National Security Agency, or NSA, has shared with the U.K. Signals intelligence, by contrast, is communications intercept, and is generally more accurate (though of course there can be planted misleading communications). What Blair and Straw did, with the practical help of fellow war criminals like Sir Richard Dearlove and Sir John Scarlett, was to ignore the filters that assess such “intelligence” for credibility, in favor of presenting the picture the government wished to show to the world to justify war.
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The “intelligence” on Iraqi WMD did exist - there was no shortage at all of Iraqi colonels willing to make up stories about WMD in return for briefcases full of dollars or krugerrands. “Human intelligence” simply means something an informant told us, usually for large sums of cash.
The U.K.’s “Dirty dossier” on Iraqi WMD consisted more or less entirely, where it used intelligence sources, of declassified human intelligence rather than signals intelligence. One swallow doth not a summer make I was hopeful that this reporter’s following example might lead others to engage their brains, but that was fanciful:Ĭolin Powell’s vial display at U.N. The American troops are 5,000 miles from home. The “aggressive” Russian forces are inside Russia. was sending troops to the Baltic States and elsewhere in Eastern Europe “to deter Russian aggression.” What a stupid thing to say. Massacring women and children in Yemen and through drone strikes throughout Middle East and Asia is a nice little business, but nothing like as profitable as proper all-out war.Ī BBC reporter on Radio 4 recently stated that the U.S. Pity the poor arms manufacturers and arms dealers, who haven’t had a really full-throated NATO military action since Libya. They are also very good for the arms industry. Wars are of course good for the media wars bring news viewers and sell newspapers. The discussion, like the news output all day, took the accuracy of this as certain. They showed all of the front pages, all of which repeated, without qualification, the warning that Russia will invade in the next few days. governments, citing intelligence sources.Ī couple of nights ago I watched the press review of that day’s papers on both Sky and BBC News. Perhaps more pertinently, the media do this as though the invasion of Iraq had never happened and they had never before been misled by U.S.
They do this despite the fact that, in the last month, not only have we had repeated cries that invasion is “imminent,” we have had specific secret intelligence sourced claims from the Americans, that a Russian staged false flag attack was about to happen, and from the British, that there was about to be a coup in Kiev led by very minor figures. They do this with no proper journalistic questioning or skepticism.
The mainstream media is, without exception, repeating the unevidenced claim from the Biden administration that Russia is about to invade Ukraine. But especially so when it’s done by the same powers that have abandoned an entirely sensible framework for peace in Ukraine that they themselves initiated. Warmongering is always disgusting, writes Craig Murray.
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