The UK Telegaph reacts to the Richard Falk case: "UN Human Rights Official Claims 9-11 Was US Plot"

[Paul Rigby]

I've long considered that Colby quote to be a boast, a carefully calculated overstatement, by DCIA.

Having spent more than 15 years making films for the BBC, (as MSM as MSM gets), and American MSM such as National Geographic and Discovery, my sense would be that intelligence services own people in key commissioning and editorial positions in all MSM organs, either through direct control or leverage (blackmail).

However, there are many coalface journalists that the intelligence agencies don't own, and so occasionally important work is done within MSM. Usually it is squashed or sanitized prior to transmission -either by company lawyers, intel-owned editorial managers or D-notices (National Security restrictions).

What Jan omitted to mention is that all journos at the BBC are subject to MI5 vetting: MI5 has long had - presumably still does - an office within the BBC for precisely this purpose. There is abundant evidence that anyone considered "unsound" suffers at the BBC, either being re-routed into safer areas, denied promotion(s), or simply dumped. Why anyone with an ounce of genuine commitment to free speech and independent investigation would persist with such an appalling organization is, frankly, baffling.

A journalist such as Robert Fisk, employed by an MSM newspaper - The Independent -is not, in my judgement, owned by any intelligence agency.

Fisk was one of a number of journalists who left N. Ireland after MI5 routed MI6 in the savage war (chiefly of proxy) in the mid-1970s. Coincidence? And if The Independent really was what it says on the masthead, it wouldn't last a minute.