Who Would Think To Make A Comedy About Assassinating A Current National Leader?!

[Peter Lemkin]

As we all know - or should - the intelligence and military communities play a large part in what gets into film and how it is portrayed. Though a 'comedy', how would any country - the UK or USA, for example react to a comedy film on the assassination of their sitting leaders?! I think not well. While it is not 100% if N. Korea is behind the hacking and subsequent threats about showing of 'The Interview', it is possible and they are certainly tag-teaming with whoever is involved. It was stupid and ill-advised to even think of writing a screenplay on that topic - let alone film it. Sony will suffer for their stupidity and being led by the nose by what I presume are intelligence assets who led them to do it. Even worse, is the precedent now of pulling a film [bad as it is] and never showing it due to vague threats. A total debacle - but what can one expect when there is another one-night-stand between intelligence and Hollywood.

[Peter Lemkin]

This morning CBS news aired an interview with former notorious computer hacker Hector Monsegur about the cyberattack on Sony's computers and email systems.

See: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sony-hack-fo...sponsible/ (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sony-hack-fo...sponsible/) .

This interview left me with a number of questions on my mind.

Mr. Monsegur stated that North Korea simply could not have conducted the cyberattack because of the insufficiency of its Internet infrastructure.

He also stated that no one could exfiltrate a terabyte of data over a short period of time. He said that it would take weeks, if not months, to do, and it probably could not happen undetected.

If North Korea doesn't have the capability to do such a thing, and do it undetected, then who could? The United States government, that's who!

Mr. Monsegur speculates that it was a Sony insider who perpetrated the hack on Sony's computers and who then sold the data to someone who presumably passed it on to the media.

If this were, in fact, the case, don't you think that the F.B.I. could have tracked things down back to the original perpetrators by now? Of course, if our own government was the perp, then the F.B.I. would let things slide.

The next question on my mind is: why would the main stream media disseminate the contents of Sony's email? If it were known that the source was from an alleged hacking incident, then the media would be crazy to trust the admitted dishonest source, but they went with publicizing it all instead. One more thing: Sony is a media company. You'd think that other media companies would be in solidarity with a fellow media company and would respect Sony's privacy as they would be concerned about their own... BUT THE MASS MEDIA HAD NO SUCH RESPECT FOR A FELLOW MEDIA COMPANY!!

Who controls... who pulls the strings of the main stream media? Why, the main stream media is known to be government controlled media. If the government wants one media company to stomp on another media company, then this is exactly what will happen.

The government, per last report, wants to pin the blame for the cyberattack and its subsequent terror threats against theaters on the North Koreans who have issued a denal. If North Korea was behind the terror threat on theaters, then why in the world would they negate the force of that threat by denying things?

This whole episode smacks of a false flag attack.

Be on guard for the next shoe to drop meaning the next false flag attack to be attributed to North Korea and the next fraudulent war.

[Magda Hassan]

Sony has been the subject of hacking attacks in the past and it has been revealing what sort of a company they are. They are one of the heavy hitters in the TPPI, SOPA and such as an be seen by some of the emails. And they've been very careless with their customer's information which has upset any. Clearly it is not NK as they don't have the where with all to do it even if they wanted. Though the US is setting the up as the patsy with planned cinema atrocity and all. But one has to ask oneself if Russia or NK made a film about assassinating a real and current US president do you think the NSA or CIA or even FBI would just stand by and think it okay? I can see even more draconian paranoid copyright and internet repression laws and a further isolation if not outright hostilities against NK. Big win for the west.

[David Guyatt]

I can see even more draconian paranoid copyright and internet repression laws and a further isolation if not outright hostilities against NK. Big win for the west.

Big film studios are losing their grip on what has been a captive market and they don't like it. The recent decision in the UK (and elsewhere) not to extend the criminal law to streaming piracy films over the internet must've hit Hollywood and environs hard, as they planned to ensure that a commercial business was protected by the full force of the criminal law - not simply civil law (which big corporations routinely ignore as a matter of policy anyway). It didn't work out for them, and we now know from the recent leaks that the film business has drawn up plans to counter the piracy industry by all means necessary. Tie that together with a chance to engage North Korea with a propaganda campaign making them even more of a outlaw nation and it seems tho tick all the boxes.

[Magda Hassan]

Although the US is busy spinning this as an attack on them and a national security matters for the US it is actually an attack on Japan. South Korea doesn't like Japan any more than NK does. And they have the technical means.

[Albert Doyle]

Agreed. They've managed to hijack this to a discussion of the alleged hacking of Sony by North Korea. The real issue should be why, after all the crimes and illegal activity CIA has been exposed as doing, is CIA assassination being portrayed as normal and acceptable in a movie? This new generation is moronically unaware that CIA had laws created against it preventing it from doing any further assassinations back in the 1970's. The Sony movie is a psy-ops battle for American minds and the acceptance of CIA as a given assassination enterprise.

[Richard Coleman]

how would any country - the UK or USA, for example react to a comedy film on the assassination of their sitting leaders?! I think not well.

Peter:

To further your point, if an enemy country like, say Venezuela allowed a major picture showing (i.e. advocating) the assassination of Obama, with an American cast, writers and director to be produced and marketed, (just for laughs, of course!) would our presently outraged first-amendment liberals defend showing THAT? Methinks not.

There would be a whole other discussion taking place.

Definition of a liberal: "Ten dgrees to the left of center in good times -- ten degres to the right of center when it affects them personally."
-- Phil Ochs ::

[Albert Doyle]

How would Dallas react to wanted posters for treason for President Kennedy?

[Lauren Johnson]

Uh Oh. The State Department was heavily involved in The Interview. This is just lots more of the same shit. From Antiwar.com by Dan Sanchez

Sony's decision yesterday to cancel its release of The Interview after being hacked and threatened by a group that may or may not be tied with the North Korean government has been the top story in the media ever since. Decidedly less-covered, and almost completely obscured by the cancellation, is another revelation made yesterday about the movie that is actually far more important.
The Daily Beast reported yesterday on leaked emails from the Sony hack which show that the United States government was involved at high levels with the content development of The Interview, especially its controversial ending depicting the assassination of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un. As the report's headline states, "Sony Emails Say State Department Blessed Kim Jong-Un Assassination in The Interview.'" The emails also reveal that a RAND corporation senior defense analyst who consulted on the film went beyond "blessing" and outright influenced the end of the film, encouraging the CEO of Sony Entertainment to leave the assassination scene as it was (in spite of misgivings at Sony) for the sake of encouraging North Koreans to actually assassinate Kim Jong-Un and depose his regime when the movie eventually leaks into that country. According to the Sony CEO, a senior US State Department official emphatically and personally seconded that advice and reasoning in a separate correspondence. The emails also reveal that the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human-rights issues also consulted with Sony on the film.
While a tiny nation state possibly being involved in scuppering a movie premiere by hacking and threatening a Hollywood studio by proxy may be more novel and sensational than yet another psyop by the US Regime Change Machine, the latter is far more important. The United States, as part of its "Asian Pivot," made an explicit push for assassination and regime change in yet another foreign country under the cover of art and commerce, and the North Korean regime and its ally China are both now 100% aware of it. That has huge implications for politics in the region, for US relations with those countries, for the character and integrity of American art and media, and for the mischievous, generally havoc-wreaking way our government is secretly using our tax dollars.
Imagine how the U.S. and its CIA would respond if a major movie studio anywhere in the world were to make a film centered around the assassination of a sitting U.S. President: especially if a foreign government was involved, pushing for just such an assassination. That North Korea, or any state, might respond with speech-suppressing attacks and threats is not to be excused, but it should be no surprise either. Yet the US was more than happy to help foment a predictable crisis like this, thereby putting its own people at risk. And it did so by surreptitiously penetrating Hollywood to steer it toward using "artistic" existential threats to taunt a nation-state that is such a basket-case that it would only be dangerous to Americans if made desperate by such existential threats. That shows what little regard our "security force" has for our actual security, as compared to pursuing global power politics.
On a side note, this makes one wonder if the State Department also pushed for this other memorable dictator-detonating scene from Charlie Sheen's 1991 comedy Hot Shots, depicting regime-enemy Saddam Hussein catching a bomb in his lap while sipping a cocktail in his poolside lounge chair.
Here are the key passages from the Daily Beast report (emphasis added):

"The Daily Beast has unearthed several emails that reveal at least two U.S. government officials screened a rough cut of the Kim Jong-Un assassination comedy The Interview in late June and gave the filmincluding a final scene that sees the dictator's head explodetheir blessing. (…)

A series of leaked emails reveal that Sony enlisted the services of Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation who specializes in North Korea, to consult with them on The Interview. After he saw the film, including the gruesome ending where a giant missile hits Kim Jong-Un's helicopter in slow-mo as Katy Perry's "Firework" plays, and Kim's head catches on fire and explodes, Bennett gave his assessment of it in a June 25 email to Lynton, just five days after North Korea's initial threat.

"The North has never executed an artillery attack against the balloon launching areas. So it is very hard to tell what is pure bluster from North Korea, since they use the term act of war' so commonly," wrote Bennett. "I also thought a bunch more about the ending. I have to admit that the only resolution I can see to the North Korean nuclear and other threats is for the North Korean regime to eventually go away."

He added, "In fact, when I have briefed my book on preparing for the possibility of a North Korean collapse' [Sept 2013], I have been clear that the assassination of Kim Jong-Un is the most likely path to a collapse of the North Korean government. Thus while toning down the ending may reduce the North Korean response, I believe that a story that talks about the removal of the Kim family regime and the creation of a new government by the North Korean people (well, at least the elites) will start some real thinking in South Korea and, I believe, in the North once the DVD leaks into the North (which it almost certainly will). So from a personal perspective, I would personally prefer to leave the ending alone."

That same day, Lynton responded saying that a U.S. government official completely backed Bennett's assessment of the film.

"BruceSpoke to someone very senior in State (confidentially)," wrote Lynton. "He agreed with everything you have been saying. Everything. I will fill you in when we speak."

The following day, June 26, an email from Bennett to Lyntonas well as several other forwarded emailsrevealed that Robert King, U.S. special envoy for North Korean human-rights issues, was helping to consult on the film as well through Bennett and addressed the June 20 threat by North Korea."

[Peter Lemkin]

The FBI and other agencies have said that they are 'sure' the hacking and the threats were done by NK - but refuse to offer any substantive proofs [other than saying if follows a pattern of other hacks and threats they also determined were done by NK]. Experts have pointed out that it is extremely difficult and takes a long time of exhaustive research to determine such things - and that this determination came impossibly quickly. Also, that the pieces of malware used by hackers in such attacks are often the same, are available on 'dark parts' of the internet, and thus defy quick identification - as anyone could get and use them. They also claim the attack came from a NK IP address - but that is very easy for any hacker anywhere to do. Remember how long [months] before anyone even ventured to say where the stuxnet attack came from...but this was determined in about 24 hours or less.....it smells bad. It wouldn't even surprise me if we find out that some intel agency had the idea to make a film with this theme to begin with...though I know of no such evidence.

Documents released by Snowden showed that the NSA in 2011 alone staged over 400 directed cyber attacks - many of them on N. Korea - but that is never mentioned in the MSM mouthpieces for the Borg. I wouldn't even put it past the NSA to have been behind this cyber attack - making it a false flag attack that can be used to attack NK in some way 'in return'. Whatever the truth of this hall of mirrors, any hint of who was really behind it will not come out for months, at the minimum...if ever.