Posted on 05/18/2005 5:55:56 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I'm beginning to see why one would want to write a blog. At present, I have a few thoughts I can certainly not prove, but the gaffe over the Michael Isikoff story in Newsweek concerning the Koran and the toilet is redolent with bad odor. Who, indeed, was Isikoff's supposedly reliable Pentagon source? One's counter-espionage hackles rise. If you want to discredit a Dan Rather or a Newsweek crew, just feed them false information from a hitherto reliable source. You learn that in Intelligence 101A.
Counter-espionage often depends on building "reliable sources." You construct such reliability item by secret item, all accurate. That is seen by the intelligence artists as a necessary expenditure. It gains the source his credibility. Then, you spring the trap.
As for the riots at the other end, on this occasion, they, too, could have been orchestrated. We do have agents in Pakistan, after all, not to mention Afghanistan.
Obviously, I can offer no proof of any of the above. There still resides, however, under my aging novelist's pate a volunteer intelligence agent, sadly manque. He does suggest that the outcome was too neat. It came out too effectively for one side, one special side. At the age of eighty-two I do not wish to revive old paranoia, but Lenin did leave us one valuable notion, one, at any rate. It was "Whom?" When you cannot understand a curious matter, ask yourself, "Whom? Whom does this benefit?" Dare I suggest that our Right has just gained a good deal by way of this matter? In every covert Department of Dirty Tricks, whether official, semi-official, or off-the-wall, great pride is best obtained by going real deep into down-and-dirty-land—Yeah! Expedite the consequences.
Which, of course, doesn't stop Madman Mailer from writing up his wacko theory.
Norman actaully died about 20 years ago, but nobody told him.
Ah yes! Karl Rove "DID IT"...............LOL......
Intelligence sadly manque.
Years ago, Norman Mailer worked hard to get a killer out of prison. He succeeded. And soon after the killer was released...he killed somebody. Anybody remember that episode?
Ok, Norman. US Intelligence comes up with a false story that would spark riots and endanger the lives of American living in the Muslim world??!!! Yeah, ok, Norman, excellent deduction.
Yeah, really. Hey, Norman! It's not only 'Who benefits,' but WHAT is the benefit?
Does he really think the dirty tricks department is so idle, bored and perverse that it would waste many lives just to take a poke at 'Newsweak?'
Well, it just can't be that Newsweak screwed up big time. How could Bush, Rove, Halliburton, or big oil be blamed for that?
NYC...Jack Abbott the murderer writer of Belly of The Beast (or something similar)
That's the guy, Jack Abbott. Stabbed a waiter multiple times because the waiter would not let him(Abbott) use the bathroom. Abbott was not a customer in the restaurant.
I thought old Norman was dead. Now that I see his most recent contribution to our culture, I'm convinced of it.
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