It appears that Robert Dreyfus, of The Nation magazine, has uncovered a lot of facts, which if true, suggest that the terrorist plot revealed yesterday was almost entirely the result of the work of the employees and operatives of a Joint Terrorism Task Force. Maybe it was just the FBI but it seems to me that a lot of Joint Terrorism Task Force folks are either authorized to say they are with the FBI or say it without such authorization as they operate around the country out of their various semi-secret headquarters.
[As an aside, the reader might think about supporting The Nation because it is not only a longstanding institution with a somewhat progressive slant but because it will probably do real journalism while institutions like the NYT which are now obsessed with profits and bottom lines are likely to either go out of business or to pander to special interests who are happy to manipulate and distort, even invent the news.]
A link to the Dreyfus article is below and is on Alternet, another insitution that deserves the support of those who are not afraid to challenge injustice and the concentrated power elites who
seem to be behind most of our problems in the United States and the world today.
http://www.alternet.org/world/140209/fbi_blows_it%3A_supposed_terror_plot_against_ny_synagogues_is_bogus/
I am also putting the link on the side of the article.
Dreyfus reports that these men were not only incredibly gullible and stupid but that they were outsiders to the mosque with which authorities have tried to associate them. Apparently the agent provocateur was identified by people in the mosque itself almost immediately because he openly tried to recruit for violent acts and everyone stayed away from him.
Were the alleged terrorists Muslim? Dreyfus seems to think that they were not. If so, who is saying that they are Muslims? What is the agenda of the liars?
Dreyfus speculates that this news came about as part of Dick Cheney's campaign to defend and extend torture. This is consistent with my fear that the Joint Terrorism Task Forces may be full of Cheneyite sleeper cells ready to sabotage Democrats and what remain of a democratic republic.
On the other hand the timing may be an Obama effort to prove he is somehow on the ball in fighting terrorism. It is a plot that developed originally under Cheney or Bush but Obama may have embraced it, like many other Bush legacies, as his own.
The idea that four mentally retarded criminals can be lined up to do stupid evil things is not a new idea. Dreyfus notes that a number of other terrorist plots turned out to be rubbish even though they were publicized and are probably remembered by the public as real threats that were stopped by vigorous law enforcement.
Such plots, once conceived of by the Joint Terrorism Task Force do require actual terrorists to arrest and prosecute. So they found these four guys who could be labeled "zombies" because of their actual inability to much more than follow their orders from the task force organizers of the plot. This may allow ambitious and unscrupulous
prosecutors to advance their careers and make a case but it has nothing to do with fighting any real national security threat and may in fact be a bigger national security threat, Cheneyite sleeper cells that is, that AQ ever will be.
AQ suicide commandos carried out a surprise attack inasmuch as they never planned on surviving 9-11. They killed a lot of people and some Americans began to realize that the United States cannot be perfectly protected and that AQ really was a threat, something Bush Cheney denied in words and deeds well into Bush's second term.
They mocked and dismissed warnings from the Clinton National Security Advisor about AQ. Once the trade center was in ruins they said they wanted to fight AQ but went to Iraq while AQ continued to manuever and grow in Afghanistan, Pakistan and even in Iraq where such things never had been. Now Obama and the world face an Islamist
challenge in Pakistan that depended on the Bush-Cheney madness in Iraq where there was no threat to the United States.
No fanatic could make this up. We need to clean out the Cheneyite sleeper cells before they destroy our republic completely.
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