George Tenet briefing G.W. Bush and his cabinet accomplices. Don’t believe for moment he did not know what was going on, as the media keep suggesting. He knew and he okayed it. Cheney and his ilk still openly defend it. The claim is always the “protection of American lives.” But it is their immoral policies of international theft, political meddling in other peoples’ countries, and “wars of choice,” that make enemies for Americans around the world, and force American soldiers to die executing criminal enterprises bathed in chauvinist propaganda.
[dropcap]If it is agreed[/dropcap] we are talking about torture, plain and simple, why is it that CBS and the rest of the American media keep referring to it as “enhanced interrogation”, its officialese denomination? As well, how come no one asks the obvious question: Why are these people attacking us? What have we done to stir up their unremitting anger? Surely people –no matter how fanatical— don’t get up one day and decide to take on—at the risk of their lives— the most heavily armed and ruthless superpower in history for the sheer fun of it. Yet this miserably elementary question remains an orphan in the US journalistic world, or is answered with chauvinistic nonsense, like, “They envy our democracy.”
Editors say:
A rare moment of journalistic value in a huge cesspool of disinformation. CBS anchor Scott Pelley looks and acts as someone not quite ready to believe what this guy is saying (especially since he implicitly contradicts himself). I give Pelley credit for insisting, whereupon Tenet, reacting like a bully, and probably unaccustomed to this treatment by the media, literally shouts him down. Of course, Pelley should have pressed his point further, but that would have been impolite as per American journalistic protocols…
Ex-CIA Director George Tenet says “enhanced interrogation” methods used by CIA on suspected terrorists and others were not equivalent to torture. http://www.primetimetorture.org . However he clearly and implicitly admits it.
ProjectFlashlight612 (original comment on YouTube)
And here’s another henchman for the empire, being given a huge communications megaphone to explain himself.
COMMENT:
The pathetic rottenness of US institutions is demonstrated by George Tenet’s current positions
AND HE’S FAR FROM UNIQUE.
George John Tenet (born January 5, 1953) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, and he is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.
COMMENT: Since Georgetown—founded in 1789, is the oldest Jesuit and Catholic university in the United States, what does the Pope have to say about such egregious violations of common justice?—Eds.)
Tenet held the position as the DCI from July 1997 to July 2004, making him the second-longest-serving director in the agency’s history—behind Allen Welsh Dulles—as well as one of the few DCIs to serve under two U.S. presidents of opposing political parties. He played a key role in overseeing the intelligence behind the Iraq War.
In February 2008, he became a managing director at investment bank Allen & Company.
THERE’S A COLOSSAL INFORMATION WAR GOING ON, AND THE FATE OF THE WORLD LITERALLY HANGS ON THE OUTCOME.
THEIR LIES.
THEIR CONSTANT PROPAGANDA.
OUR TRUTH.
HUGE ISSUES ARE BEING DECIDED: Nuclear war, whether we’ll live in democracy or tyranny, dignity or destitution, planetary salvation or doom…It’s a battle of communications we can’t afford to lose.
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