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Bears Repeating
Posted on July 9, 2013
Jeff Cohen, writing for Common Dreams on Sunday, issued a reminder about the state of our media, even the friendlies and the importance of independent reporting. Since that is what we are all about here at the Malloy Show, we thought you might like to give it a read:
I was a young person when I first heard the quip: How do you know when the President is lying? His lips are moving. At the time, President Nixon was expanding the war in Vietnam to other countries and deploying the White House plumbers to commit crimes against antiwar leakers.
Forty years have passed. Sadly, these days, often when I see President Obama moving his lips, I assume hes lying.
Like Nixon, our current president is prolonging an endless, borderless and counter-productive war (on terror) and waging a parallel war against national security leakers that makes the plumbers burglary of Daniel Ellsbergs psychiatrists office look almost quaint.
The World War I vintage Espionage Act, originally used to imprison socialists for making antiwar speeches, has been used by the administration against whistleblowers with a vengeance unprecedented in history: eight leakers have been charged with Espionage under Obama, compared to three under all previous presidents. The Obama administration has prosecuted not a single CIA torturer, but has imprisoned a CIA officer who talked about torture with a journalist. National Security Agency official Thomas Drake, who was unable to get abuses fixed internally, now has a criminal record for communicating with a reporter years ago about sweeping domestic surveillance.
So there I was watching Obamas lips move about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden at a June 27 press conference. Saying he wouldnt be scrambling military jets to go after a 29-year-old hacker, Obama added that he would not start wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues, simply to get a guy extradited.
I didnt believe a word of it.
Given Obamas war on whistleblowers and journalists who utilize them, and given the Armys abusive treatment of military whistleblower Bradley Manning (apparently aimed at getting him to implicate WikiLeaks), its inconceivable that Obama was truly blasé about Snowden. To deter future whistleblowers, Snowden would have to be caught and made an example of and probably mistreated (like Manning, in hopes of getting him to turn against WikiLeaks and even journalist Glenn Greenwald).
As his lips were moving, Obama knew well that he would go to extreme lengths to prevent this articulate young man from securing asylum in some Latin American country, where he could continue to inform the worlds media about the Surveillance State that has blossomed alongside the Warfare State under the Bush and Obama administrations.
That Obama wasnt truthful became clear when the U.S. campaign of wheeling and dealing led to possible asylum countries retreating in fear one after another (Vice President Biden was deployed to pressure Ecuadors president by phone). And even clearer with last weeks outrageous, international law-breaking that effectively forced down the presidential plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales.
And if Obama eventually does scramble jets to force down a plane with Snowden on board, the commander-in-chief will be applauded for taking bold and decisive action by mainstream TV talking heads, national security experts and the opposition he seems most intent on pleasing: conservatives. Criticism from civil libertarian and peace voices (or unions and environmentalists, for that matter) has rarely daunted Obama.
The bipartisan consensus in support of our bloated Military/Surveillance State which so undermines our society as a whole is reflected in Congress and both the Bush and Obama administrations, as well as mainstream media.
When it comes to issues of U.S. militarism and spying, the allegedly progressive MSNBC often seems closer to the official network of the Obama White House than anything resembling an independent channel. With a few exceptions (especially Chris Hayes), MSNBC has usually reacted to expanded militarism and surveillance by downplaying the abuses or defending them.
Had McCain or Romney defeated Obama and implemented the exact same policies, treating whistleblowers like Manning and Snowden as foreign espionage agents, one would expect MSNBC hosts to be loudly denouncing the Republican abuses of authority.
But with Obama in power, a number of MSNBC talking heads have reacted to the Snowden disclosures like Fox News hosts did when they were in hysterical damage control mode for Bush complete with ridiculously fact-free claims and national chauvinism that weve long come to expect from the fair & balanced channel.
As Snowden arrived in Russia from Hong Kong, MSNBC host Ed Schultz blustered on about Snowden as a punk and coward. Railing about the security of the country in tones Hannity would approve of, Schultz questioned Snowdens patriotism and credibility, asking: If the United States of America is doing something so egregiously wrong in its surveillance program, how come hes the only one speaking up?
In OReilly-like blissful ignorance, Schultz seemed unaware of the three NSA whistleblowers whod loudly spoken up way earlier than Snowden and gathered for an illuminating USA Today interview a week before his tirade.
I watched one MSNBC host function as an auxiliary prosecutor in Obamas Justice Department, going after Snowden while trying to link WikiLeaks and journalist Glenn Greenwald to criminal flight.
MSNBCs Melissa Harris-Perry has been condemning Snowden by contrasting him with civil disobedients who love their country and submit to arrest while Snowden just wants to save his own skin. She proclaimed: This is different. This is dangerous to our nation. Should we similarly dismiss Dan Ellsberg, who leaked the top secret Pentagon Papers to a dozen newspapers in 1971 by going on the lam from the FBI. Or Watergates Deep Throat, who saved his own skin by hiding his identity for 30 years after leaking secrets that helped crash the Nixon presidency?
In a bizarre monologue attacking Snowden (whos risked plenty, in my view), Harris-Perry hailed those who engage in civil disobedience for being willing to risk your own freedom, your own body in order to bring attention to something that needs to be known. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested, attacked, smeared. Nelson Mandela went to prison for 27 years. (My emphasis.)
Nelson Mandela? He wasnt a civil disobedient who gave himself up. He was a fugitive, fleeing the apartheid police. He was on the lam domestically, like Snowden is now internationally. And some reports indicate that South African authorities were able to nab Mandela thanks to the U.S. CIA (one of the agencies now working to apprehend Snowden).
MSNBCs Rachel Maddow has also disappointed. After doing a typically thorough presentation on the force-down of Presidents Morales plane, she ended her report by expressing displeasure only that Washington had apparently gotten allies to go out on the limb for nothing. Her objection to the harassment seemed to be: it hadnt succeeded. I didnt hear opposition to the action had Snowden actually been on board and apprehended.
The Snowden/NSA story proves once again that especially on so-called national security issues we need strong, independent media not enmeshed with the corporate/political power structure and not allied with one of the two corporate parties.
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(6,057 posts)Anybody out there with "skills"?
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(6,496 posts)7pm - 10pm The State of Our Media - The Mike Malloy Show
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(6,057 posts)I just saw "The State of Our Media".
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(32,052 posts)DU thread about the story http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023212584