Paul Craig Roberts, April 3,
2014
Disinformation succeeds because so many people and interest groups across
the political spectrum find that it serves their agendas as well as the agenda
of the government. Consider
for example the explanation of 9/11 that blamed Muslim terrorists for the attack.
This served the interests of the neoconservatives, the private armaments
companies, the US military, the private security companies, government security
agencies such as the CIA, the left-wing, the right-wing, the Israel Lobby, and
the print and TV media.
Image: Obama raid situation room (Wiki Commons)
The official explanation gave the neoconservatives the “new Pearl Harbor”
that they needed for their program of invasions of Middle Eastern countries.
The private armaments companies could look forward to decades of high profits.
Wars always bring the military rapid promotions and higher retirement benefits.
Private manufacturers of security equipment and spyware enjoy a rising demand
for their products and have grown fat from the products sold to the TSA and
NSA. Homeland Security has vastly expanded the federal workforce and
administrative positions. The left-wing has proof of “blowback” caused by US
interference in the internal affairs of other countries. The right-wing has
proof that America has enemies against whom defense at all costs is necessary.
The Israel Lobby has the US to overthrow the regimes in the way of Israel’s
territorial expansion. The media has the story of the century with which to
boost ratings and curry the favor of government.
These are formidable interests arrayed against the mere obvious truth,
obvious, that is, to any educated person. The 2,100 Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth have no
vested interest in any explanation of 9/11. Indeed, they are harmed by
disproving, as they have done, the government’s explanation. None of them will
ever again get a government contract, and many of their former clients have
turned their backs on “those damn anti-Americans who don’t believe their own
government!” Cass Sunstein, a Chicago and Harvard law professor who sold
out his integrity, if any, to the Obama regime by accepting an appointment and
arguing that the federal government should infiltrate the 9/11 truth movement
with agents and set-up truth-tellers so that they could be discredited,
possibly even prodding them into actions for which they could be arrested.
In other words, the government’s story cannot stand the light cast by the
facts and independent experts, and the government’s false story must be
protected by shutting down the truth-telling experts. The government, Sunstein
argued, needs to either gain control over these experts or to shut them down.
Just as many different collections of interest groups and people have stakes in the Obama
regime’s story of the killing of Osama bin Laden by US Navy SEALS in
Abbottabad, Pakistan. This story and its selling by an enthusiastic
media guaranteed Obama’s reelection. It served the emotions of super patriots
desperate for revenge who wear their gullibility on their sleeves. It served the
myth of CIA and NSA prowess. It served the reputation of the killing power of
US Special Forces teams. It
proved that America won even though it lost the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
All the trillions of dollars spent were worth it. We got revenge on the guy who
did 9/11.
No one remembered that the US
government, unable to find bin Laden for 10 years, had settled on a different
“9/11 mastermind,” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and had him water-boarded 183 times
until he confessed to being responsible for 9/11.
If Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to
Z,” why were SEALS sent, illegally, into Pakistan to murder bin Laden? As the
FBI says, there is no evidence that bin Laden is responsible for 9/11. That is
why bin Laden was not wanted on that charge by the FBI, as the FBI publicly
stated.
How was bin Laden, who was
known in 2001 to be suffering from terminal illnesses, including renal failure,
and whose death was widely reported in 2001 still alive ten years later to be
murdered by SEALs?
What sense does it make that
the greatest terrorist leader of our time only had two unarmed women to protect
him. What sense does it make that the US would murder the terrorist mastermind
with all the plots in his head instead of capturing and questioning him? How
can anyone be so gullible as to believe such a nonsense tale as told to them by
Obama and the presstitute media? Is America really a nation of utter fools?
Like the 9/11 story, the story of bin Laden’s murder is losing credibility
with the US population. Pakistani
National TV shot Obama’s story down with an eyewitness interview that reported
that not one single person, dead body, or any piece of evidence left
Abbottadad, because the only helicopter that landed blew up when it attempted to
leave and there were no survivors. No other helicopters landed. So there was no
dead bin Laden to be buried at sea (there are no known witnesses to the alleged
burial) and no photographs of a dead bin Laden.
Yet the nonexistent photos of a dead bin Laden have now emerged in
controversy. Allegedly,
the US government had photos of bin Laden’s corpse after he was blown away by
trigger-happy SEALs who didn’t have enough sense to keep the “mastermind” alive
for questioning. The tough macho SEALs were so threatened by two unarmed women
that they just opened fire.
Judicial Watch has been trying to pry the (nonexistent) photos of a dead
bin Laden from the government’s hands. For “national security reasons” the US
government does not want anyone to see evidence that supports its far-fetched
tale of bin Laden’s murder. The photographic evidence of a successful raid are
off limits. They are like the alleged videos of the airliner hitting the
Pentagon that we are not permitted to see for “national security reasons.”
In other words, the photos and videos do not exist and never did. No
government, not even the American one, would be so totally stupid as to
withhold the evidence for its claims.
The government, seeing its unbelievable stories lose believability at home
and abroad used Judicial Watch’s lawsuit to boost the credibility of its story.
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for the photos that
the Obama regime alleged to have of the murdered bin Laden but refused to
release. Obviously, the
government has no such photos and never had any such photos. But the government
does not need evidence when it can rely on the gullibility of the American
people.
As the government had no
photos to release, the US government decided to use the opportunity presented
by Judicial Watch to bolster its story that photos of bin Laden murdered and
dead were once in its possession. The government released to Judicial Watch a
document under the Freedom of Information Act that is an order from Special
Operations Commander Admiral William McRaven to “destroy immediately” the
photos of the dead bin Laden.
Judicial Watch took the bait. Instead of realizing that there was no reason
whatsoever for the government to destroy the only evidence that might support
its claim to have murdered bin Laden, Judicial Watch focused on the illegality
of destroying the evidence.
Judicial Watch says that “Federal law contains broad prohibitions against the ‘concealment, removal, or mutilation generally’ of government records.” http://www.globalresearch.ca/top-pentagon-leader-ordered-destruction-of-bin-laden-death-photos/5368389
Judicial Watch played into the government’s hands. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton was maneuvered by the government into defining the scandal as the destruction of evidence, “revealing both contempt for the rule of law and the American people’s right to know.” To the contrary, the real scandal is the massive lie that bin Laden was killed by a SEAL raid and the acceptance of this lie by the American people and Judicial Watch.
Judicial Watch says that “Federal law contains broad prohibitions against the ‘concealment, removal, or mutilation generally’ of government records.” http://www.globalresearch.ca/top-pentagon-leader-ordered-destruction-of-bin-laden-death-photos/5368389
Judicial Watch played into the government’s hands. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton was maneuvered by the government into defining the scandal as the destruction of evidence, “revealing both contempt for the rule of law and the American people’s right to know.” To the contrary, the real scandal is the massive lie that bin Laden was killed by a SEAL raid and the acceptance of this lie by the American people and Judicial Watch.
By damning the government for destroying evidence, Judicial Watch has given
credibility to the government’s claim that SEALs murdered Osama bin Laden.
The SEAL team credited with bin Laden’s murder was quickly eliminated when
the team was loaded onto a 1960s vintage helicopter in Afghanistan. Apparently
the team members were asking one another, “Were you on that mission that killed
bin Laden?” Of course, no one was, and this information was too dangerous for
the Obama regime.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street
Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and
Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet
columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic
Dissolution of the West is now available.
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