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Subject: [A-List] The Poison Pill
It is an old
intelligence game--"the poison pill"--that works the reverse of the old
"salting the mine" (planting a bit of gold to make a baren mine look
potentially fertile). When a story is getting out of hand and causing a threat
to elements of one's own base (e.g. National Guard and Reserve Troops possibly
getting turned off with the preppy moron's favored treatment when he was sort
of in the Texas Guard), you plant some documents that appear authentic
and are potentially quite damaging to your own cause, let the scoop-obsessed
media run with it for awhile, then pull the plug at a propitious moment
showing that the planted documents are forgeries thus "poisoning" not only the
documents but the whole story as well. The whores (with all due respect to
"sex workers") in the media, whose own spiral of SUCKcess in media requires
access to get the next scoop in order to get more exposure, in order to become
a bigger name, in order to get even more expanded access... will apologize all
over the place for having ben sucked in with forged documents and teh story
then shift to the forged documents not what the documents were about and
whether or not the CONTENT of those documents was correct or who indeed passed
those documents in the first place.
During the 1980
election the same thing was done with the October Surprise story. When the
evidence mounted that REagan-Bush had cut a deal with elments in Iran to keep
American hostages until after the election to deny Carter an electoral
victory, and when "respected" analysts like Gary Sick were joining in so that
it became more than just another "conspiracy theory" up stepped Richard
Brenneke (who had real bona fides has a former CIA Contract pilot and indeed a
pilot for Poppy Bush) to say that he had flown Bush 41 to a secret meeting in
Paris that Bush claimed he never attended. It all looked very lethal and
damaging for Bush 41 until, supposedly to reasearch the story, a novice
reporter was given access to Brenneke's personal papers, including gas
receipts, and voila, this nocive reporter, "discovers" a gas receipt showing
Brenneke in Orergon on the day he claimed to have flown Poppy Bush to Paris.
The story explodes, Brenneke is thoroughly discredited, and all of a sudden
the WHOLE story, irrefutable facts and all, is discredited and consigned
to the realm of nut case "conspiracy theory."
The CBS story
about Bush's illustrious Guard "service" is nothing more than but a replay of
this previous "poison pill" scenario with a compliant mainstream press and a
lot of really dumb people falling into line and taking their eyes of the
irrefuatable facts and their real implications.
Jim
C
James M. Craven
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