> Wikipedia is not a reliable source for citations elsewhere on Wikipedia.

Lucky for you, I'm not citing Wikipedia in a Wikipedia article.

All my cite does is show the people you probably rely on for basic information about the world looked into this source and found it severely lacking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fabricated_Articles_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi...

MintPress News is probably a whack news source, but appealing to Wikipedia to support the claim is a bad argument.

You're making an argument from authority that I should ignore the source since some authority said to - incidentally a source discussing how "former" CIA employees are working to censor what information I can see.

So? If they're willing to publish false or fabricated information to push their conspiracy theories, they're almost certainly willing to do other misleading things to push it too -- like making a mountain out of a molehill or giving some mundane fact a sinister spin.

You missed my point: something can present accurate facts in a highly misleading way.

People who've worked for the government get jobs outside of government, usually in similar areas. There's nothing sinister about it, but articles like this want it to seem sinister.

And frankly, this is like 1/10th of a story. They found some profiles on LinkedIn, but so what? Have these people actually done anything unacceptable? MintPress doesn't know.

If you hire ex-CIA, that tells me everything about your ethics (or lack there of).

The CIA (which I understand the bulk is actually writing analysis reports and stuff like that), the FBI, USAID, and the Marines are not drug cartels; and to conflate them is not reasonable.

Paypal closed the account of Mint Press News. This is the same financial censorship tactic that was used against Wikileaks.

Did you know that kind of accusation is against the site guidelines?

In any case it's conspiracy theory bullshit. I'm not going to dox myself to prove it false. And even if I did that, it probably wouldn't do any good because a conspiracy theory logic means the conspiracy theory is always true and facts that contradict it are just lies of the conspiracy.