The Classics of Robert Baer - recommended reading
This looks good, some interesting details, important because it shows a cover-up and more info to expose the hoax Ommission Report.
But I still cringe at the involvement of Robert Baer. I just don't buy it that he is for anything except something that most of us are not for. Sure, he spoke out on torture. So what? Wouldn't anyone? It's hardly a bonus if someone can bother to say no to known war crimes.
But here's why he gives me the creeps:
Chaim Kupferberg, author of an article titled, "CIA's Robert Baer Spins Official Legend of 9-11," describes Baer's start this way:
"After publishing his widely acclaimed book, 'See No Evil,' Baer established himself as the mainstream media's "go-to" guy when making the case for pre-9/11 complacency and opportunistic blindness."
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Here's how Baer described the Commission report in an interview in 2004:
ROBERT BAER: I think it's fairly bland. Most of the information in this report has already been leaked to the press in one form or another. There's no particularly important revelations. And it's also a report that avoids controversy.
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link to www.abc.net.au]
No revelations. Don't bother to look at it. Yawn. Go look over there instead . . .
Here are some quotes from his original attack piece on Griffin that was featured in the Nation:
"Conspiracy theories are hard to kill."
"For a start, Griffin simply cannot accept that our national security system totally failed all on its own on September."
"KSM, as we now know, would go on to mastermind 9/11."
"What's notable about Griffin's take on these events is how easily he leaps to larger evils, a conspiracy at the top. Griffin is a thoughtful, well-informed theologian who before September 11 probably would not have gone anywhere near a conspiracy theory. But the catastrophic failures of that awful day are so implausible and the lies about Iraq so blatant, he feels he has no choice but to recycle some of the wilder conspiracy theories"
"Someone, after all, should be asking in print why our foreign policy seems to have fallen into the hands of some malevolent band of Marx Brothers."
"Yes, the CIA was formed, in essence, to conduct and foment conspiracies, but even within the vaulted offices of Langley, a secret like that couldn't have lasted twenty-four hours before it had been leaked"
"Like most conspiracies, it has the allure of a deeper truth, but experience tells me that although this Administration is dedicated to keeping the truth away from the average citizen, it could never have acquiesced in so much human slaughter and kept it a secret. Especially when so many people would have to have been involved."
Wait . . let's try that one again.
"it could never have acquiesced in so much human slaughter"
What????
Is this G man doing his job, or what?
Here's the take-home-message:
"This is what I think happened on September 11. The trillions we put into national security were wasted. The military's early warning system, the CIA's and the FBI's ability to collect and process intelligence, and the White House's ability to deal with a national emergency never adapted to the new threat, terrorism, and the end of the cold war. Fail-safe procedures fail routinely, and depending on them is anything but safe. It wasn't a conspiracy of silence that allowed Osama bin Laden to succeed so spectacularly in his mission; it was a confluence of incompetence, spurious assumptions and self-delusion on a grand scale."
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link to www.agenceglobal.com]
Wait, let's run that one past again . . .
"The trillions we put into national security were wasted."
I guess they were just burnt up in thin air then, huh?
That must be why a million Iraqis are now dead who weren't dead when Baer wrote this, why over 3000 more Americans are now dead, but also why Bush's buddies with the oil companies are richer than any corporation ever in the history of the planet, and why all of our phones and emails are now "wire-tapped" so the rich can get richer still . . .
It's all just a big mess, isn't it? All those trillions just thrown at "nothing".
Funny how the billionaires in control of the government just keep bungling everything and yet STILL are managing to funnel BILLIONS into Iraq -- into the hands of their buddies like Blackwater and Halliburton and Exxon -- every month, from you and me to those bungling billionaires, because we apparently are not as incompetent as they are.
Incompetence.
It's defies the laws of physics, especially when it gets down to details like the apartment numbers. We forget the bigger picture, the history, what it is that probably really happened that day . . . because I just don't buy incompetence. So don't let it go there.
Submitted by Victronix
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