This also is very true. All these truths can make you forget what's not true and what's missing in his article.
But something is missing, and some wording is quite odd and factually false. It is easy to miss this as one's indignation rises as one reads Hedges' cataloguing of Gottlieb's and the CIA's obscenities.
He omits mentioning the Clinton administration's dismantling wars against Yugoslavia, including 78 days of non-stop bombing of Serbia in 1999 that killed thousands of innocent people in the name of "humanitarian intervention," wars he covered for the New York Times, the paper he has come to castigate and the paper that has a long history of doing the CIA's bidding.
He claims that Gottlieb and the CIA's scientists failed in their "vain quest" for mind control drugs or electronic implants that might, among other things, get victims to act against their wills, such as acting as a Manchurian candidate, and as a result, "abandoned" their efforts. That they failed is not true, and that they abandoned their efforts is unknowable, unless you wish to take the CIA at its word, which is a hilarious thought. How could Hedges possibly know they abandoned such work? A logical person would assume they would say that and continue their work more secretly. On one hand, Hedges says, "It would be naive to relegate the behavior of Gottlieb and the CIA to the past," but then he does just that. Which is it, Chris? By definition, the "invisible" government, the CIA, never reveals their operations, and lying is their modus operandi, especially with their brazen in-your-face biblical motto: "And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
He says the invisible deep state "failed to foresee"the 9/11 attacks or the absence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction." This is factually wrong and quite absurd, as is well documented. They simply lied about these matters ex post facto. He suggests such failures were due to "ineptitude," a coy word used by numerous other writers who find reasons to deny intentionality to the "deep state."
He therefore is implying that the attacks of September 11, 2001, a subject that he has consistently failed to address over the years even while he has written in detail about so much else, did not involve America's "invisible government forces." The ineptitude explanation fails elementary logical analysis. Does he think it was intelligence ineptitude that allowed operatives to wire the highly-secure Twin Towers and Building 7 for controlled demolition that brought those buildings down, as the testimony of one's eyes and that of hundreds of NYC firefighters who reported explosions throughout the buildings affirm? Ineptitude is another word for avoidance of evidence, gathered over the years by careful scholars and researchers. Ineptitude is another word for the belief "in miracles," as David Ray Griffin has phrased it.
What does he think Colin Powell was doing at the United Nations on February 5, 2003 with CIA Director George Tenet sitting behind him when he lied repeatedly and fabricated evidence for Iraq having weapons of mass destruction to promote and justify the U.S. war against Iraq? Ineptitude? A failure of intelligence?
Chris Hedges is a very intelligent man, so why does he write such things?
Most importantly, why, when he writes about the past evil deeds of the intelligence operatives Gottlieb and the CIA's overseas coups and assassination of foreign leaders, etc. does he fail to say one word about the CIA's assassination of domestic leaders, including President John Kennedy in 1963, the foundational event in the invisible government's takeover of the United States. Can an act be more evil and in need of moral condemnation? And how about the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968, or Malcolm X in 1965? Why does Hedges elide these assassinations as if they are not worthy of attention, but Gottlieb's sick work for the CIA is? Like the attacks of September 11, 2001, he has avoided these assassinations throughout the years.
I don't know why. Only he can say. He is a very well-read man, who is constantly quoting from scholars about various important issues. His books are chock full of such quotations and references. But you will look in vain for references to the brilliant, scholarly work of such writers on these assassinations, the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the CIA's criminal and morally repugnant activities as James Douglass, David Talbot, David Ray Griffin, William Pepper, Graeme MacQueen, Lisa Pease, and so many others. Is it possible that he has never read their books when he has read so much else? If so, why?
As I said before, Chris Hedges, who has a passionate but mild-mannered style, is not alone in his disregard of these key matters. Other celebrity names on the left have been especially guilty of the same approach: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Alexander Cockburn, to name just a few (Zinn and Cockburn are dead). They have avoided these issues as if they were toxic. Nor would they logically explain why. The few times they did respond to those who criticized them for this, it was usually through a dismissive wave of the hand or name calling, a tactic such as the CIA developed with the term "conspiracy theory." Cockburn was particularly nasty in this regard, priding himself on dismissing others with words such as kooks, lunatics, and idiots, even when his logic was deplorable. He liked to use ineptitude's synonym, "incompetence," to explain away what he considered intelligence agency failures. "Why," he wrote in one piece attacking September 11 critics while upholding the government's version, "does the obvious have to be proved?" "Brillig!" as Humpty Dumpty would say. Absolutely brillig!
The CIA's mind control operations need to be exposed, as Hedges does to a degree in this latest article. But revealing while concealing is unworthy of one who condemns "creeps who revel in human degradation, dirty tricks, and murder." It itself is a form of mind control.
Perhaps he will see fit to publicly explain why he has done this.
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