I had almost deleted The Intercept from my bookmarks. The
news magazine started out as one of the most interesting and cutting edge news
websites in the aftermath of the Snowden affair but has since been appropriated
and even dominated by reporting more or less in line with the Left-wing of the
DNC. It went from being Anti-Establishment to being reformist and advocating
many of the pseudo-Left views represented by people like Bernie Sanders. For
some time it has seemed like Glenn Greenwald is about the only reporter left
who has anything interesting to say.
But like Al Jazeera English which has also experienced a
significant decline in overall quality, there are still some good reporters and
some interesting stories. And this was one of them.
Should we believe the official story? Never mind the fact
that the Establishment media still refuses to seriously probe what the US is
doing in Africa, or that members of congress admitted fairly recently that they
didn't know the US had troops in Niger or Mali... Shouldn't that be a scandal?
There's a whole bunch of 'funny business' going on. It's interesting
that these men are accused of murder and yet walk free. The official reason is
that they're not a 'flight risk'. Something is rotten and though they've been
charged it will be interesting to see how this all falls out.
The Intercept article suggests it was a revenge attack on a
potential whistleblower who had revealed or was set to reveal or who might have
revealed financial misdeeds and bad conduct on the part of his comrades. Of
course the idea that anyone would be scandalised by American forces cavorting
with prostitutes is pretty silly. It's standard fare and even encouraged in
some cases.
Maybe these military members will go down and spend the rest
of their days at Leavenworth. Maybe. Or maybe, there's another story here.
Again the fact that they're walking free, hints of something larger and
something darker.
Was this Seal Team 6 member murdered for other reasons? Was
it ordered? We can't tell but the Pentagon frequently lies and in this case is
hiding something once again. If the leaked information to The Intercept is
true, why would the Pentagon hide it? The murdered guy looks like a hero killed
by some bad actors. Is it to protect the integrity of Seal Team 6? The murder
charges are public. It's too late.
Why is the story being obscured? Are they going to be
released? Is this a matter of the Deep State which has significant influence and
interest in units like Seal Team 6, having to clear up the official
investigation? That has happened before as well. The official investigators
wade into waters that trample on Deep State interests and projects and
sometimes it's a bit of circus to get them to back off.
We'll see what happens.
Regardless the Pentagon has been caught yet once again in a
series of lies and cover-ups. This is hardly shocking. The pillars of the US
military-intelligence Establishment, the CIA, FBI and DoD are proven serial
liars and forever mired in scandal and tales of deceit. The media portrays
these organisations as filled with and run by honourable people, even heroes
and yet the historical record reveals a quite different reality and set of
facts. Power-mad, thieving, even murderous these organisations (it could be
argued) are profoundly anti-American, depending on what one means by that and
how it is defined. In terms of the supposed ideals of the country, the people
in these organisations are ultimately subversive. In terms of historical
reality they represent what the US really is... in all its ugliness and deceit.
The lines get a little blurry at times between groups like JSOC
and the CIA. In reality there are whole sectors of special operations that
operate outside the purview of any real law or accountability. The post 9/11
years have been a golden age for the intelligence agencies and the killers who
comprise the various Special Forces. Is it any wonder after almost two decades
of incessant warfare, secrecy, unaccountability and the encouragement of
brutality that some of these folks have all but snapped? And it's not just the
killers on the ground. There are plenty of rapacious and bloodthirsty folks
sitting in the offices too. The Special Forces are best understood as death
cults. It's what they live and breathe and they adopt an ethos and ethic that
is rooted in the glorification of death and power. To think that these are moral
people is to indulge in fantasy. For Christians to think so is obscene.
Is it a stretch to believe the various bureaucracies will
scramble to cover up what was happening? Since too much attention has been
garnered they may sacrifice one or two of their members but they will certainly
cover up the larger tale of corruption and if they can, they will sweep a
murder under the rug. They've done it before.
Or, at the very least they will cover-up the larger tale.
National Security don't you know.
And yet we're told by our trustworthy and upright media to
trust these organisations. It was interesting that this DoD related story was
revealed just as the CIA was making its absolute pronouncements about bin
Salman's role in the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Why would anyone
believe them?
In this specific case the evidence does suggest that
Khashoggi's death was ordered from Riyadh and yet the reasons for believing it
are not rooted in any report released by Langley. These organisations and their
mouthpieces lie and cannot be trusted and just because the CIA pronouncement
regarding bin Salman might happen to be correct in this case, it in no way
vindicates, grants validity or credibility to these agents and mouthpieces for
the American Deep State.
This does not vindicate Trump who all but outpaces them in
his fictions. He attacks the trustworthiness of the CIA and the various
intelligence agencies. He assaults the media as promoting fake news.
Well, as I've said before, a blind squirrel gets an acorn
every once in awhile. Trump is right but not because he's right. The accuracy
of his statements is incidental and has nothing to do with his acumen,
motivations or integrity. He has no interest in the truth and is mercenary in
his selection of 'facts' and sources.
Once again this story reveals some of the dirty business that
takes place in the military world and its internal politics. Will anyone be
surprised if the official explanation goes the way of the Pat Tillman incident...
an accident not a murder?
And even if some of the Seal Team 6 members end up going
down, you can be sure the Pentagon and the media will do what they can to sweep
it under the rug. The integrity of the Special Forces cannot be called into
question. This is all but an unwritten ethical code.
The truth is these scandals are but the tip of the iceberg.
There is a colossus of criminality and murder simmering just below the surface
but it's protected by walls and wrapped in a labyrinth of lies and deception. A
generation ago people had a better sense of this. Vietnam and the various scandals
and revelations of the 1970's had brought a great deal to light but that
history has been erased, swept aside, forgotten and in many cases
rehabilitated. The history of the Vietnam era has been re-written and thus the
crimes of Langley, the Pentagon and even the FBI have been revised and
repackaged.
There was a time when the public was upset by revelations of
secret wars and US troops involved in countries beyond the official
proclamations and policies of the state. It was considered anti-democratic and
anti-Constitutional. People were shocked and angry to find out the US had been
involved in Cambodia for years, not just during Nixon's 1970 invasion. And of
course there's Laos and all that took place there. It's amazing that the US
military is up to the same old tricks and deceit and yet the public doesn't pay
attention and for the most part don't care. Of course in the present media
chaos no one knows who to trust or listen to.
We may never know the real or full story of what happened in
Mali or why. Hopefully the truth will come out, not because I think justice
will be found but because the story will likely reveal more about the
compromised media, the deception and evil of the military-intelligence
Establishment and perhaps the nature of its secret wars in Africa.
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