[Flynn’s Editorial: I believe that the CIA will never declassify its most clandestine operations abroad. It’s because the U.S. government is in co-hoots with the banksters, who in turn, pay these alleged terrorists wage war with other religious groups and for Jihad or whatever.]
Militarism & Security
Family jewels are paste but reveal clues of empire
Saul Landau
Progreso Weekly, 12 July 2007
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Declassified CIA documents reveal how an informal empire operates inside the formal network of a republic.
“The CIA will declassify… long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency’s worst illegal abuses — the so-called “family jewels” documenting …overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s,” reported CIA Director Michael V. Hayden. (Washington Post, June 22, 2007)
For examples, a series of Presidents authorized the assassination of leaders of other countries, some democratically elected, sanctioned the overthrow of “disobedient” governments and engaged in massive conspiracies to direct political events in directions deemed favorable to US interests — business and government.
Then the Cold War ended as did the excuse to continue CIA dirty activities. Scandals emerged about top security officials — like Robert Phillip Hanssen and Aldrich Ames — selling “top security secrets” to the USSR, whose leaders obviously made little use of them for Soviet survival.
After 9/11, however, Bush replaced the war on communism with a never-ending war on terrorism and took previous criminal activities to levels few could have foreseen. Ten years ago few Americans would have conceived a President authorizing massive wiretapping, profiling of Muslim-Americans, a Patriot Act of dubious constitutionality, the destruction of Iraq, the establishment of secret torture prisons or a scandalous holding jail in Guantanamo where habeas corpus has ceased to exist.
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