Also ... maybe there is a problem with censored news in the US. Because outside the US mainstream media reporting on the latest "US intelligence caught spying on everyone again" is as common as the latest "Russia caught mistreating dissident artist" story.
> Thus, when Thordarson continued his previous pattern of requesting attacks on Icelandic interests, the FBI knew and saw an opportunity to implicate Julian Assange.
> Later that month a DDoS attack was performed against the websites of several government institutions.
> That deed was done under the watchful eyes of the FBI who must have authorized the attack or even initiated it, as Sabu was at that point their man. What followed was an episode where it seems obvious that Icelandic authorities were fooled into cooperation under false pretenses.
That's not saying the FBI attacked Iceland at all, it's saying THORDARSON was "asking" for attacks (From... other wikileaks-affiliated folks? That isn't clear to me). And it's just inferring without other evidence that the FBI must have known because they were working both Thordarson and Sabu as sources.
I mean, maybe the FBI did know. But it's not substantiated that they did, at all. And it's certainly not substantiated that they were "complicit" in those attacks as Media Lens reports.
Gotta say, that one word makes me question a ton more about this article. That's just not a minor mistake, someone is spinning hard here. What else is spun?
It really does seem like you all aren't aware of the (deserved) reputation of the FBI outside the US.
What news sources do you follow?