The U.S. 'deep state' has a long history of lies and false flags as most people know. Gulf of Tonkin (and much earlier), Iraq etc. etc.
You know it's all a lying game when journalists who are old enough to remember these events STILL act and write / talk about so-called chemical attacks and Russian hacking as if they are true.
That they have almost no suspicion or skepticism towards the intelligence / propaganda agencies is scary. But, as we have seen, there is a merging of main stream media and the intelligence services. MSNBC hired ex-CIA director John Brennan. Maybe that says it all.