COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
Please, as Americans used to say, this story is phonier than
a three-dollar bill.
This man is doing precisely what CIA people (even former ones
who like to keep their pensions and benefits flowing) always, always do: he is
deliberately spreading disinformation about matters with which CIA is involved.
I'm sorry The Independent judges it as worthy of repeating.
In doing so, The Independent just becomes part of what another former CIA agent
once truthfully termed, with great glee, the keys of his mighty Wurlitzer Organ
at which he regularly sat to "put stories out there."
In some genuine news today, Donald Trump made the following
statement.
"Hillary Clinton
and President Obama bear the direct responsibility of destabilizing the Middle
East, having let ISIS take firm hold in Iraq, Libya and Syria, not to mention
their allowing Americans to be slaughtered at Benghazi."
There were no truer words spoken anywhere in weeks.
The very fact that Trump understands this and is willing to
address it is why he is so hated by the American establishment and its
servants, the press, including pretty clearly the British press.
The American establishment has been married to the neo-con
wars for 15 years.
Something on the order of 2 million having been killed in
this vicious rampage - Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, and others - and
many, many millions driven from their homes to become refugees.
It is directly responsible for what we call international
terror, as young men - as young men everywhere always do when confronted by
such hideous events against their own kind - fight to defend or to seek
revenge.
And it is directly responsible for the ruined lives of
refugees and the near-destabilization of Europe.
This is, in fact, the great horror story of the decade, and
the mainline press pretty well ignores it except for reprinting uninformative
Pentagon or CIA press releases.
