We were informed last Friday that BradBlog.com is one of many “CIA Internet Fakes” as BreakForNews.com’s Editor (and theoretically, a “reporter”) Fintan Dunne has reported it.
While we learned of our covert CIA operative status late last Friday, as we were deep in the throes of preparing our radio show, we haven’t had time to share the shocking news with you until now. As well, we thought we’d give Dunne a chance to reply to our emailed inquiry on how he came to his ingenious discovery before we posted an item that might result in his looking like a completely clueless boob. (Psst…. That’s what actual reporters do before running with an item, Fintan. They attempt to get comment from those they are reporting on … we’re just sayin’.)
Sadly, Dunne failed to reply to our inquiry as he has done in several past instances when he even more egregiously misrepresented/misreported on our work in his “EXCLUSIVE” article on our Clint Curtis reporting.
Even as Fintan Dunne’s credibility dies once and for all (did he ever actually have any?) with his silly and wholly unintelligible report, we scratch our head in wonder as we see our good friends at RawStory.com and BuzzFlash.com and scores of others also on the list of CIA Operatives! Who knew?!
And to make things even more confusing, apparently our CIA paycheck is earned for our clever disinfo-filled reporting on 9/11 … About which we don’t believe we’ve actually ever reported, beyond one or two minor items linking to someone or something else. But why pick nits?
Joseph Cannon, who actually deserves to be on Dunne’s list, has a few thoughts on it all. His are actually intelligent. As opposed to either Dunne’s or ours on this matter. But Cannon is probably just jealous since he was not included on the list. 😉
Of course, if we were on the CIA payroll, we’d probably respond to Dunne’s silly contentless article shocking expose by writing an article precisely such as this one … to make light of it all in order to distract from Dunne’s having unearthed the whole clever scheme, wouldn’t we?
So now, you, dear reader, don’t really know what to believe any more, do you? Is The BRAD BLOG really a CIA operative or not? You’ll never know, because even if we were, we’d never be able to admit it, would we?
And with all of that said, if we actually are in the pay of the CIA, we’d really appreciate it if they’d fork it over! We’re frickin’ starving over here for chrissakes! Or are we?! 😉 — Either way, we’d love it if they finally paid us (and we’d love your help as well, just in case we’re not actually on their payroll) via our double super-secret covert P.O. Box:
Brad Friedman
7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594
Los Angeles, CA 90028
The CIA — or “The Firm” as NOCs like us call our place of employment — may also feel free to pay us online with PayPal!
We’ll take it! And we’d much appreciate it! And Fintan? … Get some help, friend. Seriously….
Flying Pitt (your new codename!)
The funds have been deposited — 50% in your Cayman Islands fund and 50% in your Swiss account — just as you instructed.
Now, please rip GW a new A&%$hole for outing our Val.
Keep up the good work.
Tree Hugger
aka Charlie L
Portland, OR
Lucky guy, does this mean you get to make out with hot Russian spy’s?
A rovian tactic if there ever was one. Scare the people! Scare `em silly!
Can I have all of your old outdated spy goodies,you know like laser watches and decoder rings an stuff? Huh huh please I promise I won’t let anyone know you gave them to me. 😛
Go ahead and laugh it off, Brad. You’re not fooling anybody. I
know you’re a sting operation collecting all our IP addresses so we
can be rounded up and interrogated. That Clint Curtis story had
us all fooled. We’re all suckers for what we want to believe. ;>)
Friedman ,Brad Friedman 007
"Lucky guy, does this mean you get to make out with hot Russian spy’s?"
So that’s what you do after the show on Saturdays? Here I am trying to meet your neighbor and you’ve got a bevy of Pussy Galore’s stashed away!!!
Wait a second! Don’t you get it!?!? This is a prim e example of the Right Wing’s use of projection! You, project onto the other that which you are guilty of! Well, then, if that’s true then FINTAN DUNNE AND BreakForNews ARE THE REAL CIA OPERATIVES!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
for the past four or five days I’ve been utterly devastated about not having made the list — but now it occurs to me that maybe, as the official BRAD BLOG concierge, I’ve made it by proxy!
Oh what a tangled web Fintan Dunne weaves …
Hey, Brad. How about sending over some of those secret
agent ‘bond’ girls over this way a bit. It’s been all work and no play for the last several months.
I could also use a shoe phone and ferrari. Shhhh… Agent 44 has the details. Meet him at the public library toilet in stall #2. We’ll use the cone silence.
Darn. All the other Brad bloggers stole the good lines.
Well, let’s see now…..
If the Bush admin. is getting paranoid about their enemies the way the Nixon admin did, then maybe they’d begin to think all the info. flow has to be coming from an outfit as well informed as the CIA. I suppose that makes the entire net CIA-based. Maybe Al Gore was a CIA plant, just made VP to enlarge their network with the Internet being made public.
Hey Bushy, we know what you did last summer!
BTW, did you know all the Italians are CIA? Yep. They let out their little secret every time they say goodbye.
"CIAo."
Lame, I know. But, like I said, all the other Brad-bloggers got the good lines like "shoe phone", "bond cars with rockets & stuff" and all. I would hesitate to refer to "hot Russian spies". Believe me, I’ve seen a few Russians and they’re mostly not that hot. Now, the Brits, they’re not bad; especially Brit Eklund (sp).
Hey George, watch out for the British spies. They’re onto you too. And, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were comin’ ta getcha. They’ll probably put some of their bad British food in there with your Texas barbecue. If ya see extra umbrellas laying around it probably means the Brits have been there spying on you. Be afraid! Be very afraid.
Keep up the good work Brad. Go get ’em. Oh, and say hello to our good buddies at the company.
FINTAN has gone and DUNNE the wrong thing … now he gets prosecuted for outing undercover CIA ops … gonna do some time with Judy Miller perhaps cause flimflam done blew it for sure man.
Brad, can you get me a job at the CIA? I’m unemployed.
Brad Friedman: "006" and 1/2
OK, it’s obvious, that CNN is now officially pushing a war in Iran. They constantly have Ken Timmerman on as an analyst, and as we speak, Lou Dobb’s several top stories were about Rummy & company saying that they found several bombs in Iraq, which came from Iran.
Here we go again…only this time, we’re wise to it.
CNN: Why do you hate America? Why don’t you have they guys from the Washington Post on, who just released a massive article debunking Bush’s claims of Iran’s nuclear capability???
Does some company who owns CNN, also own a company that profits from war?
006 & 1/2: GET ON THE CASE!
ROFLOL!!! You guys are hysterical!! This has got to be one of the funniest threads I’ve seen anywhere! A team of comedy writers here! (or… maybe this is how undercover agents throw someone off the case?)
Thanks for the much needed laughs!!
Do we need to call Patrick Fitzgerald now, cause you were outed?
This guy Fintan Dunne is obviously working in not so deep cover (bending down with his ass up somewhere in the low bushes).
He says it himself– the reason for all of the internet disinformation is to "create an impenetrable fog" (his own words), and that, surely, is his own m.o.
Lucky for me, I can’t make sense of anything that he says. Looks like the lights are on, but nobody’s home. Maybe we can set Fintan and Karla up on a blind date, at the "Fun’n Date Inn".
Brad,
I believe they refer to it as "the company". Are you trying to throw people off the trail or something?
Does this mean I have double super-secret covert clearences, or are you collecting info on me?
Secret Agent Fried Man,
The gig is up. Go enjoy a batch of onion rings at Mel’s. They may be your last ones. That is, unless we choose to make you an offer you can’t refuse. Keep on the lookout for our operative. She will open the conversation by asking "Do you like your Martinis shaken or stirred?"
We know who you are, and we’re watching.
Brad, our cover’s been blown…meet me by the oak tree across from the rusty bridge…you know which one… and bring all my porno’s…and my shades…i really need those…
MMIIXX #6 and Big Dan #14 –
You mean:
"Friedman, Brad Friedman – 006 or 007"
OT, but good!
Who’s Running the Country?
Hey, does anybody here know any good NOC NOC jokes?
ROFLMAO
This was better than Ativan………thanks for the laughs ….we need them ….often
I think Dunne has some good comments, but I don’t get his list. It’s kind of self contradictory to write about how the CIA wants to create a divide and conquer effect and then publish a divisive list.
re #26 OK Mark,. this is for you, from my 4-year-old son:
NOC NOC
who’s there?
COWS GO
cows go who?
NO, MARK! COWS GO MOO!!
Errrr…. I may be mistaken, but isn’t the CIA having problems covering expenses at the moment? So… How can they afford to have Brad and the 6 or 7 (thousand) on the payroll? The CIA is good at hiding money for black ops, but no way are they THAT good! LOL Still… It’s an intriguing notion! 😉 Heh…
You know… last time I checked, the CIA worked for the Administration (currently, the GOPs, Republicans, Neo-cons, right, whatever you want to call them). So, does anyone but me find it just a little insane that the nutjobs on the right are outing people who work for an organization they essentially control, and doing a lot of damage to themselves in the process? Just asking. 🙂
So… tell us, Fearless Freedman, who *did* expose Valerie Plame? 🙂
(What the hell kind of name is Fintan Dunne anyway? Is he an agent for the House of Harkonen?)
Actually, I am laughing myself silly here!! The wingnuts must truly be having a hard time with Brad’s blog etc… But really, that is just too lame, even for those morons! LOL
Keep on keeping on Brad! 😀
(Psssssssst! I know a secret! 😉 Shhhhhh…. Bush wears a scarlet silk G-string with little hot pink hearts on it! Was a gift from Jeff (the topper) Gannon/Guckert! Shhhhhhh… Don’t let his daughters know he swings both ways! I think his wife knows… She hangs out with Anne (spank me harder) Coulter!) 😉
LMAO
NOC NOC
Who’s there?
Owlscan
Owlscan who?
Your damn right they can!
Love ‘ya Brad. If they say you are the dreaded cia you are doing something right. Read on your site, KOS took money from diebold, just read that they are downplaying the last Ohio election. I WAS CENSORED ON KOS. Must be some truth to it. Websit wouldn’t respond when I mentioned that fact 2 or 3 times in comments. Each time website wouldn’t respond.
Kos took cash from Diebold? Actually, I’m not surprised to hear that.
As for Dunne, he sure is making a jerk of himself, if you ask me. His latest article debunks Iran war theory, but again with little or no evidence.
Why is he suddenly on the warpath?
Is there really any difference between the CIA and a terrorist organization? If so, I can’t see it.
I’m reading the Clans of the Alphane Moon right now… and well… it’s yet another PKD novel that is just prophetic.
KOS looking guiltier and guiltier. I blogged to huffington post, air america and crooksandliars about the censorship. Went back to KOS and noticed my two unrelated posts had been removed, "I am currently blogging all over the place about your censorship." They let me post once, then censored again. That plus removing my two earlier posts….thought it might just be a repub. smearing tactic. Methinks they are acting very, very suspicious. Takes forever before I get the website not responding message. They must be conferencing on damage control. I invite you all to try it.
Now that we know Winter Patriot’s 4-year-old son is an ‘asset’ it’s all clear. George W. Bush is an idiot.
NOC NOC Georgie Boy…
MOOve on Dumbya.
This is getting very curious. Americablog also censoring rumor kos is bought off by diebold. Touchy, touchy.
NOC NOC
Who’s there
Interupting Cow
Interup — (person telling joke) MOOOO!
so.. Brad.. I was watching "the show" the other day and "the boss" said it was time to "move on".. I cracked up at how the lamp on the left table was turned on in the first scene, then off in the second.. and the top drawer in the kitchen near the stove was open.. Clearly, there’s some cutting gonna happen..
anyway, I’ll be out of the country for a few months.. I got my sunscreen, don’t forget yours.. See ya on "the beaches"..
Damn.. did I post that? That super-secret-encoded message was supposed to be in e-mail! damn!!!
Oh, phew.. we’ve been outted already, no worries.. 😀
PS: Agent Ketchup Sauce and I are going to be busy this weekend!!!! 🙂
DiE-Bold goes to Dallas: The end of the road!!!
Diebold & ES*S in trouble
The machines don’t benefit republicans only!! They’ve also malfunctioned, been "hacked" before to favor democrats only in several states!
Diebold/ES&S disaster!!
Anyone know who AVS is? Might explain why DailyKOS isn’t concerned at all about this fraud….
http://www.ruminatethis.com/archives/001667.html
"WHO IS ADVANCED VOTING SOLUTIONS? – Advanced Voting Solutions (AVS, formerly known as Shoup Voting Solutions) sells a line of touch pad and elections support systems and software known as WINvote. The "WIN" in WINvote stands for Wireless Information Network, which is the "technology baseline on which all components of the AVS voting system function." AVS claims that the WIN technology "dramatically simplifies polling place procedures and enhances the security and integrity of the process." While wireless technology should theoretically simplify procedures, the Fairfax County experience indicates that it can also add complications. As for enhancing security and integrity, WINvote technology is implemented using cellular communications. Cellular communications are quite trivial to intercept and/or divert, and the WINvote implementation of cellular requires that it be in an "always available" mode. Not only does this allow real time monitoring of election results (illegal), but also allows a reasonably sophisticated operator to alter voting results during transmission. But according to Bryan Finney, government relations coordinator for AVS, "There really is no way a hacker could break into this during the few minutes that this is up. That’s a virtual impossibility." Mr. Finney clearly doesn’t know how cellular technology works."
Look how fast John Kerry flip flopped!
Veterans for Peace Kerry: "I don’t think we ought to have any machines that can’t be traced back to the voter"
Have a look at their contributions…
Voting Machine Plays Big
Voting Machines Bribe
List of all types of contributions
They don’t only contribute to republicans, it seems…..These guys contribute to everyone they can possibly corrupt. Do your own research on them "CIA style". They’ve bought off politicians from both sides, and elections have been stolen by these great people.
Doug E.
Hey, Brad! That must be what always happens after 0600 hours, "high noon" so to speak, at your 12 o’clock am I right?
"The blue nymph rises at a quarter past three"
Speaking on double-super-secret-speak background, I guess that’s what you and Larisa were doing the other night then…..Since she’s ALSO a spy!!!!
Wow, I better get back to the base now because Agent Orange Juice is calling and we are apparently a designated threat to the Administration!!!!
😥 :laugh:
Doug Eldritch
THANK GOD!!! BRAD IS 007!!!
I always found it very odd & unsatisfying for that wussy Pierce Brosnan to be James Bond…he is nowhere near hot enough, imho!!
Brad, on the other hand, is completely dashing & brilliant. And extremely hot. And he can start a much-needed new trend for that tired old series:
"The name is Bond….BRAD Bond."
oops
(Brad)
1. Your double deep super duper secret payment is in the mail.
2. I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you.
3. I won’t — in your mouth.
4. () will protect your real indentiy.
Three of the most common lies in America.
I’m so jealous. I’ve never been accused of anything except being a sodomite tree-hugger.
I’m none of these… The trees and I are only friends.
Oh, and I’m often accused of being a man for some reason?
Mixter
Fintan Dunne trips over himself as he snitchjackets over 100 web sites who won’t support his drivel. To see a debunking of his alleged CIA disinfo list, see here, and here, and here.
…Dunne Debunked #47
Whose site are those haloscan comments from? And which story? Gotta ‘nother link?
Oooo! Read this ….
U.S. Military’s Elite Hacker Crew
02:00 AM Apr. 18, 2005 PT
The U.S. military has assembled the world’s most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks — from electric grids to telephone nets.
The group’s existence was revealed during a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last month. Military leaders from U.S. Strategic Command, or Stratcom, disclosed the existence of a unit called the Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare, or JFCCNW. **MORE**
Sorry, Kira, I didn’t notice it didn’t track back to the originating blog.
Here’s the URL to the original blog entry:
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/20...on-agents.html
You may eventually see something on Cryptome.org as well, though JYA probably won’t waste his time with Fintan.
Fintan’s off his fucking rocker, but at least he sticks around because we all like a good laugh.
Thanks for the link, Dunne! I’m enjoying reading all the comments!
The NeoCONS started their disinfo campaign in earnest back in the mid 1980s. It’s only gotten worse. A large percentage of the American population is completely blind to just how far down the Josef Goebbels path we’ve gone.
As far as disinfo about 9/11 — the gov’t has provided the bulk of it.
Fintan’s at it again,is he? He was pointing fingers at everyone a few years back claiming they were all CIA puppets as well, until he sort of fessed up that he himself had some “CIA connections”. Personally, I think he’s a sort of publicity-seeking insider wannabe, since his “accusations,” if that they can be called, are not backed up by anything at all in the way of evidence, which, granted, is hard to come by in these disinfo days, but more importantly, he also doesn’t address how the various messages the different groups advocate are “CIA talking points.”
This is the same problem we see in the 9/11 movement, such as it is. Many people seem to focus on finding “proof” that it was an inside job, which leaves them open to discrediting themselves and the larger opposition if the focus turns out to be bogus, as seems to be the case with the pod theory, etc. We don’t need evidence; counter-intuitive though it may be, physical evidence can be corrupted and disputed, since it still relies on interpretation. Far more constructive would be an attempt to examine the use to which 9/11 has been put. Who suffers, who profits and how?
Once you begin to look at it from this perspective, it quickly becomes apparent that far from an anomaly, 9/11 fits into the pattern of national security state-sponsored terrorism. It’s the connections that matter. One of the sites on Fintan’s list is Jeff Well’s Rigorous Intuition (although Fintan gives an obsolete link), and this is a perfect illustration of the problem with Fintan. RI has done some amazing investigative work in tracing the network of NSS connections, from Gladio to Rumsfeld’s current productions, and it’s precisely this far rightwing, anti-democratic web of murder and deception which “explains” 9/11.
It would be most interesting for Fintan to demonstrate how exposing the illegal workings of the national security state apparatus benefits the CIA. I won’t hold my breath, however, since Fintan’s “shocking accusations” are not only bereft of any sort of analysis, but are, in fact, a sad example of one of the classic tactics of the disinformationists: sowing confusion and suspicion. If we apply my rubric–asking what the effect of Fintan’s claims is–it’s pretty obvious who’s “side” he’s on.
The timing of Fintan’s weirdness is somewhat interesting, however, since it comes at roughly the same time as Anderson Pooper’s outing as a Mockingbird mole. This story is covered quite nicely over at Rigourous“”too bad it’s on the CIA payroll too.