By
Geoff Metcalf
July 29, 2002
NewsWithViews.com
Two
mutually exclusive and under reported stories have been troubling me.
* The apparent penchant for political operatives to leak classified
information that jeopardizes national security.
* The generational control of information dissemination by powerful
controllers.
So we have
another ‘Catch-22’.
The
complicity of the mainstream media to spin, cover, and obfuscate government
abuse of power under the color of authority was not unique to the Clinton
administration. It may have been
more ubiquitous, and at times even clumsy, but it was not unique.
It
has been reported that in June 1991 David Rockefeller allegedly told a
Bilderberg meeting in Baden Baden German, "We are grateful to the
Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications
whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of
discretion for almost forty years." He went on to explain: "It would
have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been
subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more
sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The
supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely
preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."
Some
argue that quote is apocryphal urban legend.
However, although I have never been able to find three corroborating
independent sources for it, it IS consistent in content and tone with other
Bilderberg quotes I HAVE been able to confirm.
“If
we had been subjected to the light of publicity….” Indicates the one world,
globalist, wannabe controllers were/are successful in managing the message.
Operation
‘Mockingbird’ was a program supposedly conceived by a brilliant
Machiavellian State Department official, Frank Wisner.
Wisner selected Philip Graham, then publisher of the Washington Post to
manage the program. According to
Deborah Davis, author of ‘Katharine the Great’, "By the early 1950s,
Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other
communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all, according
to a former CIA analyst."
Over
twenty five major newspapers and wire services became willing house organs for
the CIA media manipulation.
Investigators
digging into MOCKINGBIRD have been flabbergasted to discover FOIA documents in
which agents boast (in CIA office memos) of
pride in having placed "important assets" inside every major
news publication in the country.
I
know, this is the stuff of Ludlum novels conspiracy wackos, but not until 1982
did the ‘Company’ finally concede that reporters on the CIA payroll have
been case officers to field agents.
I
have too often observed, “Some people don’t like to be confused with facts
that contradict their preconceived opinions.”
I have also noted (and struggle to maintain) “It is not WHO is right or
wrong…but WHAT is right or wrong.”
Anyone with
almost ‘any’ military experience has no doubt seen the once ubiquitous
posters cautioning “Loose Lips Sink Ships”.
It is a left over phrase from WWII and among “lessons learned”.
In
the complex world of intelligence loose lips can and have cost lives.
Once
upon a time, not so long ago, Senator Patrick Leahy (currently the Senate
Judiciary committee’s lead obstructionist) used to be the Vice Chairman of the
Senate Intelligence Committee in the mid 80s.
Leahy allegedly ‘inadvertently’ exposed a top-secret intercept of
Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak that led to the capture of the Achille Lauro
terrorists. That supposed slip of
the tongue “cost the life of at least one Egyptian operative.” http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2001/1/31/85757
Loose
Lip Leahy was forced to resign in disgrace 14 years ago in the wake of having to
acknowledge he leaked secret intelligence to the press.
However today he lords his power over the Senate Judiciary committee.
Congress’ institutional memory must be as short as some of Jennifer
Flowers former paramours.
In
our contemporary environment in which whistleblowers have become in many cases
heroes it is important to make the distinctions between the appropriateness of
corporate and political whistleblowers and the idiot or miscreant who leaks
information with genuine national security implications.
Currently
the FBI is investigating national security leaks from specifically the House and
Senate Select Intelligence committees. This
is serious stuff.
Defenders
of the indefensible will argue it is a political witch-hunt by politicians in a
heavy C.Y.A. mode. That is not true
but a convenient political spin job.
Sure
it is true the white house is p.o.-ed over media reports that the National
Security Agency had received but not acted on two early warning messages to
9/11. Dick Cheney reportedly went
ballistic and ripped congressional leaders.
Both House and Senate Select Intelligence committees asked the Attorney
General to conduct an investigation (and no doubt quietly prayed it would be
botched).
Justice
said in a statement, “…the appropriate department officials will
expeditiously review this matter and take any appropriate action.” Not if congress has anything to say about it.
Don’t expect anything fast. Remember
Leahy resigned in disgrace 14 years ago and today has the chutzpah to
pontificate ad nauseum to the Judiciary committee and stall any and all Bush
judicial appointments.
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More
on Operation Mockingbird
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/
MOCK/mockingbird.html
http://www.grandconspiracy.com/library.html#operation
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