Comments on William Bennett: DEATH ON TWO LEGS

Well, the role of Judith Miller & the NYT in pimpi...

2008-08-04T10:24:00.000+01:00

Well, the role of Judith Miller & the NYT in pimping the war on Saddam is well known, but Greenwald makes a good case that ABC news & Brian Ross ware perhaps even more disasterously potent... they layed the groundwork for this sort of fear & loathing, as it were.

It's a shame for Ross as he's done some fine work on occasion: the Jundallah story (CIA supporting al Qaeda allies' terrorism in Iran) and, of course, outing Mark Foley (pedophile legislator).

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Some further observations:

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I agree, Thomas - here we seem to get a tantalisin...

2008-08-03T12:38:00.000+01:00

I agree, Thomas - here we seem to get a tantalisingly close look at the mechanics of these types of shadowy operations. It is a murky and probably very messy complex world. There are some parallels in the case of Ivins with that of the death of UK government scientist David Kelly. Incidentally, regardless of his culpability, Ivins comes across as such a weirdo that it also makes you wonder about the kind of people who do these jobs.

Glenn Greenwald has been generally good lately for...

2008-08-03T07:41:00.000+01:00

Glenn Greenwald has been generally good lately for bringing up stories like this, and incidents of high-level hypocrisy that get 'scant news coverage': go back and read his vitriolic, refreshingly non-partisan broadsides against our current, er, presidential candidate of "hope" and his 'yes' vote for a Bush-backed bill which grants retroactive immunity to wiretapping telecom companies.

Anyway...his article does confirm my suspicions that this was one in a series of 'false flag' attacks, without which I wonder how the powers that be would ever find any broad public support for their regime chang...er, I mean, 'liberating' campaigns.

I'm certainly hoping that the public becomes more inured to this kind of thing as time goes on (see this idiocy from a few months ago with the huge U.S. naval ships being 'menaced' by a couple of pithy Iranian speedboats), but I won't exactly hold my breath.