I cannot believe how the USA media is willing to be corrupted to carry out political power under the guise of pertinent information for the electorate of a nation.
I thought I was finished with this. I wrote an extensive opinion/assessment that I believed was the definitive answer to the media frenzy to attack President Obama.
Then.
Today.
There was still yet another assault. I can't believe the crap the media is pumping out to defend their idea of importance. So, let me write still yet again to clarify and clean up the crap. I don't mind. If the Press can shovel the shit against a tide, then I suppose I can shovel to back again. It is the least I can do for an industry we are all suppose to trust with our lives.
Today, the Press is saying the Obama Administration wanted to beat them to the punch to announce this international incident. They asked the Press to wait on it's publication. Not that lives were hanging in the balance like an embedded CIA agent or anything important. So, now and I don't know if any of it can be considered truthful at this point; President Obama was going to announce this incident to the public and asked the AP to wait yet another day. There is nothing anywhere to indicate President Obama was planning on talking about this to the nation, so who knows, but that is what the AP is stating.
Actually all that mess is irrelevant to the issue at hand. I don't state that lightly.
Kindly remember these words, "If there is substantial threat to investigation."
The point to the investigation by DOJ is not about whether the public was told the information or whether it was the AP that told the public the information or whether it was the President that told the public the information. Telling the public about this incident has NOTHING to do with it.
Let me state that again. Telling the public about this incident has nothing to do with any of this even though it serves the AP to state as much. The 'idea' this was a vital political announcement by the AP or President Obama is nonsense. The public should never have received this information by ANYONE.
Kindly remember as soon as the Obama Administration realized there was a severe leak to this CIA OPERATION it would have taken action to protect it's CIA AGENT(S). So, there was no danger to the personnel involved, at least I hope not. The Obama Executive Branch would have acted to protect any personnel in danger once the leak was known.
The problem is the leak itself. The meaning of the information published to the public was assigned by the AP for the purpose of politics and impacting an election. That was not the purpose of the CIA OPERATION. The CIA operation is the important focus here.
I know the AP wants to believe they were acting in emergent patriotic content, but, they were grossly "W"rong and full of hubris. If there was a journalist receiving this information, an editor entertaining the publishing of it and a CEO overseeing it, I would have to believe they were completely naive about any aspect of this to actually never balance the security surrounding the Olympics against an exclusive article to publish. Do I believe the AP was naive? Hell, no. You've got to be joking.
Realize now, the CIA was successfully finding danger to innocent people at a time when anyone would expect there to be such a focus on London. That is at anytime in recent history. Okay? That has nothing to do with what was stated by President Obama when he told the nation we were winning against al Qaeda. I would think it would be obvious we were winning against al Qaeda. Bin Laden is dead. But, this operation was about protecting people when any government of any nation would be expecting such attacks by al Qaeda before, during or after a global event, the Olympics.
Right now I am quite sure the Russian government is developing their national security realizing they are hosting the Olympic in Sochi next year.
This type of danger is not going to disappear no matter how the global community is winning against such networks of death. There will always be a demand on the intelligence communities in the world at such times, so this 'tilt' by the AP is even more outrageous when put into context.
Please accept this fact over the news networks static, the CIA was carrying out a successful operation. A vital operation with the upcoming Olympics in London, knowing full well London had been struck by terrorists before in it's railway and bus system. Not only that but there was a question about the security to the Olympics and UK was calling in their own national military to protect the people attending the Olympics. There was a security problem on top of the fact London was a focus for terrorism. So the CIA operation was a great comfort to the British government. At least one aspect of their security was intact and combating any danger to the people.
That is the focus of DOJ. The DOJ doesn't care about the news reporting to the public. The FACT is the information was never suppose to reach the AP in the first place because it compromised the CIA operation. Once the AP notified the White House with their leaked information the White House went into panic mode. At that time, an arm of security to the Olympics had been compromised. Somehow, some way, someone compromised the CIA operation. The CIA then had to close down their operation and remove personnel. They had to save their own lives now that the knowledge of this operation was known. The CIA had no idea whether they could continue or not or whether the information from that point forward would be valuable. It could even be sabotage.
Any further information from that CIA operation was not only breached, but, the White House, Homeland Security, the CIA, the FBI and any international intelligence agency didn't know how this happened. They still don't know. As far as they were concerned they were AND are still flying blind about what occurred with the AP's published article.
The DOJ has to get to the bottom of this.
That is the issue. That is why the DOJ carried out the investigation. It is why the DOJ is still carrying out an investigation. Our nation's security network was breached and no one, but, the Associated Press knows why or by whom.
It is completely understandable why the DOJ carried out an investigation without first consulting with the Associated Press. Besides that, the PROTOCOL for the Executive Branch of the USA states clearly, "If there is substantial threat to investigation." all bets are off and the STANDARD PROTOCOL is overridden by the national security of the USA.
I could not agree more.
I find the actions by the Associated Press full of self-righteousness and self directed importance. Basically, the Associated Press destroyed a CIA Operation that literally could lead to more danger to people in London, more headlines to report of an attack that got through security and more reason to defeat Obama's reelection.
Understand why this is so serious?
The Associated Press decided they could play god with lives, national security for at least two nations and political elections in at least one and publish headlines the entire time. They were creating their own news through the power of their position in regard to this leak. They treated their power as if unending, omnipotent and the only power that was important. Damn the lives involved, the Press was the new Overlord to the world.
The other complaint I heard today was how the Obama DOJ was now carrying out three investigations of the Press. Why is that not a surprise to me? The Press is complaining this is more than ever before in history.
Really.
Well, the Press should not feel alone, AG Holder is deporting more illegal immigrants than any other administration before them. I am sure if there are illegal immigrants among the Press they'll be deported, too.
So, it is very interesting from my point of view to watch news agencies I basically loved all my adult life carry on with their own propaganda to promote NOT national security to the USA, but, more power for themselves while attempting to destroy any forward movement of the Obama Executive Branch.
Wow, has this week been an eye opener for me. So, who knows what I'll be writing after this entry, because the Press' creative writing skills is far better than their ability to find something to report.
I look forward to the outcome of the DOJ investigation.
US officials say the plot involved al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen. Photograph: AFP/Getty
The CIA (click here) has thwarted a plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, according to the Associated Press.
US officials say the plot involved an "upgrade" of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009.
This new bomb was also built to be used in a passenger's underwear but contained a more refined detonation system.
The FBI is examining the latest bomb to see whether it could have passed through airport security and brought down an airplane, officials said. They said the device did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have passed through an airport metal detector. But it was not clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have detected it.
The would-be suicide bomber, based in Yemen, had not yet picked a target or bought his plane tickets when the CIA stepped in and seized the bomb, officials said. It is not immediately clear what happened to the alleged bomber....
