish them from political facts-- e.g., about Paul Manafort's distinguished career as a Kremlin lobbyist and political consultant, before and after becoming Trump's campaign manager in 2016. It's astonishing to see how much time and effort the MAGA pundits have invested in manipulating public awareness and understanding of Manafort's sordid career and Trump's Russiagate scandal. Trump has always had a knack for coining and repeating catchy MAGA jingles-- like "Sleepy Joe Biden" or "Pocahontas"-- and two of his most effective were, " No Collusion," and "Russia Hoax."

U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Document on Paul Manafort's Work for Russia* 1) Manafort worked for years as a lobbyist and political consultant for Kremlin psy-ops in Ukraine, on behalf of Putin's Ukrainian puppet, Victor Yanukovych. 2) Manafort's long-term Russian military intelligence (GRU) associate was Konstantin Kilimnik. 3) Manafort also worked with Putin's oligarch, Oleg Deripaska. 4) Manafort secretly met with Kilimnik during the 2016 Trump Presidential campaign. 5) Manafort went to great lengths to conceal his 2016 contacts with Kilimnik from Mueller-- even committing perjury. * report_volume5.pdf (senate.gov)

Sandy, This is getting ridiculous... We have a new, sophomoric forum member who doesn't know the difference between journalistic fecal material and shinola. And he loves to flood the zone with fecal material. IMO, Kevin Hofeling's MAGA spam belongs at the Education Forum's MAGA Water Cooler. Hofeling just posted the following ridiculous comment about Spencer Hsu's excellent February 2019 Manafort article at WaPo (at the top of this page.) "Do you have the slightest idea how ridiculous it appears for you to present this pitiful Washington Post article which makes completely unsubstantiated claims just so you can beat your silly Russophobic war drum? Geez... I've forgotten more about Russian history, culture, and politics than Hofeling will ever know. Spencer Hsu is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist at America's top-ranked political newspaper. The facts in his article about Manafort's trial and sentencing (above) will be evident to any informed reader. Notice that Hofeling didn't refute a single fact that Hsu documented about Manafort and the Mueller investigation. Hofeling, basically, ignored the well-documented facts in Spencer Hsu's WaPo account of Paul Manafort's perjury and witness-tampering during the Mueller investigation. Then Hofeling posted a steaming pile of fecal material from the Trump/MAGA propagandists at Real Clear Politics.* Incidentally, Hofeling's Real Clear MAGA propagandists are affiliated with such right-wing American "luminaries" as The Federalist, Dick Uihlein, and the Scaife family. These Real Clear Robber Barons are, basically, only interested in one thing, as we all know-- Trump/GOP tax cuts! If nothing else, Hofeling has unwittingly given us a good example of what is so terribly wrong with American political discourse in the age of Trump. Here's the skinny on Hofeling's latest Trump/MAGA propaganda site, Real Clear Politics (italics mine.) *RealClearPolitics Rightward turn during Trump's presidency[edit] In 2020, The New York Times noted that since 2017, when many of its "straight-news" reporting journalists were laid off, RealClearPolitics showed a pro-Trump turn with donations to its affiliated nonprofit increasing, much from entities supported by wealthy conservatives. [25] The New York Times also said that "Real Clear became one of the most prominent platforms for elevating unverified and reckless stories about the president's political opponents, through a mix of its own content and articles from across conservative media...." and that for days after the election, "Real Clear Politics gave top billing to stories that reinforced the false narrative that the president could still somehow eke out a win."[25] An October 2019 article in The Daily Beast reported that RealClear Media manages a Facebook page of "far-right memes and Islamophobic smears". Anand Ramanujan, chief technology officer for RealClear Media, responded that the company created the website that was affiliated with the Facebook page "as part of an effort to understand the flow of traffic from social media—particularly Facebook—to political websites."[26] Real Clear Politics heavily promotes content by The Federalist, a conservative website which draws funding from the same pool of donor money as Real Clear Politics.[25] In 2016, RealClearInvestigations was launched,[27] backed by foundations associated with conservative causes, such as the Uihlein Family Foundation and Sarah Scaife Foundation.[28] In 2019, the site published an article by a conservative author, Paul Sperry, containing the supposed name of a U.S. intelligence officer who blew the whistle on the Trump–Ukraine scandal.[28] The article's publication came as part of a month-long effort by Trump allies on media and social media to "unmask" the whistleblower, whose identity was kept confidential by the U.S. government, in accordance with whistleblower protection (anti-retaliation) laws.[28] Most publications declined to reveal the whistleblower's identity; Tom Kuntz, editor of RealClearInvestigations, defended the site's decision to publish the article.[28] 25 Peters, Jeremy W. (2020-11-17). "A Popular Political Site Made a Sharp Right Turn. What Steered It?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-20. 26 ^ Poulse, Kevin; Maxwell, Tani (October 8, 2019). "RealClear Media Has a Secret Facebook Page to Push Far-Right Memes". Retrieved October 8, 2019. 27 ^ "A New Destination for Investigative Journalism". RealClearInvestigations. Retrieved 2019-11-12. 28 ^ Jump up to:a b c d Isaac Stanley-Becker & Craig Timberg, Trump's allies turned to online campaign in quest to unmask Ukraine whistleblower, Washington Post (November 7, 2019).