The theater of media operations: Snowden analyzed
Source: intellihub.com
One of the evident patterns that emerges concerning the theater of operations known as “media” is the never-ending rabbit hole of trails and endless, conflicting details that don’t and won’t add up concerning a figure like Edward Snowden
The application of the military term “theater of operations” is especially relevant here, since we swim in a sea of media theater and infotainment. This is not by accident: The theater of infotainment itself is an important pillar of the Infowar. With Edward Snowden, the recent star of the world media acting stage, the trails and legend(s) surrounding his back story are purposefully misleading.
Concerning this intentional labyrinth of false leads and bogus details, analyst Jon Rappoport comments:
“Of course, the American people don’t consider all these potential elements of the Snowden affair. (More on the various potential elements of the Snowden affair can be found here under the #Spygate heading on my blog (top right hand side link).)
Although they watch spy movies and television shows, they don’t believe, when push comes to shove, that intelligence operations have layers and false trails and cover stories and limited hangouts. They don’t believe that deception can run that deep. They don’t stop to realize that all spies are trained to lie. Lying convincingly is the number-one requisite for a spy. Lie to enemies, lie to friends, lie to the press, lie to other agencies of government. If a spy doesn’t wake up every day thinking about what lies he’ll tell from breakfast to dinner, he’s a dud. A washout. A danger to himself and others. Spies live in a labyrinth of deceit. It takes a certain kind of personality to thrive in that atmosphere.”
Followers of my site have had differing views of Snowden. Most readers, like most Amerikans, accept him as what he presented himself as – a genuine whistleblower that had a Damascus Road conversion to patriotic sentiment, disagreeing only on whether he was a “traitor” or “patriot.” Few and far between are the thinking readers willing to accept the possibility of the depths of deception in such affairs, but as fellow philosophers know, basic logic and critical thinking, some years in media analysis and basic knowledge of espionage and geo-politics will provide a thinker with the requisite skills to sift wheat from chaff in the “news.”
Now, having revealed he was a trained CIA operative, and not just an analyst, Snowden has called into question his entire whistleblower back story (that we questioned all along). In other words, Snowden has in effect said, “I wasn’t really an analyst, I was a professional liar.” Only a fool would continue to believe something already questionable from a now admitted liar, yet the theater of media operations will continue on foisting Snowden in our faces unabated, as full spectrum dominance must first and foremost control minds and opinions through Infowar.
My thesis is to ignore the minutiae and details, which only serve to distract, making the entire discussion about Snowden, Snowden, Snowden. Meanwhile, no NSA major programs have been halted or ceased. No revelation from Snowden so far was anything that wasn’t already known! This aspect is a huge key – whistleblowers presumably reveal something hidden that endangers them, leading to Snowden’s attempts to flee to China, Russia, etc. Remember when Julian Assange was holed up in Britain? How absurd is it that Mi5 couldn’t get to Assange, while trapped under house arrest in the UK? Likewise with bin Laden being interviewed by the major networks while on the run, now Snowden who feared for his life, meets with Brian Williams and wants to come back to the US. Why not?
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Read the full article at: intellihub.com
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