Clayton Morris

That's remarkable.

That is a remarkable assessment.

Do you think I'm being paranoid?

No, I think you'd definitely be on the right track.

And of course, up until a few years ago, you would have been labeled a conspiracy theorist, right?

This idea that, wait a second, the intel community has a hand in shaping our narratives, our coverage.

We only learned about it through the church committee.

by the way, one of the great, great Americans.

But go back to the JFK assassination, right?

And Project Mockingbird before it ever became Operation Mockingbird and the infiltration of reporters at the Washington Post and the wiretapping of reporters to find out where information was coming.

That was sort of like the clandestine CIA operations then.

Then it morphs into the 1970s or late 1960s and 70s into Operation Mockingbird where they were installing

members of the intelligence community in newsrooms particularly the you know cbs news the new york times and others and then once that was exposed it morphed into well now they're just on the payroll of these of of these uh of these networks you have you know mike pompeo

They're not even hiding in the shadows anymore, like meeting you at the water cooler.

Like, hey, maybe you ought to not cover that story tonight.

Or maybe you ought to look at this angle of that story tonight.

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Now you just have people like Mike Pompeo

on the payroll of major networks or reporters who are embedded inside the Pentagon, who are just adjacent to people like Jennifer Griffin, who the other night literally on Fox News said, it's not a matter of if we go to war with Iran, it's a matter of when.

That's literally how she ended her toss back to Brett Baer.