To Kill a Mockingbird – or Feed It?

Two mutually exclusive and under-reported stories have been troubling me:

The complicity of the mainstream media to spin, cover and obfuscate government abuse of power under the color of authority was not unique to the Clinton administration. It may have been more ubiquitous, and at times even clumsy, but it was not unique.

It has been reported that in June 1991 David Rockefeller allegedly told a Bilderberg meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany, "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years."

He went on to explain: "It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the light of publicity during those years. But the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."

Some argue that quote is apocryphal urban legend. However, although I have never been able to find three corroborating independent sources for it, it IS consistent in content and tone with other Bilderberg quotes I HAVE been able to confirm.

"If we had been subjected to the light of publicity …" indicates the one-world, globalist wannabe controllers were/are successful in managing the message.

Operation Mockingbird was a program supposedly conceived by a brilliant Machiavellian State Department official, Frank Wisner. Wisner selected Philip Graham, then publisher of the Washington Post, to manage the program.

According to Deborah Davis, author of "Katharine the Great": "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all, according to a former CIA analyst."

Over 25 major newspapers and wire services became willing house organs for the CIA media manipulation.

Investigators digging into Mockingbird have been flabbergasted to discover FOIA documents in which agents boast (in CIA office memos) of pride in having placed "important assets" inside every major news publication in the country.

I know, this is the stuff of Ludlum novels and conspiracy wackos, but not until 1982 did the "Company" finally concede that reporters on the CIA payroll have been case officers to field agents.

I have too often observed, "Some people don't like to be confused with facts that contradict their preconceived opinions." I have also noted (and struggle to maintain): "It is not WHO is right or wrong …but WHAT is right or wrong."

Anyone with almost "any" military experience has no doubt seen the once ubiquitous posters cautioning "Loose Lips Sink Ships." It is a leftover phrase from WWII and among "lessons learned."

In the complex world of intelligence, loose lips can and have cost lives.

Once upon a time, not so long ago (mid-'80s), Sen. Patrick Leahy (currently the Senate Judiciary Committee's lead obstructionist) used to be the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Leahy allegedly "inadvertently" exposed a top-secret intercept of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak that led to the capture of the Achille Lauro terrorists.

That supposed slip of the tongue

Loose-Lips Leahy was forced to resign in disgrace 14 years ago in the wake of having to acknowledge that he leaked secret intelligence to the press; today he lords his power over the Senate Judiciary Committee. Congress' institutional memory must be as short as that of one of Gennifer Flowers' former paramours.

In our contemporary environment – in which whistle-blowers have become in many cases heroes – it is important to distinguish between the appropriateness of corporate and political whistle-blowers and the idiot or miscreant who leaks information with genuine national security implications.

Currently, the FBI is investigating national security leaks from specifically the House and Senate Select Intelligence committees. This is serious stuff.

Defenders of the indefensible will argue it is a political witch hunt by politicians in heavy C.Y.A. mode. That is not true; it is a convenient political spin job.

Sure, it's true the White House is p.o.-ed over media reports that the National Security Agency received but did not act on two early warning messages before 9-11. Dick Cheney reportedly went ballistic and ripped congressional leaders. Both House and Senate Select Intelligence committees asked the attorney general to conduct an investigation (and no doubt quietly prayed it would be botched).

Justice said in a statement, "… the appropriate department officials will expeditiously review this matter and take any appropriate action." Not if Congress has anything to say about it. Don't expect anything fast.

Remember, Leahy resigned in disgrace 14 years ago and today has the chutzpah to pontificate ad nauseam to the Judiciary committee and stall any and all Bush judicial appointments.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/

http://www.grandconspiracy.com/library.html#operation