Anthrax Coverup: A Government Insider Speaks Out
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2007-07-03 20:08
Warisacrime.org
By Steve Watson
Is it possible that the anthrax attacks were launched from within our own government? A former Bush 1 advisor thinks it is.
Francis A. Boyle, an international law expert who worked under the first Bush Administration as a bioweapons advisor in the 1980s, has said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government. The motive: to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the later Military Commissions Act.
"After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush Administration tried to ram the USA PATRIOT Act through Congress," Boyle said in a radio interview with Austin-based talk-show host Alex Jones. "That would have set up a police state.
"Senators Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
were holding it up because they realized what this would lead to. The first draft of the PATRIOT Act would have suspended the writ of habeas corpus [which protects citizens from unlawful imprisonment and guarantees due process of law]. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, come these anthrax attacks."
"At the time I myself did not know precisely what was going on, either with respect to September 11 or the anthrax attacks, but then the New York Times revealed the technology behind the letter to Senator Daschle. [The anthrax used was] a trillion spores per gram, [refinedwith] special electro-static treatment. This is superweapons-grade anthrax that even the United States government, in its openly proclaimed programs, had never developed before. So it was obvious to me that this was from a U.S. government lab. There is nowhere else you could have gotten that."
Boyle's assessment was based on his years of expertise regarding America's bioweapons programs. He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 that was passed unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
After realizing that the anthrax attacks looked like a domestic job, Boyle called a high-level official in the FBI who deals with terrorism and counterterrorism, Marion "Spike" Bowman. Boyle and Bowman had met at a terrorism conference at the University of Michigan Law School. Boyle told Bowman that the only people who would have the capability to carry out the attacks were individuals working on U.S. government anthrax programs with access to a high-level biosafety lab. Boyle gave Bowman a full list of names of scientists, contractors and labs conducting anthrax work for the U.S. government and military.
Bowman then informed Boyle that the FBI was working with Fort Detrick on the matter. Boyle expressed his view that Fort Detrick could be the main problem. As widely reported in 2002 publications, notably the New Scientist, the anthrax strain used in the attacks was officially assessed as "military grade."
"Soon after I informed Bowman of this information, the FBI authorized the destruction of the Ames cultural anthrax database," the professor said. The Ames strain turned out to be the same strain as the spores used in the attacks.
The alleged destruction of the anthrax culture collection at Ames, Iowa, from which the Fort Detrick lab got its pathogens, was blatant destruction of evidence. It meant that there was no way of finding out which strain was sent to whom to develop the larger breed of anthrax used in the attacks. The trail of genetic evidence would have led directly back to a secret government biowarfare program.
"Clearly, for the FBI to have authorized this was obstruction of justice, a federal crime," said Boyle. "That collection should have been preserved and protected as evidence. That's the DNA, the fingerprints right there. It later came out, of course, that this was Ames strain anthrax that was behind the Daschle and Leahy letters."
At that point, recounted Boyle, it became very clear to him that there was a coverup underway. He later discovered, while reading David Ray Griffin's book on the 9/11 attacks, The New Pearl Harbor, that Bowman was the same FBI agent who allegedly sabotaged the FISA warrant for access to [convicted co-conspirator] Zacharias Moussaoui's computer prior to 9/11. Moussaoui's computer contained information that could have helped prevent the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
In 2003, Bowman was promoted and given the Presidential Rank Award by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote a letter to
Mueller, chastising the organization for granting such an honor to an agent who had so obviously compromised America's security.
During the anthrax scare, the House of Representatives was officially shut down for the first time in the history of the republic. Once opposition from Leahy and Daschle evaporated in the wake of the attempts on their lives, the USA PATRIOT Act was rammed through. Testimony by Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) revealed that most members of Congress were compelled to vote for the bill without even reading it.
"They were going to move to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, which is all that really separates us from a police state," Boyle said. "And that is what they have done now with respect to enemy combatants [in the Military Commissions Act of 2006]." Boyle added that lawmakers are now arguing that Amendment XIV, which guarantees due process of law to all Americans, does not mean what it has been taken to mean and that, under the Military Commissions Act, any U.S. citizen can be stripped of citizenship and be labeled an enemy combatant.
Continued Boyle: "In other words, they have taken the position that at some point in time, if they want to, they can unilaterally round up United States native-born citizens, as they did for Japanese-Americans in World War II, and stick us into concentration camps." Boyle asserted that top officials, such as White House legal advisor John Yoo and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith (now a professor at Harvard Law School), are pushing for the legalization of torture as well.
"The Nazis did the exact same thing," said Boyle. "They had their lawyers infiltrating law schools. Carl Schmidt was the worst, and he was the mentor to Leo Strauss, the [ideological] founder of the neoconservatives. So the same phenomenon that started in Nazi Germany is happening here, and I exaggerate not. We could all be tortured; we could all be treated this way."
Boyle stressed that it is vital to keep up the pressure on Senator Leahy, who now chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, giving him subpoena power. Since Leahy was himself a target, he may have sufficient motivation to get to the bottom of the attacks. The FBI and the Justice Department have so far refused full disclosure to Congress.
In addition to his credentials as a government advisor, Boyle also holds a doctorate of law magna cum laude and a Ph.D. in political science, both from Harvard University. He teaches international law at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Boyle also served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-92) and represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Court.
Boyle alleged that due to his activities as a lawyer, he was interrogated by an agent from the CIA/FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in the summer of 2004. The agent tried to recruit him as an informant to provide the FBI with information on his Arab and Muslim clients. When he refused, according to Boyle, the FBI placed him on the government's terrorism watch lists.
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Ten False Flag Operations that Shaped our World
Joe Crubaugh
May 21st, 2010
The most commonly known false flag operations consist of a government agency staging a terror attack, whereby an uninvolved entity gets blamed for the carnage. As at least two millennia have proven, false flag operations, with healthy doses of propaganda and ignorance, provided a great recipe for endless war.
In “War is a Racket”, Two-time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote: “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.”
You may not have heard of these operations, but perhaps you have heard of these?
MORE...
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Synthetic Terror: There Is No “War On Terror”
May 21st, 2010
The thesis of Webster Tarpley’s 911 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA has been enthusiastically received with its working model of the 9/11 plot: a covert network of moles, patsies, and a commando cell in the privatized intelligence services, backed by corrupt political and corporate media elites.
"Denial is the default condition."
"Al-queda is a British/American 'countergang' designed to obstruct Arab nationalism."
"CIA and MI6 teamed up with secretive powerful elements of European intelligence services to orchestrate terrorist attacks."
"There is an Oligarchical consensus for constant war because the Oligarchy benefits from it. They have manufactured a largely fictitious external enemy."
"The 'War on Terror' is completely fabricated."
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Also see: War and Truth by Nafeez Mosaddeq
and: False Flag Operations: The Crisis Route to the New World Order
Finally:
Do the Tuscson, Arizona shootings represent an M-K Ultra inspired kind of "False Flag" operation?
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
911, American Exceptionalism and Idolatry
Editor’s NOTE:
A reader of this blog who submitted the piece below is a person who is dedicated to knowing and testifying to the truth but for various reasons is currently unable/unwilling to be identified--a situation in these increasingly dark days which many readers should be able to empathize with.
This essay raises some extremely important issues such as the necessity of discussing who was really behind the 911 attacks and what the conspirator’s wished to accomplish. Americans of good will must not be ostracized for being willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads. A completely independent re-investigation of 911 is clearly needed.
Some readers of this site may be put-off by the author’s contention that “there is only one institution especially favored by God with an explicit mission for all humanity, only one indispensable and incarnation of divine goodness present now in the world: the Roman Catholic Church.” Or that “only the Catholic Church has a divine foundation and spirit, which, despite human sin and error, cannot be eradicated or changed.” The author is a Roman Catholic and has correctly stated the Traditional Catholic Church teaching. Clearly an attempt is being made to appeal to other Catholics as well as non-Catholics. However, one does not have to be Catholic to appreciate the arguments being made herein. We invite generous but courteous commentary.
--Dr. J. P. Hubert
“9/11 Denial” and the Idolatry of American Catholics
Bishop Williamson of the SSPX has not only been called a “holocaust denier,” but also a “9/11 denier,” in that he has said that 9/11 was an “inside-job,” a “false-flag” operation in which the World Trade Center buildings were brought down in a controlled demolition by criminal elements embedded in either the American or Israeli governments, or both. Is there a connection between his two denials? Most certainly. The Holocaust was the Jews’s Golgotha, and 9/11 was America’s Holocaust. Thus, 9/11 and the subsequent American “War on Terror” represent the crucifixion and resurrection of the now divine American Regime. Just like the Jews in Germany under Hitler, America, as the myth goes, was the sacrificial victim of absolute evil. And just like Israel is now justified and even righteous in its “defensive” wars of “survival,” as long as America claims to be fighting against that absolute evil, defending itself against being “wiped off the face of the map;” as long as it attempts to vanquish that evil for Americans’ sake and the sake of the whole world’s “freedom,” then America, like Israel, is not to be judged according to the moral law—for its very actions are what define good and evil—nationalized nominalist theology, as it were. When Israel murders Palestinian children and America murders Iraqi children, it is a good thing; for, Israeli rabbis and American Catholic neoconservative priests say it is.
What Bishop Williamson is saying in his “denial” is that 9/11 was a self-sacrificial act of violence, executed, perhaps, by the Mossad in conspiracy with a covert criminal network embedded in the American and global, new world order government. And those who inflicted this wound knew exactly the psychological and spiritual effects it would have on their victims, and what wonders it would permit them to do afterwards. Jews are now permitted to kill Palestinians en-masse with impunity because of the Holocaust; according to this insane logic, to deny the goodness of Israel’s actions is to implicitly deny the uniqueness and sacredness of the Jews’ suffering in the Holocaust. Analogously, Americans are now permitted to invade and occupy countries that never attacked them because of 9/11—“never again.” And to deny America’s right “to defend itself” is to implicitly deny the sacred status of American suffering in 9/11. In the remainder of this article, I would like to defend Williamson’s “9/11 denial,” and then suggest a reason why most Americans, and almost all Catholics, should be doing the same.
What’s debatable?
There are certain convictions that a traditional Catholic should never question. God is love, for example. No matter how much hatred and evil we encounter and experience in the world, we are never justified in seriously doubting this truth. By divine Faith, we are obliged to believe that every act of hatred and evil will somehow result, by God’s miraculous grace, in more love and good in the world than if these acts had never occurred. God is love, and all that happens, all that happens, are only the various expressions of His love for us. Of course, God does not will our hateful sins, but He transforms them and their effects into good. We might have a thousand difficulties in reconciling our subjective experience with this rather incredible truth, but these can never justify one single doubt.
The set of unquestionable truths includes not only supernatural ones like the aforementioned, but also self-evident, natural truths, as well as those truths directly derived from them, the truths of the natural law, and the truths of man’s universal and particular experience of the world and himself. That things are, and I can know them; that truth exists, and I can discover it; that I have an immortal soul, and that it will be judged; that one must do good and avoid evil; that something cannot be and not be at the same time in the same respect; that nothing in this created world can satisfy me; that the United States of America was founded in 1787; that the earth is round (though not necessarily revolving around the sun!—see the pioneering work of Solange Hertz and Robert Sungenis on this).
Then there are those truths that are, in a word, doubtable. Convictions about these matters should be held rather loosely, even when we are convinced of their truth, and they should be perpetually questioned, not because these are necessarily bad or false convictions, but because these are, unlike the self-evident or common sense truths and facts of nature, or the revealed supernatural truths of supernature, inherently debatable. These are the kinds of convictions we have regarding matters of human history, personal actions, and interpretation of particular experiences, such as the precise causes of historical events, the details of scientific theory, judgments of character, and deliberations of prudence. We may indeed have the right opinion on one or more of these sorts of issues, but it must be seen as just that—an opinion. There are simply no non-debatable, unassailable reasons to hold mere opinions to be non-negotiable and indisputably true, unless of course, they are transformed from opinions into knowledge (for the best analysis ever written on how this may occur, read Plato’s Republic). But until then, and some opinions will never make it to the realm of knowledge, there is no unimpeachable authority, including the authority of the opinions themselves, that obliges us to hold any of these opinion-level convictions without some level of epistemological doubt. On the contrary, it would be an act of disobedience and impiety to truth not to place these kinds of convictions under critical scrutiny and subjective doubt.
Unfortunately, it is just these types of convictions about which absolute certainty cannot be possessed, or at least with much more difficulty than one presumes, that are often held with the most intransigence and naïve fidelity by many Americans. In the remainder of this article, I would like to discuss two convictions that most Americans, and far too many Catholics, hold with a misplaced intransigence and naïveté. Though determining whether these convictions are true or false is, I would argue, essential to the welfare and even the very survival of our country, I will not attempt any determination of this here. For, I think the more important question to be asked about them is whether they are debatable?
Taking exception to American exceptionalism
The first conviction I would like to analyze in terms of debatableness is the belief in American exceptionalism. Many Catholics believe that America is special, but not special as all countries are special to their citizens, as my own mother is special because she is my mother, but especially special. Along with Israel, America, according to this idolatrous exceptionalism, has been chosen by God to be a sort of secular church with the mission of bringing peace and prosperity to the world. These maintain that America’s system of government and political culture is intrinsically superior to all others, for America is the nation marked out by God’s providence to bring God’s gift of freedom to the world. In short, not an insignificant number or Catholics hold in their heart of hearts, though they may be unaware of it and may deny it when it is made explicit, that America is, for all intents and purposes, equal in importance to the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
Now, it is not my intention to determine the truth of these convictions or any other ones in this essay; for, I only want to determine whether they are debatable. As far as I know, there is only one institution especially favored by God with an explicit mission for all humanity, only one indispensable and incarnation of divine goodness present now in the world: the Roman Catholic Church. Only the Catholic Church has a divine foundation and spirit, which, despite human sin and error, cannot be eradicated or changed. The Church is alone favored and chosen by God, for it is the new Israel it is His own body, and He infallibly brings goodness and truth to the world through her alone. The Church will never lose these divine attributes, and it will continue to display them visibly for all to see to the end of time (though often clouded by human error and sin) in its hierarchical and incarnate body and head This is undeniable and indubitable.
Therefore, it is impossible that any other institution could ever have these attributes in any way, or even approach them, for they are divine. Yet many attribute to the American regime some or all of these divine attributes! It may be an implicit or unconscious attribution, one that materializes itself only in emotional reactions and knee-jerk practical and political attitudes, but it is clear that too many Catholics have adopted to some extent a virtually religious belief in American exceptionalism.
Now, prescinding from the question of whether the American regime[1] is or is not actually “a force for good in the world” (as a certain intransigent Irish talk-show host from New Jersey likes to affirm incessantly) it is certainly the case that this question is debatable. One is, without doubt, morally permitted to demure from the Americanist narrative, to question its veracity, for it is the kind of conviction the truth of which can only be determined by a combination of philosophical and theological analysis and historical interpretation; and the latter, because it deals with changeable and ambiguous subject matter, renders it an intrinsically debatable conviction.
If my abstract arguments have not yet convinced the reader that American exceptionalism is a debatable conviction, then perhaps a little philosophical, theological, and historical analysis may help. The Enlightenment was in essence a secularization of the heresy of private judgment held by the Protestant revolutionaries, with both Protestantism and the Enlightenment a dialectical reaction to fourteenth-century nominalist theology. Not content merely to judge Christian revelation, completely independent of the authority of the Magisterium, the Enlightenment philosophers presumed to adjudicate reality itself, independent of any authority whatsoever, whether the deliverances of nature, the force of law, immemorial custom, or time-tested tradition. These claimed to obey “reason,” but as Nietzsche and the post-modernists have demonstrated (and this is perhaps the one salvageable truth in their otherwise satanic movement), all this talk of reason was just a cover for revolutionary will. The Enlightenment model of the ideal political order was one in which man’s will, disguised as “reason,” would be king.
To make a long historical story short, the most obvious concrete, historical incarnation of this Enlightenment, man-centered political order was the 1789 republic of France. But this wasn’t the first incarnation. The 1787 American Republic holds this dubious honor. It is not my intention here to argue this point against Michael Novakian hagiographers of the Founding Fathers, but I will point out one salient characteristic of the American regime in lieu of an argument. Even though one must accept that the American Founding had some godly influences, that it was pervaded in part by a Christian ethos, one must also recognize that the Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ is nowhere to be found in its official documents, and unwillingness to utter the Holy Name in public is the unmistakable sign of Freemasonry, the archenemy of Catholicism.
Let us jump ahead a couple hundred years to present-day America. Tens of millions of unborn babies are being murdered by American “doctors” hired by the children’s own mothers; an innocent woman is starved to death by her husband in plain sight of everyone, including a “pro-life president,” and no one has the will or the power to stop it; a president and other operatives of an enormous, Leviathanian military-industrial complex conspire to lie to the American citizenry and the international community in order to attack and occupy a country that never attacked it, torturing many innocent citizens and murdering thousands of civilians, including women and children, in the process; the first black U.S. president is in favor of baby-murder—all in the name of God and freedom.
I hope that in light of the preceding, it is at least a little bit clearer now that the belief in America’s intrinsic, essential, and constitutive goodness, exceptionalism, and mission, although not demonstrably an untrue belief, is certainly debatable. Perhaps the American regime is morally superior to all other nations and always will be, but there is no authority, from history, reason or revelation, that morally obliges one to think so. Thus, there is no a-priori reason to judge the American regime, its governmental principles and practices, and its moral and political culture, to be qualitatively better or worse than any other nation. And one is certainly free to judge it qualitatively worse, culturally speaking, than other historical empires, such as the British and the Spanish. Is this out of the question? Is it unpatriotic? Is it un-American? Is it blasphemy? These aren’t the appropriate questions. The appropriate question is whether it is true. Now, whether America is blessed or cursed by God, or simply held in the same esteem that he holds any other created society of sinners, is certainly a pertinent question. But the question one must first ask is whether one’s conviction about the American regime’s moral and spiritual exceptionalism is debatable—and it is.
9/11 denial
We are now ready to discuss the second conviction I would argue is mistakenly considered by many Catholics to be non-debatable: that the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were orchestrated and executed by Islamic terrorists from a foreign country. As I will try to show, there is a reasonable, though debatable, alternative explanation that is just as plausible, if not more so, than the explanation the U.S. Government has given us in the official 9/11 Commission report, and the main-stream media has echoed and supported. Before I describe what this alternative view is, and why I think it is plausible, let me explain why I am even bringing this “conspiracy” issue up in the first place.
I think that there has been a massive, concerted effort on the part of the U.S. and Israeli governments, the military-industrial complex, globalist interests, and the mass media, which is overwhelmingly Zionist controlled, to keep Americans in the cave, so to speak, with respect to what truly occurred on September 11, 2001. The Internet, interpersonal conversations, and courageous book and journal publishers are our only life-preservers in this veritable ocean of propaganda. The vast majority of the media, both right and left, are mere puppeteers and shadow-watchers.
Let me offer the reader some evidence that the official story of 9/11 might be a mass-produced delusional myth. How do you react to the idea that 9/11 may not be what you think it is, that it might indeed be an “inside job?” Is it with immediate disdain and disbelief at the mere possibility of a government cover up of this matter? If so, why? Think about your reaction. Is it logical? Is it coherent with your other beliefs? A government that protects the murder of babies and covers it up with propaganda is capable of lying about 3000 murders—don’t you think? Is it not capable of permitting and even orchestrating the murder of adults too, then, isn’t it? Bush sanctioned and permitted Israel’s murdering of innocent Lebanese a few years after 9/11, and Obama had “no comment” about the thousands of innocent Palestinians who were killed and injured by Israel. Is it absolutely unthinkable that powerful elements in our government would kill their own people if it meant securing and preserving their power? No, for they have done so already. That is certain.
There are, of course, many “conspiracy theorists” who think themselves safely out of the clutches of deception, but have only bound themselves more securely in it, through the chains of their fantasies. Nevertheless, false conspiracy theories can also be invented and imposed on society by those in public power, and just because they are de facto publicly authoritative does not make them any more non-conspiratorial and truthful than others. I am suggesting that the official story of 9/11 is just one of these debatable conspiracy theories, with factual and logical holes you can fly a Bowing 767 through.
Though one could marshal hundreds more empirical facts and several persuasive arguments that render the debatable conviction that 9/11 may have been a false-flag operation a plausible one, I will only mention a few here. As many engineers and scientists, such as Dr. Stephen Jones, as well as reputable commentators, such as Paul Craig Roberts, have insisted, the only plausible explanation for both towers collapsing into their footprints at virtually freefall speeds is controlled demolition, a process that would have taken weeks, if not months, to plan. Moreover, a number of the so-called hijackers are alive and have made their aliveness public. World Trade Building Seven was never hit by a plane, yet it collapsed at free-fall speed into its own footprint shortly after Larry Silverstein, its owner, who just happened to receive billions of dollars in insurance money because of its collapse, gave the order to “pull-it,” clearly meaning demolition (there is a you-tube interview where you can hear him say it clearly). In other words, logic dictates that the complex, time-controlled explosives were already carefully placed inside the building weeks before September 11. See THIS... for a professional quality, highly plausible documentary on the subject).
There is also historical evidence that the U.S. government is capable of massive lying, treachery, and murder. There is the recently declassified document available online called “Operation Northwoods” in which the Joint Chiefs of Staff outlined a plan in the 1960s to murder Americans and blame it on an “enemy,” Cuba, in order to provoke the public’s enthusiasm for war. Kennedy, in virtue of his Catholic conscience, however ill-formed it might have been, rightfully rejected this plan. Careful consideration of THIS document reveals that it is within the realm of possibility that 9/11 was a “false-flag terrorism” event. Of course, this doesn’t prove anything, but it at least shows that the U.S. government is capable of it. Consider also the fact that a government that allows the mass murder of its most innocent and helpless victims, unborn babies, for the sake of ideological consistency, mammon, and comfort, is capable of planning and executing the murder of a few thousand of its citizens for similar, self-serving motives. Granted, the idea that our own government might have either murdered its own citizens or deliberately permitted them to be murdered by others and covered it up so effectively is tremendously difficult to fathom, it is eminently debatable. If, as we have seen, there is no indisputable reason to consider the American regime intrinsically, essentially, and constitutively good, then there is no indisputable reason to consider its government incapable of deliberately permitting or committing a great act of evil.
The attack that occurred on September 11, 2001 was an act of enormous evil. Therefore, the government of the American regime, or at least, criminal, traitorous elements embedded in the U.S. government, being capable of enormous evil, may have deliberately permitted or committed the 9/11 attacks. One cannot deny the conclusion of this syllogism without denying either the major or the minor premise. The minor premise is undeniable, so that leaves only a denial of the major premise as the reason for not accepting the conclusion. For those who can’t or won’t recognize that the American regime may not be what its popular spokesmen claim it to be (the kind of claim one might hear on the Sean Hannity show or in a speech by the former president George W. Bush), it is impossible to recognize that 9/11 may not be what its popular spokesmen have claimed it to be, namely, an attack on America by Islamic terrorists who hate us because of our goodness and freedom. However, for those who can recognize the intrinsic debatableness of the major premise, it is impossible not to admit the intrinsic debatableness of the conviction that 9/11 may have been an “inside job,” what conspiracy theorists call a “false-flag operation.” In other words, it makes no sense to deny the possibility, and no amount of propaganda and political and cultural pressure can change this fact. Personally, I think the empirical data show that it is more than just a mere possibility that 9/11 was an inside job, but I leave that for the reader to discover on his own. My main point is that there is no a-priori rational reason for Catholics to refuse to consider the possibility that 9/11 was orchestrated and executed by criminal elements embedded in the United States government, and possibly in the government of Israel. See the work of Christopher Bollyn on this possibility HERE...
9/11 and the holocaust vs. Christ crucified
In conclusion, I want to explain why I think it is vitally important for Catholics to look at 9/11 with a more skeptical eye. Apart from the fact that if 9/11 were indeed an inside job, it would change drastically how one perceives the political and cultural landscape—it would give a whole new meaning to the “war on terror”—and this is certainly vitally important in itself, I think that if Catholics cannot even accept just the possibility that 9/11 was a self-inflicted wound, or a wound inflicted by “our democratic friends in the Middle East,” they are at risk of losing their Catholic Faith. As I have shown, the only reason one would not consider it a possibility that 9/11 was an inside job is because one does not believe the American government capable of that kind of grave, deliberate evil. And the only reason not to consider it possible that the American government could deliberately permit or commit grave evil is the belief that the American regime is an institution intrinsically, essentially, and constitutively good. But only the Catholic Church deserves this attribution.
Therefore, if one refuses to consider it even a possibility that 9/11 was an inside job, he, at least implicitly, denies the exclusive identity of the Roman Catholic Church as the only infallible and indefectible force for good in the world. I think it is an inescapable conclusion. The Roman Catholic Church—in its divine aspect, of course, and not in its eminently peccable human members—is the only institution incapable of doing any evil, let alone grave evil. America has no divine aspect whatsoever. Not to consider it possible that one’s government could do the unspeakable and murder its own citizens is to implicitly divinize one’s country (as perhaps many German Catholics did during the Hitler regime, leading to his not being stopped much earlier), and insofar as one identifies himself with his country, it is to divinize oneself. "I preach Christ crucified," St. Paul said. And he meant Christ crucified—and nothing else. Catholics must be integrally Pauline in this respect, or be of antichrist.
To get back to Bishop Williamson: The real issue here is the relative historical and spiritual status of the crucifixion of the God-man in relation to the historical suffering of Americans in 9/11 and Jews in the Holocaust. For those Jews and Americans under the spell of the 9/11 and Holocaust idols, however, the crucifixion is to be seen as ultimately irrelevant to history and to spirituality, and should be acknowledged as such by all, indeed, must be acknowledged as such, or else one is "anti-semitic" or “anti-American,” heretics deserving severe punishment. The Holocaust and 9/11 must replace the crucifixion as the dual-centers of historical and spiritual gravity, must be recognized as the loci of all evil and the true revelation of the Jewish and American divine victimhood. Either Jesus is the eternal victim of unrighteous violence, or the Jews and Americans are. There is no third man. The Church, regardless of its sympathy with Jewish and American suffering, and whether or not it accepts the sacred, mystical "six million," or that “the Muslims attacked us because of our freedom,” can never acknowledge the Jewish and Americanist dogma of divine self-victimhood, and so will always be the enemy to the unrepentant Jews and the Americanists, to anyone with an unrepentant, anti-logos, Jewish and Americanist consciousness.
NOTES:
[1] I say “American regime” to distinguish it from America the country or people. Here we are considering the merits of the philosophical and theological principles embedded in America’s government, institutions, and overall ethos and culture, America in a formal, not material, sense.
A reader of this blog who submitted the piece below is a person who is dedicated to knowing and testifying to the truth but for various reasons is currently unable/unwilling to be identified--a situation in these increasingly dark days which many readers should be able to empathize with.
This essay raises some extremely important issues such as the necessity of discussing who was really behind the 911 attacks and what the conspirator’s wished to accomplish. Americans of good will must not be ostracized for being willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads. A completely independent re-investigation of 911 is clearly needed.
Some readers of this site may be put-off by the author’s contention that “there is only one institution especially favored by God with an explicit mission for all humanity, only one indispensable and incarnation of divine goodness present now in the world: the Roman Catholic Church.” Or that “only the Catholic Church has a divine foundation and spirit, which, despite human sin and error, cannot be eradicated or changed.” The author is a Roman Catholic and has correctly stated the Traditional Catholic Church teaching. Clearly an attempt is being made to appeal to other Catholics as well as non-Catholics. However, one does not have to be Catholic to appreciate the arguments being made herein. We invite generous but courteous commentary.
--Dr. J. P. Hubert
“9/11 Denial” and the Idolatry of American Catholics
Bishop Williamson of the SSPX has not only been called a “holocaust denier,” but also a “9/11 denier,” in that he has said that 9/11 was an “inside-job,” a “false-flag” operation in which the World Trade Center buildings were brought down in a controlled demolition by criminal elements embedded in either the American or Israeli governments, or both. Is there a connection between his two denials? Most certainly. The Holocaust was the Jews’s Golgotha, and 9/11 was America’s Holocaust. Thus, 9/11 and the subsequent American “War on Terror” represent the crucifixion and resurrection of the now divine American Regime. Just like the Jews in Germany under Hitler, America, as the myth goes, was the sacrificial victim of absolute evil. And just like Israel is now justified and even righteous in its “defensive” wars of “survival,” as long as America claims to be fighting against that absolute evil, defending itself against being “wiped off the face of the map;” as long as it attempts to vanquish that evil for Americans’ sake and the sake of the whole world’s “freedom,” then America, like Israel, is not to be judged according to the moral law—for its very actions are what define good and evil—nationalized nominalist theology, as it were. When Israel murders Palestinian children and America murders Iraqi children, it is a good thing; for, Israeli rabbis and American Catholic neoconservative priests say it is.
What Bishop Williamson is saying in his “denial” is that 9/11 was a self-sacrificial act of violence, executed, perhaps, by the Mossad in conspiracy with a covert criminal network embedded in the American and global, new world order government. And those who inflicted this wound knew exactly the psychological and spiritual effects it would have on their victims, and what wonders it would permit them to do afterwards. Jews are now permitted to kill Palestinians en-masse with impunity because of the Holocaust; according to this insane logic, to deny the goodness of Israel’s actions is to implicitly deny the uniqueness and sacredness of the Jews’ suffering in the Holocaust. Analogously, Americans are now permitted to invade and occupy countries that never attacked them because of 9/11—“never again.” And to deny America’s right “to defend itself” is to implicitly deny the sacred status of American suffering in 9/11. In the remainder of this article, I would like to defend Williamson’s “9/11 denial,” and then suggest a reason why most Americans, and almost all Catholics, should be doing the same.
What’s debatable?
There are certain convictions that a traditional Catholic should never question. God is love, for example. No matter how much hatred and evil we encounter and experience in the world, we are never justified in seriously doubting this truth. By divine Faith, we are obliged to believe that every act of hatred and evil will somehow result, by God’s miraculous grace, in more love and good in the world than if these acts had never occurred. God is love, and all that happens, all that happens, are only the various expressions of His love for us. Of course, God does not will our hateful sins, but He transforms them and their effects into good. We might have a thousand difficulties in reconciling our subjective experience with this rather incredible truth, but these can never justify one single doubt.
The set of unquestionable truths includes not only supernatural ones like the aforementioned, but also self-evident, natural truths, as well as those truths directly derived from them, the truths of the natural law, and the truths of man’s universal and particular experience of the world and himself. That things are, and I can know them; that truth exists, and I can discover it; that I have an immortal soul, and that it will be judged; that one must do good and avoid evil; that something cannot be and not be at the same time in the same respect; that nothing in this created world can satisfy me; that the United States of America was founded in 1787; that the earth is round (though not necessarily revolving around the sun!—see the pioneering work of Solange Hertz and Robert Sungenis on this).
Then there are those truths that are, in a word, doubtable. Convictions about these matters should be held rather loosely, even when we are convinced of their truth, and they should be perpetually questioned, not because these are necessarily bad or false convictions, but because these are, unlike the self-evident or common sense truths and facts of nature, or the revealed supernatural truths of supernature, inherently debatable. These are the kinds of convictions we have regarding matters of human history, personal actions, and interpretation of particular experiences, such as the precise causes of historical events, the details of scientific theory, judgments of character, and deliberations of prudence. We may indeed have the right opinion on one or more of these sorts of issues, but it must be seen as just that—an opinion. There are simply no non-debatable, unassailable reasons to hold mere opinions to be non-negotiable and indisputably true, unless of course, they are transformed from opinions into knowledge (for the best analysis ever written on how this may occur, read Plato’s Republic). But until then, and some opinions will never make it to the realm of knowledge, there is no unimpeachable authority, including the authority of the opinions themselves, that obliges us to hold any of these opinion-level convictions without some level of epistemological doubt. On the contrary, it would be an act of disobedience and impiety to truth not to place these kinds of convictions under critical scrutiny and subjective doubt.
Unfortunately, it is just these types of convictions about which absolute certainty cannot be possessed, or at least with much more difficulty than one presumes, that are often held with the most intransigence and naïve fidelity by many Americans. In the remainder of this article, I would like to discuss two convictions that most Americans, and far too many Catholics, hold with a misplaced intransigence and naïveté. Though determining whether these convictions are true or false is, I would argue, essential to the welfare and even the very survival of our country, I will not attempt any determination of this here. For, I think the more important question to be asked about them is whether they are debatable?
Taking exception to American exceptionalism
The first conviction I would like to analyze in terms of debatableness is the belief in American exceptionalism. Many Catholics believe that America is special, but not special as all countries are special to their citizens, as my own mother is special because she is my mother, but especially special. Along with Israel, America, according to this idolatrous exceptionalism, has been chosen by God to be a sort of secular church with the mission of bringing peace and prosperity to the world. These maintain that America’s system of government and political culture is intrinsically superior to all others, for America is the nation marked out by God’s providence to bring God’s gift of freedom to the world. In short, not an insignificant number or Catholics hold in their heart of hearts, though they may be unaware of it and may deny it when it is made explicit, that America is, for all intents and purposes, equal in importance to the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
Now, it is not my intention to determine the truth of these convictions or any other ones in this essay; for, I only want to determine whether they are debatable. As far as I know, there is only one institution especially favored by God with an explicit mission for all humanity, only one indispensable and incarnation of divine goodness present now in the world: the Roman Catholic Church. Only the Catholic Church has a divine foundation and spirit, which, despite human sin and error, cannot be eradicated or changed. The Church is alone favored and chosen by God, for it is the new Israel it is His own body, and He infallibly brings goodness and truth to the world through her alone. The Church will never lose these divine attributes, and it will continue to display them visibly for all to see to the end of time (though often clouded by human error and sin) in its hierarchical and incarnate body and head This is undeniable and indubitable.
Therefore, it is impossible that any other institution could ever have these attributes in any way, or even approach them, for they are divine. Yet many attribute to the American regime some or all of these divine attributes! It may be an implicit or unconscious attribution, one that materializes itself only in emotional reactions and knee-jerk practical and political attitudes, but it is clear that too many Catholics have adopted to some extent a virtually religious belief in American exceptionalism.
Now, prescinding from the question of whether the American regime[1] is or is not actually “a force for good in the world” (as a certain intransigent Irish talk-show host from New Jersey likes to affirm incessantly) it is certainly the case that this question is debatable. One is, without doubt, morally permitted to demure from the Americanist narrative, to question its veracity, for it is the kind of conviction the truth of which can only be determined by a combination of philosophical and theological analysis and historical interpretation; and the latter, because it deals with changeable and ambiguous subject matter, renders it an intrinsically debatable conviction.
If my abstract arguments have not yet convinced the reader that American exceptionalism is a debatable conviction, then perhaps a little philosophical, theological, and historical analysis may help. The Enlightenment was in essence a secularization of the heresy of private judgment held by the Protestant revolutionaries, with both Protestantism and the Enlightenment a dialectical reaction to fourteenth-century nominalist theology. Not content merely to judge Christian revelation, completely independent of the authority of the Magisterium, the Enlightenment philosophers presumed to adjudicate reality itself, independent of any authority whatsoever, whether the deliverances of nature, the force of law, immemorial custom, or time-tested tradition. These claimed to obey “reason,” but as Nietzsche and the post-modernists have demonstrated (and this is perhaps the one salvageable truth in their otherwise satanic movement), all this talk of reason was just a cover for revolutionary will. The Enlightenment model of the ideal political order was one in which man’s will, disguised as “reason,” would be king.
To make a long historical story short, the most obvious concrete, historical incarnation of this Enlightenment, man-centered political order was the 1789 republic of France. But this wasn’t the first incarnation. The 1787 American Republic holds this dubious honor. It is not my intention here to argue this point against Michael Novakian hagiographers of the Founding Fathers, but I will point out one salient characteristic of the American regime in lieu of an argument. Even though one must accept that the American Founding had some godly influences, that it was pervaded in part by a Christian ethos, one must also recognize that the Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ is nowhere to be found in its official documents, and unwillingness to utter the Holy Name in public is the unmistakable sign of Freemasonry, the archenemy of Catholicism.
Let us jump ahead a couple hundred years to present-day America. Tens of millions of unborn babies are being murdered by American “doctors” hired by the children’s own mothers; an innocent woman is starved to death by her husband in plain sight of everyone, including a “pro-life president,” and no one has the will or the power to stop it; a president and other operatives of an enormous, Leviathanian military-industrial complex conspire to lie to the American citizenry and the international community in order to attack and occupy a country that never attacked it, torturing many innocent citizens and murdering thousands of civilians, including women and children, in the process; the first black U.S. president is in favor of baby-murder—all in the name of God and freedom.
I hope that in light of the preceding, it is at least a little bit clearer now that the belief in America’s intrinsic, essential, and constitutive goodness, exceptionalism, and mission, although not demonstrably an untrue belief, is certainly debatable. Perhaps the American regime is morally superior to all other nations and always will be, but there is no authority, from history, reason or revelation, that morally obliges one to think so. Thus, there is no a-priori reason to judge the American regime, its governmental principles and practices, and its moral and political culture, to be qualitatively better or worse than any other nation. And one is certainly free to judge it qualitatively worse, culturally speaking, than other historical empires, such as the British and the Spanish. Is this out of the question? Is it unpatriotic? Is it un-American? Is it blasphemy? These aren’t the appropriate questions. The appropriate question is whether it is true. Now, whether America is blessed or cursed by God, or simply held in the same esteem that he holds any other created society of sinners, is certainly a pertinent question. But the question one must first ask is whether one’s conviction about the American regime’s moral and spiritual exceptionalism is debatable—and it is.
9/11 denial
We are now ready to discuss the second conviction I would argue is mistakenly considered by many Catholics to be non-debatable: that the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were orchestrated and executed by Islamic terrorists from a foreign country. As I will try to show, there is a reasonable, though debatable, alternative explanation that is just as plausible, if not more so, than the explanation the U.S. Government has given us in the official 9/11 Commission report, and the main-stream media has echoed and supported. Before I describe what this alternative view is, and why I think it is plausible, let me explain why I am even bringing this “conspiracy” issue up in the first place.
I think that there has been a massive, concerted effort on the part of the U.S. and Israeli governments, the military-industrial complex, globalist interests, and the mass media, which is overwhelmingly Zionist controlled, to keep Americans in the cave, so to speak, with respect to what truly occurred on September 11, 2001. The Internet, interpersonal conversations, and courageous book and journal publishers are our only life-preservers in this veritable ocean of propaganda. The vast majority of the media, both right and left, are mere puppeteers and shadow-watchers.
Let me offer the reader some evidence that the official story of 9/11 might be a mass-produced delusional myth. How do you react to the idea that 9/11 may not be what you think it is, that it might indeed be an “inside job?” Is it with immediate disdain and disbelief at the mere possibility of a government cover up of this matter? If so, why? Think about your reaction. Is it logical? Is it coherent with your other beliefs? A government that protects the murder of babies and covers it up with propaganda is capable of lying about 3000 murders—don’t you think? Is it not capable of permitting and even orchestrating the murder of adults too, then, isn’t it? Bush sanctioned and permitted Israel’s murdering of innocent Lebanese a few years after 9/11, and Obama had “no comment” about the thousands of innocent Palestinians who were killed and injured by Israel. Is it absolutely unthinkable that powerful elements in our government would kill their own people if it meant securing and preserving their power? No, for they have done so already. That is certain.
There are, of course, many “conspiracy theorists” who think themselves safely out of the clutches of deception, but have only bound themselves more securely in it, through the chains of their fantasies. Nevertheless, false conspiracy theories can also be invented and imposed on society by those in public power, and just because they are de facto publicly authoritative does not make them any more non-conspiratorial and truthful than others. I am suggesting that the official story of 9/11 is just one of these debatable conspiracy theories, with factual and logical holes you can fly a Bowing 767 through.
Though one could marshal hundreds more empirical facts and several persuasive arguments that render the debatable conviction that 9/11 may have been a false-flag operation a plausible one, I will only mention a few here. As many engineers and scientists, such as Dr. Stephen Jones, as well as reputable commentators, such as Paul Craig Roberts, have insisted, the only plausible explanation for both towers collapsing into their footprints at virtually freefall speeds is controlled demolition, a process that would have taken weeks, if not months, to plan. Moreover, a number of the so-called hijackers are alive and have made their aliveness public. World Trade Building Seven was never hit by a plane, yet it collapsed at free-fall speed into its own footprint shortly after Larry Silverstein, its owner, who just happened to receive billions of dollars in insurance money because of its collapse, gave the order to “pull-it,” clearly meaning demolition (there is a you-tube interview where you can hear him say it clearly). In other words, logic dictates that the complex, time-controlled explosives were already carefully placed inside the building weeks before September 11. See THIS... for a professional quality, highly plausible documentary on the subject).
There is also historical evidence that the U.S. government is capable of massive lying, treachery, and murder. There is the recently declassified document available online called “Operation Northwoods” in which the Joint Chiefs of Staff outlined a plan in the 1960s to murder Americans and blame it on an “enemy,” Cuba, in order to provoke the public’s enthusiasm for war. Kennedy, in virtue of his Catholic conscience, however ill-formed it might have been, rightfully rejected this plan. Careful consideration of THIS document reveals that it is within the realm of possibility that 9/11 was a “false-flag terrorism” event. Of course, this doesn’t prove anything, but it at least shows that the U.S. government is capable of it. Consider also the fact that a government that allows the mass murder of its most innocent and helpless victims, unborn babies, for the sake of ideological consistency, mammon, and comfort, is capable of planning and executing the murder of a few thousand of its citizens for similar, self-serving motives. Granted, the idea that our own government might have either murdered its own citizens or deliberately permitted them to be murdered by others and covered it up so effectively is tremendously difficult to fathom, it is eminently debatable. If, as we have seen, there is no indisputable reason to consider the American regime intrinsically, essentially, and constitutively good, then there is no indisputable reason to consider its government incapable of deliberately permitting or committing a great act of evil.
The attack that occurred on September 11, 2001 was an act of enormous evil. Therefore, the government of the American regime, or at least, criminal, traitorous elements embedded in the U.S. government, being capable of enormous evil, may have deliberately permitted or committed the 9/11 attacks. One cannot deny the conclusion of this syllogism without denying either the major or the minor premise. The minor premise is undeniable, so that leaves only a denial of the major premise as the reason for not accepting the conclusion. For those who can’t or won’t recognize that the American regime may not be what its popular spokesmen claim it to be (the kind of claim one might hear on the Sean Hannity show or in a speech by the former president George W. Bush), it is impossible to recognize that 9/11 may not be what its popular spokesmen have claimed it to be, namely, an attack on America by Islamic terrorists who hate us because of our goodness and freedom. However, for those who can recognize the intrinsic debatableness of the major premise, it is impossible not to admit the intrinsic debatableness of the conviction that 9/11 may have been an “inside job,” what conspiracy theorists call a “false-flag operation.” In other words, it makes no sense to deny the possibility, and no amount of propaganda and political and cultural pressure can change this fact. Personally, I think the empirical data show that it is more than just a mere possibility that 9/11 was an inside job, but I leave that for the reader to discover on his own. My main point is that there is no a-priori rational reason for Catholics to refuse to consider the possibility that 9/11 was orchestrated and executed by criminal elements embedded in the United States government, and possibly in the government of Israel. See the work of Christopher Bollyn on this possibility HERE...
9/11 and the holocaust vs. Christ crucified
In conclusion, I want to explain why I think it is vitally important for Catholics to look at 9/11 with a more skeptical eye. Apart from the fact that if 9/11 were indeed an inside job, it would change drastically how one perceives the political and cultural landscape—it would give a whole new meaning to the “war on terror”—and this is certainly vitally important in itself, I think that if Catholics cannot even accept just the possibility that 9/11 was a self-inflicted wound, or a wound inflicted by “our democratic friends in the Middle East,” they are at risk of losing their Catholic Faith. As I have shown, the only reason one would not consider it a possibility that 9/11 was an inside job is because one does not believe the American government capable of that kind of grave, deliberate evil. And the only reason not to consider it possible that the American government could deliberately permit or commit grave evil is the belief that the American regime is an institution intrinsically, essentially, and constitutively good. But only the Catholic Church deserves this attribution.
Therefore, if one refuses to consider it even a possibility that 9/11 was an inside job, he, at least implicitly, denies the exclusive identity of the Roman Catholic Church as the only infallible and indefectible force for good in the world. I think it is an inescapable conclusion. The Roman Catholic Church—in its divine aspect, of course, and not in its eminently peccable human members—is the only institution incapable of doing any evil, let alone grave evil. America has no divine aspect whatsoever. Not to consider it possible that one’s government could do the unspeakable and murder its own citizens is to implicitly divinize one’s country (as perhaps many German Catholics did during the Hitler regime, leading to his not being stopped much earlier), and insofar as one identifies himself with his country, it is to divinize oneself. "I preach Christ crucified," St. Paul said. And he meant Christ crucified—and nothing else. Catholics must be integrally Pauline in this respect, or be of antichrist.
To get back to Bishop Williamson: The real issue here is the relative historical and spiritual status of the crucifixion of the God-man in relation to the historical suffering of Americans in 9/11 and Jews in the Holocaust. For those Jews and Americans under the spell of the 9/11 and Holocaust idols, however, the crucifixion is to be seen as ultimately irrelevant to history and to spirituality, and should be acknowledged as such by all, indeed, must be acknowledged as such, or else one is "anti-semitic" or “anti-American,” heretics deserving severe punishment. The Holocaust and 9/11 must replace the crucifixion as the dual-centers of historical and spiritual gravity, must be recognized as the loci of all evil and the true revelation of the Jewish and American divine victimhood. Either Jesus is the eternal victim of unrighteous violence, or the Jews and Americans are. There is no third man. The Church, regardless of its sympathy with Jewish and American suffering, and whether or not it accepts the sacred, mystical "six million," or that “the Muslims attacked us because of our freedom,” can never acknowledge the Jewish and Americanist dogma of divine self-victimhood, and so will always be the enemy to the unrepentant Jews and the Americanists, to anyone with an unrepentant, anti-logos, Jewish and Americanist consciousness.
NOTES:
[1] I say “American regime” to distinguish it from America the country or people. Here we are considering the merits of the philosophical and theological principles embedded in America’s government, institutions, and overall ethos and culture, America in a formal, not material, sense.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Mossad in America
Israeli intelligence steps up its activity in the U.S. — and gets away with it.
By Philip Giraldi
The American Conservative original HERE...
August 23, 2010
Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the United States intensively, particularly in pursuit of military and dual-use civilian technology. Among nations considered to be friendly to Washington, Israel leads all others in its active espionage directed against American companies and the Defense Department. It also dominates two commercial sectors that enable it to extend its reach inside America’s domestic infrastructure: airline and telecommunications security. Israel is believed to have the ability to monitor nearly all phone records originating in the United States, while numerous Israeli air-travel security companies are known to act as the local Mossad stations.
As tensions with Iran increase, sources in the counterintelligence community report that Israeli agents have become more aggressive in targeting Muslims living in the United States as well as in operating against critics. There have been a number of cases reported to the FBI about Mossad officers who have approached leaders in Arab-American communities and have falsely represented themselves as “U.S. intelligence.” Because few Muslims would assist an Israeli, this is done to increase the likelihood that the target will cooperate. It’s referred to as a “false flag” operation.
Mossad officers sought to recruit Arab-Americans as sources willing to inform on their associates and neighbors. The approaches, which took place in New York and New Jersey, were reportedly handled clumsily, making the targets of the operation suspicious. These Arab-Americans turned down the requests for cooperation, and some of the contacts were eventually reported to the FBI, which has determined that at least two of the Mossad officers are, ironically, Israeli Arabs operating out of Israel’s mission to the United Nations in New York under cover as consular assistants.
In another bizarre case, U.S.S. Liberty survivor Phil Tourney was recently accosted in Southern California by a foreigner who eventually identified himself as an Israeli government representative. Tourney was taunted, and the Israeli threatened both him and journalist Mark Glenn, who has been reporting on the Liberty story. Tourney was approached in a hotel lounge, and it is not completely clear how the Israeli was able to identify him. But he knew exactly who Tourney was, as the official referred to the Liberty, saying that the people who had been killed on board had gotten what they deserved. There were a number of witnesses to the incident, including Tourney’s wife. The threat has been reported to the FBI, which is investigating, but Tourney and Glenn believe that the incident is not being taken seriously by the bureau.
FBI sources indicate that the increase in Mossad activity is a major problem, particularly when Israelis are posing as U.S. government officials, but they also note that there is little they can do to stop it as the Justice Department refuses to initiate any punitive action or prosecutions of the Mossad officers who have been identified as involved in the illegal activity.
In another ongoing Israeli spy case, Stewart Nozette appears to be headed towards eventual freedom as his case drags on through the District of Columbia courts. Nozette, an aerospace scientist with a top secret clearance and access to highly sensitive information, offered to sell classified material to a man he believed to be a Mossad officer, but who instead turned out to be with the FBI. Nozette has been in jail since October, but he has now been granted an additional 90-day delay so his lawyers can review the documents in the government’s case, many of which are classified. If Nozette demands that sensitive information be used in his defense, his case will likely follow the pattern set in the nine-times-postponed trial of AIPAC spies Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who were ultimately acquitted in April 2009 when prosecutors determined that they could not make their case without doing significant damage to national security. A month after Rosen and Weissman were freed, Ben-Ami Kadish, who admitted to providing defense secrets to Israel while working as an engineer at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, walked out of a Manhattan court after paying a fine. He did no jail time and continues to receive his substantial Defense Department pension.
The mainstream media reported the Rosen and Weissman trial intermittently, but there was virtually no coverage of Ben-Ami Kadish, and there has been even less of Nozette. Compare that with the recent reporting on the Russian spies who, by all accounts, did almost nothing and never obtained any classified information. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that spying for Israel is consequence free.
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Philip Giraldi, a former CIA Officer, is the Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest. His “Deep Background” column appears every month exclusively in The American Conservative.
By Philip Giraldi
The American Conservative original HERE...
August 23, 2010
Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the United States intensively, particularly in pursuit of military and dual-use civilian technology. Among nations considered to be friendly to Washington, Israel leads all others in its active espionage directed against American companies and the Defense Department. It also dominates two commercial sectors that enable it to extend its reach inside America’s domestic infrastructure: airline and telecommunications security. Israel is believed to have the ability to monitor nearly all phone records originating in the United States, while numerous Israeli air-travel security companies are known to act as the local Mossad stations.
As tensions with Iran increase, sources in the counterintelligence community report that Israeli agents have become more aggressive in targeting Muslims living in the United States as well as in operating against critics. There have been a number of cases reported to the FBI about Mossad officers who have approached leaders in Arab-American communities and have falsely represented themselves as “U.S. intelligence.” Because few Muslims would assist an Israeli, this is done to increase the likelihood that the target will cooperate. It’s referred to as a “false flag” operation.
Mossad officers sought to recruit Arab-Americans as sources willing to inform on their associates and neighbors. The approaches, which took place in New York and New Jersey, were reportedly handled clumsily, making the targets of the operation suspicious. These Arab-Americans turned down the requests for cooperation, and some of the contacts were eventually reported to the FBI, which has determined that at least two of the Mossad officers are, ironically, Israeli Arabs operating out of Israel’s mission to the United Nations in New York under cover as consular assistants.
In another bizarre case, U.S.S. Liberty survivor Phil Tourney was recently accosted in Southern California by a foreigner who eventually identified himself as an Israeli government representative. Tourney was taunted, and the Israeli threatened both him and journalist Mark Glenn, who has been reporting on the Liberty story. Tourney was approached in a hotel lounge, and it is not completely clear how the Israeli was able to identify him. But he knew exactly who Tourney was, as the official referred to the Liberty, saying that the people who had been killed on board had gotten what they deserved. There were a number of witnesses to the incident, including Tourney’s wife. The threat has been reported to the FBI, which is investigating, but Tourney and Glenn believe that the incident is not being taken seriously by the bureau.
FBI sources indicate that the increase in Mossad activity is a major problem, particularly when Israelis are posing as U.S. government officials, but they also note that there is little they can do to stop it as the Justice Department refuses to initiate any punitive action or prosecutions of the Mossad officers who have been identified as involved in the illegal activity.
In another ongoing Israeli spy case, Stewart Nozette appears to be headed towards eventual freedom as his case drags on through the District of Columbia courts. Nozette, an aerospace scientist with a top secret clearance and access to highly sensitive information, offered to sell classified material to a man he believed to be a Mossad officer, but who instead turned out to be with the FBI. Nozette has been in jail since October, but he has now been granted an additional 90-day delay so his lawyers can review the documents in the government’s case, many of which are classified. If Nozette demands that sensitive information be used in his defense, his case will likely follow the pattern set in the nine-times-postponed trial of AIPAC spies Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who were ultimately acquitted in April 2009 when prosecutors determined that they could not make their case without doing significant damage to national security. A month after Rosen and Weissman were freed, Ben-Ami Kadish, who admitted to providing defense secrets to Israel while working as an engineer at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, walked out of a Manhattan court after paying a fine. He did no jail time and continues to receive his substantial Defense Department pension.
The mainstream media reported the Rosen and Weissman trial intermittently, but there was virtually no coverage of Ben-Ami Kadish, and there has been even less of Nozette. Compare that with the recent reporting on the Russian spies who, by all accounts, did almost nothing and never obtained any classified information. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that spying for Israel is consequence free.
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Philip Giraldi, a former CIA Officer, is the Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest. His “Deep Background” column appears every month exclusively in The American Conservative.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
More on False Flag Attacks at Jim Fetzer's Site
The Real Reasons Nation States Institute "False-Flag" Attacks and the Context of Principles by which they Occur
By Preston James*/ May 19, 2010
Throughout history the existence and reasons for the use of "false-flag" attacks have been understood only by insiders within the highest levels of government, the military and intel. Recently, after the 9/11 attacks the Internet (World Wide Web, WWW) has allowed citizen researchers to connect the dots and dig out and share information which previously would never have been so easily discovered and so widely available. Read it all...
FALSE FLAG - Operation "Gladio" - Worldwide Terror Campaign is but one example
By Preston James*/ May 19, 2010
Throughout history the existence and reasons for the use of "false-flag" attacks have been understood only by insiders within the highest levels of government, the military and intel. Recently, after the 9/11 attacks the Internet (World Wide Web, WWW) has allowed citizen researchers to connect the dots and dig out and share information which previously would never have been so easily discovered and so widely available. Read it all...
FALSE FLAG - Operation "Gladio" - Worldwide Terror Campaign is but one example
Sunday, May 16, 2010
"New York Car Bomb Incident: Another False Flag?"
Friday, May 7, 2010
By Stephen Lendman
On May 1, New York Times writers Al Baker and William Rashbaum headlined, "Police Find Car Bomb in Times Square," saying:
"A crude car bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks was discovered in a 'smoking' Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square on Saturday evening, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers on a warm and busy night."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg claimed "We were very lucky. We avoided what could have been a very deadly event."
For much of the evening, Midtown New York, from 43rd - 48th streets, was closed, heightening fear reported for hours on cable news shows, including statements by Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, saying the bomb "appeared (to be) in the process of detonating, but it malfunctioned."
Good luck or something else? We've seen this too often not to be suspicious. This one, like others, has all the earmarks of a false flag, more likely given its coverage and location in Times Square on Saturday night, followed by a May 2 video saying the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. Read it all at James Fetzer's blog HERE...
By Stephen Lendman
On May 1, New York Times writers Al Baker and William Rashbaum headlined, "Police Find Car Bomb in Times Square," saying:
"A crude car bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks was discovered in a 'smoking' Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square on Saturday evening, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers on a warm and busy night."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg claimed "We were very lucky. We avoided what could have been a very deadly event."
For much of the evening, Midtown New York, from 43rd - 48th streets, was closed, heightening fear reported for hours on cable news shows, including statements by Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, saying the bomb "appeared (to be) in the process of detonating, but it malfunctioned."
Good luck or something else? We've seen this too often not to be suspicious. This one, like others, has all the earmarks of a false flag, more likely given its coverage and location in Times Square on Saturday night, followed by a May 2 video saying the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. Read it all at James Fetzer's blog HERE...
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Has The USA Forgotten Peace
By Gordon Duff
December 01, 2009 "Veterans Today" -- Tonight, I will listen to the President tell me that it will take years to withdraw from Afghanistan. He will, out of political necessity tell a series of lies. He will lie by omission, failing to tell people that this war, our "good war" was, when the facts are examined, a farce. There has not been a credible word from Osama bin Laden since December, 2001, when his death was announced in the Islamic press. What other reason did we have to occupy Afghanistan and lead it into total ruin?
The President will also lie because he has been lied to. He will present solutions, solutions sending troops into harms way, troops meant to build a government and country that force of arms can only destroy.
Years of propaganda and war mongering has made it impossible for any honest dialog about war. Years of lying, lying for politics, lying for profit, lying in support of treasonous foreign interests has left us with nothing to build on. No honest voice is left, just screaming liars paid by thieves claiming to represent the right or the left.
Neither really exist. If it talks, if it squawks, it is paid off by someone and is probably lying. Our government has their own business, getting elected, taking care of rich constituents and making sure war profiteers keep raking it in.
Without a voice of opposition from the people, as there is certainly no opposition in Washington, especially since the GOP is tied to the apron strings of the insurance industry and big oil and has no time for simple people, there will be no voice to scream "STOP."
Yes, support the troops. Bring them home to their families, let the villagers in Afghanistan continue whatever they have been doing for 300 years and stay out of it. We have managed to build a massive economy around playing at war. How many lobbyists does it require to hold a village in Afghanistan?
How many Predator drones does it require to find a bed for a homeless veteran?
How many mercenaries does it take to teach an amputee how to walk?
How many intelligence analysts does it take to figure out that if you keep doing the same thing over and over and it doesn't work, but you keep doing the same thing anyway, it is a sign you are nuts?
How long is it going to take us to realize that NOBODY is on our side. We think we are the new Roman empire, the policeman of the world. America isn't Caesar's Rome, not even the Rome of Augustus. We are the Rome of Nero and Caligula, a society steeped in corruption, excess and debauchery. How many Americans think of Washington DC as a center of culture and stability?
Does anyone even think America has a policy or government? Are we a country or simply a group of people ruled by a government owned and operated by special interest groups who dip into our treasury at will, send our kids off to war for amusement serve the agendas of "flavor of the month" allies, often brutal dictatorships disguised as enlightened democracies.
Over 40 years ago, America began to awaken to the fact that the war in Vietnam was a senseless slaughter having nothing to do with American values or security. President Obama is the 3rd president in my lifetime elected based on his promise to end a war.
In 1952, Eisenhower promised peace in Korea. We still have troops there nearly 6 decades later and wait daily for war to break out again.
In 1968, Nixon promised a "secret plan" to end the war in Vietnam. His plan, fight for 4 more years, killing 20,000 more Americans, then abandon most of our POWs and give Vietnam to the communists.
Tonite we hear another secret plan to end a war. Will we hear the truth? Not hardly!
"8 years ago we invaded Afghanistan and a short time later, Iraq, to punish a small group of murderers that killed 3000 Americans. As time has gone on, we now know that much of what we believed about those attacks is false. Evidence now points, not only to terror groups, but to countries we thought to be friends and there is even evidence of complicity here at home.
After years of phony intelligence, propaganda campaigns and torturing false confessions out of detainees, nothing can be trusted.
Donald Rumsfeld tells it best. He went before the 9/11 Commission stating there was never any indication that terror attacks of the kind seen on 9/11 were possible nor did he receive any warning. We now know that nearly every word he and so many others told that commission were lies, unquestionable, proven and done with remorseless cynicism.
8 years, the illegal invasion of Iraq, the engineering of an economic collapse in America, the corruption of our laws, of our national honor and our moral standing make it impossible for me to continue the war in Afghanistan.
No more Americans will die because of the criminality of a few. Are the few foreign terrorists or Americans, politicians, lobbyists, industrialist, bankers and their good friends overseas in Saudi Arabia or maybe Israel.
How can we order the deaths of thousands of Americans when the real "evil doers" at home run free? We know their names, we know their crimes. How can we bring justice and democracy to others when we, ourselves, have none?
Nearly 10,000 Americans are dead, tens of thousands wounded and trillions of dollars are missing. There is much more proof that these deaths and this massive theft was caused by a domestic conspiracy than any foreign intrigue.
First, we clean our own home, then we carry democracy to others."
Will we hear this tonight?
Veterans Today Senior Editor Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.
December 01, 2009 "Veterans Today" -- Tonight, I will listen to the President tell me that it will take years to withdraw from Afghanistan. He will, out of political necessity tell a series of lies. He will lie by omission, failing to tell people that this war, our "good war" was, when the facts are examined, a farce. There has not been a credible word from Osama bin Laden since December, 2001, when his death was announced in the Islamic press. What other reason did we have to occupy Afghanistan and lead it into total ruin?
The President will also lie because he has been lied to. He will present solutions, solutions sending troops into harms way, troops meant to build a government and country that force of arms can only destroy.
Years of propaganda and war mongering has made it impossible for any honest dialog about war. Years of lying, lying for politics, lying for profit, lying in support of treasonous foreign interests has left us with nothing to build on. No honest voice is left, just screaming liars paid by thieves claiming to represent the right or the left.
Neither really exist. If it talks, if it squawks, it is paid off by someone and is probably lying. Our government has their own business, getting elected, taking care of rich constituents and making sure war profiteers keep raking it in.
Without a voice of opposition from the people, as there is certainly no opposition in Washington, especially since the GOP is tied to the apron strings of the insurance industry and big oil and has no time for simple people, there will be no voice to scream "STOP."
Yes, support the troops. Bring them home to their families, let the villagers in Afghanistan continue whatever they have been doing for 300 years and stay out of it. We have managed to build a massive economy around playing at war. How many lobbyists does it require to hold a village in Afghanistan?
How many Predator drones does it require to find a bed for a homeless veteran?
How many mercenaries does it take to teach an amputee how to walk?
How many intelligence analysts does it take to figure out that if you keep doing the same thing over and over and it doesn't work, but you keep doing the same thing anyway, it is a sign you are nuts?
How long is it going to take us to realize that NOBODY is on our side. We think we are the new Roman empire, the policeman of the world. America isn't Caesar's Rome, not even the Rome of Augustus. We are the Rome of Nero and Caligula, a society steeped in corruption, excess and debauchery. How many Americans think of Washington DC as a center of culture and stability?
Does anyone even think America has a policy or government? Are we a country or simply a group of people ruled by a government owned and operated by special interest groups who dip into our treasury at will, send our kids off to war for amusement serve the agendas of "flavor of the month" allies, often brutal dictatorships disguised as enlightened democracies.
Over 40 years ago, America began to awaken to the fact that the war in Vietnam was a senseless slaughter having nothing to do with American values or security. President Obama is the 3rd president in my lifetime elected based on his promise to end a war.
In 1952, Eisenhower promised peace in Korea. We still have troops there nearly 6 decades later and wait daily for war to break out again.
In 1968, Nixon promised a "secret plan" to end the war in Vietnam. His plan, fight for 4 more years, killing 20,000 more Americans, then abandon most of our POWs and give Vietnam to the communists.
Tonite we hear another secret plan to end a war. Will we hear the truth? Not hardly!
"8 years ago we invaded Afghanistan and a short time later, Iraq, to punish a small group of murderers that killed 3000 Americans. As time has gone on, we now know that much of what we believed about those attacks is false. Evidence now points, not only to terror groups, but to countries we thought to be friends and there is even evidence of complicity here at home.
After years of phony intelligence, propaganda campaigns and torturing false confessions out of detainees, nothing can be trusted.
Donald Rumsfeld tells it best. He went before the 9/11 Commission stating there was never any indication that terror attacks of the kind seen on 9/11 were possible nor did he receive any warning. We now know that nearly every word he and so many others told that commission were lies, unquestionable, proven and done with remorseless cynicism.
8 years, the illegal invasion of Iraq, the engineering of an economic collapse in America, the corruption of our laws, of our national honor and our moral standing make it impossible for me to continue the war in Afghanistan.
No more Americans will die because of the criminality of a few. Are the few foreign terrorists or Americans, politicians, lobbyists, industrialist, bankers and their good friends overseas in Saudi Arabia or maybe Israel.
How can we order the deaths of thousands of Americans when the real "evil doers" at home run free? We know their names, we know their crimes. How can we bring justice and democracy to others when we, ourselves, have none?
Nearly 10,000 Americans are dead, tens of thousands wounded and trillions of dollars are missing. There is much more proof that these deaths and this massive theft was caused by a domestic conspiracy than any foreign intrigue.
First, we clean our own home, then we carry democracy to others."
Will we hear this tonight?
Veterans Today Senior Editor Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.
Monday, September 14, 2009
What Role Did The U.S.-Israeli Relationship Play In 9-11?
By Jeff Gates
September 13, 2009 "Information Clearing House" --- On the day of the 9-11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attack would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good. Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)."
Intelligence wars rely on mathematical models to anticipate the response of "the mark" to staged provocations. Reactions thereby become foreseeable-within an acceptable range of probabilities. When Israeli mathematician Robert J. Aumann received the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic science, he conceded that "the entire school of thought that we have developed here in Israel" has turned "Israel into the leading authority in this field."
With a well-planned provocation, the anticipated response can even become a weapon in the arsenal of the agent provocateur. In response to 9-11, how difficult would it be to foresee that the U.S. would deploy its military to avenge that attack? With fixed intelligence, how difficult would it be to redirect that response to wage a long-planned war in Iraq - not for U.S. interests but to advance the agenda for Greater Israel?
The emotionally wrenching component of a provocation plays a key role in the field of game theory war planning where Israel is the authority. With the televised murder of 3,000 Americans, a shared mindset of shock, grief and outrage made it easier for U.S. policy-makers to believe that a known Evil Doer in Iraq was responsible, regardless of the facts.
The strategic displacement of facts with induced beliefs, in turn, requires a period of "preparing the mindset" so that "the mark" will put their faith in a pre-staged fiction. Those who induced the March 2003 invasion of Iraq began "laying mental threads" and creating agenda-advancing mental associations more than a decade earlier.
Notable among those threads was the 1993 publication in Foreign Affairs of an article by Harvard professor Samuel Huntington. By the time his analysis appeared in book-length form in 1996 as The Clash of Civilizations, more than 100 academies and think tanks were prepared to promote it, pre-staging a "clash consensus" five years before 9-11.
Also published in 1996 under the guidance of Richard Perle was A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm (i.e., Israel). A member since 1987 of the U.S. Defense Policy Advisory Board, this self-professed Zionist became its chairman in 2001. As a key adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Perle's senior Pentagon post helped lay the required foundation for removing Saddam Hussein as part of a Greater Israel strategy, a key theme of A Clean Break released five years before 9-11.
A mass murder, articles, books, think tanks and Pentagon insiders, however, are not enough to manage the variables in a "probabilistic" war-planning model. Supportive policy makers are also required to lend the appearance of legitimacy and credibility to an operation justified by intelligence fixed around a pre-determined agenda.
That role was eagerly filled by Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman, a Jewish Zionist from Connecticut, and Jon Kyl, a Christian Zionist from Arizona, when they co-sponsored the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. Echoing Tel Aviv's agenda in A Clean Break, their bill laid another mental thread in the public mindset by calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein three years before 9-11.
The legislation also appropriated $97 million, largely to promote that Zionist agenda. Distracted by mid-term Congressional elections and by impeachment proceedings commenced in reaction to a well-timed presidential affair involving White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton signed that agenda into law October 31, 1998 - five years before the U.S.-led invasion that removed Saddam Hussein.
After 9-11, John McCain and Joe Lieberman became inseparable travel companions and irrepressible advocates for the invasion of Iraq. Looking "presidential" aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in January 2002, McCain laid another key thread when he waved an admiral's cap while proclaiming, alongside Lieberman, "On to Baghdad."
By Way of Deception
The chutzpah with which this game theory strategy progressed in plain sight could be seen in the behavior of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, another Zionist insider. Four days after 9-11, in a principals' meeting at Camp David, he proposed that the U.S. invade Iraq. At that time, the intelligence did not yet point to Iraqi involvement and Osama bin Laden was thought to be hiding in a remote region of Afghanistan.
Frustrated that President George H.W. Bush declined to remove Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War, Wolfowitz proposed a No-Fly Zone in northern Iraq. By 2001, the Israeli Mossad had agents at work for a decade in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Intelligence reports of Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda also came from Mosul - reports that later proved to be false. Mosul again emerged in November 2004 as a center of the insurgency that destabilized Iraq. That reaction precluded the speedy exit of coalition forces promised in Congressional testimony by senior war-planner Wolfowitz.
The common source of the fixed intelligence that induced America to war in Iraq has yet to be acknowledged even though intelligence experts agree that deception on such a scale required a decade to plan, staff, pre-stage, orchestrate and, to date, cover up. The two leaders of the 9-11 Commission report conceded they were stopped by Commission members from hearing testimony on the motivation for 9-11: the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
The fictions accepted as generally accepted truths included Iraqi WMD, Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda, Iraqi meetings with Al Qaeda in Prague, Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories and Iraqi purchases of "yellowcake" uranium from Niger. Only the last fact was conceded as phony in the relevant time frame. All the rest were disclosed as false, flawed or fixed only after the war began. An attempt to cover-up the yellowcake account led to the federal prosecution of vice-presidential chief of staff Lewis Libby, another well-placed Zionist insider.
Did game theory-modeled pre-staging also include the Israeli provocation that led to the Second Intifada? An intifada is an uprising or, literally, a "shaking off" of an oppressor. The Second Intifada in Palestine dates from September 2000 when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon led an armed march to Jerusalem's Temple Mount one year before 9-11.
After a year of calm-during which Palestinians believed in the prospects for peace-suicide bombings recommenced after this high-profile provocation. In response to the uprising, Sharon and Netanyahu observed that only when Americans "feel our pain" would they understand the plight of the victimized Israelis. Both Israeli leaders suggested that shared mindset ("feel our pain") would require in the U.S. a weighted body count of 4,500 to 5,000 Americans lost to terrorism, the initial estimate of those who died in the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center-one year later.
The American Valkyrie?
When successful, game theory warfare strengthens the agent provocateur while leaving the mark discredited and depleted by the anticipated reaction to a well-timed provocation. By game theory standards, 9-11 was a strategic success because the U.S. was portrayed as irrational for its reaction - the invasion of Iraq that triggered a deadly insurgency with devastating consequences both for Iraq and the U.S.
That insurgency, in turn, was an easily modeled reaction to the invasion of a nation that (a) played no role in the provocation, and (b) was known to be populated by three long-warring sects where an unstable peace was maintained by a former U.S. ally who was rebranded an Evil Doer. As the cost in blood and treasure expanded, the U.S. became overextended militarily, financially and diplomatically.
As "the mark" (the U.S.) emerged in the foreground, the agent provocateur faded into the background. But only after catalyzing dynamics that steadily drained the U.S. of credibility, resources and resolve. This "probabilistic" victory also ensured widespread cynicism, insecurity, distrust and disillusionment along with a declining capacity to defend its interests due to the duplicity of a game theory-savvy enemy within.
Meanwhile the American public fell under a regime of oversight, surveillance and intimidation marketed as "homeland" security. This domestic operation even features rhetorical hints of a WWII "fatherland" with clear signs of a force alien to the U.S. with its welcome embrace of open dissent. Is this operation meant to protect Americans or to shield those responsible for this insider operation from Americans?
By manipulating the shared mindset, skilled game theory war-planners can wage battles in plain sight and on multiple fronts with minimal resources. One proven strategy: Pose as an ally of a well-armed nation predisposed to deploy its military in response to a mass murder. In this case, the result destabilized Iraq, creating crises that could be exploited to strategic advantage by expanding the conflict to Iran, another key Israeli goal announced in A Clean Break-seven years before the invasion of Iraq.
Which nation benefitted from the deployment of coalition forces to the region? Today's mathematically model-able outcome undermined U.S. national security by overextending its military, discrediting its leadership, degrading its financial condition and disabling its political will. In game theory terms, these results were "perfectly predictable"-within an acceptable range of probabilities.
In the asymmetry that typifies today's unconventional warfare, those who are few in numbers must wage war by way of deception-non-transparently and with means that leverage their impact. Which nation-if not Israel-fits that description?
Treason in Plain Sight?
Game theory war-planners manipulate the shared mental environment by shaping perceptions and creating impressions that become consensus opinions. With the aid of well-timed crises, policy-makers fall in line with a predetermined agenda-not because they are Evil Doers or "imperialists" but because the shared mindset has been pre-conditioned to respond not to the facts but to manipulated emotions and consensus beliefs. Without the murder of 3,000 on 9-11, America's credibility would not now be damaged and the U.S. economy would be in far better shape.
By steadily displacing facts with what "the mark" can be induced to believe, the few-within-the-few amplify the impact of their duplicity. By steady manipulation of the public's mindset, game theory war-planners can defeat an opponent with vastly superior resources by inducing those decisions that ensure defeat.
Intelligence wars are waged in plain sight and under the cover of widely shared beliefs. By manipulating consensus opinion, such wars can be won from the inside out by inducing a people to freely choose the very forces that imperil their freedom. Thus in the Information Age the disproportionate power wielded by those with outsized influence in media, pop culture, think tanks, academia and politics-domains where Zionist influence is most rampant.
Induced beliefs act as a force-multiplier to wage intelligence wars from the shadows. At the operational core of such warfare are those masterful at anticipating the mark's response to a provocation and incorporating that response into their arsenal. For those who wage war in this fashion, facts are only a barrier to overcome. For those nations dependent on facts, the rule of law and informed consent to protect their freedom, such insider treachery poses the greatest possible threat to national security.
America is far less safe than before 9-11. Tel Aviv clearly intends to continue its serial provocations, as evidenced by its ongoing expansion of the settlements. Israel has shown no sign of a willingness to negotiate in good faith or to take the steps required to make peace a possibility. To date, Barack Obama appears unwilling to name senior appointees who are not either Zionists are strongly pro-Israeli. The greatest threat to world peace is not terrorists. The greatest threat is the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
In the same way that a decade of pre-staging was required to plausibly induce the U.S. to invade Iraq, a similar strategy is now underway to persuade the U.S. to invade Iran or to support and condone an attack by Israel. The same duplicity is again at work, including the high profile branding of the requisite Evil Doer. From its very outset, the Zionist enterprise focused on hegemony in the Middle East. Its entangled alliance with the U.S. enabled this enterprise to deploy American might for that purpose.
Only one nation had the means, motive, opportunity and stable nation state intelligence required to take the U.S. to war in the Middle East while also making it appear that Islam is the problem. If Barack Obama continues to defer to Tel Aviv, he can rightly be blamed when the next attack occurs in the U.S. or the European Union featuring the usual orgy of evidence pointing to a predetermined target. Should another mass murder occur, that event will be traceable directly to the U.S.-Israeli relationship and the failure of U.S policy-makers to free America from this enemy within.
September 13, 2009 "Information Clearing House" --- On the day of the 9-11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attack would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good. Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)."
Intelligence wars rely on mathematical models to anticipate the response of "the mark" to staged provocations. Reactions thereby become foreseeable-within an acceptable range of probabilities. When Israeli mathematician Robert J. Aumann received the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic science, he conceded that "the entire school of thought that we have developed here in Israel" has turned "Israel into the leading authority in this field."
With a well-planned provocation, the anticipated response can even become a weapon in the arsenal of the agent provocateur. In response to 9-11, how difficult would it be to foresee that the U.S. would deploy its military to avenge that attack? With fixed intelligence, how difficult would it be to redirect that response to wage a long-planned war in Iraq - not for U.S. interests but to advance the agenda for Greater Israel?
The emotionally wrenching component of a provocation plays a key role in the field of game theory war planning where Israel is the authority. With the televised murder of 3,000 Americans, a shared mindset of shock, grief and outrage made it easier for U.S. policy-makers to believe that a known Evil Doer in Iraq was responsible, regardless of the facts.
The strategic displacement of facts with induced beliefs, in turn, requires a period of "preparing the mindset" so that "the mark" will put their faith in a pre-staged fiction. Those who induced the March 2003 invasion of Iraq began "laying mental threads" and creating agenda-advancing mental associations more than a decade earlier.
Notable among those threads was the 1993 publication in Foreign Affairs of an article by Harvard professor Samuel Huntington. By the time his analysis appeared in book-length form in 1996 as The Clash of Civilizations, more than 100 academies and think tanks were prepared to promote it, pre-staging a "clash consensus" five years before 9-11.
Also published in 1996 under the guidance of Richard Perle was A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm (i.e., Israel). A member since 1987 of the U.S. Defense Policy Advisory Board, this self-professed Zionist became its chairman in 2001. As a key adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Perle's senior Pentagon post helped lay the required foundation for removing Saddam Hussein as part of a Greater Israel strategy, a key theme of A Clean Break released five years before 9-11.
A mass murder, articles, books, think tanks and Pentagon insiders, however, are not enough to manage the variables in a "probabilistic" war-planning model. Supportive policy makers are also required to lend the appearance of legitimacy and credibility to an operation justified by intelligence fixed around a pre-determined agenda.
That role was eagerly filled by Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman, a Jewish Zionist from Connecticut, and Jon Kyl, a Christian Zionist from Arizona, when they co-sponsored the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. Echoing Tel Aviv's agenda in A Clean Break, their bill laid another mental thread in the public mindset by calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein three years before 9-11.
The legislation also appropriated $97 million, largely to promote that Zionist agenda. Distracted by mid-term Congressional elections and by impeachment proceedings commenced in reaction to a well-timed presidential affair involving White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton signed that agenda into law October 31, 1998 - five years before the U.S.-led invasion that removed Saddam Hussein.
After 9-11, John McCain and Joe Lieberman became inseparable travel companions and irrepressible advocates for the invasion of Iraq. Looking "presidential" aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in January 2002, McCain laid another key thread when he waved an admiral's cap while proclaiming, alongside Lieberman, "On to Baghdad."
By Way of Deception
The chutzpah with which this game theory strategy progressed in plain sight could be seen in the behavior of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, another Zionist insider. Four days after 9-11, in a principals' meeting at Camp David, he proposed that the U.S. invade Iraq. At that time, the intelligence did not yet point to Iraqi involvement and Osama bin Laden was thought to be hiding in a remote region of Afghanistan.
Frustrated that President George H.W. Bush declined to remove Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War, Wolfowitz proposed a No-Fly Zone in northern Iraq. By 2001, the Israeli Mossad had agents at work for a decade in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Intelligence reports of Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda also came from Mosul - reports that later proved to be false. Mosul again emerged in November 2004 as a center of the insurgency that destabilized Iraq. That reaction precluded the speedy exit of coalition forces promised in Congressional testimony by senior war-planner Wolfowitz.
The common source of the fixed intelligence that induced America to war in Iraq has yet to be acknowledged even though intelligence experts agree that deception on such a scale required a decade to plan, staff, pre-stage, orchestrate and, to date, cover up. The two leaders of the 9-11 Commission report conceded they were stopped by Commission members from hearing testimony on the motivation for 9-11: the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
The fictions accepted as generally accepted truths included Iraqi WMD, Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda, Iraqi meetings with Al Qaeda in Prague, Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories and Iraqi purchases of "yellowcake" uranium from Niger. Only the last fact was conceded as phony in the relevant time frame. All the rest were disclosed as false, flawed or fixed only after the war began. An attempt to cover-up the yellowcake account led to the federal prosecution of vice-presidential chief of staff Lewis Libby, another well-placed Zionist insider.
Did game theory-modeled pre-staging also include the Israeli provocation that led to the Second Intifada? An intifada is an uprising or, literally, a "shaking off" of an oppressor. The Second Intifada in Palestine dates from September 2000 when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon led an armed march to Jerusalem's Temple Mount one year before 9-11.
After a year of calm-during which Palestinians believed in the prospects for peace-suicide bombings recommenced after this high-profile provocation. In response to the uprising, Sharon and Netanyahu observed that only when Americans "feel our pain" would they understand the plight of the victimized Israelis. Both Israeli leaders suggested that shared mindset ("feel our pain") would require in the U.S. a weighted body count of 4,500 to 5,000 Americans lost to terrorism, the initial estimate of those who died in the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center-one year later.
The American Valkyrie?
When successful, game theory warfare strengthens the agent provocateur while leaving the mark discredited and depleted by the anticipated reaction to a well-timed provocation. By game theory standards, 9-11 was a strategic success because the U.S. was portrayed as irrational for its reaction - the invasion of Iraq that triggered a deadly insurgency with devastating consequences both for Iraq and the U.S.
That insurgency, in turn, was an easily modeled reaction to the invasion of a nation that (a) played no role in the provocation, and (b) was known to be populated by three long-warring sects where an unstable peace was maintained by a former U.S. ally who was rebranded an Evil Doer. As the cost in blood and treasure expanded, the U.S. became overextended militarily, financially and diplomatically.
As "the mark" (the U.S.) emerged in the foreground, the agent provocateur faded into the background. But only after catalyzing dynamics that steadily drained the U.S. of credibility, resources and resolve. This "probabilistic" victory also ensured widespread cynicism, insecurity, distrust and disillusionment along with a declining capacity to defend its interests due to the duplicity of a game theory-savvy enemy within.
Meanwhile the American public fell under a regime of oversight, surveillance and intimidation marketed as "homeland" security. This domestic operation even features rhetorical hints of a WWII "fatherland" with clear signs of a force alien to the U.S. with its welcome embrace of open dissent. Is this operation meant to protect Americans or to shield those responsible for this insider operation from Americans?
By manipulating the shared mindset, skilled game theory war-planners can wage battles in plain sight and on multiple fronts with minimal resources. One proven strategy: Pose as an ally of a well-armed nation predisposed to deploy its military in response to a mass murder. In this case, the result destabilized Iraq, creating crises that could be exploited to strategic advantage by expanding the conflict to Iran, another key Israeli goal announced in A Clean Break-seven years before the invasion of Iraq.
Which nation benefitted from the deployment of coalition forces to the region? Today's mathematically model-able outcome undermined U.S. national security by overextending its military, discrediting its leadership, degrading its financial condition and disabling its political will. In game theory terms, these results were "perfectly predictable"-within an acceptable range of probabilities.
In the asymmetry that typifies today's unconventional warfare, those who are few in numbers must wage war by way of deception-non-transparently and with means that leverage their impact. Which nation-if not Israel-fits that description?
Treason in Plain Sight?
Game theory war-planners manipulate the shared mental environment by shaping perceptions and creating impressions that become consensus opinions. With the aid of well-timed crises, policy-makers fall in line with a predetermined agenda-not because they are Evil Doers or "imperialists" but because the shared mindset has been pre-conditioned to respond not to the facts but to manipulated emotions and consensus beliefs. Without the murder of 3,000 on 9-11, America's credibility would not now be damaged and the U.S. economy would be in far better shape.
By steadily displacing facts with what "the mark" can be induced to believe, the few-within-the-few amplify the impact of their duplicity. By steady manipulation of the public's mindset, game theory war-planners can defeat an opponent with vastly superior resources by inducing those decisions that ensure defeat.
Intelligence wars are waged in plain sight and under the cover of widely shared beliefs. By manipulating consensus opinion, such wars can be won from the inside out by inducing a people to freely choose the very forces that imperil their freedom. Thus in the Information Age the disproportionate power wielded by those with outsized influence in media, pop culture, think tanks, academia and politics-domains where Zionist influence is most rampant.
Induced beliefs act as a force-multiplier to wage intelligence wars from the shadows. At the operational core of such warfare are those masterful at anticipating the mark's response to a provocation and incorporating that response into their arsenal. For those who wage war in this fashion, facts are only a barrier to overcome. For those nations dependent on facts, the rule of law and informed consent to protect their freedom, such insider treachery poses the greatest possible threat to national security.
America is far less safe than before 9-11. Tel Aviv clearly intends to continue its serial provocations, as evidenced by its ongoing expansion of the settlements. Israel has shown no sign of a willingness to negotiate in good faith or to take the steps required to make peace a possibility. To date, Barack Obama appears unwilling to name senior appointees who are not either Zionists are strongly pro-Israeli. The greatest threat to world peace is not terrorists. The greatest threat is the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
In the same way that a decade of pre-staging was required to plausibly induce the U.S. to invade Iraq, a similar strategy is now underway to persuade the U.S. to invade Iran or to support and condone an attack by Israel. The same duplicity is again at work, including the high profile branding of the requisite Evil Doer. From its very outset, the Zionist enterprise focused on hegemony in the Middle East. Its entangled alliance with the U.S. enabled this enterprise to deploy American might for that purpose.
Only one nation had the means, motive, opportunity and stable nation state intelligence required to take the U.S. to war in the Middle East while also making it appear that Islam is the problem. If Barack Obama continues to defer to Tel Aviv, he can rightly be blamed when the next attack occurs in the U.S. or the European Union featuring the usual orgy of evidence pointing to a predetermined target. Should another mass murder occur, that event will be traceable directly to the U.S.-Israeli relationship and the failure of U.S policy-makers to free America from this enemy within.
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