June 4, 2004

  • Deceptions in the News


    (please pick your favorite deception)


      


    Deception 1: Operation Bodyguard kicked into full swing exactly 60 years ago today and remains possibly the biggest deception of all time.  This military operation was the campaign of disinformation fed to the Nazis to get them to believe that D-Day, aka the Normandy invasion, was merely a diversion and the real invasion was yet to be staged.  Operation Bodyguard was possible because the Allies cracked the German codes (Abwher and Enigma), knew all the German agents in the West, and killed or imprisoned any who didn’t become double agents for the good guys.  Without Operation Bodyguard, the note of defeat that Gen. Eisenhower wrote the night before D-day to read “just in case” would have likely spelled the 'concession heard round the world' and marked the beginning of the Allies end.


     


    Deception 2: Tenet resigns the CIA.  Of course, this deception involved not duping the enemy, but the American people.  I think providing a “slam-dunk” guarantee that civilization-threatening WMDs (Weapons on Mass Destruction) existed in Iraq as a pretext for invasion, whether willfully deceptive or not, is second only to Nixon’s “I am not a crook” for hoodwinking the good people of America.  Bush is really the one to blame.  He pressed Tenet to provide him “intelligentised” propaganda since the real intelligence, fairly assessed, was unconvincing.  Once again, the CIA has become the Concentrated Imbecile Association.


     


    Deception 3: Houdini’s tricks are revealed.  I love Houdini.  But I am glad whenever ‘magic tricks’ are demystified.  Only when a thorough atmosphere of demystification about all things prevails in our society will the remaining phenomena that withstands the scrutiny (true psychic instances, bonafide UFO sightings, and whatnot) receive the serious attention they deserve.  Besides, when Houdini is stripped of his 'tricks', he shines forth even more awesome: Any old magician could use the old side-door trick to escape from a box.  But who else but Houdini could get out of a tied canvas bag, handcuffs, tied rope nooses, and the trick box in just 3 seconds?!


     


    Deception 4: The FBI cites sightings overseas in the past few days of the terrorists it last week indicated were an imminent terrorist threat to America as proof of its claim of “Credible Intelligence.”  Duh!!!  If they are OVERSEAS, it would seem to me that are NOT a threat here.  Unless authorities are dumb enough to let them in.  Hey, wait, that could happen: though “resigned”, Tenet isn’t leaving office until mid-July.


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