The underpants were real, but the plot to blow up an airliner over the US wasn’t.
Though it turns out that the so-called bomber unveiled by the Obama Administration on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s assassination turned out to be a CIA employee, officials still continue to try to make hay out of him being “foiled” to their own ends.
FBI Director Robert Mueller, whose bureau had absolutely nothing to do with the CIA manufactured plot, cited it as proof that Congress needs to extend his ability to conduct electronic surveillance without a warrant.
“The amendments that are up for passage again — reenactment — at the end of this year [are] absolutely essential in our efforts to address this threat.” Mueller insisted. At no point did Mueller make it clear why he’d need to conduct electronic surveillance on a CIA employee in the first place.
The whole “the bomber was a CIA planted fake” part of this story really does harm the credibility of such claims, even if officials don’t want to cop to it too directly. To that end Reps. Pete King (R – NY) and Charles Ruppersberger (D – MD) are loudly condemning the media for going public with that part of the story, with King accusing them of threatening the entire war effort and Ruppersberger claiming that the media put lives at risk with their honesty.
Fake plot proves need to abolish the FBI, CIA, NSA, and DHS.
war on terror is fake
Fascist amerika is always coming up with threats, fears…native people, commies, environmentalists, terrorists..all part of controlling the masses.
I don't understand. FBI arranges a fake plot and on that basis is suggesting that more of our freedom should be restricted? It’s like the guy who said: I fart myself and I laugh, what an artist I am!
The "threat" being our out of control government and home grown American Stasi. Based on THAT threat I assume it's rational for an uprising and the liberal use of prodigious amounts of rope and lead?
And King needs to put a cork in his porcine pie hole. This rat bastard has advocated violence whenever it suits his ends but I dare say he'd squeal like the little piggy that he is were it really to strike him in the jewels.
It gets even better when King has more ties to terrorism (of the Irish sort) than practically all muslims.
Rick: "Fake plot proves need to abolish the FBI, CIA, NSA, and DHS. " Exactly!
Mueller and King are Nazis. F them.
It is pretty obvious that the regime in control of the US government is pretty much scared, and it is tightening all sorts of security for its own existent. The regime in this case includes the Congress, extreme right and Zionist think tanks, the banks, and the military/industrial/media/church complex.
It is clear as a bell that the government is creating scenarios with the sole intent of forcing citizens to give up their liberty. It is exactly what Ben Frankln warned us about. If you give up your liberty to preserve your freedom you will end up with neither.
The minority is trying to control the majority. That is why they have to control the media, and the government. This simple fact, regardless of how they deny it, is a fundamental fact of how minorities control majorities. The TV set, in the wrong hands, is the favorite tool of evil doers
The minority, in any country, has absolutely got to control the media because that is how they make up for the tremendous disadvantage in numbers. It is as simple as that!
They do it in iran. They do it in russia. They do it in britain. And they do it here! We are no different.
It is actually worse here. We are so brainwashed we think we are doing good in the world, even though we kill innocent civilians each and every single day.
The worst of it is, even many of the elites themselves believe their own propaganda. It has to do with the fundamental imperatives of the institutions involved. The MIC can't survive without enemies, so it goes around the world creating them. There are a few in the elite who understand this, but many actually believe we intervene to idealistically spread democracy, protect human rights or provide "stability". Others less idealistically want to control resources, or maintain hegemony. They're genuinely frustrated when these policies fail to achieve those ends. But the reality is the policies are not failures for the institutions in the MIC, because those are not the institutional goals. The real institutional goals have nothing to do with any of the aforementioned "goals." The real goals are profits for corporations, campaign contributions from those corporations, career opportunities for military brass and foreign policy wonks. These goals don't depend on peace and stability, they depend on war and instability. In that light, the policies are not failures but wildly successful, though truly depraved.