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The Empire Strikes Back [1980)

Today the United States of America officially became a purveyor of third-world justice.

American exceptionalism has long held that America is DIFFERENT from nations like Brazil and Pakistan.

But not any longer.

Just as was done to Bolsonaro–just as was done to Imran Khan, President Donald Trump has been convicted by his political enemies.

Such things are common in banana republics.

Want to derail the political career of a troublesome politician?

Throw him in jail.

Today, that ball started rolling in motion…towards a July 11th sentencing.

The USA is exceptional no longer.

Even pathetic, Trump-hating milquetoast Mitt Romney recently lamented that he was disappointed that President Joe Biden had not proactively pardoned Trump (or otherwise used his sway as President to dissuade fellow Democrats [such as the ones in New York state] from prosecuting Trump).

Romney is an interesting barometer.

[perhaps the only thing interesting about him]

EVEN ROMNEY knows that what Biden has done is wrong.

Not only does he know this, but his tongue has spoken such.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/gop-sen-mitt-romney-says-biden-pardoned-trump-rcna152420

Much more then do the hearts and minds of actual Patriots burn tonight with anger.

But we must heed the wise words of Alex Jones (i.e. don’t be rash):

https://www.infowars.com/posts/trump-found-guilty-on-all-34-counts-alex-jones-issues-false-flag-alert/

Heed the warning of Yoda.

Look to General Flynn.

If Trump has done one thing the past four years, it is to BE PATIENT.

All Patriots must follow this example.

I’m mad as hell at Trump about the COVID vaccines.

I’m mad as hell at Trump about his support for genocidal Israel.

I’m mad as hell at Trump for him banning me from Truth Social.

But here I am.

Supporting him as best I can.

Why?

Because Trump does not deserve the “third-world justice” he is receiving.

Given a choice, at this point, I choose RFK Jr. (because of his stance on the COVID vaccines).

But RFK is being edged out of the upcoming (next month) Presidential debates on CNN.

RFK is not playing by the rules of our corrupt two-party system.

So he has been (and continues to be) marginalized.

Put bluntly, there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that RFK Jr. wins the 2024 election.

But if he were on the ballot, today, before me, I would vote for him over Trump.

That’s correct.

I would throw my vote away on RFK.

That’s how PISSED OFF I am about Trump’s complete whitewashing of the vaccine genocide HE presided over as American President.

Seeing as how less that one percent of vaccine adverse events and reactions (including death) have historically been reported to the CDC/FDA VAERS system, if the VAERS system (which has completely [to my knowledge] STOPPED TAKING ANY REPORTS RELATED TO THE THREE AMERICAN COVID VACCINES) says there have been 37,000 reports of death potentially related to said vaccines, the actual number of deaths is not 37,000, nor 370,000, but 3.7 million.

https://openvaers.com/covid-data

To be clear, Donald Trump was the executive (the buck stops here) responsible for the death of 4 million Americans at the hands of Operation Ludicrous Speed vaccines.

Trump’s administration rushed these vaccines to market.

But it was BIDEN’S administration who COERCED Americans (including the U.S. military) to take these jabs (or else lose their jobs).

Trump has never once (to my knowledge) been critical of the safety or efficacy of his Warp Speed vaccines.

Quite the contrary, he has crowed ad nauseam about what a great achievement they were.

He is either very stupid, or very evil.

Perhaps both.

And yet I fight for him at this moment.

Why?

RFK Jr’s stance on Israel is just as bad as Trump’s.

Biden’s stance on Israel is just as bad as either of theirs.

The only other person (besides RFK Jr.) intellectually qualified to be POTUS is Cornel West.

He’s been vocally against the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel.

He was vocal when it was not as safe to take such a position.

Jill Stein is a latecomer to this issue.

And Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver is coming even later to the Free Palestine table.

But Cornel West is a fucking moron when is comes to the COVID vaccines.

So we have no good choice.

And then there’s the two old dogs who are most likely to be on your ballot (if you’re an American):  Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Why, I ask again, am I bothering to defend Trump if I hold so much against him?

For starters, Trump was an enormous PAIN IN THE ASS for the American (and global) establishment.

For three solid years, Trump did a pretty damn good job of being President.

It was only in his fourth year (when he was blindsided by low-intensity biological warfare) that he gave control of the U.S. government to Anthony Fauci and Mike Pence.

Pence, in the end, fucked him.

[and Fauci fucked him coming and going]

But Biden WIELDED (through coercion) these dangerous COVID vaccines against the American people.

Something Trump did not do.

 Would Trump have also coerced Americans to take these vaccines that he loves as if they were his own syringe-shaped children?

I doubt it.

The fascist is not Trump, but Biden.

If you object to that diction, substitute authoritarian for fascist.

Leftists can be hella authoritarian.

And that’s just what Genocide Joe was with these deadly vaccines.

Trump’s final year in office was one prolonged October Surprise.

It appears to have been engineered by those connected to Event 201:  (namely) Bill Gates (via his Foundation), Klaus Schwab (via the World Economic Forum), and the CIA (via current Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines [a John Brennan protégée]).

But is there enough time for avian influenza to “save the day” for sleepy Joe Biden’s 2024 “campaign”???

No need.

This election cycle’s “October Surprise” started long ago.

Here are the red-letter dates in Biden’s TRUE campaign (a merciless campaign of THIRD-WORLD JUSTICE):

  • March 30, 2023:  34 felony charges AKA The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump

Charges brought by Democratic Party prosecutor (New York County D.A) Alvin Bragg.  Case presided over by Joe Biden (and anti-Replublican Party) political donor Juan Merchan (https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/06/politics/judge-merchan-trump-biden-contribution/index.html ).  Case decide by “impartial” jury fielded from New York City (Joe Biden “won” 60% of the vote in New York City in 2020 and no Republican Presidential candidate has won the city since Ronald Reagan in 1984 [they have only selected Democrats for 36 years in a row]).

Outcome?  Guilty on all 34 counts.  Who coulda possibly seen that verdict coming?!?

[BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE]

  • June 8, 2023:  37 felony charges (later upped to 40) AKA United States of America v. Donald J. Trump, Waltine Nauta, and Carlos De Oliveira [should be known as “Florida election interference” case]

Charges brought by Democrat-appointed (Merrick Garland) “independent” special counsel Jack Smith.

Charges brought by Democrat-appointed (Merrick Garland) “independent” special counsel Jack Smith.

  • August 14, 2023:  13 charges (later dropped to 10) AKA The State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump, et al. 

Charges brought by Democratic Party prosecutor (Fulton County D.A.) Fani Willis.

At the nexus of Romney’s shocking candor and the film under consideration (in half these cases) is perhaps, one might say, the “Emperor” of American “third-world justice”:

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Trump can gain my unconditional endorsement (not that he needs it) by his doing two things:

  1. disavow his Operation Warp Speed vaccines
  2. condemn the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Will he do it?

I doubt it.

-PD

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Delta Farce [2007)

Just when you think Donald Trump can’t get any more idiotic, he goes and insults the intelligence of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (calling him “the dumbest member of the Kennedy clan”).

https://t.me/real_DonaldJTrump/16737

In so doing, Donald Trump has signaled that he still believes his Operation Warp Speed vaccines to be “safe and effective” (they are neither).

Furthermore, Trump has signaled that he intends to alienate all those who voted for him in 2016 and/or 2020 and with whom Kennedy’s message (as brilliantly laid out in the book The Real Anthony Fauci) resonates (including yours truly).

But this problem (denying the awful truth of the COVID vaccines) has plagued Trump for the past four years.

Now Trump has a new problem:  Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first world leaders (along with Boris Johnson) to congratulate Joe Biden on his “victory” in 2020.

This pissed Trump off (as well it should have).

But Trump’s delusions don’t end with his safe and effective vaccines.

Donald Trump’s blind allegiance to Israel is a threat to American national security.

And sadly, RFK Jr.’s brilliance appears to begin and end with the vaccine issue.

RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are equally moronic and callous when it comes to blind faith in Israel and willful blindness regarding the disproportionate riposte (to put it nicely) Israel has leveled against Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023. 

Trump and RFK Jr. don’t care about the 34,000+ dead men, women, and children in Gaza.

They only care about securing that juicy Israeli support.

Trump “loves America”, but he doesn’t have the balls or brains to admit his vaccines are worse than worthless.

He doesn’t have any moral backbone when it comes to telling the truth about those vaccines.

Trump “loves America”, but he doesn’t give a fuck about all the Americans who have been killed by his precious vaccines.

https://openvaers.com/covid-data

At least RFK Jr. sees that (and speaks about it…at great cost of derision to himself).

Then there’s Cornel West.

West is a genius when it comes to Palestine and Israel.

But a moron when it comes to the COVID vaccines.

West is getting even less traction than RFK Jr.

Wonder why.

Because he’s not kissing Israeli ass à la Kennedy?

Joe Biden, of course, may be even worse on the COVID vaccines than Trump.

Biden coerced millions of Americans to take these unsafe, ineffective vaccines.

Trump merely encouraged people to take them.

As for Israel and Palestine, Genocide Joe keeps arming Israel.

So Joe, like Trump, is a failure on both issues.

RFK Jr. and West are a failure on one of the two issues.

And a success on one of the two issues.

The only person to be getting any traction whatsoever from their anti-genocide stance is Jill Stein.

But the traction she is getting is very, very little.

I could be wrong, but it seems Jill Stein has not said jack shit about the COVID vaccines.

So she is basically just Cornel West with a bit more traction.

And West was far more vocal when it mattered.

Stein wasn’t able to register on the pro-Palestine radar (as far as I know) until a couple of days ago.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/4/29/us-presidential-candidate-speaks-out-after-anti-war-protest-arrest

So all of these candidates fail basic tests regarding intelligence (ability to do rudimentary research with integrity) and humanity (empathy for everyone…even the “out group” [Palestinians]).

RFK Jr., as it turns out, is BY FAR the smartest candidate, but he has no empathy for the 15,000 dead children in Gaza.

He has no empathy for the 7,500 dead women in Gaza.

He has no empathy for the 7,500 dead men in Gaza (were they all HAMAS militants?).

Two candidates are morons with empathy:  Cornel West and Jill Stein.

And two candidates (the two most likely to win) are heartless nincompoops:  Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

At this point, the only positive thing I can say about Trump is that he has the best position (of all these candidates) regarding the U.S. southern border.

Other than that, he is an utter failure (both morally and intellectually).

That being said, Trump is a marginal improvement over Biden if only these three issues are under consideration (COVID vaccines, Palestine/Israel, and illegal immigration/border security).

All of this foretells of a very bleak future for America.

The only hopes:

A.  Trump comes clean on the vaccines and recognizes the evil Israel has wrought in Gaza 

B.  RFK Jr. opens his fucking eyes to the genocidal slaughter of Palestinians at the hands of Israelis

C.  Cornel West buys a clue (good place to start is with RFK Jr.’s book)

D.  Jill Stein goes full-truth (all she has to do is visit OpenVAERS…is that so fucking hard for a “doctor”?!?)

E.  Joe Biden tells Israel to fuck off and apologizes for his totalitarian wielding of the COVID vaccines

All of these possibilities seem HIGHLY UNLIKELY.

If given the choice of all these candidates, I pick RFK Jr.

Genocide via vaccine has been a greater killer than even Israel has been in Gaza.

[only about 1% of vaccine adverse events and reactions (including deaths) are reported to the voluntary CDC/FDA VAERS system.  Likewise, it appears the system stopped accepting (quite a while ago) ANY REPORTS WHATSOEVER regarding the three COVID vaccines which were/are available in the USA.  Re: point #1, you must add a couple of zeros to the “reports of death” to arrive at an accurate number.  Not 37,000 but 3.7 mil.]

However, if the choice is between Biden and Trump, I would choose Trump.

That said, if RFK Jr. makes it on the ballot in Texas, I would be very tempted to vote for him.

Trump can’t cling to his beloved vaccines and to Israel both.

Both entities (COVID vaccines and the IDF) have been on a murderous rampage.

Trump is the moron.

RFK Jr. is the genius.

Too bad Kennedy apparently has no heart.

-PD

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Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? [2000)

This is a damn fine film.

Maybe yesterday I would have spoke as much with a mouthful of tobacco.

But today I take a more measured approach.

And still I must proclaim:  this film has aged like a fine wine.

I can find little fault with it.

No film will express all that we hold inside…exactly as we’d express it.

And so this is as close as we get to serendipity on a Tuesday night 🙂

Yes sir…let me tell you ’bout it.

I write to stay alive.

[now I’m telling you about me…or the film…by way of me]

We come from a long/short tradition.

Film critics.

Critics.

All the way back to the earliest Homer in the Greek.

Rage.

I owe Nick Tosches a debt of gratitude for pointing that out.

My favorite living writer.

This film [we’re back to the film] could have gone off the rails early on.

Like some errant Ken Burns pablum on PBS.

But the Coen brothers are of the most deft cinematic touch.

I have delved very little into their oeuvre.

Most recently I broached the subject with Fargo (a fine film), but Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? is a bona fide 😉 masterpiece.

You see, you must be conversant in naïveté as much as in erudition.

You must run the gamut from Delmar to Ulysses in order to evoke an appropriately universal sampling of the human condition.

Blind on a Pullman.  Nay.  Blind Sheriff Murnau.  Closer.

Blind but now I see.

Precisely.

Bill Moyers couldn’t get to Shakespeare in the recessed library.

Only God could move fate.

To see beauty.

For a moment to dream of a better life.

Saved from cancer.

I know not.

We feel it’s Isaiah.  Or the Oracle of Delphi.

Pythia.  As in pithy.

Icy.

You don’t get credit for half a master’s degree.

Ain’t no one in the world impressed by that.

Even if they should.

People like awards.  Bob Dylan said.

Grammys.  Nobels.

Sells records.  Books.  DVDs.  Tickets for admission.  Memorabilia.

But I doff my hat to Tosches and Quintilian.

We are all excursus.  As Céline was all ellipses.

[…]

The Sheriff is Cooley.  As in Spade.

A mean son of a bitch.

But we don’t care none about these transgressors no more.

The electorate has spoken.

50 states.

From the words Tommy Johnson.

It’s just a cool drink of water from Robert.

And we won’t even get into Lonnie.

We hear the devil is white.

Go to any American university and you will hear the same.

Indeed, our film only falters when it attempts to be too heavy-handed.

We uncloak what is cloaked in ourselves.

And this is the curse of critics.

No critic is writing about their subject.

In reality.

The underlying gist is always autobiography.

To admit as much should be refreshing.

But that is for you to decide.

Just sing into the can.

Voice your opinion.

On shellac.

For generations to plunder in treasure hunts of old South junk stores.

Searching for the Sugar Man/Soggy Bottom…Robert Johnson already dead when he became   sought after.

A prophet in his own land.

All is dream.  And religion comes to the silver screen.

The common man can relate.  And so can I.

With my Bible on my nightstand.

I ain’t ashamed to say.

I depend on God.

See Messiaen if you need abstraction.

Because Debussy gave the clouds first…and the sirens last.

And feasts or parties in between.

Night swimming.  Nocturnes.  Campfires.  Skip James.

Pulled from routine.

We were nearly eaten alive.

And we would have dived into that abyss out of desperation.

Yet the hand of the Lord was upon us.

Not for any deed which had ingratiated ourselves to Him.

But for grace.

Mercy.

Love.

No horror here.  Just a toad.  And Mark Twain.

And how to keep tobacco dry on a Mississippi River boat.

Uncle Sweetheart smells blood.

Years before Masked and Anonymous.

So be careful not to fall in love with your own reflection.

She said he was hit by a train.

And she looked good in a bikini.

To three pathetic roustabouts with no prospects.

Chewed up and spit out by both Tropics to wade in the water of possibility.

Nerds can box.

Maybe know an arcane martial art.

Don’t fuck with us.

But protagonists of epic poetry need something more than a couple of jabs and pinches.

Circumstances must have placed them in a true imbroglio…the mother of all situations.

The Gordian knot.

Ulysses is a lying bastard.  A mad man.  Advertising.  Op side coin propaganda.

But these are skills.  For gainful employment.  And we hover to ethics for guidance.

On how to wield words in the age of microblogging and memes.

He needed a story.

Chained together.

An inspiration.

Because we’re (for all intents and purposes) inseparable.

We can dream of $500,000 ($400,000)…as the “major D”…even the mâitre’d…if we’re feeling saucy.

Dream of land.

But what was Everett’s dream?

We know only later.

To spend 84 years in jail.

Released:  1987.

Incarcerated at age 3?

Not counting on these two to do the taxes.

The KKK took his baby away.  –Joey Ramone

Seems very Bohemian Grove.

But we don’t know these things.

We only know what we’ve gleaned from D.W. Griffith.

These synchronized David Dukes are meant to evoke a temple of doom.

It is the hinge (brisure) in the whole film (if we are doing a deconstructionist reading à la Derrida).

And thus auteur theory is vindicated.

Joel Coen had something to get off his chest regarding the treatment of blacks, JEWS, Catholics, etc.

We could deconstruct from there.

It’s easy.

Top psychiatrist Steve Pieczenik does it breezily when he traces Jill Stein back to her Jewish Chicago roots which give her the privilege to run as an agnostic.

But the Coen brothers are timeless artists here.

They have found the trick.

Hillary’s coven must have been on hiatus for the past few weeks.

Demoralized.

But it’s hard to fight back the tears as they get in front of that lozenge mic I’d associate with RCA…

As the Soggy Bottom Boys emerge from obscurity.

And they have a fan base (constituents).

And these mythical performers were not even confirmed to exist.

In the flesh.

Ah, but public relations…

He was proto- “drain the swamp” with his little man and broom.

But the planets shifted.

And he’s on a hot mic inserting both feet into his mouth, one at a time, very slowly, with each succeeding word.

The way politics works.

In Mississippi.  Louisiana.  Texas.

Suck on a cigar.  Think it over.  Maybe some cognac or brandy.

And seize upon an opportunity.

To hire the best.

The best who have appeared on this stage at this moment for this very reason.

Three years after Titanic and the Coen brothers wanted a weightless freak show of inanimate objects floating as Japanese melange symbolism.

I am the man with the can.  Not Dapper Dan.  And no record-cutting lathe.

Just a tin of tobacco.  My floating life.  And all we’ve been through.

Memory soup.

We pull up to the aquarium to peer into the mysteries of other realities.

And, by so doing, try to make sense out of our own.

-PD

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Citizenfour [2014)

Four days till the US election.

OK, three.

But we must take a look at things as they seem.

And analyze what they might be.

I have always written about Edward Snowden glowingly.

But this film is an enigma.

If you know the history of film, you realize that certain filmmakers (particularly Robert Flaherty) presented staged events as if they were documentaries.

This is known as docufiction.

And if you have followed my take on the two US Presidential candidates (Johnson and Stein can suck it…though Stein has true credibility), you’ll know that my assessment of Trump and Clinton has been mainly through the lens of film.

What we (I) look for is credibility.

Having watched all three Presidential debates (in addition to extensive supplemental research), it has been a no-brainer to conclude that Hillary Clinton has ZERO credibility while Donald Trump has immense credibility.

The differentiation could not be more mark-ed.

[Docu-fiction]

But what about Edward Snowden?

Let me start off by saying that Mr. Snowden does not come off as a wholly believable whistleblower in this film.

Perhaps Laura Poitras’ inexperience as a filmmaker is to blame.

Perhaps it is indeed because Edward Snowden is no actor.

But Mr. Snowden is completely inscrutable and opaque in this documentary.

HOWEVER…

there is something about his ostensible North Carolina drawl which rings true.

And so there are two major possibilities…

  1. Edward Snowden is an extremely brave individual who succeeded in “defecting to the side of the public” (to paraphrase)
  2. Edward Snowden is a superspy

I had read of Snowden.  In studying what he had leaked, his credibility seemed beyond a shadow of a doubt.  Such a damaging agent could not possibly have been a Trojan horse operation (so I thought).

Indeed, the most believable part of this film is the last 10 minutes or so.

Sadly, my “copy” of the movie switched to a German overdub for this final segment.

Which is to say, I was more focused on images in the finale.

Every once in a while I was able to make out the beginning of a phrase from William Binney or Glenn Greenwald.

At all other times during this last portion, the German superimposed upon the English made the latter an almost palimpsest.

My German is that bad.

Entschuldigung.

But here are my reservations concerning hypothesis #1 (from above).

A).  Glenn Greenwald’s earliest interview after the leak was clearly shot with the skyline of Hong Kong in the background.  It is somewhat inconceivable that the NSA in conjunction with the CIA (and possibly the FBI or DIA) did not immediately follow Greenwald’s every move from that point forward (courtesy of operatives under the Hong Kong station chief of the CIA).

B).  Glenn Greenwald is a little too smooth to be believable (the same going for Snowden).  Greenwald’s sheer fluency in Portuguese (a bizarre choice for a second language) seems particularly suspect.  The credulous me wants to believe that Greenwald is simply brilliant.  The incredulous me sees Greenwald as just as much a CIA operative as Snowden.

Indeed, hypothesis #2 would be that Edward Snowden is in fact a CIA operative.  His complete calm at The Mira hotel in Hong Kong does not harmonize with a computer geek who just lifted the largest cache of the most top-secret files in world history.  Instead, his mannerisms almost all point to someone who has been hardened and trained at Camp Peary rather than someone who grew up so conveniently close to NSA headquarters.

Snowden is admittedly a former employee of the CIA.

But what could the purpose of such a Trojan horse exercise possibly be?

One strong possibility comes to mind.

As we learn in Dr. Strangelove, there’s no purpose in having a “doomsday machine” if the enemy doesn’t know about it.

In fact, we don’t even need cinema to illustrate this.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were demonstrations as much as they were mass-murder war crimes.

Weapons are “tested” often as much for the power of display as for the exercise of weapon efficacy.

But the world has always been a weird place.

And it is indeed possible that Edward Snowden is an idealistic, independent party in this affair.

The esteemed Dr. Steve Pieczenik (of whom I have spoken much recently) has lately called Snowden “no hero”.

I’m not exactly sure what he means by that.

Possibly Pieczenik knows the Snowden affair to positively be an intel operation.

Possibly Dr. Pieczenik (whom I respect deeply) merely sees Snowden as of no great bravery when compared to the men and women (both military and intelligence employees) who risk their lives on battlefields across the world…by direct order through the US chain of command.

But Dr. Pieczenik has also pointed out that some orders must be disobeyed.

That is part of the responsibility of defending the Constitution “against all enemies foreign and domestic”.

So we have a very interesting case here.

And it directly parallels our current election choices.

What SEEMS to be?

What is patriotism?

At what point must standard operating procedures be put aside?

What constitutes peaceful protest?

Who among us has the duty and privilege to spearhead a countercoup?

I’ve often thought to myself that I would be a horrible NSA employee because I would have a framed picture of Snowden on my desk.

Suffice it to say, I’m sure that is strictly NOT ALLOWED.

But this film makes me doubt the Snowden story.

As a further instructive detail, why does Snowden (in this film) feel so confident in his ability to withstand torture (!) as a means of coercing from him his password(s)?

Again, that does not sound like a standard ability of an “infrastructure analyst”.

Snowden does not admit in this film to ever having been a field operative.

Indeed, it almost feels like Louisiana Story or Tabu:  A Story of the South Seas when Snowden drapes a red article of cloth over his head and torso to ostensibly prevent Greenwald and Poitras from visually seeing his keystrokes.

It is overly dramatic.

These are thoughts.

No doubt, someone knows much more than me about the truth in this strange tale.

And so the film is, in turns, shockingly brilliant and daftly mediocre.

In a strange way, it is just as suspect as James Bamford’s books on the NSA (which I have long suspected were really NSA propaganda pieces).

One of the keys to propaganda and social engineering is gaining the trust of your targets.

In a large-scale psychological operation, the entire world (more or less) is the target.

Back to cinema, we need look no further than Eva Marie Saint “shooting” Cary Grant in North by Northwest.

Yes, Body of Secrets (Bamford) was damaging to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and US military in general (the revelation of Operation Northwoods) while also exposing Israel as a craven “ally” (the USS Liberty “incident”).

But if we are not careful, we are taken in by these juicy bits of “truth” (in all likelihood, very much true) on our way to accepting the whole book as an accurate exposé.

And this is what makes the world of intelligence so tricky.

Like a chess game in which you are blindsided by a brilliant move.

It takes years (perhaps decades) or an innate brilliance (perhaps both) to discern the organic from the synthetic in the shifting sands of this relativistic world of espionage.

I can only guess and gut.

 

-PD

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