Hardboiled investigative reporting site Bellingcat on Tuesday relayed a questionable claim of responsibility for the Sunday arson attack on the offices of a Madison, Wisconsin anti-abortion organization, saying a usually reliable source had passed them a message from a group calling themselves “Jane’s Revenge”, something far right propaganda site American Greatness eagerly latched onto despite obvious antipathy toward Bellingcat over past reporting on Trump scandals.

After qualifying her sourcing with “Bellingcat is a western intelligence-backed website of alleged investigative journalists based in the Netherlands that targets the ‘far-right’ and runs overseas influence operations intended to ‘weaken Russia,’ including the Russia collusion hoax,” American Greatness’s Debra Heine just went ahead and relayed Bellingcat editor Robert Evans’s reporting unquestioningly, almost certainly out of desperation for any thin reed of hope that the attack was perpetrated by actual leftists and not a false flag by anti-abortion right wingers.

“I believe this statement is newsworthy for a number of reasons, including the fact that a large number of people are speculating that this attack may have been a false flag,” Bellingcat editor Robert Evans writes and is eagerly quoted by Heine despite having described Evans as “western intelligence-backed” just paragraphs earlier. Left out of either Evans or Heine’s reporting is any speculation as to why a supposed pro-choice terrorist group would spray paint an Antifa anti-police slogan on the side of the building if the intent was to send a message about abortion rights.