Is Wired magazine reliable? Some of my thoughts on this.... Note the date of the article: December 28, 2009. This is significant to the timing of everything. The events they talk about in the article took place in 2003. The HAMMER was put together by Brennan and Clapper in Feb. 2009. Montgomery blew the whistle on the HAMMER in 2014. There was plenty of time for them to start worrying about Montgomery's honesty and knowledge once he reported on the secret Al Jezeera messages, but they probably thought they had it under control with a few credibility smears that were also used to discredit the reports that were probably true. Just keep all this in mind when you think about how things unfolded.  It states in the article that Montgomery passed on his findings to someone at the CIA, and they passed it on up to higher authorities. Is it Montgomery's fault that they ran with it? Is Montgomery the final decider of whether it was legitimate data or not? Or was Montgomery just the whistleblower informing them of a possible problem?   It was this environment that helped Montgomery convince officials at DHS and elsewhere that he was able to detect hidden messages in video that no one else was able to see.  I can't understand how they could have just believed him and not have checked for themselves first to see how he was able to detect the messages and if they were accurately produced. This all sounds like so much bullshit.  a former worker told Playboy that he had helped fake some 40 demonstrations of the software  The proverbial 'anonymous source'. We all know how much they're worth. Nothing. We can't trust the CIA (or MSM) so why believe what any one of them claim? Did the CIA have reason to destroy Montgomery's credibility? Yes they certainly did.  The story first ran in Playboy, a CIA cut-out rag that has been used over the years to put out stories that they want to start trickling into the consciousness of certain readers while avoiding the MSM. It establishes a background for further potential discrediting later on. Let's not forget also that the CIA has always been in league with those that Montgomery was reporting on in 2003. The CIA had every reason to start discrediting Montgomery.