Two days ago Wikileaks released a shitload of formerly secret CIA information, obtained, apparently, by an inside source. A short time ago on MSNBC, Katy Tur (who spent a lot of time with Donald Trump during the past two years not pressing him on important issues) interviewed a security consultant about what Wikileaks just did. He's concerned about how the released information may compromise U.S. intelligence operatives and others in that community. He's not concerned, by his blank-faced omission, about the CIA turning television sets, smart phones, home computers, and automobiles into spy devices--cars potentially weaponized into assassination machines.
No, as Katy Tur blandly put it, "Some Americans are concerned about their TVs, for example, being used as surveillance equipment even when they're turned off." She didn't say that she herself is concerned about it. Why would anyone have a problem with that? You turn off your television set, you think it's off, but, like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, it's following your actions, interpreting your words, putting the whole shebang into the mass databank that is the high tech realm of clusterfucked national security state mega-apparatus in and around Washington, D.C. What's wrong with that? Anything that would give J. Edgar Hoover a hard-on must be good, right?
Of course, those who speak for intelligence are deeply miffed with Julian Assange. He's exposed immoral behavior stamped with the word policy, the shit that our government's been doing all along. During the 1980s when Reagan lied about illegally supplying the Contras with weaponry and technical training and assistance, the CIA was all over that, breaking U.S. law, aiding and abetting the mass murder of Nicaraguan civilians. In the early 1960s, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion--a CIA operation--members of the CIA, like later Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt (as he confessed to his son on his deathbed) participated in the plot to assassinate John Kennedy, whose animus toward the CIA was strong, having fired CIA Director Allen Dulles, who hated him in return.
I realize I'm making declarative statements about the JFK assassination, but I'm hardly alone in thinking a group of determined, bad men wanted him dead and carried it out, with government and corporate news media consent after the fact.
JFK himself had South Vietnam's leader, Diem, assassinated just a few weeks before he met his own end in Dallas, Texas. Karma? Beyond good and evil, I guess, the leaders of the world operate in morality free zones, and they don't like their secrets exposed; hence, Hillary Clinton during a State Department meeting seriously discussed launching a drone strike against Julian Assange. He's a menace to those in power who can't handle what might happen if the public becomes informed about the evil shit they often do.
From about 1985, I began researching my government's covert and destructive activities toward other nations and towards its own people. The kinds of information that compromised news media outlets and their propagandistic helpers in the military, security, and intelligence worlds don't want citizens to think about, are accessed easily in university and public libraries, and on the internet. The information is there, waiting to be looked at, but often it's just ignored, because people rely too much on biased news organizations that censor simply by not paying attention to the nubs of important matters, like the real question inside the recent Assange revelations:
Why should Americans pay, through their taxes, for secret operations carried out by an organization--the CIA--that is legally barred from conducting espionage within the United States? Some say "Nine-Eleven changed everything," but that doesn't have to mean we forget how easy it is to let liars and tyrants tell us what they think is good for us to know, and not know.
Since Trump's presidency is still quite young, we must assume logically that much of this CIA creepy immorality has happened during the Obama and also perhaps the Bush years. Yes, Obama, with his "transparent" administration, so see-through he couldn't handle the revelations about war crimes provided to the public by Private Manning (who was confined to a cell with the lights on full blast for years), or the Snowden revelations.
War destroys and war-making corrupts. We've been in this thing for fifteen years, we've surrendered our privacy for a war that's gained us nothing. U.S. Marines now are deployed to Syria to help retake Raqqa from ISIS. Would Hillary Clinton have not done that? She was a hawk on Syria, as with Libya. Like Trump, she would've blasted the shit out of people.
With the help of corporate news media, intelligence professionals and their spokespersons try to make us accept without question that Julian Assange is the problem; that the man pointing out the CIA's disgusting anti-democratic policies worthy of a totalitarian dictatorship is the actual concern we should have, not taxpayer-funded espionage against taxpayers.
Fuck.
Vic Neptune
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