"Conspiracy Theory"

[Jan Klimkowski]

In the NYT faux insider expose of the Raymond "Jason Bourne" Davis fiasco, we find the following:

The perils of this approach were laid bare on March 17, 2011, the day after Davis was released from prison and spirited out of the country. C.I.A. drones attacked a tribal council meeting in the village of Datta Khel, in North Waziristan, killing dozens of men. Ambassador Munter and some at the Pentagon thought the timing of the strike was disastrous, and some American officials suspected that the massive strike was the C.I.A. venting its anger about the Davis episode. More important, however, many American officials believed that the strike was botched, and that dozens of people died who shouldn't have.

Other American officials came to the C.I.A.'s defense, saying that the tribal gathering was in fact a meeting of senior militants and therefore a legitimate target. But the drone strike unleashed a furious response in Pakistan, and street protests in Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar forced the temporary closure of American consulates in those cities.

So MSM hints that high level insiders believe the CIA drone strike on Datta Khel was not driven even by a national security rationale, but by a desire to punish Pakistan for daring to arrest a hired CIA killer who had murdered people in the streets of Lahore. The NYT also states that innocent peoeple died in the drone attack.

So, prima facie this is a CIA war crime, and crime against humanity, for which Panetta and Obama are ultimately responsible.

In the bizarre discourse that passes for normality, to accuse the Director of the CIA and the President of the United States of a war crime would be regarded as a "conspiracy theory".

Such is the Alice in Wonderland reality that we are fed every minute of every day.