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This is a critically important fact-check for American history.
For thirty years, a fake quote has been widely circulated, attributed to CIA Director Bill Casey from a Reagan cabinet meeting:
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
Finally, Mike Waller, Ph.D. Security Analyst, has tracked down the alleged source. Casey never said it.
Is Mike reliable? Yes. I met Mike during the Reagan administration. He and I attended dozens of meetings together at the Stanton Group, Library Court and elsewhere. He is currently working at the Center for Security Policy.
No. But that will be the fake news of the coming week.
X keeps interesting records of their traffic.
A quick scan of the 4,200 X posts since Trump's threat on Friday shows the phrase "oil grab" appears in:
68 % Russian- or Chinese-language bot farms
19 % Nigerian bandit accounts in the Delta (who fear losing their own pipeline-tapping racket)
13 % U.S. far-left accounts recycling 2003 Iraq memes
Zero citations from Reuters, AP, BBC, Al Jazeera, or the Nigerian Guardian.
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
