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Ex-US Intelligence Officials Confirm: Secret Pentagon Report Proves US Complicity In Creation Of ISIS

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Two weeks ago, courtesy of the investigative work of Nafeez Ahmed whose deep dig through a recently declassified and formertly Pentagon documents released earlier by Judicial Watch FOIA, we learned that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad. In his words: "According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the ‘Islamic State’ as a direct consequence of the strategy, but described this outcome as a strategic opportunity to “isolate the Syrian regime.

Now, in a follow up piece to his stunning original investigative report titled "Secret Pentagon report reveals West saw ISIS as strategic asset Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to ‘isolate’ Assad, rollback ‘Shia expansion", Nafeez Ahmed reveals that according to leading American and British intelligence experts, the previously declassified Pentagon report confirms that the West accelerated support to extremist rebels in Syria, despite knowing full well the strategy would pave the way for the emergence of the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS).

The experts who have spoken out include renowned government whistleblowers such as the Pentagon’s Daniel Ellsberg, the NSA’s Thomas Drake, and the FBI’s Coleen Rowley, among others.

Their remarks demonstrate the fraudulent nature of claims by two other former officials, the CIA’s Michael Morell and the NSA’s John Schindler, both of whom attempt to absolve the Obama administration of responsibility for the policy failures exposed by the DIA documents. 

This is Nafeez Ahmed's follow up story, originally posted in Medium

Ex-intel officials: Pentagon report proves US complicity in ISIS

Renowned government whistleblowers weigh in on debate over controversial declassified documen

Foreseeing ISIS

As I reported on May 22nd, the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document obtained by Judicial Watch under Freedom of Information confirms that the US intelligence community foresaw the rise of ISIS three years ago, as a direct consequence of the support to extremist rebels in Syria.

The August 2012 ‘Information Intelligence Report’ (IIR) reveals that the overwhelming core of the Syrian insurgency at that time was dominated by a range of Islamist militant groups, including al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). It warned that the “supporting powers” to the insurgency?—?identified in the document as the West, Gulf states, and Turkey —?wanted to see the emergence of a “Salafist Principality” in eastern Syria to “isolate” the Assad regime.

The document also provided an extraordinarily prescient prediction that such an Islamist quasi-statelet, backed by the region’s Sunni states, would amplify the risk of the declaration of an “Islamic State” across Iraq and Syria. The DIA report even anticipated the fall of Mosul and Ramadi.

Divide and rule

Last week, legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, the former career Pentagon officer and US military analyst who leaked Pentagon papers exposing White House lies about the Vietnam War, described my Insurge report on the DIA document as “a very important story.”

In an extensive podcast interview, he said that the DIA document provided compelling evidence that the West’s Syria strategy created ISIS. The DIA, he said, “in 2012, was asserting that Western powers were supporting extremist Islamic groups in Syria that were opposing Assad…

“They were not only as they claimed supporting moderate groups, who were losing members to the more extremist groups, but that they were directly supporting the extremist groups. And they were predicting that this support would result in an Islamic State organization, an ISIS or ISIL… They were encouraging it, regarding it as a positive development, because it was anti-Assad, Assad being supported by Russia, but also interestingly China… and Iran… So we have China, Russia and Iran backing Assad, and the US, starting out saying Assad must go… What he [Nafeez Ahmed] is talking about, the DIA report, is extremely significant. It fits into a general framework that I’m aware of, and sounds plausible to me.”

Ellsberg also noted that “it’s pretty well known” in the intelligence community that Saudi Arabia sponsors Islamist terrorists to this day:

“It’s kind of a deal that the Saudis will support various Islamic extremists, all around the world, and the deal is that they [extremists] will not try to overthrow the corrupt, alcohol-drinking clique in Saudi Arabia.”

Ellsberg, who was a former senior analyst at RAND Corp, also agreed with the relevance of a 2008 US Army-commissioned RAND report, quoted in my Insurge story, and also examined in-depth for Middle East Eye.

The US Army-funded RAND report advocated a range of policy scenarios for the Middle East, including a “divide and rule” strategy to play off Sunni and Shi’a factions against each other, which Ellsberg describes as “standard imperial policy” for the US.

The RAND report even confirmed (p. 113) that its “divide and rule” strategy was already being executed in Iraq at the time:

“Today in Iraq such a strategy is being used a tactical level, as the United States now forms temporary alliances with nationalist insurgent groups that it had been fighting for four years… providing carrots in the form of weapons and cash. In the past, these nationalists have cooperated with al-Qaeda against US forces.”

The confirmed activation of this divide-and-rule strategy perhaps explains why the self-defeating US approach in Syria is fanning the flames of both sides: simultaneously allying with states like Turkey who have continued to covertly sponsor ISIS, while working with Assad through the Russians to fight ISIS. Ellsberg added:

“As Assad is the main opponent of ISIS, we are covertly coordinating our airstrikes against ISIS with Assad. So are we against Assad, or not? It’s ambivalent… I think that Obama and everybody around him is clear that they do not any longer as they’ve been saying want Assad to leave power. I don’t believe that that is their intention anymore, as they believe anyone who succeeds Assad would be far worse.”

If true, Ellsberg’s analysis exposes the deep-rooted hypocrisy of the previous campaign against Assad, the current campaign against ISIS, and why both appear destined for failure.

Frankenstein script

Coleen Rowley, retired FBI Special Agent described my report on the DIA document as “excellent.”

Rowley, who was selected as TIME ‘Person of the Year’ in 2002 after revealing how pre-9/11 intelligence was ignored by superiors at the FBI, said of the document:

“It’s like the mad power-hungry doctor who created Frankenstein, only to have his monster turn against him. It’s hard to feel sorry when the insane doctor gets his due. But in our case, that script is constantly repeating. The quest for ‘full spectrum dominance’ and blindness of exceptionalism seems to mean we are doomed to keep repeating the ‘Charlie Wilson’s Frankenstein War’ script… The various neocon warmongers and military industrial complex, most of them inept Peter Principles, just don’t care.”

Also commenting on the declassified Pentagon report, former NSA senior executive Thomas Drake?—?the whistleblower who inspired Edward Snowden?—?condemned “the West’s role in ISIS and threat of ‘violent extremists’, justifying surveillance and libercide at home.”

Wedge strategy

Alastair Crooke, a former senior MI6 officer who spent three decades at the agency, said yesterday that the DIA document provides clear corroboration that the US was covertly pursuing a strategy to drive an extremist Salafi “wedge” between Iran and its Arab allies.

The strategy was, Crooke confirms, standard thinking in the Western intelligence establishment for about a decade.

“The idea of breaking up the large Arab states into ethnic or sectarian enclaves is an old Ben Gurion ‘canard,’ and splitting Iraq along sectarian lines has been Vice President Biden’s recipe since the Iraq war,” wrote Crooke, who had coordinated British assistance to the Afghan mujahideen in the 1980s. After his long MI6 stint, he became Middle East advisor to the European Union’s foreign policy chief (1997–2003).

“But the idea of driving a Sunni ‘wedge’ into the landline linking Iran to Syria and to Hezbollah in Lebanon became established Western group think in the wake of the 2006 war, in which Israel failed to de-fang Hezbollah,” continued Crooke. “The response to 2006, it seemed to Western powers, was to cut off Hezbollah from its sources of weapons supply from Iran…

“… In short, the DIA assessment indicates that the ‘wedge’ concept was being given new life by the desire to pressure Assad in the wake of the 2011 insurgency launched against the Syrian state. ‘Supporting powers’ effectively wanted to inject hydraulic fracturing fluid into eastern Syria (radical Salafists) in order to fracture the bridge between Iran and its Arab allies, even at the cost of this ‘fracking’ opening fissures right down inside Iraq to Ramadi. (Intelligence assessments purpose is to provide ‘a view’?—?not to describe or prescribe policy. But it is clear that the DIA reports’ ‘warnings’ were widely circulated and would have been meshed into the policy consideration.)

“But this ‘view’ has exactly come about. It is fact. One might conclude then that in the policy debate, the notion of isolating Hezbollah from Iran, and of weakening and pressurizing President Assad, simply trumped the common sense judgment that when you pump highly toxic and dangerous fracturing substances into geological formations, you can never entirely know or control the consequences… So, when the GCC demanded a ‘price’ for any Iran deal (i.e. massing ‘fracking’ forces close to Aleppo), the pass had been already partially been sold by the US by 2012, when it did not object to what the ‘supporting powers’ wanted.”

 

Intel shills

Crooke’s analysis of the DIA report shows that it is irrelevant whether or not “the West” should be included in the “supporting powers” described by the report as specifically wanting a “Salafist Principality” in eastern Syria. Either way, the report groups “the West, Gulf countries and Turkey” as supporting the Syrian insurgency together?—?highlighting that the Gulf states and Turkey operated in alliance with the US, Britain, and other Western powers.

The observations of intelligence experts Ellsberg, Rowley, and Drake add further weight to Crooke’s analysis. They come in addition to comments I had previously received on the DIA document from former MI5 counter-terrorism officer, Annie Machon, and former counter-terrorism intelligence officer, Charles Shoebridge.

The comments undermine the recent claims of disgraced US national security commentator, John Schindler, a retired NSA intelligence officer, to the effect that the August 2012 DIA report is “almost incomprehensible,” “so heavily redacted that its difficult to say much meaningful about it,” “Nothing special here, not one bit,” “routine,” “a single data point,” and so on.

Schindler cites the DIA’s use of ‘Curveball’?—?the Iraqi informant who fabricated claims about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD)?—?as evidence of the agency’s “less than stellar reputation.” But this misrepresents the fact noted by the CIA’s Valerie Plame Wilson that “it was widely known [in the intelligence community] that CURVEBALL was not a credible source and that there were serious problems with his reporting.”

As I’ve documented elsewhere, the WMD threat mythology was not the outcome of an ‘intelligence failure’, as Schindler and his ilk like to claim, but a consequence of the corruption and politicization of intelligence under the influence of dubious vested interests.

Also contrary to Schindler’s misinformation, an IIR provides raw intelligence data from human sources (HUMINT), not simply rumour, gossip or opinion. Before wider distribution, the IIR is vetted to determine whether it is worthy of dissemination to the intelligence community. IIRs then provide a source basis for evaluation, interpretation, analysis and integration with other information.

Far from justifying the dismissal of the relevance of the declassified DIA documents, this shows that urgent questions must be asked:

What happened to this raw intelligence data, described by six US UK intelligence experts as providing damning confirmation of how Western strategy led to the rise of ISIS?

And why did it not lead to a change in policy, despite DIA analysts’ clear warning of the outgrowth of an ISIS-entity from Western allies’ desire to see a ‘Salafist Principality’ in the region?—?a warning which was, in hindsight, quite accurate?

 

Are intel critics traitors?

Schindler previously characterized NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as a traitor and “pawn… of America’s adversaries.”

He now declares that those who cite the DIA report as proof the intelligence community “knew more about the rise of the Islamic State than they let on” are at best “fools; at worst, they’re deceivers who have lied to the American people.”

On the contrary, six decorated former senior US and British intelligence officials, many with direct experience of IIRs and their function, agree that the DIA report provides significant insight into the kind of intelligence available to the US intelligence community at the time.

Yet for Schindler, it seems, Ellsberg, Drake, Rowley, Crooke, Machon and Shoebridge are all, effectively, traitors simply for lending their expertise to public understanding of the newly declassified documents.

As Marcy Wheeler points out in Salon, the large corpus of secret DIA documents obtained by Judicial Watch demonstrates, at the least, that:

“The Intelligence Community (IC) knew that AQI had ties to the rebels in Syria; they knew our Gulf and Turkish allies were happy to strengthen Islamic extremists in a bid to oust Assad; and CIA officers in Benghazi (at a minimum) watched as our allies armed rebels using weapons from Libya. And the IC knew that a surging AQI might lead to the collapse of Iraq. That’s not the same thing as creating ISIS. But it does amount to doing little or nothing while our allies had a hand in creating ISIS. All of which ought to raise real questions about why we’re still allied with countries willfully empowering terrorist groups then, and how seriously they plan to fight those terrorist groups now. Because while the CIA may not have deliberately created ISIS, it sure seems to have watched impassively as our allies helped to do so.”

However, Wheeler overlooks that the reliance on foreign allies is a standard proxy war strategy?—?as Ellsberg explained in his interview?—?used by the covert operations arm of the US government to guarantee ‘plausible deniability.’

As I noted in my Middle East Eye analysis of the DIA document, there is extensive evidence against which to contextualize the DIA report’s assertions. This evidence shows that the CIA did not merely watch “impassively” as the Gulf states and Turkey supported violent extremists in Syria, but actively supervised, facilitated and accelerated this policy.

The August 2012 DIA document further corroborates this by repeatedly pointing out that the support to the Syrian insurgency from its allies was itself backed by “the West”?—?despite awareness of their intent to establish an extremist Salafi political entity.

While the DIA document was, indeed, just one data-point, analyzing it in context with the other DIA reports along with incontrovertible facts in the public record, establishes that the Pentagon was complicit in its allies’ support of Islamist terrorists, despite recognizing this could create an “Islamic State” in Iraq and Syria.

These revelations show that the real traitors are not the courageous whistleblowers who sacrifice everything to speak out on behalf of the public interest, but shameless shills like Schindler and Morell who willfully sanitize a dysfunctional and dangerous ‘national security’ system from legitimate public scrutiny.

 

 


Dr Nafeez Ahmed is an investigative journalist, bestselling author and international security scholar. A former Guardian writer, he writes the ‘System Shift’ column for VICE’s Motherboard, and is also a columnist for Middle East Eye. He is the winner of a 2015 Project Censored Award, known as the ‘Alternative Pulitzer Prize’, for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for his Guardian work, and was selected in the Evening Standard’s ‘Power 1,000’ most globally influential Londoners.

 

Nafeez has also written for The Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Scotsman, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, Prospect, New Statesman, Le Monde diplomatique, New Internationalist, Counterpunch, Truthout, among others. He is the author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), and the scifi thriller novel ZERO POINT, among other books. His work on the root causes and covert operations linked to international terrorism officially contributed to the 9/11 Commission and the 7/7 Coroner’s Inquest.

 

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Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:32 | 6176482 Blubaba
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USI - United States of Islam !

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:38 | 6176500 gladius17
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They could have saved a lot of money and time if they'd simply asked me. I could have told them this a year ago.

Obviously this is a limited hangout. They seem to be having to do that a lot here lately.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:44 | 6176518 jaap
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How long before the corporate press will be kicked out? Real journalists and real thinking people figured this out... years ago.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:58 | 6176569 Divine Wind
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Well duuuuuh.

Did anyone really think it was possible to vet fighters in a damn war zone, with no western embassies and no assistance from the government we were attempting to overthrow?

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:06 | 6176597 Billy the Poet
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It never ceases to amaze me how so-called "truthers" are infuriated by the release of actual documents detailing government wrong doing.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:09 | 6176603 Captain Debtcrash
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With all the so called conspiracy theories that have become conspiracy fact, you’d think that the term conspiracy theory wouldn’t carry such a stigma.   

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:31 | 6176688 Buckaroo Banzai
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"..splitting Iraq along sectarian lines has been Vice President Biden’s recipe since the Iraq war."

Leave it to Joe to turn a garden-variety shithole into a Supersonic King-hell Ass-tastic Totally-fucked-out shithole!

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:08 | 6176814 SMG
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And another fact that Zero Hedge was one of the first to break.  Any newcomer reading this, here is one of the few places in this world that won't lie to you.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:28 | 6176889 MayIMommaDogFac...
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Any newcomer reading this, here is one of the few places in this world that won't lie to you.

In that case, sir, may I advise against the lady eating the clam chowder?

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:23 | 6177038 Keyser
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So, the Pentagram toads are upset that the CIA spooks are stealing their thunder, so they let the cat out of the bag... It won't matter because the average American is too stupid to understand the repercussions or give a shit...

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 00:21 | 6177318 TruthInSunshine
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/102742478

Another 3.6 billion in bailouts for Corinthian College students in debt:
US will erase student debt for Corinthian students

6 Hours Ago

The Associated Press

The federal government will erase much of the debt of students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges, officials announced Monday, as part of a new plan that could cost taxpayers as much as $3.6 billion.

Corinthian Colleges was one of the largest for-profit schools when it nearly collapsed last year and became a symbol of fraud in the world of higher education and student loans.

According to investigators, Corinthian schools charged exorbitant fees, lied about job prospects for its graduates and, in some cases, encouraged students to lie about their circumstances to get more federal aid.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 00:59 | 6177382 Ying-Yang
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Yeah... that's the ticket!

I will enroll, take out a student loan and... take

Zombies In Popular Media” (Columbia College) – This course explores the history, significance, and representation of the zombie as a figure in horror and fantasy texts. Instruction follows an intense schedule, using critical theory and source media (literature, comics, and films) to spur discussion and exploration of the figure’s many incarnations. Daily assignments focus on reflection and commentary, while final projects foster thoughtful connections between student disciplines and the figure of the zombie.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 01:53 | 6177455 the kings whore
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It doesn't matter at this stage.  ISIS needs to be defeated.  And Obama just isn't up to the task.  We need a war hawk like John McCain.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 02:14 | 6177489 Oh regional Indian
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So, ISIS is ISL is IS is Al-Quaida/Nasarullah/Tafkiri....what?

So clear, ISIS is the catch-all, so all these splintered muslim groups in the ME, all of them founded,  funded and armed by MI6+the rest of the bastard gang, can come together under one umbrella.

One ring to rule them all. How will they accomplish this? Simple. Cut funding to all the other groupls and allow ISIS to fucking sell OIL on the global market. Give them a small armies worth of arms, ammo, trucks, humvees etc.

Let their first big victory be sex slaves. Now all the young guys wanting their own Yazidi slave will rush to join.

This is all a part of the great roll up into the big one in the ME. Look at the names of the places, Niniveh, Babylon, Tikrit....ancient ancient birthing grounds of civilization.

.....

 

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 03:57 | 6177584 Gent
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lulz...McCain. Get the fuck outta here.

 

Didn't you READ the fucking article?  What we need to do is to stop giving those murdering assholes weapons - not give a Staist Whore like John McCain any power.  What the fuck?

 

That way, when they run out of bullets, they'll get bored and go back to fucking their goats like they used to.

 

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 09:22 | 6178169 11b40
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Why hijack this thread?

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 02:03 | 6177471 shouldvekilledthem
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Ignorance is a bliss.

This is the same reason why people always fall for the next powergrab.

 

Fallible retards.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:14 | 6176847 RevIdahoSpud3
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It appears the wrong Biden died?

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 11:27 | 6178629 gonetogalt
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 I also just realized this weekend how ISIS and the Anglo American Zionist empire is specifically mentioned , check this... Rev 17 v1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication." 3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.  Al Queda and ISIS really get on a roll. ISIS is USA/Mossad created & armed and will morph into the Beast ridden (controlled) by the Harlot described in Rev 17

A careful reading of this chapter shows a remarkable description of the US's relationship with Islamic Jihad in general. Whoever said "The natural enemy of Judaism isn't Islam, it's Christianity" was right on. Did the Zionists inflame this divide to have Christianity destroy the Islamic nations for Israel's security, or did the Zionists inflame this divide to have the Islamists destroy Christiandom for Israel's future world dominance? Or Both???  
Although Christians are exhorted to abandon the Harlot now, partly because quiet submission is tacit support...It's clear that the final destruction comes after the remaining Christians are removed from this world even though:
Rev 18 v4 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.    But there's also this...(and it's in context)
1 Thes v9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,  

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:32 | 6176696 Chupacabra-322
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The Term Conspriacy Therory was cooked up in the Pure Evil Psychopathic lab over at the CIA.

Release the 28 pages. Everyone & their mothers know the Saudis & Mossad financed the 911 False Flag Inside Job.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:50 | 6177108 Radical Marijuana
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You already may know this, Captain Debtcrash?

http://www.thrivemovement.com/news-flash-cia-invents-conspiracy-theory.blog

Embedded inside that article is a link to a copy of the declassified document about how "conspiracy theory" was promoted by the government through mass media.

http://www.jfklancer.com/CIA.html

CIA Document #1035-960

RE: Concerning Criticism of the Warren Report

The book Conspiracy Theory in America by political scientist Lance deHaven-Smith, published by the University of Texas Press, explains  the term “conspiracy theorists” was developed and put into wide circulation by the CIA to smear and defame people questioning the JFK assassination.

“The CIA’s campaign to popularize the term ‘conspiracy theory’ and make conspiracy belief a target of ridicule and hostility must be credited, unfortunately, with being one of the most successful propaganda initiatives of all time.”

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 01:41 | 6177442 beaglebog
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And yet, it remains unthinkable that the Govt had a hand in 9/11.

 

 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:09 | 6176604 Philo Beddoe
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It is becasue we all know the ball is overinflated...just tell us the fucking game is rigged. 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:20 | 6176650 Billy the Poet
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But why does "knowing" require the rejection of evidence which supports what you claim to "know?" To me evidence is how I come to know something not an impediment to knowing something,

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:28 | 6176677 Philo Beddoe
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Selling me the smaller con will not discount the price tag on the larger con.  No corked bats or grassy knowls will cut it this time. Pete Rose shot JFK! Fess up. 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:35 | 6176702 nmewn
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lol

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:44 | 6176721 gladius17
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Ever notice how these crock of shit government stories like the one above, "explaining" some terrible thing that they did, are never short and to the point? It's always a long winded, dramatic narrative about good guys trying to get the bad guys, recounting in detail how this or that was said or done, leading to this, which caused that, with this being the leaders' thoughts at the moment, which turned out to be wrong because XYZ, and then......

It's all just a great big mindfuck narrative to make the common peon feel like he's on the inside, right there in the action getting the play by play analysis of who/what/how, with the inside scoop on all the drama.

That's why the simpletons, especially the "useful idiot" pseudo-intellectuals, buy into this shit so easily. This is the type of fascinating story the average fuckwit loves reading from A to Z, then repeating word for word among his circle of sycophants this "information" he "discovered" during his day to day life of being a "learned" man.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:49 | 6176748 Philo Beddoe
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Were you in my homeschooling civics class today? You take mean fucking notes. 

No sht. Everything is staged. Yeah, I read it Time magazine! Fuck. I am in the loop. 

Great post, Gladius. Hat tip. 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:08 | 6176999 Billy the Poet
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I'm just pulling everyone's leg. "Truth" is that I had photos of Dick Cheney imploding building 7 but I tossed them in the trash because everybody already knows he did it. That's how "truth" rolls.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 02:07 | 6177480 shouldvekilledthem
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Very well said.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:34 | 6176701 nmewn
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I was just sittin here wondering why this article wasn't zooming up the Breathless Bash the US Chart...lol...the man "contributed to" the 911 report...good heavens, he's unreliable!!!

A conspiracy, wrapped in an enigma, shrouded in mystery that invites the reader to believe what they know to be true but they just can't because of the source. And then the caveat, "western governments"...without even naming them, lest someones toes gets stepped on.

Truly worthy of middle eastern intrigue ;-)

 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:12 | 6176613 TahoeBilly2012
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Greater Israel requires a return to the stone age for non Tribe(tm) members, that includes you Gilligan.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:17 | 6176627 Billy the Poet
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But why does that make you hate documentation of government misdeeds, Mary Ann?

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:33 | 6176698 Buckaroo Banzai
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For the love of Pete, what the fuck are you talking about???

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:47 | 6176737 Billy the Poet
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I'm asking why documentation of government misdeeds is ridiculed by people supposedly for the reason, "We already knew that, we don't want any evidence to support what we know."

It goes against the very idea of investigation and learning. We start with a theory and then we gather data which can either confirm or deny that theory. To insist that we know what we know and therefore any confirmation of what we know should be ridiculed is ridiculous itself.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 08:45 | 6178008 Fun Facts
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"Securing the Realm", a policy paper written by Feith, Wurmser and Perle for then incoming prime minister Netanyahoo in 1996 is the operative plan. "Greater Israel from the tigress to the euphrates" was the stated intention.

The PNAC revolutionaries New Pearl Harbor in 2001 manufactured broad political consent for the agenda.

As part of Securing the Realm, Seven middle eastern countries were to be destroyed. The US military was to do the destroying. The only country on the list that hasn't been destroyed is Iran.

Saudi Arabia was scheduled to fall apart on it's own due to the chaos caused by toppling mid east regimes.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:23 | 6176644 gladius17
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"It never ceases to amaze me how so-called "truthers" are infuriated by the release of actual documents detailing government wrong doing."

I'm looking around, and I don't see anyone who is infuriated. I do however see one fool who, upon seeing the government "admit" what everyone has already been accusing them of for over a year, and trying to play it off as another case of government "incompetence" (case closed!...right?) rather than purposeful intent, foolishly thinks this is an act of honesty rather than mere political expediency.

One step backward on the march of tyranny, preceding three steps forward.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:38 | 6176709 Billy the Poet
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Surely you didn't call me a fool out of joyful abandon. We've all been here before. Soon it'll be "Snowden is a mole," and "Ron Paul is a gate keeper," followed by accusations that anyone who disagrees is a paid government operative.

 

There is a difference between knowing something and guessing at something. The DIA report is hard evidence of Western support for ISIS. I continue to be amazed that the existence of that evidence displeases you.

 

As for your having know the contents of the report for a year before it was released, can you restate the entire contenta of the report without cutting and pasting from the report itself? You should be able to do so if you're telling the truth about having know it all before hand.

 

 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:43 | 6176727 nmewn
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"We've all been here before. Soon it'll be "Snowden is a mole," and "Ron Paul is a gate keeper," followed by accusations that anyone who disagrees is a paid government operative."

They've already been there and done that.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:49 | 6176752 Billy the Poet
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And it makes it nearly impossible for people who are interested in this story to discuss it without distraction.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:07 | 6176762 nmewn
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You noticed that, good call.

/////

So what do we know, for sure?

We already know they were running guns & missiles leftover from Libya to Syria through Turkey and McStain was right in the middle of it along with Hillary! and Obama as CnC.

/////

Now, who are these "western governments" alluded to? ;-)

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:10 | 6176821 Billy the Poet
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There's so much nuance that's missed when the conversation degrades. One of the things that has interested me is the Republican attacks on Clinton and Obama over Benghazi. The Republicans tried to make it a story of how Obama failed to defend the life of a hardworking American ambassador. It would appear that Stevens was present in Libya for some time before the overthrow of Gaddafi. He was the US contact with the Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Benghazi. He was a spook and his death was the result of US policy to support untrustworthy allies (to say the least).

 

So the Republican outrage over Obama's Benghazi failure is really a smokescreen to cover up the fact that the US had supported terrorists against Gaddafi all along. Just another example of how the two parties are two sides of the same coin and how they support each other even when they appear to be in opposition.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:13 | 6176835 Philo Beddoe
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 Just another example of how the two parties are two sides of the same coin and how they support each other even when they appear to be in opposition. 

Do you know this to be true or is just a hunch? 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:30 | 6176891 Billy the Poet
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It's a theory based on solid documentation which is far superior to a theory based on the repudiation of documentation.

We know that Stevens was landed in Libya a year before the overthrow. We know that the "rebels" included members of Al Qaeda who had battled US troops in Iraq and documentation from the CIA confirmed that Benghazi was a center of terrorist activities before NATO airstrikes prevented Gaddaffi's forces from taking the city. US support for terrorists in Libya is well documented.

We know that key Republicans were privy to this information and that they would know the real reason Steven was killed.  Therefore the Republican outrage over Obama's failure to defend the embassy can't be anything other than political theater.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:16 | 6177016 gladius17
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Based on this and other tripe you've posted, it's clear you're either a government troll, or just a useful idiot.

"solid documentation." .... LMFAO.

Government propaganda is not "solid documentation" of anything, other than the fact you're being constantly lied to.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:58 | 6177079 Billy the Poet
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"you're either a government troll,"

 

That's too funny. I told you that soon there'd be accussations that anyone who disagreed with your position is a government operative. You called that a strawman argument in a rather dramatic fashion and here you are an hour or two later making exactly that accusation.

That's an odd mistake for the guy who claims to know everything a year before anyone else to make. Looks like I'm the one who knows what you will do before you do it.

 

 


Tue, 06/09/2015 - 02:50 | 6177530 gladius17
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"I told you that soon there'd be accussations that anyone who disagreed with your position is a government operative."

You'd probably know, since you encounter these types of accusations often in your job as a government operative, right?

Please, don't glorify yourself by referring to yourself as an "operative." It makes it sound as if you're a spy, or something else important like that. We both know your job title is more properly called lackey.

I guess if you're just a useful idiot you probably also do hear the same accusation often. Imagine that.....spouting pro-fascist viewpoints, selling your country out to the Nazis, and not even getting your 30 ounces of silver for it.

"You called that a strawman argument in a rather dramatic fashion"

Because it was, simpleton.

Does the fact that you "predicted" a certain argument would be made, mean that said argument can no longer be made? Of course not, simpleton.


Did I actually make that argument prior to you pulling it out of thin air? No? Then it was a strawman, at that time, simpleton.

Now it becomes a real statement of judgment. I really do think you're either getting paid to spout bullshit, or are a moron.

Are you getting paid to sell out your country by confusing the discussion with your bullshit? Or do you just do it for the fun of it?
.

"That's an odd mistake for the guy who claims to know everything a year before anyone else to make."

1) If you want to see a mistake, look in the mirror.

2) I did know, as so many people knew, that ISIS was created by the CIA. If you didn't, and are still arguing that "nobody could have known that!".....then you are the dictionary definition of a moron.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 04:36 | 6177611 Oh regional Indian
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Ssshhhhhhhh galdius. Allow Billy the "poet" nmwhatever their circle-jerk...

I have a feeling (seeing many old handles coming back into the mix) that in the not too distant future, the trolls will have this board.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 06:40 | 6177686 nmewn
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As opposed to the old gnarled up, swami handle I guess...lol.

I see you're still stinging from our last exchange (nmwhatever...lol) but allying yourself with two week old "galdius" in order to show you're in pain carries all the reasonability & foresight of allowing Dr.Obama to work on your internet connection after he just killed your sacred cow.

Circle jerk indeed ;-)

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:27 | 6177051 usednabused
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Makes sense Billy, but it doesn't rhyme. If republicans and democrats all want to play ball with terrorists, whats saying they aren't the master terrorists themselves. Lets call a spade a fucking spade shall we?

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:45 | 6177095 Billy the Poet
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The US government is not a terrorist organization. It simply drops bombs on civilian populations in order to shock and awe them. It's all above board.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 04:38 | 6177612 Gent
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But isn't this what terrorists do?

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 11:11 | 6178630 Billy the Poet
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Yes. Shock and awe = terror.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:25 | 6176880 nmewn
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As with most things in "diplomacy" and politics, its all heavy nuance for tactical advantage IMO.

The hawks knew that would sell (an ambassador killed) to the peeps back home, what they never would say was he was up to his eyeballs in CIA operatives and Stevens really was fearful, he conveyed that to DC. Putting on my statist hat, they (the hawks) are right in one sense (in that craven political sense), this administration left Stevens and them there to die in Benghazi because of what they knew, air power could have been there in an hour or two.

The weapons were being transported to Turkey, Qatar & Syria.

They left them there to die, now the whole world knows it.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:35 | 6176914 Billy the Poet
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That about sums it up. It's amazing how concise an analysis can be when one uses established data points and connects them in reasonable fashion.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 04:40 | 6177595 Gent
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More interesting is WHY we would go through all the trouble

 

Libya, ISIS, Syria and Ukraine are all linked together when you factor in the Saudi natural gas pipeline.  As always, it's all about money.  Cutting the Russians out of their European NatGas franchise to Europe by building a pipeline through Syria and into the Ukraine is the endgame.  If you dig into it for any more than 15 minutes, you'll see how it all makes sense.

 

In the end, it's all about us sucking Saudi cock.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 03:29 | 6177565 winchester
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gaddafi ain't exist dude, it is Kadhafi.

 

i kew americans were unable to place cities on world map, but if you not able to repeat a name properly you have seriously no chance.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 04:25 | 6177599 Gent
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I doubt the dead man with a dagger in his ass could care less any more how you say his name

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 07:13 | 6177738 Freewheelin Franklin
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Please. The Libyan invention was about protecting the Petrodollar. Qaddafi wanted to sell his oil to the EU for gold, instead of USD. Neither the EU or the US liked that. So, he had to go. How do we know this? Well, exactly how sophisticated were the rebel terrorists? Were they sophisticated enough to set up an entirely new national oil program AND a new central bank that was part of the IMF/BIS system while they were in the middle of fighting Qaddafi's army, or was that real objective for the West's intervention? 

 

And, have the US and British embassies ever reopened in Libya? I don't think they have. 

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 08:30 | 6177928 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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But Snowden is a mole. He made that clear in citizen four. What he left unsaid is who is a mole for....

But that would require some more critical thinking to figure that one out. If ZH or some 'media outlet' doesn't put out a story on it, it can't be fact must be conspiracy theory since it doesn't fit the narrative being put forth on zerohedge. My conspiracy theory dick is bigger than yours. See the logic here by the reflexive types, that is how doublespeak works.

If the media including the alt media or zerohedge for that matter is giving something headline space it is to distract and spin you in circles.

That is how the propaganda matrix works, point, counterpoint ad nausem until you shut down critical thinking and just go with the flow instead of stepping back and watching first. Classic distraction technique.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:43 | 6176728 Philo Beddoe
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We have to pass it before we can see what is in it said some shitbag not so long ago. 

This is where we are working from, Billy. 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:59 | 6176782 gladius17
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"Soon it'll be "Snowden is a mole," and "Ron Paul is a gate keeper," followed by accusations that anyone who disagrees is a paid government operative."

Why are you putting words in my mouth, asshat? I'm guessing the term "strawman" is a concept you've never once encountered. Now is your opportunity to Google it, so that you can learn, and perhaps never again make yourself look like a fool.

"There is a difference between knowing something and guessing at something."

I fucking KNEW the CIA created ISIS, a year ago. What....you didn't?

"The DIA report is hard evidence of Western support for ISIS. I continue to be amazed that the existence of that evidence displeases you."

I continue to be amazed that you believe I'm displeased. Why would I be displeased that the power of God is eroding the power of propaganda, resulting in lying pieces of shit having to take ever more desperate measures to attempt to conceal their lies?

"As for your having know the contents of the report for a year before it was released, can you restate the entire contenta of the report without cutting and pasting from the report itself?"

Would you stop putting words into my mouth, asshat?

I said I knew a year ago that ISIS was created by the CIA. Again...if you didn't....then maybe you should stop talking shit, and start taking notes.

I would recite a list of all the clues which pointed to this obvious fact starting from the very appearance of ISIS, starting with the very name itself, but that would be a waste of my fucking time. Perhaps someone else will be happy to clue you in. Try to keep up.

 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:35 | 6176865 Billy the Poet
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Nice meta-strawman. I didn't say that you had said those things I said that those are things which have been said repeatedly in other similar threads and you can see such comments in this thread as well.

It has been my belief that the US had a hand in ISIS since I first heard of ISIS,. But to repeat: forming a theory is not the same thing as documenting that theory with hard data.

And you do seem to be mighty upset for someone who claims not to be upset. Serene individuals do not address others as "asshat."

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:44 | 6176916 gladius17
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"Nice meta-strawman. I didn't say that you had said those things I said that those are things which have been said repeatedly in other similar threads and you can see such comments in this thread as well."

So what? Who cares? Of what benefit is this remark to anyone in this thread, other than to yourself as an ad hominem strawman?

"It has been my belief that the US had a hand in ISIS since I first heard of ISIS,. But to repeat: forming a theory is not the same thing as documenting that theory with hard data."

What is the practical difference, when one correctly plans their lives and actions based on what they know to be true, rather than what they've been told?

Do you sit around refusing to take action on any information until you've received official documentation "proving" such and such to be the case? If so, WW3 is going to be extremely rough on you.

Is this government propaganda piece really what you call "hard data"?

"And you do seem to be mighty upset for someone who claims not to be upset."

Now that you've been corrected, feel free to retire to your basement to reconsider this and certain other ASSumptions you've made.

"Serene individuals do not address others as "asshat.""

No, but drill sergeants and truth sayers do. Especially those who "came not to bring peace, but a sword."

Stop being an asshat, and you will not be addressed as one.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:52 | 6176955 Billy the Poet
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Sorry, dude, I will continue to test murky waters before jumping into them no matter how often you insist that diving in head first is the only reasonable course of action. I'll bet that my methods prove more effective than yours not only during WW3 but in real, everyday life as well.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:12 | 6177008 gladius17
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Best of luck with your gambling addiction.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:51 | 6177116 Billy the Poet
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"Fill your hand, you son of a bitch." -- RC

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:59 | 6176791 booboo
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Our congressmen must have done some vetting because they were getting their photo's snapped surrounded by these guys. Other than that, vetting would imply they were actually not trying purposefully turn the entire region into a bloody cauldron, so in terms of "mission accomlished" this would be the first time that they could actually say this and not be lying through their teeth.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:59 | 6176971 Billy the Poet
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Our congressmen must have done some vetting because they were getting their photo's snapped surrounded by these guys.

Look at all the hot mike slips and folks like Gruber who gleefully spill the beans. It's entirely possible that McCain's hubris deadened any sensible precautions against being photographed with terrorists.  Just one of the more colorful examples of the banality of evil (irony intended).

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:16 | 6176629 Cautionary Tale
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"How long before the corporate press will be kicked out? Real journalists and real thinking people figured this out... years ago."

 

Have you ever tried to kick a jew out of a power node?

 

Tell me how that works out for you... Ask my friend francis_sawyer how that tends to work out...

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:44 | 6176734 Chupacabra-322
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Ah yes, francis_sawyer.

Bring back Francis!

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:40 | 6176925 Billy the Poet
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The Double Identity of an "Anti-Semitic" Commenter

 

http://www.commondreams.org/hambaconeggs

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 00:03 | 6177284 LibertarianMenace
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"Have you ever tried to kick a jew out of a power node?"

Hence the eventual parting between the US and its non-Gentile dualie management won't be amicable.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:45 | 6176525 Paveway IV
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OK. It can't be any clearer. So which U.S. officials are going to prison for support of terrorism and tens-of-thousands, er. hundreds-of-thousands of Syrian and Iraqi deaths?

HAhaawhahaa hahah ahaa.... Don't be silly. Those FUCKING DUAL-CITIZEN CONGRESSIONAL TRAITORS don't have to follow little-people laws!

Now shut the fuck up and re-elect them. Maybe things will be different next time.

Yeah... that's the ticket!

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 00:10 | 6177296 tenpanhandle
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By the sound of your laugh, I can tell you are on your 5th drink:)

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:54 | 6176772 Sanity Bear
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it's a modified limited hangout

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:56 | 6176964 MayIMommaDogFac...
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it's a modified limited hangout

Does that mean it insists on being referred to as "Caitlyn" as well?

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:04 | 6176980 Billy the Poet
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Tip jar. Plus 1.

Very well done.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:55 | 6177119 Cynicles
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NO NO NO
This merely a poor edit job.
Allow me...

Ex-US Intelligence Officials Confirm: Secret Pentagon Report Proves US Complicity In Creation Of ISIS

 


 
Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:00 | 6176581 BlowsAgainstthe...
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USI - United States of Israel !

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:26 | 6176882 Kirk2NCC1701
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UZI -- United Zionists International 

UZIs R US

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:34 | 6176487 ted41776
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yes. bears really do shit in the woods

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:37 | 6176501 Cautionary Tale
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so do (cheese)popes

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:44 | 6176516 Cognitive Dissonance
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Ummm....not exactly. Here is Teddy, the local bear, walking off in a huff after we refused his request to use the bathroom. All we asked was for Teddy to put the seat back down when he finished.

Teddy

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:46 | 6176535 Paveway IV
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"Does a bear...   oh - nevermind..."

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:57 | 6176781 JuliaS
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Undeniable proof of Russian invasion.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:00 | 6176792 r00t61
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How many PSI can this bear generate with his deadly right cross?

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:11 | 6176832 Rock On Roger
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The Bear is gonna finish the Eagle off,

After Dragon brings Eagle down from the Sky.

 

Toasted and Chomped

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:02 | 6176977 Berspankme
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Is that in Donbass? Did Porkoshenko take that picture?

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:59 | 6176577 Lumberjack
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We prefer outhouses.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:35 | 6176489 Cognitive Dissonance
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Ho hum, what's on TV tonight?

/sarc

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:45 | 6176529 Kaiser Sousa
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exactly....

"doomed your country is...."

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:00 | 6176573 Fun Facts
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When they killed off the Bin Laden character at wag the dog productions zio theater, they had to introduce a new nemesis to have their way with the schmuckdom.

ISIS manufactured the consent for a war on Syria.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:37 | 6176920 Millivanilli
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Yup

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:39 | 6176503 WTFUD
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So proof that Obama and his administration are 'sponsors of state terrorism'.
When can we expect a Trial?

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:50 | 6176759 Chupacabra-322
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Arrest

Tri

Convict

Execute

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:49 | 6176506 Kaiser Sousa
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pure sociopathic insanity....

Now back to "So You Think You Can Dance...."

p.s. - try telling your local brainwashed amurican this shit along with the FACT that 9:11 was an inside job...

cheers...and prepare for incredulity...

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:42 | 6176512 aeslong
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As always, it is Ex-......

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:56 | 6176563 WTFUD
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Better late than never aeslong! Think about the pressure the average person can handle. The vermin will destroy you. R.I.P. Aaron Swartz and other victims.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:01 | 6176566 WTFUD
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The REALITY is :-

Bad Economic News is good for Stock Prices, and

Sponsoring State Terrorism can win you a Nobel.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:02 | 6176799 Sanity Bear
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why not, Arafat almost explicitly won his for innovations in suicide bombing tactics

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:15 | 6177014 Billy the Poet
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Arafat's legacy would likely have been much more positive if a Zionist extremist hadn't assassinated the Israeli Prime Minister.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:43 | 6176517 Yen Cross
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 The intelligence community isn't smart... It's just well funded, and hires human "meatballs-with grenade launchers" to take up the slack.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:44 | 6176523 Philo Beddoe
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Coleen Rowley. I would not kick her out of bed for eating crackers.   However, after the crackers your really gottah go girl. My bender is gonna wear off soon.  

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:45 | 6176527 suteibu
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To the masses, if George Stepinapileofshit didn't report it, it didn't happen.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:45 | 6176531 i_call_you_my_base
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I've suspected as much for some time. I knew they would never give up on getting assad out, but I'm surprised that they chose this tactic. Ruthless.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:18 | 6176861 trulz4lulz
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Care to elaborate? Is this when it gets good?? This is when it gets good, isn't it?

 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:48 | 6176542 sudzee
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Iranian influence gaining in the ME as as the US can no longer covertly suppy ISIS with munitions and food. Iraqi's battling ISIS realized that the US was supplying ISIS durring battles as US planes were seen dropping munitions into IS positions.  US said it was just a mistake. Iran has helped the Iraqis against US backed ISIS and are now on the move to Syria to support Assad. The ME will soon be free US interferance. It looks like after clearing Syria of US terrorists a coalition of the ME willing will turn their attention to SA.

 

 

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/iranian-fighters-go-to-...

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 19:52 | 6176553 Salsipuedes
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No shit. Do I look like I just fell off a turnip truck?

Call me when it says:

"EX-US INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS CONFIRM:

SECRET PENTAGON REPORT PROVES U.S. COMPLICITY IN 9/11, INCLUDING ALL OF US SCUMBAGS."

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:00 | 6176580 BlowsAgainstthe...
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Wow!  Who could have seen that coming?

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:09 | 6176583 Yen Cross
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I'm perplexed at the overt actions being taken by the U.S.  The United States is so spent from fighting wars over the last 25 years.

 Now we have these so called UNITS that can " knock down" entire Sovereign forces?

  Go try that shit on China, Russia, India, Indonesia, and see where it gets you.

  Bitchez

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:01 | 6176585 Milton Freewater
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That 8 trillion dollars that went missing at the pentagon  had to go somewhere!  Might as well buy some camping gear for ISIS.   Look for Cabela's receipts.

 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:10 | 6176606 Oswald did it
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Israel.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:26 | 6176612 Chupacabra-322
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This most gagged woman in the Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. history, former FBI Translater under Criminal War Criminal Treasonous Bush, Sibel Edmonds knew unequivocally without a doubt these Psychopaths where arming, funding & training the exact same terror organizations the Criminal Psychopaths claimed to protect us from.

From War Criminals Carter, to Reagan, to the Bushes, Clintons & know Criminal Obama Treasonists. The Psychopathic Criminal Polcy has always been exactly the same.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:48 | 6176747 dreadnaught
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Sibel Edmonds for President-why she is still alive, i just dont know

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:06 | 6176809 Chupacabra-322
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She's untouchable. And, unlike these Pure Evil Criminal Psychopathic Imbeciles. I'm sure she has contingency plans, back up drives, contacts both foreign & domestic to release a treasure trove on Intelligence should anything happen to her.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:16 | 6176853 22winmag
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Between VICE and Siebel's appearances on Corbett Report what else is worth watching on YouTube?? 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:30 | 6176898 Ms No
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Has anybody read Edmond's fiction book Lone Gladio?  I am too chicken shit to order it and I have never seen it in a bookstore.

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/09/27/the-lone-gladio-reveals-washingtons-strategy-for-winning-the-new-great-game-a-review-by-christoph-germann/

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 11:24 | 6178676 gonetogalt
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For presidential candidates I still go with David Duke.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 11:55 | 6178826 Ass Burger
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I did read it. It was disappointing in that I expected a lot of thinly veiled truths but instead it was too vague (and not particularly good storytelling).

 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:18 | 6176642 sudzee
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U lie N lie I Iie T lie E lie D lie    S lie T lie A lie T lie E lie S lie

Kind of sums up US foreign policy.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:18 | 6176643 IndianaJohn
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When I would say or write that the alphabet cannibals are the Arab divison of the US Army, I would get derision and worse.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:00 | 6176653 Yen Cross
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 Every war humanity has EVER fought [ past participle] was WON by overwhelming numbers.

 Dying troops, [men & women] don't care about the purchasing power of their FIAT!  Bitchez

 The troops wanted GOLD, GEMS, and other precious (star born) materials.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:25 | 6176666 Condition 1SQ
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Food for thought - how much money would both be raised and saved by disbanding all of our troops overseas and selling off all the military bases to the host country?  But but but but no more cheap oil?  Well tough shit.   Necessity is the mother of invention.   I doubt anyone has actually calculated the overall cost/benefit of meddling in foreign affairs, but I'll bet it's heavily skewed towards a few nasty little cronies.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:46 | 6176743 dreadnaught
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suddenly all these engines that work on water, etc. would spring to life, instead of being sidelined, bought out or the inventor murdered

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:11 | 6176829 22winmag
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Don't fret, the TEA PARTY fiscal-fakers in CONgress will vote to deFUND the war(s).

 

Or not.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 00:02 | 6177282 taggaroonie
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Adam Smith worked that out centuries ago

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:28 | 6176676 Jtrillian
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So the US is now on the list of state sponsors for terrorists.

Who's side are we on? 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:34 | 6176691 Philo Beddoe
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Who's side are we on? 

Both. This is called modern banking. Not found in most textbooks.  Thus, the abundance or retards claiming to be economists.  A true retard would consider the economist reference offensive. 

Please do not call me an economist. I prefer the term questionably deficient. 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:38 | 6176713 Yen Cross
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 You're one hell of a "salesman" Philo.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:29 | 6176685 patb
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Nothing new, it's a strategy used by many countries. It's bit them all.

 

The Indian Govt supported both the Tamil Tigers and the Sikh Nationalists, trying to

pressure people.  Ended up with Mrs Gandhi and her son getting killed by them.

 

The Israeli's cooked up Hamas as a method of pressuring Arafat and Fatah.  So, Fatah is now shattered

and Hamas is inGaza.  The Israelis came up with Hezbollah as a method of pressuring the PLO

in Lebanon. Hezbollah became a problem and handed the IDF their hats in the last Lebanese war.

 

I'm sure there are 50 more examples.

 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:35 | 6176703 Infinite QE
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A zionist tool created to cleanse the middle east to make way for the greater israel myth. Once that is accomplished they will be smuggled into the USSA via Mexico and attempt to do the same.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:41 | 6176722 Westcoastliberal
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I smelled this when the Pentagon was trying to pin the gassings on Assad.  This is tied into Benghazi, IMO.  Great coverage ZH, keep it up.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:45 | 6176736 dreadnaught
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Nothing new here-if you had an IQ above 100, you knew that ISIS was a lie-5 years ago

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:49 | 6176750 Duc888
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So John Mccain can suck my cock when?

 

Soon?

 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:54 | 6176773 q99x2
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She's tough on the Peter Principle. I wonder what she'd look like in leather.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:56 | 6176778 juicy_bananas
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We Marie Harf'd some folks.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:07 | 6176815 22winmag
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Should you trust the government?

 

As the Kurds, the Serbians, and any number of other once-friendly allies the U.S. has shit on and bombed.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:16 | 6176852 q99x2
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Great article. I think it shows conflicting interests at the front of military efforts. That can't be good. It also shows that the military has nothing to do with the USofA but more with a criminal element that has taken over from within.

It means we are all F'n doomed unless somebody starts realing them in.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:17 | 6176856 kchrisc
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The only part of ISIS that was "secret" was what the sheeple knew about it, which is the same as what they know about the "Dancing Mossads."

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

 

Lies bullshit, or is it bullshit and lies?!

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:24 | 6176874 Ms No
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Our great leaders decided to declassify a document, that's curious.  Edmond's testimony is still classified and/or gagged right?

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:24 | 6176875 yogibear
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Live by the sword, die by the sword.

The US wants to stick it's nose everywhere and start a war.

Creators of the constitution never intended for the US to become like the old England. 

 

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:09 | 6177002 22winmag
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Balfour Declaration for $1,000

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:24 | 6176878 ImGumbydmmt
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We just sit here and take it!

These guys did not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_%281946%29

I miss America.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:29 | 6176893 dsty
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Another great evil US story brought to you by the more evil RT

Russia, pure as the driven snow.

How long has Russia been involved with terrorist groups?

Oh, about 6o years, give or take a decade.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:27 | 6177050 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Schizophrenia need not be on public display to exhibit, but on the contrary most to hide. It is very strange that you're not aware of such.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:28 | 6177053 MKD
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name me one place,where russian sponsored terrorism was involved

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 21:30 | 6176899 Millivanilli
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I've given up on this country.   It won't get better until people hit rock bottom-  I suspect that happens when their i crap doesn't work.

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