Not so crazy in these crazy times? Or more than crazy?

Now of course I don't know what 'more than crazy' could be. Destruction of our planet? Or destruction of our brains? Breaking the world population's heart? Underminding our humanity and replacing it with hate?

In any case, crazy is what crazy does, right?

I think this is a must read/listen conversation between Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer and William Binney, a leading intelligence expert who worked at the National Security Agency for 30 years,

Here is the introduction into the conversation: "The CIA’s Complicity in Recent Global Atrocities Revealed", written by Natasha Hakimi Zapata.

In another astounding revelation about the extent of United States’ global surveillance operations, The Washington Post recently published a piece about a Swiss company, Crypto AG, that was actually owned by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and West Germany’s intelligence agency. Crypto AG provided encryption services to over a hundred governments worldwide for decades. Unbeknownst to those governments, the CIA had access to the encryption tools and could therefore read high-level internal governmental correspondence from countries including France, Egypt, Venezuela and many others.

On this week’s edition of “Scheer Intelligence,” Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer speaks with William Binney, a leading intelligence expert who worked at the National Security Agency for 30 years, about this shocking information that is only now being made public, roughly two years after the program ended in 2018. In the exchange, Scheer highlights why the revelation is not only incredibly worrying in terms of the power it allowed the U.S. to wield for decades, but because of its historical implications.

“What it means, as I understand it, is that people high up in the U.S. government, right up through the president, would have known of every assassination attempt, every terrorist attempt, every torture, everything done in any of these other societies — as I say, be it Saudi Arabia, be it Egypt, be it Venezuela, be it Guatemala,” says an outraged Scheer.

“We had knowledge of what they were doing, what they were plotting,” he goes on, “aren’t we complicit in actually learning about what they’re doing — that they’re going to kill somebody or torture them — and not intervening, or deciding to ignore it?
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When Scheer asks Binney to explain what’s at the foundation of the Crypto AG operation, the former NSA agent bluntly gets to the heart of the matter. “It’s a standard operation to try to get other people to buy the crypto systems that you’ve built,” Binney says, “because that means you fundamentally own them.”
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“This idea America has about itself] comes from cowboy movies,” Binney says. “We were the guys that wore the white hats. We’re always right, and everybody else is wrong, and we’re doing right and they’re doing wrong.”
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It’s the hypocritical side of intelligence,” he (Binney) later says, “looking at the Department of Justice and FBI and police enforcement, what spies are doing against us is bad, but what we do against everybody else is not, it’s good.

Should we deny or ignore this conversation? I don't think so.

Listen in and go directly to truthdig as I can't embed the audio file here. You can read the transcript of the conversation here.

I am not going to be here to comment. This is just a FYI hint. Thanks for your understanding.

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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-cias-complicity-in-recent-global-a...

Thanks for drawing attention to this excellent interview mimi.

PS oops I see you had the link in your essay.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Some times I think the US is the red pill, the cancer of the world. Then again, No matter what shitty thing we come up with there is a bunch of countries wondering how they could do it better. We are all the same under the skin. Time to learn how to live together, and throw off the plague of demons that seek to rule us.

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