Current
manufactured threat: 'Russianism'
CIA
whistleblower John Kiriakou explains how intelligence agencies create
artificial threats to justify their existence and draw more money
from the government budget:
An
intelligence agency has to have a threat around which to rally
because that's how budgets are determined and that's how manpower
is allocated. So, what good is an intelligence agency if there is
no threat to counter?
In the
United States we can go back even before the creation of CIA in 1947.
From the beginning of 20th century we've always had to have an -ism,
let's say to rally against, whether it was Anarchism, or Socialism,
or Communism, or Islamism. Well, we're rallying against 'Russianism'
right now.
Russia
very easily could be a partner of the United States, whether it's a
defence partner, or a counter-terrorism partner, or even an economic
and trade partner. The United States has decided that it's better
politically to rally against the Russians. It's a political decision
it's been made rather than a long-term strategic decision.
We are
in the midst of a new Cold War. The irony of this Cold War is that
it's been backed and pushed by the Democrats rather than by the
Republicans. We see this normally as a Republican or a conservative
foreign policy point and indeed we've got a role reversal now where
it's the Democrats leading the charge.
The CIA
told us that there was no torture program. We know that, that was a
lie. The CIA told us that there was no program for extraordinary
rendition and kidnapping. That was a lie. The CIA told us that there
was no archipelago of secret prisons around the world. We know that,
that was a lie. The CIA said that it had not hacked into the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence's computer system. That was a lie.
Well,
now they tell us that the Russians hacked into the Democratic
National Committee email system, they offer no evidence and they tell
us to take their word for it. Over the last decade and a half, the
CIA has consistently lied to the American people. So, why in the
world would we believe them on this?
Since
9/11 attacks we have transitioned into a full-time, wartime economy.
A permanent wartime economy. It's no accident that the largest
concentration of millionaires in the United States is in Washington
DC and its suburbs. They used to be in Silicon Valley, which made
sense. Now it's in Washington. Why? Because we have so many defense
and intelligence contractors getting rich off of these boogeymen that
we've set up around the world.
Recall
that, William
Binney (who is the central figure of the documentary A
Good American),
deconstructs the myth of an organization that is supposed to be
pioneer in new technologies. He presents NSA - another
top US intelligence agency - as
an organization which had certain difficulties to follow the
explosive progress of the computer technology during 1990s, in order
to modernize its obsolete equipment as fast as possible.
But
the most mind-blowing revelation comes from Binney's NSA colleague
Thomas Drake. At one point, Drake recalls how a Senior Military
Officer dismissed Osama bin Laden as “a raghead spouting off
about a fatwa in the desert” in response to their intelligence
reports on Al Qaeda in the late 90s. After the events of 9/11,
Drake quotes his former NSA boss Maureen Baginski who reportedly said
“9/11 was a gift to the NSA, we’re gonna get all the
money we need and then some.”
So,
the protection of citizens against terrorist attacks has become
irrelevant in front of the big money targeted by the corrupted groups
of interests inside the intelligence agencies. It seems that nothing
has been remained unaffected from the rotten culture of "money
and power above all and by all means" that dominates in today's
societies.
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