Indeed.
“Leaker, Whistleblower, Racist, Spy;
“If the story of one of the largest security breaches in U.S. history sounds too good to be true, maybe that’s because it is?”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/leaker-whistleblower-racist-spy
Key grafs:
‘…[O]nce again, the Democrats have turned a national security issue into an instrument to serve party interests….
‘…House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tweeted that “The Biden administration has failed to secure classified information” and he promised to get answers. But that’s unlikely, given that the same intelligence bureaucracy that can’t store American secrets securely also routinely leaks those secrets for political and institutional advantage.
‘…So how did it take U.S. spy agencies nearly half a year to discover a historic leak of classified intelligence occurring in real time on right-wing websites?
‘ Maybe it didn’t take that long. Maybe they had been watching for a while. In any event, the administration is already using the leak to justify more internet surveillance, censorship, and propaganda….
‘ The other sure thing is that the political faction Biden heads will see Texeira’s crime as an opportunity to target its political opponents. And this is why the FBI coordinated with the press to set the narrative. White, Christian, working-class, a gun enthusiast who makes jokes about minorities: Texeira is one of them, a deplorable, an insurrectionist….’

And it’s this backstage maneuvering that doesn’t get written about; there’s not many people who see it happen, and it’s boring. The public statements and the culture war are there to distract from it.

*Each party has its Designated Mavericks which can take 100% of the blame, if necessary, in a closely divided Senate. There’s a lot of yakking about them in the media but they never get punished by losing committee seats or having their office moved to a broom closet or anything.

It happens so often that “every time” is not hyperbole and may even literally be true. And although of course the information is often not in the MSM, I never said it was. But it IS in the blogosphere on the right.

Whether the information leads to any change is an entirely different issue. But the information is readily available.

None of these are refuted by your observation. And it’s not like much happens to the “turncoats”, is it? Sometimes we find out later, like 7 years later in the case of the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act. And then we chase the next squirrel the media releases.

Every time an act of Congress is passed by the left with cooperation from a few people (or many) on the right, I see articles on the right listing the turncoats. Over and over, for the whole time I’ve been blogging.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/19/instagram-posts/would-the-restrict-act-criminalize-the-use-of-vpns/

You do. Articles that omit the information actually needed to understand what is really going on.

A few weeks ago we were talking about the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, it was in an article that mysteriously started with Obama signing the law, and neglected to mention how the law got passed by a Republican Senate with only one “no” vote.

I took some time to go over that, and I pieced together how it was done. I had to tease it out of a bunch of disconnected stuff , including some clues found on the Senate’s website.

It’s going to be the same with these other things: the mainstream media will have their narrative, and the Right-leaning media and blogosphere will start with that narrative and tweak it a little, and we’ll get conned one more time.

But it’s hard boring work to dig the missing facts out of everything that way. It would be hard to make that sort of work pay and people who have day jobs can’t find that kind of time, and maybe not even an audience.