Maureen Farrell: "If You're Not Paranoid, You're Not Paying Attention"

[JaySherman]

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/03/07/22.html

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nearly thirty years ago, the Church Committee opened America's eyes to some of our government's smarmier activities. There were CIA ties to the Mafia and alliances with Nazis and the messy matter of kidnapping the less fortunate and feeding them LSD . Assorted coups and assassinations were also unearthed -- as was the "other" September 11, in 1973, when a U.S.-led coup toppled Chile's democratically-elected Salvador Allende. "Like Caesar peering into the colonies from distant Rome, Nixon said the choice of government by the Chileans was unacceptable to the president of the United States," Sen. Frank Church remarked. "The attitude in the White House seemed to be, "If in the wake of Vietnam I can no longer send in the Marines, then I will send in the CIA."

George W. Bush didn't need to send in the CIA. He openly declared war and bullied others into following, while distorting intelligence to do so. "Fu*k Saddam, we're taking him out," he said in March, 2002. "I made up my mind, that Saddam needs to go," he said, one month later. This was well before Congress bought the administration's yellow-caked, aluminum-tubed, "Saddam-hearts-Osama" bill of goods, mind you, and gave George Bush permission to waste thousands of lives and a billion dollars a week. "Never before in my 40 years of experience in this town has intelligence been used in so cynical and so orchestrated a way," former CIA analyst and supervisor Raymond McGovern told CBS News , vindicating those who tried to warn us early on.

[JewelDigger]

1. Thanks for posting this

This definitely is a MUST READ! and a MUST CIRCULATE far & wide!

[duvinnie]

2. wow

and wow again! scary stuff

[Room101]

3. Chilling.........

The CIA connection to the Nazi's was called operation paper clip.
ABC news in 1989 did a special about the CIA using lsd. The CIA has admitted it.

[jarab]

4. Thanks, JaySherman (n/t)

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