Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: Glenn Greenwald Goes “Full Retard”

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: Salon Calls Me an “Edward Snowden Truther”

UPDATE: The Missing Motive of the Snowden Psyop: CISPA (yes… CISPA)

The other day I wondered if the Guardian set Glenn up for a fall on this one. I figured maybe they told him they vetted this new NSA whistle-blower and sent him off to Hong Kong to meet a high-school drop-out with his Rubic’s Cube in what appeared to be a secret meeting scenario written by the former writing staff of Get Smart. Turn’s out I wasn’t far off…

“Thus far we have revealed four independent programs: the bulk collection of telephone records, the PRISM program, Obama’s implementation of an aggressive foreign and domestic cyber-operations policy, and false claims by NSA officials to Congress. Every one of those articles was vetted by multiple Guardian editors and journalists – not just me. Democratic partisans have raised questions about only one of the stories – the only one that happened to be also published by the Washington Post (and presumably vetted by multiple Post editors and journalists) – in order to claim that an alleged inaccuracy in it means our journalism in general is discredited.” Glenn Greenwald

Yes Mr. Greenwald, when you make an inaccurate statement in your article, your journalism is discredited. If you come out backing some sudden NSA whistle-blower as the next Daniel Elsburg and then it turns out he’s a high school drop-out flake with no real intel to speak of, your really going to be discredited. And unfortunately I fear you don’t really understand that is why you and the filmmaker, the Academy Award-nominated Laura Poitras, were specifically requested by the career NSA employee and manufactured hero… in case you hadn’t figured that out yet.

PRISM Logo Reveals Sense of Humor at the NSA – Are They Mocking Us? Or is it Hipgnosis?

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: Chuck Smarr found the original image the PRISM logo was lifted from. OUTSTANDING work Chuck. How did you find this? Chuck wrote: “Weird that a multi billion dollar program would just grab an image from a free multimedia site for their logo. Absolute rabbit hole stuff. I wonder if this guy even exists.”.

photo with a copy-write held by Adam Hart-Davis ends up as the PRISM logo?

Adam Hart-Davis is another Brit, supposedly second cousin once removed of the British Prime Minister David Cameron

UPDATE: (see end of article) Who is the man who’s image appears in the pyramid on the PRISM logo?

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When I first noticed this, I thought it had to be a joke. Then I realized along with the “pole dancing super hero” and the 200k a year for the high school drop-out, that it was a joke. The whole thing is a joke. They’re mocking us with this distraction…

At first I noticed the slides released from the Guardian and the slides released from the Washington Post were different. That may be because these two agencies want to track their outreach or brand their products. Or, it may be because the group that leaked them wanted to see who had more reach. Or, maybe someone wanted to see if we were really paying attention.

Or maybe they wanted to call more attention to the logo itself…

Either way, it’s a subtle difference, but obvious once you see it.

The big story is the logo itself. It’s about how we were taken down the road to the Dark Side by the likes of Cheney and others and the life and times of a cult level artist named Storm Thorgerson. A BRITISH cult level artist.

Snowden Distraction: You WILL NOT Notice Obama’s Undemocratic Trade Agreements

Obama is providing the CHANGE he promised. Pure unadulterated fascism… with two completely undemocratic “trade” agreements that have little to do with trade and everything to do with handing unheard of powers to massive multinational corporations and financial institutions…

… And we are being urged to rally in support of a former NSA employee who told Glenn Greenwald nothing we haven’t heard before?

April 10th 2013 – TPP is a secret Obama trade agreement that will trump national sovereignty

June 13th 2013 – Senator Warren Presses White House to Release Pacific Trade Text

April 5th 2013 – Obama’s Ambitious Trade Agenda

June 12 2013 – The Trade Deal Scam

June 12 2013 – A Fairer Way to Fast-Track Trade Deals

June 11 2013 – Think Asia, Think Hong Kong (Hong Kong?)

June 13 2013 – Obama ramps up negotiations on Trans-Pacific Partnership

June 11 2013 – Trans-Pacific Partnership: Amid Scandal, A Global Opportunity to Display Positive American Policy

June 13 2013 – TPP secrets: Obama covertly granting more power to multinational corporations

June 6 2013 – Obama-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Expands Corporate Lawsuits Against Nations for Lost Profits

Snowden Distraction: You WILL NOT Notice Massive World-wide Protests Against Global Capital

by Scott Creighton

While we, like simple little dupes, are focused on the unlikely teaming up of the likes of  Glenn Beck, World Can’t Wait, Lew Rockwell, Kim Dotcom (?) and Avaaz on the “Stand with Edward Snowden” non-disclosure “bombshells”, the world outside our castle walls is fighting for survival against the real enemy which is at the heart of all of this: neoliberal globalization.

Savage austerity, deregulation, unemployment and massive transfers of public wealth to the masters of the universe (the same masters who have created the non-disclosure distraction of Edward Snowden) are causing riots across the globe. Markets are falling, the dollar is dropping, and the Summer of our Discontent is upon us.

As the economic brick of neoliberal economics (Washington Consensus) is being slammed on every Westernized nation that still laughingly considers themselves a 1st World Nation, the people are moving in droves to oppose it. Our MSM is blind to it all. And what are we “alternative” journalists focused on? Coincidence?

When you stop to think for a moment, think about the fact that these people are protesting our neoliberal program created by the IMF and the World Bank and the financial sector of London and Wall Street, and then you remember that the NSA and CIA do nothing other than service to those very institutions, you start to understand part of what this distraction is all about.

(videos of some recent protests and clashes after the break)

Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: Language is a Tricky Thing Mr. Snyder

by Scott Creighton

Language is a tricky thing and to fully comprehend what it is your are hearing or reading, you have to hear and feel the nuance that makes the real message crystal clear.

I was reading an article by Michael Syner over at Economic Collapse called “22 Nauseating Quotes From Hypocritical Establishment Politicians About The NSA Spying Scandal” when it occurred to me that Michael, for all his good intentions, doesn’t quite understand what it is he is angry about. He thinks he does because he sees these quotes he puts up and on the surface level they seem outrageous, but the reality is vastly more horrifying than he knows.

The truth is, for the most part, these quotes that he uses to add to the growing outrage in America (exactly what the NSA and the CIA and the administration wants by the way) are not lies. They aren’t.

I picked only 4 to make my point but if I had more time I could do this with all of them, the ones that aren’t just statements of someone’s opinion, which again, aren’t lies.

In these four “nauseating quotes from hypocritical establishment politicians” I will show you they aren’t really being hypocritical and they certainly aren’t lying about anything. You can be nauseated or you can be stunned or just simply saddened that  this is what our country has devolved into. I won’t presume to instruct you as to your reaction.

There’s been enough of that surrounding this fabricated hero.

Boston – Operation Urban Shield and the “Free America Citizens” Terrorists Drill

UPDATE: ajmacdonaldjr makes a great point: Why were they planning to run another drill so soon after the one they held in November in Boston? Most cities that run these drills run one a year.

(The scenario planned by the “producers” of this event unfolded much like the actual Boston Bombing psyop.  And it had been planned months in advance by the heads of the various agencies who were then put in charge of the investigation of the Boston Bombing.

According to the story, they had already recruited actors to play various roles. The operation centered around a bombing using back-packs and the investigation using security camera videos to identify the suspects; “terrorists” using a stolen car going into neighboring counties and eventually a dead suspect near the stolen car being used to lead them to the other suspects. What is perhaps even more frightening than all of those coincidences and law enforcement agency officials acting like “producers” creating the plot and logistics for all of this, is the fact that they were using the fictional “Free America Citizens” as the mock terrorist group.

Using the term “America Citizens” as your terrorist group is bad enough, but think about this mock al Qaeda-like group in terms of what I have been saying in relation to the latest spate of “leaks”… what I have said is this series of leaks and the rash of uncharacteristic coverage across the spectrum of the media may have been created to produce a narrative that a new terrorist group of “homegrown insurgents”, has sprung up as a reaction to the growing resentment of the oppression we see being suddenly presented on the MSM daily.

Kinda like a “Free America Citizens” group?)

Officials from a dozen agencies had been meeting for months to plan the scenario. They behaved much like movie producers, recruiting students from Northeastern University and the Boston Police Academy to play the parts of terrorists and witnesses.

They scouted warehouses and homes around Chelsea and Winthrop that could be used as a terrorist safe house.

from Boston Globe   (H/T Razz)

The scenario had been carefully planned: A terrorist group prepared to hurt vast numbers of people around Boston would leave backpacks filled with explosives at Faneuil Hall, the Seaport District, and in other towns, spreading waves of panic and fear. Detectives would have to catch the culprits.

Months of painstaking planning had gone into the exercise, dubbed “Operation Urban Shield,” meant to train dozens of detectives in the Greater Boston area to work together to thwart a terrorist threat. The hypothetical terrorist group was even given a name: Free America Citizens, a home-grown cadre of militiamen whose logo would be a metal skull wearing an Uncle Sam hat and a furious expression, according to a copy of the plans obtained by the Boston Globe.

But two months before the training exercise was to take place, the city was hit with a real terrorist attack executed in a frighteningly similar fashion. The chaos of the Boston Marathon bombings disrupted plans for the exercise, initially scheduled for this weekend, forcing police to postpone. Now officials must retool aspects of the training.

“The real thing happened before we were able to execute,” said a law enforcement official …

Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: Why? and Why Now?

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: Booz Allen releases his records, he made $122,000 a year, not $200,000. Girl friend is a flake performance artist “pole dancing super hero” with a “fringe theater” company. She did one dance in March to the 007 theme song “Diamonds are Forever”. Cute huh? Experts pointing out one person can’t “shut down the NSA tomorrow”.  he’s now in hiding with Robert Baer saying he’s probably a Chinese double agent. Great right? Go ahead… Stand with Edward Snowden. Have fun. Good luck with the new job search Glenn.

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No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

UN Declaration on Human Rights

As I have been writing on the subject of Edward Snowden’s “ground-breaking leak” since June the 7th, many people have written me or left comments, mostly in support of the notion that something is going on here, if not exactly what I think, it’s something that doesn’t pass the smell test. If you look around the internet at alternative sites as well as the MSM though, you will mainly find journalists and investigators parroting the consensus line that Edward is the most heroic human in the history of mankind or at least ranking up there between Jesus and Luke Skywalker. Cracks are starting to develop in his story in the main stream press, cracks sites like this one and others have been exposing from the beginning.

But while the self-proclaimed leaders of various alternative movements and networks alike are calling for Snowden’s sainthood while ignoring multiple falshoods and exaggerations in his story, it seems to me the general public is less enthused with the validity of the story. More and more comments litter the consensus spewing write-ups questioning the facts of the story and whether or not this information he leaked is actually something new, which of course it isn’t.

As I progress in my own understanding of the situation, I find I am being asked quite often if this is some kind of measured leak crafted by the very agencies and administrations who seem on the hook for the decimation of our civil liberties, why on earth would they do that?

Here is my attempt to explain what it  is we are seeing and why they chose now to do it. (long post, sorry)

Top Ten Issues I Have with the Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden Story

by Scott Creighton

The wheels are starting to come off  (H/T boomerang) … just a bit.

While the two biggest frauds from the right and the left, Glenn Beck and Michal Moore, parrot the status quo line telling their supporters to think of Edward Snowden as a “hero” (you will think as we tell you), more and more real people are starting to ask questions about our new manufactured hero’s story.

The tale Edward Snowden recounted to Glenn Greeenwald doesn’t seem to add up. That’s not too say that we shouldn’t all be very concerned and even angry about massive spying programs being run by contractors on behalf of our “national interests”… we should be damn angry about that… and that’s not too say we shouldn’t be fighting for the protections of our civil liberties and constitutional rights, but unfortunately it looks like Glenn and many others may have fallen for something here. What it is just yet, we can’t be clear, but as the song goes, somethin is happenin here.

Top Ten Issues I Have with the Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden Story (there are more)

Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: Caught in a Lie or Cover Story to Protect his Girlfriend’s Privacy?

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE:  Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: What are YOU Willing to Risk for Your New FACEBOOK Hero?

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This is what $200,000 a year rents in Hawaii?

Edward Snowden said he decided to pack his bags and leave his home for Hong Kong around May 20th when he caught his flight. He said he left his girlfriend behind in the home they shared in Hawaii. He also said he made 200k a year. He said the “NSA police” had gone by his home twice since he had been gone.

Turns out, he and his girlfriend moved out of their little rental home on May 1st. How does that factor in with his story? Was he reassigned to the CIA shop in Hong Kong or is that Century 21 sign in the yard just cover for his girlfriend? Making 200 grand a year with the NSA (pretty easy to maintain good credit there huh?) and he was renting a little bungalow in a suburb?

$200,000 a year? Not bad for a community college drop-out with a GED. At least his rental house makes more sense.

Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: Take to the Streets on July 4th in Washington D.C.?

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: What are YOU Willing to Risk for Your New FACEBOOK Hero?

UPDATE:  Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: Caught in a Lie or Cover Story to Protect his Girlfriend’s Privacy? June 10

UPDATE: Someone published my previous article on this subject over at From the Trenches World Report and a reader left this comment:

US Marine Fighting Tyranny says:

June 9, 2013 at 9:16 pm

My Fellow Americans:

I have no way of supporting my following statement, but my intuition tells me this guy is a 100% trojan,.. a fake, a fraud,…. a plant.

The real question is: What is his true mission?

JD – US Marines – Every fiber of my being tells me this guy is dirty from head to toe, and is nothing more than a trojan horse to distract us,… the question is,… distract us from what?

I couldn’t agree with him more.

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Edward Snowden backs the Reddit-organized Fourth Of July march on Washington, D.C., for government transparency. Just a matter of time til his Reddit account comes out, the site’s co-founder speculates. BuzzFeed

Where have I heard that before? Wasn’t there another libertarian who was trying to get a bunch of people to rally in D.C. on July 4th? Snowden calls himself a 3rd party supporter and apparently voted for Ron Paul and donated money to his campaign as well … hmmm… doesn’t that sound like another guy I know of?

“I have been surprised and pleased to see the public has reacted so strongly in defense of these rights that are being suppressed in the name of security. It is not like Occupy Wall Street but there is a grassroots movement to take to the streets on July 4 in defense of the Fourth Amendment called Restore The Fourth Amendment and it grew out of Reddit. The response over the internet has been huge and supportive.” Manufactured Hero

Adam Kokesh did his level best to promote an armed march to Washington but because so many real activists spoke out against such a stupid plan, he had to back off it. He even staged a little arrest and “disappearance” in order to buy some street cred, but people saw through that as well.

It should be noted that Redditors acted like it was kinda foolish, but still supported his “courage” to do something. Reddit was hijacked years ago as most people have figured out by now. Activists understand that when Reddit was bought up by a massive conglomerate, funny things started happening; links to certain “types” of articles or news just disappeared right off the page as soon as they were posted. Many speculated that the NSA was operating the site as a controlled opposition gateway.

“Just a matter of time til his Reddit account comes out, the site’s co-founder speculates.”  BuzzFeed

Now there is apparently another mass event being staged and Edward Snowden is giving it all the free press it needs. He’s backing a plan, supposedly hatched on Reddit in the wake of the failure of the Adam Kokesh plan, to put a bunch of people in Washington D.C. on the same day Adam was planning on.

At first glance, it would look like someone is “retooling” their script a bit, just sans Astroturf Adam.

NSA’s “Transition 2001″ Document and “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” – Our Transition Outlined Long Before “New Pearl Harbor”

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: What are YOU Willing to Risk for Your New FACEBOOK Hero?

UPDATE:  Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: Caught in a Lie or Cover Story to Protect his Girlfriend’s Privacy? June 10

UPDATE:  Manufactured Hero Edward Snowden: Take to the Streets on July 4th in Washington D.C.?

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Long before the “GWOT” (Global War OF Terror) rebooted on Sept. 11th, 2001 (it was announced by Reagan before 9/11), the NSA was calling for our leaders to start to “rethink” the 4th Amendment to the constitution. The document that makes this suggestion was called “Transition 2001” dated Dec. 2000. They were making ready for the “transition” that was going to take place under the Bush administration.

When you line that up along with the paper by the Project for a New American Century’s “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” paper (Sept. 2000) you start to get a clearer picture of the transition they had in mind and what was needed to see it through.

It’s Conspiracy Theory No More – Greenwald References Church Committee on MSM

Attendees from Intelligence Conference Joke About “Disappearing” Glenn Greenwald for NSA Article – John Negroponte Had Attended Conference

(For those of you who know who John Negroponte is and what he did in Central America and later in Iraq, this is certainly a bad omen. Negroponte created death squads everywhere he went, “disappearing” untold thousands of troublemakers in various countries we had neoliberalized. And here we are…)

from The Huffington Post

Leading foreign policy analyst Steve Clemons said he witnessed a rather disturbing conversation while waiting for a flight at the Dulles airport on Saturday.

According to Clemons, four men sitting near him were discussing an intelligence conference they had just attended, and turned to the topic of the NSA leaks. One said that both the reporter and leaker should be “disappeared,” a term used to describe secret murders and abductions carried out by authoritarian governments. Clemons said on Twitter the suggestion seemed to be “bravado” and a “disturbing joke.” He said that the officials were talking loudly, “almost bragging.”

HuffPost asked Clemons via Twitter how he could be sure they were in the intelligence community and he noted that “one wore a white knit national counterterrorism center shirt.” But more importantly, he said, the conversation led him to conclude that they were certainly in the community, especially given the conference they talked about attending. They discussed former Ambassador John Negroponte as having been in attendance.

[read the rest, here]

Neoliberal Terrorism Decimates Distracted Nation While the Terrorists Write the Laws

by Scott Creighton

While we are distracted by little pressure-cooker bombs, shaking in our boots over internet radicalized extremists, the real terrorists are skimming off the entire wealth of the nation into their pockets, one city at a time. And while we worry about cointelpro ops breathlessly hypothesizing about “weather weapons” making tornadoes, the financial oligarchs are writing more legislation in order to enable them to do commit even more terrorism against us and our future generations.

It’s reality of the absurd and there’s just no other way of looking at it.

Boston Bombing: Ray McGovern Props Up Boat-side Scribble Confession AND Umar Fizzlepants Story

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: As Kenny (from kenny’s sideshow) points out, our boy Ray went on RT the other day and propped up the Benghazi psyop story as well. The guests on the show kept running away from questions about why Stevens was there (shipping arms and terrorists from Libya to Syria) and what was the CIA “compound” used for in the first place. It was the host who kept bringing up questions about Stevens’ role in the destabilization campaign from the start and ONLY the host called it a “regime change operation” while the guests, including Ray McGovern, kept making one excuse after another for our presence there.  Stevens does go on and on about us being the prime motivation behind the “terrorists” attacks.

Then Ray goes on after the break to distance himself from the 9/11 Truth movement claiming he never blamed Bush (or the other administration officials) for “Letting it Happen”(LIHOP) and goes even further to quote from the flawed 9/11 Commission Report as to WHY they say the “terrorists” did it. Not a word from Ray about that confession he committed to memory being from a guy who was tortured repeatedly until he “confessed” what Ray recited on RT. Not a word.

Ray’s position is the original CIA “blowback” narrative of 9/11… “the truth that no one wants to hear” according to Ray McGovern. Based of course on confessions garnered by torture.

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Definition of cross agency co-operation: A former CIA agent helping a former FBI agent with his troubled propaganda, published on an NSA “alternative” website

Ray McGovern has penned an article that is beaming with support for the new propaganda told to us by John Miller of CBS “News” (formerly an FBI director). AntiWar then re-posted it uncritically.

“Quick, somebody tell CIA Director John Brennan about the handwriting on the inside wall of the boat in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding before Boston-area police riddled it and him with bullets. Tell Brennan that Tsarnaev’s note is in plain English and that it needs neither translation nor interpretation in solving the mystery: “why do they hate us?”: Ray McGovern

Ray never even considers the odd timing of the outrageous claim made by the former FBI director and how convenient it is for the prosecution and the official narrative of this case. He never even addresses the fact that this new “evidence” come from secret unnamed sources or the fact that this new note seems to say the exact same thing they got in their “confession” garnered prior to reading the 19 year old kid his rights. All that eludes the former CIA agent making one wonder just how effective he was back in his glory days as a “Company” man.

But, that not being enough, Ray goes on to complete the Twofer and he props up the old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (Umar Fizzlepants) story as well.