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The Truth Behind the Official Story of Finding Bin Laden

truthdig via antiwar.com

EXTRACT:

In fact, during his six years in Abbottabad, bin Laden was not the functioning head of al-Qaeda at all, but an isolated figurehead who had become irrelevant to the actual operations of the organization. The real story, told here for the first time, is that bin Laden was in the compound in Abbottabad because he had been forced into exile by the al-Qaeda leadership.

The CIA’s claim that it found bin Laden on its own is equally false. In fact, the intensive focus on the compound in Abbottabad was the result of crucial intelligence provided by the Pakistani intelligence agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

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Ed Rollins Plays Bin Laden?

Bin Laden was planning to kill Obama and General Petraeus

EXTRACT:

Osama bin Ladenthe founder of Al Qaeda , He was killed by U.S. special forces in May 2011 at his residence in Abbottabad Pakistan , The Washington Post reported Osama Bin Laden was planning to kill Barack Obama by shooting down his plane from U.S. land , according to the instructions to his subordinates from the hiding place of Abbottabad and included in the documentation gathered there by U.S. special forces This information is now being declassified in the near future will be made public and has already been consulted by some media as “The Washington Post” and ” ABC”.

According to the newspaper, bin Laden ordered to organize a network of special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the plane of President Obama.

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Phi Beta Iota.  The insanity continues.

See Also:

Bin Laden Show: Entries 01-84 UPDATED 4 May 2012

Paul Craig Roberts

Disinformation On Every Front

Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no disinformation from the left. Others think that propaganda is the business of Obama and the Democrats. In fact, propaganda from the right, the left and the middle are all part of the disinformation fed to americans.

If I may give some examples: The other day Chuck Colson, one of the Nixon officials imprisoned for Watergate crimes, died. This gave NPR the opportunity to relive the Nixon horror.

What precisely was the Nixon horror? Essentially, there was no such thing. Watergate was about President Nixon lying about when he learned about the Watergate burglary.
When Nixon learned about the burglary, he did not act on it prior to his reelection, because he reasoned, rightly, that the Washington Post would blame him for the burglary, although he had nothing to do with it, in the hopes of preventing his reelection.

By going along with a cover-up, Nixon enabled the Washington Post to make an issue of the precise date on which Nixon learned of the burglary. White House tapes indicated that Nixon had learned of the burglary before he said he learned of it. So Nixon had permitted a cover-up and had to go, but what was the real reason?

What was the Watergate burglary? We don’t really know. A group of men including former CIA operatives were hired by the Committee to Re-elect the President to break into a Democratic campaign office in the Watergate complex. We don’t know the purpose of the burglary. Some claim it was to wire-tap the telephones in the belief that the Democratic Party was getting re-election money from communists in Cuba or elsewhere. Others claim that the burglars were looking for a list of call girls, that compromised a White House official, as his fiancee was allegedly one of the call girls.

Looking back from our time during which Bush and Obama have deep-sixed the US Constitution, violated numerous US and international laws, and behaved as if they were caesars unconstrained by any law or any morality, Nixon’s “crimes” appear so trivial as to be unremarkable. Yet, Nixon was driven from office and is regarded as a criminal.

What was Watergate really about?

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Marcus Aurelius

Rodriguez is dumb enough to take this as a complement.   His Wikipedia page looks like it was written by CIA PAO.

Ex-CIA official says tapes destroyed to prevent al Qaeda reprisals

(Reuters) – Jose Rodriguez said it took a “few hours” to destroy 92 videotapes showing his CIA colleagues using harsh interrogation techniques – including waterboarding – on al Qaeda leaders such as September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

But the former director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service told Reuters on Monday that he ordered the tapes destroyed to protect his colleagues from possible retaliation by al Qaeda.

The tapes of interrogations at a CIA “black site” included images of waterboarding – a form of simulated drowning – on Mohammed, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah, three al Qaeda leaders now held at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay.

Rodriguez said he was afraid the material would be leaked.

“You really doubt that those tapes would not be out in the open now, that they would not be on YouTube?” he said. “They would be out there, they would have been leaked, or somebody would have ordered their release.”

After the tapes were destroyed in an “industrial-sized disintegrator,” he said, “I felt good.”

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Phi Beta Iota:  Rodrigues is what you get when a clandestine service becomes a bureaucracy, and people are promoted for ass-kissing, going along, and generally playing the political game.  Latin America Division has been a joke for decades, relying heavily on liaison for hand-outs, on making up stuff taken from the newspapers, on Chiefs of Station claiming recruitments that could never be turned over, and so on.  One legitimate reason for DIA to want its own clandestine service (with full non-official cover options) is because CIA no longer know how to train, equip, or operate a clandestine service.  It has lost its integrity across the board and despite the best of intentions, General Petraeus will never “get it” and not have time to fix it even if he did.  Rodriguez’ book is beneath contempt — a perfect companion to the books by Dick Cheney and Doug Feith.  In retrospect, Rodriguez may merit investigation for his role in enabling Dick Cheney’s many high crimes and now known lies.  Between Rodriguez and Khost Kathy you have the disembowelment of CIA in a nutshell.  This sort of stuff disgraces the profession of intelligence.

See Also:

Bauer, Cannistraro, Steele, Turner et all Letter Against Torture

Colin Powell Letter Against Torture

Journal: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP

Journal: The Truth on Khost Kathy

Steele The Craft of Intelligence 2.6

Interactive: Map: US bases encircle Iran

Dozens of US and allied forces’ military installations dot the region, from Oman, UAE and Kuwait to Turkey and Israel.

Doha, Qatar - US military bases continue to form a strategic envelope around Iran, although the American withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011 may have changed the regional balance somewhat towards Iran’s favour. While US forces are scaling back in many parts of the globe due to budget cuts – and have begun a gradual depature from Afghanistan to be completed by 2014 – their international presence remains vast.

From an active-duty force of 1.4 million soldiers, the US has deployed some 350,000 troops to at least 130 foreign countries around the world. Some are at Cold War-era installations, but many are in or near combat zones in the Middle East. At more than 750 bases internationally, private contractors and third-country nationals also form a large percentage of the staff, in addition to military reservists and civilian employees of the Pentagon.

US military installations in the Middle East serve to keep an eye on Iran, but their regional footprint was significantly expanded well before Iran became the most publicly cited foreign “threat”.

There were three reasons why the US sought a presence across the Middle East, says Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar:

“Securing oil resources, guaranteeing the security of the state of Israel and combating threats to American interests” were the initial priorities of US military activity in the region prior to the first Gulf War, Kamrava says.

“Subsequently, direct military presence wasn’t in the form of impositions, but the [security umbrella] was a conscious policy decision on the part of the Persian Gulf states.”

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Earlier Version with Black Dots:  Graphic: US Bases (44) Surrounding Iran

U.S. Military Information Operations in Afghanistan

Effectiveness of Psychological Operations 2001-2010

The U.S. Marine Corps, which has long recognized the importance of influencing the civilian population in a counterinsurgency environment, requested an evaluation of the effectiveness of the psychological operations (PSYOP) element of U.S. military information operations in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2010 based on how well messages and themes were tailored to target audiences. This monograph responds to that request. It summarizes the diverse PSYOP initiatives undertaken, evaluates their effectiveness, identifies strengths and weaknesses, and describes the way forward, including making certain specific recommendations for improvements. Special attention is paid to how well PSYOP initiatives were tailored to target audiences, primarily the Pashtuns who are the dominant population in the conflictive areas and the main support of the Taliban insurgency. It contains reports of specific operations that were successful in achieving objectives, as well as examples of operations that did not resonate with target audiences and even some that had counterproductive effects. The biggest PSYOP successes were in face-to-face communication and the emphasis on meetings with jirgas (local councils of elders), key-leader engagements, and establishing individual relationships with members of the Afghan media. In addition, the concept of every infantryman as a PSYOP officer proved very effective. The most notable shortcoming was the inability to sufficiently counter the Taliban propaganda campaign against U.S. and coalition forces on the theme of civilian casualties, both domestically and internationally.

Key Findings

Recommendations

Reference Home Page

Phi Beta Iota:   RAND misses the obvious, with deliberation.  Don’t go to war for a dishonest government that lies to its own public; don’t put your troops in harm’s way on the basis of lies that cannot be sustained in the public eye.  No matter how good the Marine Corps might be at the tactical level, that cannot overcome impeachable acts of treason at the strategic level.  This is why Congress has its Article 1 responsibilities, and this is why Congress of the time (and yet today) is impeachable along with the Bush I, Bush II, and Bush III Administrations.

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Bin Laden’s last stand: In final months, terrorist leader worried about his legacy

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EXTRACT from second story:

Even after almost 9 years, there are still  NO remains for 1,123 of the victims who died at Ground Zero.

Were Real Persons Murdered on 9/11?

Stewart Ogilby

Veterans Today, 29 April 2012

The question is an absurd one except to those of us who have spent part of our lives exploring contradictions and mysteries posed by official narratives regarding events of that world-changing day. Increasingly, the question is becoming, “How many real persons died as a result of alleged events that occurred in connection with the destruction of buildings in New York City’s World Trade Center Complex on September 11, 2001?”

A logical tentative answer is provided by Mr. Simon Shack, the brilliant creator of SeptemberClues.info web site and supported by members of his CluesForum.info, two online resources that call into serious question reports of that day’s victims.

Shack’s sites initially postulated all alleged victims to be computer created fakes who never existed, based on absurdities of photoshopped and digitally morphed memorial images. Proofs presented on their Vicsim Report are overwhelmingly convincing when one takes sufficient time to carefully review its eighty pages.

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Over 70 Body Parts from 9/11 Found on New York City Streets (Yes, in 2010)

Brian Romanoff     Nor Cal Truth     June 23, 2010

Another search for human remains from  the 9/11 attacks has yielded more evidence of an explosive death, coupled with a lack of forensic integrity.

. . . . . . .

Even after almost 9 years, there are still  NO remains for 1,123 of the victims who died at Ground Zero.

Many of the 20,000 body parts found so far are from the same people - as mentioned in the same story as the above quote:

Read full article, with video inserts and active links.

Phi Beta Iota:  There are three lines of thinking emergent on 9/11 that are gathering some momentum.  The first is that the mainstream media were fully engaged in showing manipulated video enhanced with some computer simulation — this has not been investigated to our knowledge.  The second is that the body count for 9/11 was fabricated.   We would add the likelihood that the same force that pulverized all the concrete was also responsible for pulverizing most of the bodies within the buildings.   The third, the most interesting, has actually begun to connect the dots among all the Zionists in NYC and neo-cons in Washington, D.C.  We have no direct knowledge.  We only know that the truth of the matter remains to be found.

See Also:

9-11 Truth Books & DVDs (38)

9/11 at Phi Beta Iota

Marcus Aurelius

As posted at http://cryptocomb.org/cia-memo-panetta.jpg.

Phi Beta Iota:  This may well be authentic, but it is highly suspect.  A signed Presidential finding is needed for such a project, one does not undertake such initiatives without that written document, nor accept a phone call from a lesser aide as a substitute–nor should JSOG be doing anything without that written finding, certainly not on the verbal word of the CIA Director.  We continue to believe that CIA created an Oswald situation, a patsy, for JSOG to kill and dump without credible forensic evidence.  There is uncertainty as to whether Obama actually authorized the mission–it may have been done against his wishes as the placeholder president.   We continue to believe that former Assistant Secretary of State Dr. Steve Pieczenik has it right — Bin Laden died in 2001.  Our only certainty is that the truth is quite distant from the “Bin Laden Story” as told to date.

Bean Laden

See Also:

Bin Laden Show 16: Over-Ruling the President

Bin Laden Show 14: Dr. Dr. Steve Pieczenik Nails It–Bin Laden Died of Marfan in 2001–Reiterates (Has Proof) 9/11 Was a Cheney-Led Stand-Down False Flag Operation. Indictment?

Bin Laden Show 08: History from 2001 Updated

Bin Laden Show: Entries 01-79 UPDATED 24 March 2012

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Intelligence (Most)

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David Swanson

The Global War on Terror, in the Original German

By David Swanson

DefDog

Outside the normal press field, this is the second article I saw today in
CSO Salted Hash newsletter about Big Brother….

Will Obama preside over the coming of Big Brother?

Privacy advocates and civil libertarians say among the president’s broken promises is a failure to restrain the NSA’s growing domestic surveillance

By Taylor Armerding

April 25, 2012 — CSO —

If President Barack Obama is going to win a second term, he may have to do it without the support of privacy and civil liberties organizations, including those in information and personal security.

Increasingly the president, who was expected to fulfill the dreams of civil libertarians by creating a more open, transparent and less-intrusive government, is instead being viewed as a nightmare.

Read full article.

Phi Beta Iota:  This is not about Obama — or whoever is in the White House including Romney or Ron Paul or Hillary Clinton.  This is about a financial system that is on auto-pilot, that has rotted out the core of the Republic.

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NSA Domestic Intercept Map? NSA Lies, Spies in Orwellian World of Gov’t Surveillance

The NSA possible domestic interception/collection points have been mapped and include seven AT&T and one Verizon location. Despite NSA Chief Alexander denying domestic spying, NSA whistleblower Binney told Democracy Now that the NSA is lying and has copies of all emails in the United States. Binney added that the Total Information Awareness program was alive and covertly running . . . and may still be.

Read full article, see map of seven known NSA sites focused on domestic US targets.

The Battle for the Soul of the Republic (Reality Sandwich)