{"id":1269497,"date":"2022-02-03T21:54:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T02:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1269497"},"modified":"2022-02-03T21:54:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T02:54:33","slug":"watch-ap-reporter-questions-biden-admins-russian-false-flag-narrative-alex-jones-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ap-reporter-questions-biden-admins-russian-false-flag-narrative-alex-jones-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: AP Reporter Questions Biden Admin&#039;s Russian &#039;False Flag&#039; Narrative: &#039;Alex Jones Territory&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-ap-reporter-questions-biden-admins-russian-false-flag-narrative-alex-jones-territory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1269497&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ned-Price-Getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Associated Press reporter Matt Lee challenged State Department spokesperson Ned Price on Thursday over the Biden administration\u2019s claim that Russia is preparing a \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation, including a film, to create a pretext to invade Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The claim was also repeated by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby in briefings on Thursday. Yet the AP\u2019s Lee,&nbsp;known for standing up to State Department spokespeople across both Democratic and Republican administration, asked for proof.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Price and Kirby suggested that Russia was preparing to create video of Ukrainian or Western atrocities against Russians, including actors and corpses, which would then be used to justify a Russian invasion into the eastern portion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Lee questioned these claims, and suggested that the administration was being speculative. \u201cYou\u2019ve shown no evidence to confirm that \u2026 What is the evidence that they plan \u2014 I mean, crisis actors, really? This is Alex Jones territory you\u2019re getting into.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(The reference to Alex Jones recalls a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/alex-jones-found-responsible-for-damages-in-sandy-hook-case\/\">false claim<\/a> by Jones that children killed in a school shooting were really \u201ccrisis actors.\u201d)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>That is when Price became irritable, claiming that the evidence was available in \u201cdeclassified\u201d intelligence information.<\/p>\n<p>Lee countered: \u201cOK, well, where is it? Where is this information?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Price replied: \u201cIt is intelligence information that we have declassified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee: \u201cWell, where is it? Where is the declassified information?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Price answered: \u201cI just delivered it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lee refused to accept Price\u2019s word as \u201cdeclassified information,\u201d and accused Price of failing to provide evidence, other than his word. He reminded Price of the many times the government had misled journalists \u2014 in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Price then suggested if anyone doubted the credibility of the U.S. government and other allied governments, they were looking for \u201csolace\u201d in Russian propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki used a similar line of attack in her briefing on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/02\/02\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-february-2-2022\/\">accusing<\/a> critics of \u201cdigesting Russian misinformation and parroting Russian talking points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, at a press gaggle aboard Air Force One en route to New York, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/02\/03\/press-gaggle-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-2\/\">suggested<\/a> that journalists who questioned the official claim of a suicide bomb detonation during a raid on the leader of ISIS were trusting ISIS over the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press reporter Matt Lee challenged State Department spokesperson Ned Price on Thursday over the Biden administration\u2019s claim that Russia is preparing a \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation, including a film, to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}