A Russian tabloid has been flacking an audio recording that purports to a conversation between CIA operatives discussing bringing down the MH17 777 and blaming it on the Russians. Give it a listen. Reportedly a lot of Russians think this is pretty convincing. But people who are well versed in English… well, I’ve heard better line-reading by talentless airheads in bikinis pretending to be quantum physicists on Syfy/Asylum movies. The main speaker sounds like someone *attempting* an American accent. Another feller can’t decide if he’s English or Australian.
Someone clearly half-assed this piece of “evidence.” A lot of people seem to think that the Russian FSB (successor to the KGB) created this in order to try to shift blame of the downing of the jetliner to the US; but it is so laughably bad that it seems more likely that:
1) The tabloid pushing it created it – hardly a new event in the history of yellow journalism
2) The FSB actually *did* create it, but made it intentionally crappy in order to make people think the *CIA* created it in order to smear the Russians. Less likely, but maybe…