27-09-2010, 09:15 PM
As I noted in a discussion in a different universe http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/f...&p=1158345
"It seems that the debate is about the credibility and integrity of Madsen, since the first phrase in the first sentence in the first link says that he has uncovered CIA files.... Did he? Yes, as there are references, notations as to dates, even an image or two that is indirect and blacked out, but it is Madsen's "dot connecting" that makes the tale. [There may be a need to review past articles by Madsen to determine his focus and historical accuracy with regard to the CIA.]
So once again we can question his ability to connect the dots or whether the dots he has connected can be verified independently so we the reader can also connect the dots.
Which is why I put up the Pilger piece...
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezcr18NTOtA ]
as here we have someone from a different side of the planet making the same connections. Pilger, at least, was closer to the Indonesian mess.
It also has shades of the way in which banks and businesses have been used as "fronts" for shady and nefarious activities, something we can see as historically accurate when we examine what happened in the BCCI history, or Prescott Bush's Union Banking Corporation. This may fall into the category of "if it acts like a duck"....
And we also have to keep in mind the extensive efforts in the past through Commissions, presidential actions, the role (or silence) of the press, et alia in masking the means and methods of the CIA, and to assist in clothing the agency's "crown jewels".
As a side note, Cheri Seymour's book "The Last Circle" and Hank Albarelli's book "A Terrible Mistake" are both due here in the next few days."
"It seems that the debate is about the credibility and integrity of Madsen, since the first phrase in the first sentence in the first link says that he has uncovered CIA files.... Did he? Yes, as there are references, notations as to dates, even an image or two that is indirect and blacked out, but it is Madsen's "dot connecting" that makes the tale. [There may be a need to review past articles by Madsen to determine his focus and historical accuracy with regard to the CIA.]
So once again we can question his ability to connect the dots or whether the dots he has connected can be verified independently so we the reader can also connect the dots.
Which is why I put up the Pilger piece...
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezcr18NTOtA ]
as here we have someone from a different side of the planet making the same connections. Pilger, at least, was closer to the Indonesian mess.
It also has shades of the way in which banks and businesses have been used as "fronts" for shady and nefarious activities, something we can see as historically accurate when we examine what happened in the BCCI history, or Prescott Bush's Union Banking Corporation. This may fall into the category of "if it acts like a duck"....
And we also have to keep in mind the extensive efforts in the past through Commissions, presidential actions, the role (or silence) of the press, et alia in masking the means and methods of the CIA, and to assist in clothing the agency's "crown jewels".
As a side note, Cheri Seymour's book "The Last Circle" and Hank Albarelli's book "A Terrible Mistake" are both due here in the next few days."
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