Blogged by Brad Friedman on the road to Denver…
Glenn Greenwald returns from his vacation rested and ready to keep up his devastating work on the anthrax beat over at Salon. On Monday, he noted how the FBI’s timeline for the supposed Anthrax Killer, Bruce Ivans’ trip to mail deadly letters in Princeton, NJ, was literally impossible. So the FBI just leaked a different theory to the Washington Post, who had uncritically reported their first one. Again, the new theory was dutifully passed on uncritically, without the reporters even bothering to note that their first reported theory was wholly debunked.
Writes Greenwald (in reference to the Post here, but feel free to replace its name with virtually any other MSM outlet of your choice):
That’s because The Post’s role here has been and continues to be what the establishment media’s role generally is — to serve government sources and amplify their claims, not to investigate their veracity. That’s how it was Saddam Hussein who was the original anthrax culprit, followed by Steven Hatfill, and now Bruce Ivins. It’s how Jessica Lynch heroically fought off Iraqi goons in a firefight, how Pat Tillman stood down Al Qaeda monsters until they murdered him, how Iraq possessed mountains of WMDs, and now, how Russia has assaulted the consensus values of the Western World by invading a sovereign country and occupying parts of it for a whole week, etc. etc. All of those narratives came from the Government directly into the pages of The Washington Post, which then uncritically conveyed them, often (as in the case of the Jessica Lynch lies and WMD claims) playing a leading role in doing so.
He then follows up with this eerily all-too familiar refrain, at least for me and likely most long time BRAD BLOG readers:
Welcome to my world, Glenn.
He continues…
As always, in Establishment Media World, nothing is more insane or radical than refusing to believe every word the Government says. Even after Iraqi mushroom clouds and the whole litany of Government falsehoods, the establishment hallmark of Seriousness and Sanity is accepting the Government’s word. When it says Iraq was behind the attacks, then it was. When they said Hatfill was the culprit, he was. Now that they say that Ivins is, he is, and only “conspiracy theorists” — comparable to those who disbelieve we landed on the moon — would question that or demand to see the actual evidence. The FBI is relying, understandably so, on their mindless allies in the media to depict its case against Ivins as so airtight that no real investigation is necessary.
Glad to hear it’s not just us. Apparently, we’re now in very good company, even as our Outlaw Nation continues to crumble around us. To the corporate MSM, however, everything is just fine.
And then you have this whopper:
WTF?
It turns out that it wasn’t just Ivins. The current (8/25) edition of American Free Press points out (p.6) that no fewer than 24 bioterrorism experts have ‘mysteriously’ died over the last seven years. Suggest you read it; it is a litany of murder.
Dear Brad:
Mainstream press once speculated about the two Pentagon mailboxes that had traces of anthrax in them, but they didn’t know who used them because “they weren’t assigned to anyone at the time”. That was it… nothing further was said about this, to my knowlege. Anyone out there who knows how this was resolved? Inquiring minds want to know, even if the Pentagon seems to be stymied, as it has been so often under Jingo Georgie’s rule.
But since this and other clues had this deadly mailing originating from our country, I surmised at the time that this was the main reason that we refused to sign on to the Biological Weapons treaty soon after these attacks by home grown fascists against anti-fascistic folk. We were the only nation of the over one hundred nations who failed to sign, insisting that we must take another year to study the treaty and bring it up for approval then. Of course, that year has come and gone and apparently no one put this information into their “bring up” file and thought to check up on further action on the treaty several years ago… or did they?
We could not afford to have the treaty provision enforced which allowed any amd all signatories to come into our bailiwick and investigate the source of agents that had been delivered to another signatory nation. You’ll recall that one anthrax package was sent into Switzerland! Those pesky loose ends are so inconvenient to government coverups, but fortunately we have the mainstream press to help ignore them.
It’s only a matter of time and truth before we discern our MAIN STREAM as having been, for some time now, BLOOD RIVER. The hands of America are covered with that telltale stuff, and most of the world’s citizenry, including some of ours, could not help but notice. Corporatism is fascism, just ask an expert… start with Il Duce.
Oh, hell, guys, if Russia can be the bad guy in the Georgia fracas, what’s wrong with just pinning it on Saddam and calling it a day?
Or is that already reserved for after the “election”? 🙁