Both the House of Representatives and the Senate have announced intentions to open probes into USAID’s spending of $1.6 million in “Pakistan” aid money creating a Twitter work-a-like for Cuba, in the hopes of fueling regime change.
USAID’s scheme, budded ZunZuneo, funneled money into an offshore account in the Cayman Islands, and set up a dummy corporation to run the operation, with its corporate leaders kept in the dark about its nature as a US government operation.
USAID’s leadership continues to defend the operation as a valid part of its agenda, but officials higher up the food chain see the embarrassment for what it is, and are quickly distancing themselves from it.
The White House claimed some officials there might have had some idea that there was some effort to “encourage expression of free ideas” in Cuba, but insist they had no idea it took the form of ZunZuneo. Spokesman Jay Carney objected to calling it a “covert” operation, but similarly insisted he had no idea it existed.
The State Department similarly denied any knowledge of the program, insisting then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was never told about it, and that it ended before John Kerry took over.
Cuba’s state media, for their part, are mocking ZunZuneo, which never got all that popular to begin with and vanished in 2012 after USAID pulled funding, as yet another failed US plot for regime change.
Wow! The "plausible denial" is so thick that everyone involved is tripping on it and smashing their faces into it.
See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil…..until you're caught with your hands in the cookie jar.
And the Keystone Kops cavalcade continues… Who says the US doesn't have a sense of humor?
It seams that as long as far right democrats or republicans are in charge of stats department-government such fiascos will continue, although USG have promised not to conduct cop de Etta or be involved directly with CIA having compleat the operation, but that doesn't mean that they can not use such fiascos to their advantages. Like in Libya where they used the UAE barbarians hand in hand with France mafia and Swedish military, or in Syria where they using Saudis barbarians and Turkish government being the supportive of these barbarians and Swedish king is very supportive of Saudis tyrant regime, or in Ukraine using hooligans and Neo, old and ok'd fascism where the EU-USG governing body insist that they are a democratic movement, but not elected democratically, and then USAID in Cuba. All that shows a new politics with same result without respecting what they have promised, should you trust such government, even though it call itself democracy-democrats, NO. In the other hand, evil is evil no matter if is not that tall as the taller evil.
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here" Captain Renault – "Casablanca" – 1942
What is the point of a "probe?" It happened. It was discovered. None of the high level parties who knew about it, and authorized it, will admit their involvement at this point, although they darn sure would have been glad to do so if their little scheme had worked. Some low level State Department or US Aid official may lose his/her job, and that will be the end of any further investigation.
This Tweet-of-Pigs episode reveals that the MIC is in charge of US government foreign policy and that the members of the executive branch are merely front men.
Is it any wonder the Cuban government would be skeptical of the activities of someone like Alan Phillip Gross?
Superintendent Brad Lindsey Please Note when you made honor student Braylee Rice “Student of the Month April 2013” you should not bully her to death on May 6th 2013! America in Marion, Indiana USA. Pray for 14 year old Braylee “Shea” Rice killed by American public school bullies
We pray for Braylee "Shea" Rice who was bullied to death on May 6th 2013 at 8:45am est during Gym Class and her body was discovered hanging on the outdoor bleachers of JL McCulloch Middle School by a black tie at 10:17am by students and teachers. The question remains who killed Braylee “Shea" Rice during the 92 minutes that Braylee "Shea" Rice was missing from Gym class? We are calling for a national day of mourning for bullied student Braylee "Shea" Rice by our state legislators and a new program named NBA (NO BULLYING ALLOWED) in all public schools. JL McCulloch Middle School selected Braylee "Shea" Rice as "Student of Month” for April 2013.