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Media blackout this weekend for me. If I have to listen to one more goddamned self-important propagandist (er, journalist) waxing on about what he or she was doing on 9-11, I'll break something. What they were doing was preparing to hail Bush the Daft as a "wartime president" and to celebrate that we'd finally gotten over our post-Vietnam squeamishness about "boots on the ground".

I had to turn off that Netflix doc when someone said, "...and the question on everyone's mind was, "why do they hate us so much"". No, it wasn't. Maybe some school children were asking that. But in the aftermath the questions I heard went more like, "if the hijackers were Saudis why are we fixing to attack Iraq?" and "didn't we fund the Taliban et al as "freedom fighters", and "what the fuck is wrong with giving Hans Blix another three fucking weeks to look for WMD?"

There was a lot of emotional manipulation. I got an in box full of death malice for suggesting that it would be great to arrest bin Laden and drag him into a downtown courtroom to hear thousands of murder charges read. Oh, no, we had to bomb shit and wipe 'em all out.

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A traitor to torture -- Scheer Intelligence -- Five years after his ABC interview about CIA’s use of torture, narcissist St. Obama ordered persecution -- to protect his legacy

Host Robert Scheer hears from Kiriakou the inside story of how the torture program started as part of a cynical power struggle between the CIA and FBI, why torture does not save lives or secure better intelligence, and how, while the program was started under Republican President George W. Bush, it was a top appointee of President Obama (Obama’s favorite, John Brennan, himself a key architect of the torture program, who chose to prosecute him five years after his interviews with ABC which should have made him a national hero instead of a disgraced felon.

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scheer-intelligence/id1054586928?i=1000534891456

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