Dueling Nonsense

[Jan Klimkowski]

I'm assuming that Cheney's comments are satire rather than genuine.

Putin allegedly said:

To imagine that US intelligence services did it deliberately, with their own hands, is complete nonsense," the prime minister said. "Only people who do not understand the workings of security agencies can say that. It would be impossible to conceal it."

This is framing of the material to make an emphatic statement which is, in reality, heavily caveated.

False flag operations are carried out by small, compartmentalized, cells.

The CIA, as a security agency, did not plot and execute the assassination of JFK and its coverup.

However, CIA elements, agents, were almost certainly involved in the plotting, execution and coverup of the JFK murder.

Also, the "hands" (to use Putin's phrase) that perform such actions are usually not directly employed by security agencies.

Putin's statement can be dissected still further.

But life is short, and Vlad is a liar.