State of War - James Risen
Highly recommend the book for anybody who wishes to get
depressed over Memorial Day weekend... see how US military lives are
disposed... jz
1) Cute point:
He gives detailed account of the efforts to hide from the public and prevent any real investigation of the links between Saudi Arabia and 9/11. The extreme: Deliberate failure to investigate bank accounts in Saudi Arabia, used by top Al-Qaeda officers...
2) Strange point:
Over 1-2 years since the US took over Afghanistan, opium production grew about 100-fold!!! Rumsfeld et al had very strange relationships, which he documents in details, with the key figures in the Afghan drug biz. And the worth of this was many many billions of dollars per year, part of which went to sponsoring anti-US terror... (the usual doctrine of clear and effective policy).
For
years, conspiracy theorists have claimed, without definitive proof,
that CIA was involved in cocaine trade in Latin America...
It
blows my mind: James Risen is one of the most important journalists in
the US today, 2x Pulitzer prize winner, CIA expert. How could he write
that there is no proof of CIA involvement in cocaine trade in Latin
America? How could he call it "conspiracy theory"? Is he in fact
working for CIA? Trying to please his numerous sources at CIA?
The book in general appears to be supportive of CIA, present DOD and NSA as the real bad guys, and George Tenet, CIA Director, as just incompetent, but not intent on wrong-doing... In contrast, Rumsfeld/Cheney are represented as engaged in high crimes...
The book in general appears to be supportive of CIA, present DOD and NSA as the real bad guys, and George Tenet, CIA Director, as just incompetent, but not intent on wrong-doing... In contrast, Rumsfeld/Cheney are represented as engaged in high crimes...
jz
I
thought that the Iran-Contra-Cocaine affair was so well documented,
among others, by the Special Report by Inspector General of the US
Department f Justice, that there would not be deniers left. Apparently
that is not the case. I have long stopped using the word "conspiracy",
instead referring to "official narrative" and "alternative narrative/s".
All the fun was taken out of "conspiracies" with the avalanche of
revelations of recent years from banks to NSA; they have become a
routine :) jz
The Iran-Contra-Cocaine to LA story just came up in a previous discussion, as fundamental to understanding corruption in LA County.
2013-12-02 US: CIA's Contra-Cocaine denial cult?
LINKS:
[1] 00-00-01 96-08-18 CIA Drug Trafficking of Crack Cocaine to Los Angeles County, By Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News
[2] 00-00-01 97-12-00 US Department of Justice, Office of Inspector
General, December 1997 Special Report: CIA Drug Trafficking to Los
Angeles, California s
[3] 07-09-24 ?Cocaine One? and ?Cocaine Two? ? ongoing CIA wholesale drug trafficking?
[4] 09-09-24 More on CIA Drug Trafficking ? Venice, Florida, Municipal Airport
[5] 10-10-13 Extra Constitutional Zones ? Excerpts From Discussion on the OAK Board
[6] 11-02-14 Ongoing CIA wholesale drug trafficking? Argentinean report
[7] 11-04-27 ?I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government? _ Inforwars
[8] 11-08-01 Zernik, J: Los Angeles Superior Court ? widespread
corruption and refusal of US government to take action, 16th World
Criminology Congress presentation
[9] 10-10-15 Proposed Organizational Chart of the LA-JR (Los Angeles Judiciary Racket)
[10] 11-08-29 Corruption of the Los Angeles Superior Court, Its Causes and History
[11] 11-08-01 Zernik, J: Fraud and corruption in the US courts is
tightly linked to failing banking regulation and the financial crisis,
16th World Criminology Congress presentation
[12] 12-04-28 Drug Money Laundering by Major US and International Banks ? Compilation of Reports
CIA plane crash site in Mexico
OpEdNews Op Eds 12/2/2013 at 11:43:09
Contra-Cocaine Was a Real Conspiracy
In the insular world of Manhattan media, there's much handwringing over
the latest blow to print publications as New York Magazine scales back
from a weekly to a biweekly. But the real lesson might be the commercial
failure of snarky writing, the kind that New York demonstrated in its
recent hit piece on "conspiracy theories."
What was most stunning to me about the article,
pegged to the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, was
that it began by ridiculing what is actually one of the best-documented
real conspiracies of recent decades, the CIA's tolerance and even
protection of cocaine trafficking by the Nicaraguan Contra rebels in the
1980s.
13-12-13 US: US: Reagan-CIA-cocaine
Nancy, and a CIA plane that crashed in Mexico with 4 tons of cocaine on board...
The Iran-Contra-Cocaine to LA story just came up in a previous discussion, as fundamental to understanding corruption in LA County.
And today I got by mail the reminder below.
The timing of this piece is a bit contrived, published for 9th anniversary of journalist Webb's death...
There is no need for corroborating evidence in this matter either -
we've got the 300+ page US DOJ Inspector General report on the issue.
[1]
If anything, the important reminder is regarding the fate of
whistleblowers and journalists, who expose corruption... already a
decade ago.
Anyway, I like the story: Nancy in the White House in her little red
dress preaching "Say No to Drugs", while her husband runs the business
that caused the crack epidemic and filled the prisons with drug
offenders...
In short:
Reagan has his place secure in the Hall of Infamy of Corruption...
LINKS:
[1] 00-00-01
97-12-00 US Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General,
December 1997 Special Report: CIA Drug Trafficking to Los Angeles,
California s
[2] 00-00-01 96-08-18 CIA Drug Trafficking of Crack Cocaine to Los Angeles County, By Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News
[3] 07-09-24 "Cocaine One" and "Cocaine Two" – ongoing CIA wholesale drug trafficking…
[4] 09-09-24 More on CIA Drug Trafficking - Venice, Florida, Municipal Airport
[5] 10-10-13 Extra Constitutional Zones ? Excerpts From Discussion on the OAK Board
[6] 10-10-15 Proposed Organizational Chart of the LA-JR (Los Angeles Judiciary Racket)
[7] 11-02-14 Ongoing CIA wholesale drug trafficking… Argentinian report
[8] 11-04-27 "I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government" _ Inforwars
[9] 11-08-01 Zernik, J: Los Angeles Superior Court ? widespread
corruption and refusal of US government to take action, 16th World
Criminology Congress presentation
[10] 11-08-29 Corruption of the Los Angeles Superior Court, Its Causes and History
[11] 11-08-01 Zernik, J: Fraud and corruption in the US courts is
tightly linked to failing banking regulation and the financial crisis,
16th World Criminology Congress presentation
[12] 12-04-28 Drug Money Laundering by Major US and International Banks ? Compilation of Reports
+++
By Robert Parry
Special Report: Since journalist Gary Webb died in 2004, the story that
destroyed his life has slowly come into clearer focus, revealing how
President Reagan's beloved Contras really were enmeshed in cocaine
trafficking. On this ninth anniversary of Webb's suicide, new
corroboration has emerged.
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