Northwoods is just another of many thousands of similar plans, called Military Operations Plans. The military takes just about any hypothetical situation and develops a MOP for it. We have MOPs for the invasions of England, Mexico, Canada, our own states, etc..you name it. If a situation can be conceived, there’s likely a MOP to address it. It would be criminal to not plan, and think, and ask “what if” and work out contingencies. Just because we have these MOPs doesn’t mean that they would ever be used.
The media likes to “discover” these plans and use them as proof that our military is out of control. Or in this case, that our government can’t be trusted. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Regarding Medina, I was dismayed that she couldn’t give a straight answer to the Truther question - a legitimate question. Beck gave her plenty of opportunity to disavow the truthers but she wouldn’t do it. Only later after she realised the mistake did she issue a statement. I went onto her Facebook page and posted that I liked some of her positions, but that she really messed up with the truther issue. This brought the real Medina-supporting truthers out of the closet, one even sent me a link to a truther website and suggested that I become “educated”, and others ask “whats wrong with being a truther?”. So, even if she’s not a truther, she’s surrounded by them.
Beck was right: “fastest way back to 4%”.
Exactly. There are even MOPs for alien invasion, viruses wiping out half the population, and solar flares destroying our entire electrical grid. There are people whose full time job it is to think up every possible thing that could happen in order to delve a plan around it.
Yet, she then gave the same answer (similar but worse) in two other interviews that week. In one she compares being a truther to being a birther.
"Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"