Greenwald:
After Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, exposing the lies, brutality and inhumanity that drove America's role in the Vietnam War, President Nixon and Henry Kissinger infamously plotted to smear his reputation and destroy his credibility...
This weekend, WikiLeaks released over 400,000 classified documents of the Iraq War detailing genuinely horrific facts about massive civilian death, U.S. complicity in widespread Iraqi torture, systematic government deceit over body counts, and the slaughter of civilians by American forces about which Daniel Ellsberg himself said, as the New York Times put it: "many of the civilian deaths there could be counted as murder."
Predictably, just as happened with Ellsberg, there is now a major, coordinated effort underway to smear WikiLeaks' founder, Julian Assange, and to malign his mental health -- all as a means of distracting attention away from these highly disturbing revelations and to impede the ability of WikiLeaks to further expose government secrets and wrongdoing with its leaks. But now, the smear campaign is led not by Executive Branch officials, but by members of the establishment media...
True enough, but let's not be premature on identifying this chain of command. The hacks at The New York Pravda or CNP (Cable News Pravda, what else?) aren't getting their orders from previous Executive Office occupants any more than they're getting them from the current occupants. They aren't just doing this to preserve their reputations or their sources of information, although as cheerleaders for the endless war they're certainly doing that.
Follow the money. Follow the money. The real puppeteers are those that are profiting from the endless war, the ones who decided to use 9-11 as a new Pearl Harbor, whether they planned ahead of it like Cheneyburton or simply used the militarization for fun and profit like Goldman-Sachs. They don't have to give the order for the hit on Assange. They have too many sycophants ready to do it for them.
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