Who is Wayne Madsen's Unnamed "Republican Party consultant" Source/Propagandist?: "Sweden co-opted by CIA/Pentagon to launder Wikileaks cables"

Wayne Madsen did not say that a Republican Party consultant has "alleged" to Wayne that WikiLeaks has been used by the CIA to set up a pretext for clamping down on freedom of political and other speech, press, and expression on the Internet. Wayne crafted his piece in a way that clearly says Wayne wants us to take this hiding Republican Party consultant's word for it.

Do you remember Scooter Libby feeding garbage to Judith Miller at the New York Times? The US ended up bombing, invading, and occupying Iraq, which it still does, and all on a pack of lies from Republicans and neocons. Yet, Wayne doesn't even say the word "alleges"?

Of course, the reason this Wayne Madsen possible wild speculation/propaganda would feature on the Veterans Today website is because Veterans Today's Gordon Duff has been out to do anything and everything to throw mud at Julian Assange and WikiLeaks no matter how unsubstantiated. Any conspiracy-theory bit is handed out by Gordon as if it's the Gospel rather than speculation while at the same time, here and there, Gordon might hedge by saying the occasional (rare) "we (Veterans Today) don't really know."

By Wayne Madsen at veteranstoday.com

WMR has learned from a long-time Republican Party consultant that the CIA used Sweden to launder the transfer to Wikileaks of carefully screened and redacted State Department cables and the subsequent release of the cables to pre-selected corporate news media entities. Sweden was chosen because of its so-called “press freedom and freedom of expression” traditions in an effort to make the release of the cables by Wikileaks appear to be unconnected to a covert CIA and Pentagon psychological operations program designed to place further controls on the Internet.

via poorrichard's blog: Wayne Madsen: Sweden co-opted by CIA/Pentagon to launder Wikileaks cables.

You will notice that zero evidence is given to substantiate the accusation and that in the style of Veterans Today, Wayne talks all about all sorts of other things that might raise legitimate questions (but only questions).

Why didn't Wayne write it the right way by saying that it's only an allegation and that he hasn't given out anything more than hearsay, which is generally not admissible as testimony?

Look, it's not as if Wayne is new to this. He was once new. I was once new. Also, he's not writing something as a prophet. There's a huge difference between mundane journalism and prophesying.

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