Posted on 02/26/2024 10:11:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Mike Benz, a former State Department official, argues that over the decades since World War II the U.S. has developed a huge intelligence system to spy and spread propaganda and influence elections in foreign countries. In about 2016 the U.S. government converted these intelligence systems elections to spy and censor and manipulate elections right here in the U.S. (Clarice Feldman already reviewed here Tucker Carlson’s interview of Mike Benz published on February 16, 2024 on the question of our national security state.)
I will be referring to the interview transcript at Happyscribe.com.
The idea that the government is spying on us right here at home would be nothing but a conspiracy theory but for The Twitter Files. If nothing else, Matt Taibbi & Co. clearly showed that the intelligence community was directing traffic during the late COVID unpleasantness through direct communication with social media companies and the disinformation/misinformation/malinformation ideology of the nation’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency.
Benz told Tucker that the U.S. has been rigging foreign elections since we stopped the Italian Communist Party from winning the Italian elections of 1948 with a spot of ballot-box stuffing. Eventually we graduated to the “color revolutions” that changed governments in Yugoslavia, Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and the Arab Spring. Says Wikipedia:
[C]ritics have accused the United States of orchestrating these revolutions to expand its influence.
No, no, no. It was all about Democracy! Mike Benz:
So you had the systematic targeting by our State department, by our IC, by the Pentagon, of groups like Germany's AfD, the alternative for Deutschland there, and for groups in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
Then came Brexit in June 2016, and within a month NATO changed its policy from tank warfare to information warfare. NATO?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Yes, as I later noted, and as I pointed it, they were not recruited to help at the CIA. The CIA was not taken over by NAZIS via operation paperclip.
When I saw Tucker’s interview with Mike Benz, I tried to recall when I had voted for members of the CIA to censor my online speech. I could not recall ever doing that. Gotta be my flaky memory, right?
Populists are pro-American. How did "neocon" Americans become so downright anti-Constitution? Neocons are more closely aligned with global fascism, and it's funny watching them defend "good nazis".
“It all leads me to think again about January 6. For sure, Nancy Pelosi and the Capitol Police didn’t have a clue how to fake up an “insurrection.” But I am sure that the Intelligence Community and the IC-adjacent NGOs, with skills honed from dozens of color revolutions and ballot-box stuffing successes, were up to the mark.”
Yup. It’s what Trump, and us, are up against.
Then again, they have to sleep somewhere.
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