After the all the drama and hysterics about secreted, geniuses culled from North Korea's population who hack governments and businesses around the world, we are now left with serious doubts.
The doubts and truth about this story are no more important than the doubts and truth of other major stories involving opponents of the rulers of the U.S. over the past few years. Once the White House makes the accusation, the accusation sticks. Truth is a mere inconvenience to be brushed away when it emerges. Review the following examples if you doubt this assertion.
The U.S. and its allies accused Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi of using military forces against peaceful demonstrators. This justified a major intervention that toppled Gaddafi. A comprehensive study by Alan Kuperman at Harvard's Belfer Center found that the demonstrations were violent from the start and that Gaddafi did not use indiscriminate military against peaceful demonstrators. (Image: The Interview screenshot)
The White House was absolutely apoplectic in its attack on the Syrian government, blaming the Assad regime for the chemical attack against civilians in a Damascus suburb. This conclusion was used to justify the president's plan to attack Syria in support of U.S. sponsored rebels. In fact, based partially on information released by the White House, it turns out that the deadly chemical weapons were fired by a missile with a 2 km range. The rebels controlled territory with a five-km radius of the site of attack. Therefore, either the rebels undertook the attack or Syrian forces were somehow able to penetrate to that previously impenetrable line of battle and fire the missile. That fact was simply not reported and, to this day, the false narrative survives justifying ongoing support for rebels in a civil war that has cost 200,000 lives and destroyed a nation.
The shoot down of Malaysian flight MH17 followed the same pattern. The tragedy took place and within days, the White House blamed Russia and forces resisting Ukraine's Kiev coup based government. The evidence wasn't there but that didn't matter. The politics of blaming Russia and the resistance supported the overall strategy of destabilizing a nation right on Russia's border.
Truth or the attempt to arrive truth is passe for U.S. rulers, particularly president's George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. When a horrible event takes place, make up a narrative blaming your enemies almost immediately, and dare people to challenge it. Then, consistently ignore any new evidence pointing to the likely truth as you take actions based on the original baseless assertion.
It's simple but highly effective propaganda. It might as well have come from Hollywood.
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N.B. The alleged Sony hackers, #GOP, made a video in response to the FBI's conclusions about North Korea entitled, "You are an idiot" on December 21 (click image for video)
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