Worth the Ten minutes to watch this.  This EX Intel guy tells it like it is!  Bravo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLr8ZvgURg0

“Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire!”  The Obama/State Department Lies!

I had told you eight months ago that Benghazi was a conundrum of lies purposefully perpetrated by the Obama administration.

  I did not have to read ‘tea leaves’ or even ‘receive inside information’ to know that Obama;  the White House Staff [National Security Council];  SecState Hillary Clinton [Liar ‘Par Excellent’]; General Martin Dempsey [remember he was one of the first to claim that there was ‘a video’];  John Brennan [now DCI]; Susan Rice; etc. all lied!

  Thanks goes primarily to Fox News and Roger Ailes,  Rupert Murdoch, and his NY Post that did not give up on this investigation.  The truth as to who lied to whom will come out.

 

Hopefully,  Presidential Impeachment and legal indictments of many senior Obama officials will come be forthcoming.  Credit should be accorded to the ‘Whistleblowers’ who came for and testified to the ‘Truth’.

The real heroes are:  Libyan Deputy Chief of Mission [DCM] Gregory Hicks;  Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State for Counter Terrorism,  Mark Thompson; and former Regional Security Officer Eric Nordstrom. 

Truth is not RELATIVE.  IT is ABSOLUTE. 

  You either did or did not do what you were supposed to do based on your professional obligations, honor,  and integrity. 

  The rest is SIMPLY RATIONALIZATION.

 

And the more explanations of who did what to whom becomes less and less relevant and it becomes a greater distraction away from the simple truth—THE BUCK STOPS AT THE PRESIDENT’S DESK!!!

  I knew then as I know now that the Investigative Board overseeing the Benghazi Affair was a COMPLETE WHITE WASH and a COMPLETE LIE!!

  No surprise there. 

  From the beginning,  I could dismiss the veracity and integrity of Admiral Mike Mullen.   I have written about his past incompetence as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff and his incredible NEED and PROCLIVITY FOR SELF –AGGRANDIZEMENT AND PREVARICATION.   I knew about his father who was the publicist for my Literary and Movie Agency,  the former William Morris Agency.   Bull S**ting is in the DNA of this tribe.

But for me,  the greatest disappointment was the fact  that I knew that Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering was LYING,  trying to PROTECT HILLARY CLINTON and the INTEGRITY OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

  I have known and worked with Pickering for over twenty years in everything from peace talks between USG –Israel, issues dealing with the UN and many other areas of concern. 

I found him to be forthright and exceedingly competent.   He was always professional,  never one to attract attention to himself or the sensitive issues at hand. 

Unfortunately,  on this one particular occasion, perhaps the most important one in his long distinguished career, Pickering TARNISHED HIS REPUTATION ---TRYING TO PROTECT a NEFARIOUS HILLARY CLINTON and OBAMA,  both of whom would have thought nothing of SACRIFICING PICKERING FOR THEIR OWN PARTICULAR POLITICAL GAINS …. .which is what happened.

  I asked myself,  how did a good, serious professional like Pickering go astray?

  Was it political ambition?

  I think not.   He was already out of the State Department.

  Was he promised to become Secretary of State by the Lucretia Borgia,  Hillary Clinton,  if she were to become President of the United States?

  Perhaps! It is said that every man has his or her own price…..or was he fearful?

  Would Pickering throw away a thirty year distinguished career on the promises of a WELL DOCUMENTED PATHOLOGICAL LIAR LIKE HILLARY CLINTON? 

  I don’t think so.   Pickering was a sophisticated reader of people. 

  Not necessarily a psychologist but he knew people,  their foibles and their hidden agendas.   He had been Ambassador to so many different cultures and positions that he knew how ‘to read the situation’.

In my humble opinion, I think that Pickering lied,  not to protect himself nor even the SecState,  but to protect the integrity of the State Department.

  What do I mean? 

  The problem in Benghazi was not really a State Department one. 

It was a situation where the State Department happened to be the COLLATERAL DAMAGE.

 

The primary problem was the fact that John Brennan had orchestrated a ‘palace coup’ with the necessary compliance of Obama;  the White House Staff;  Hillary Clinton;  Robert Mueller, and Dempsey against General David Petraeus,  the then Director of the CIA. 

  The Palace Coup’s primary goal was to get rid of General Petraeus from the CIA and allow Brennan and his cohorts to resume civilian control over the renegade CIA—our infamous Legacy of Ashes. 

However,  the Palace Coup and its subsequent cover-up  did not work on many levels. 

1)  no one expected Ambassador Christopher Stevens, an ‘excellent Arabist’ to be caught in a cross-fire of covert operatives working illegally, torturing and transporting illegal weapons to Syria.   Benghazi was the kaleidoscopic scene of gunfire where well-known ‘terrorists’ were fighting a proxy ‘covert war’ against another USG proxy,  unbeknownst to Petraeus.

2) The Regional Security Officers’s Chief,  Eric Boswell, also a ‘good company man’ whom I had known for twenty years, was not derelict in his duty in not providing more RSO’s.    He knew (as well as many others) that there was enough ‘protection’ on the ground.   He knew all too well that the protection on the ground was not necessarily RSOs but ‘mercenary’ covert ex-military operatives using the so-called embassy as a torture chamber and transmission center for heavy military equipment to Syria.  Bottom line:  lots of people knew what was really going on in Benghazi!

3) Under Secretary Patrick Kennedy  knew the most of what was going on both on the ground in Libya as well as the ‘cover up;’  because Pat,  whom I liked and knew for over twenty years,  is a very  EFFECTIVE MANAGER and ADMINISTRATOR.   He knows where every PENNY and COVERT OPERATION IS LOCATED.   He knows under which rock the CIA hides the payola for the mercenaries.  He pays the rent on the bogus embassy used as weapons depot/torture chamber.   He knows the rank, names and serial numbers of the individuals who would have been involved overtly or covertly in the Benghazi Affair. 

 

Pat Kennedy is the ‘MOTHER LODE” OF STATE DEPARTMENT INNER WORKINGS!! IRRESPECTIVE OF WHO MIGHT BE SECRETARY OF STATE!!!  

If the investigators are serious about getting to the truth of Benghazi,  all they have to do is to interview PAT KENNEDY and EXAMINE HIS ACCOUNTING LEDGERS and EMAILS.

 

Once you follow the money trial from Pat Kennedy’s office,  the truth of the matter will come out ASAP.

Get the emails!  Follow the money and it will probably lead to Brennan. 

The rest is simply commentary. 

  As of Pickering,  Kennedy and Boswell—these were honorable men who committed DISHONORABLE DEEDS.

  Too bad!  History is littered with such humans.

  Their punishment is what Jean Paul Sartre wrote about in his novel Huis Clos –“NO EXIT”—

“Hell is the Life that you have constructed for yourself with all the lies and self-delusions.”

Grant me a little bit of philosophical rambling.

 

In the  world of existential phenomenology, the moment of TRUTH is that very moment that one has to make a DECISION THAT DETERMINES THE REST OF YOUR LIFE,  IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT HAD TRANSPIRED BEFORE.

  Pickering, Kennedy and Boswell had failed as Foreign Service Officers and as Americans. 

They chose to protect the lie over the truth.  They indicted themselves and the rest of the FSOs.

I take comfort and pride in the fact that the three Whistle Blowers have become the TRUE HEROS OF BENGHAZI!!!

  Believe me,  I know it takes a lot of guts and perseverance to go up against a LYING KILLING MACHINE!!

  Hail to these Conquering Heroes and to Those Who Died Valiantly Trying to Save their Colleagues and Friends!!!

Shame and disgrace piles up around the lying Obama and his sycophants.

Truth and the American Way will be the Final Retribution!!
AMEN!! 

Post script

Once again we witness the unrelenting power struggle between the military and the DCI directors.  The famous former Special Forces General “Jerry” Boykin (whom I knew and admired) said recently regarding Benghazi, “there is no question we could have sent in special forces in time to save our men’s lives.” 

Boykin’s remarks were countered by former SecDef,  ex DCI, Robert Gates (btw never served in military) public criticism of our present military capacity- saying that General Boykin’s assessment was a “cartoonish impression of military capabilities.”

Hmmm, big problem is this chest puffing is costing us citizens lots of our hard to earn pay!  C’mon! Let’s build some bridges, fix some schools, go back into space….enough of this crap.

homework for today's post (coming soon).
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/us/politics/gop-pushes-for-more-details-of-benghazi-attack.html?_r=0

Just in case you didn't see it, its funny.  Mark Halpern on Morning Joe!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2-HjBI_1ag

In Defense of an Italian “Stronzo” [Dung!] with Respect To His “Non-Involvement” in the Aldo Moro Kidnapping!

A Personal Testimony by Me on Behalf of Giulio Andreotti. 

Headline: Giulio Andreotti, Who Served as Prime Minister of Italy Seven Times , Dies at 94. 

For the most part,  Andreotti is not a familiar name to the American public.  And those who do know about him and his political fortunes as the founder and leader of the Italian Christian Democratic Party,  would have best described him as a ‘stronzo’ or a “shit in silk stockings”,  as Talleyrand often described the Corsican-born,  French Emperor Napoleon Bonoparte. 

John Tagliabue’s obituary is a very detailed,  insightful description of an Italian machiavellian politician who thrived on deception, corruption and illegal relationships with the Italian Mafia.

  These issues,  although interesting in of themselves,  are not relevant to my present blog.

  Now I would like to clarify one very important historical point that has troubled the Italian citizenry and politicians for almost four decades.

The big issue which John Taliabue clearly expounded on in his obituary:  When Andreotti’s oldest and closest friend,  Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped in a street ambush in Rome,  and five of his bodyguards were killed by the Red Brigade,  all the Italians blamed Andreotti for his friend’s eventual death.

  That contention is not correct!
  I can state categorically that President Giulio Andreotti had absolutely nothing to do with denying the negotiations with the Red Brigade WHO DEMANDED THE RELEASE OF THEIR COMPATRIOTS HELD IN ITALIAN JAILS for the safe release of Aldo Moro. 

There were many speculations as to what had happened.

  Many thought the CIA, Kissinger,  the Italian Mafia, the US military and other so-called nefarious forces had been at work in the kidnapping and eventual denial of the release of Aldo Moro from the ruthless Red Brigade.   This was especially true after Aldo Moro threatened in his last letters to reveal ‘State Secrets’ that would indict Andreotti and the rest of the Christian Democrats.

  The truth is that there were only two people directly involved in the decision of no-negotiation WITH THE RED BRIGADE which eventually led to the inevitable death of Aldo Moro:
 

One was the Interior Minister of Security,  Francesco Cossiga, a brilliant Sardinian who had been close to Aldo Moro and eventually became the next Prime Minister upon the death of Aldo Moro.

  The other person, was yours truly,  Dr Steve Pieczenik MD, Phd,  Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Management.

  If anyone is to blame for the explicit direction of not allowing anyone in the Italian government to negotiate with the Red Brigade,  it was I.

  Let me go into a more detailed discussion.

  First,  when I was asked to help the Italian Government in “Handling the Red Brigade Terror”  by the extremely bright Under Secretary of State For Management,  my boss,  Ben Reed,  I agreed if I could do on ‘my terms’ as I had just done in saving the five hundred hostages in the Hanafi Muslim Siege only a few weeks before.

  Ben Reed and his boss,  SecState Cyrus Vance were the elegant, respectful generation of the old school Senior Policy Officials who respected my skills in the hostage negotiations as well as my expertise in stabilizing countries which were beginning to destabilize because of “terrorism”, economic panic, or other reasons. 

 

As I reflect back to the 1970’s,  I must say it was a different time where a medical doctor was still able to make life and death decisions without worrying about ‘malpractice’ and ‘lawsuits’.

  It was a time when the old WASP statesmen had respect for those who performed and accomplished that which they thought was required.   They had respect for my patriotic act of defiance when I kicked out then president Jimmy Carter during the Hanafi muslim negotiations.

  They also were aware that my training at Harvard/MIT by CIA/DARPA and my European background would be useful in the Aldo Moro kidnapping.

  Needless to say,  I had little time to evaluate the dangerous situation in Italy at the time of Aldo Moro’s kidnapping.

  Countless prosecutors,  jurists and innocent civilians had been shot, murdered or brutalized by the ruthless Red Brigade.

  I came to the Italy dressed in my usual official outfit—blue jeans and denim jacket and took a taxi to the US Embassy.  There I received a very poor CIA briefing from the Station Chief and US Embassy officials. 

 

Next I was assigned to a safe house where the carabinieri guards were totally incompetent.  I quickly moved out and into a hotel.

  Soon after checking in,  I met Francesco Cossiga,  a man of with intense eyes and insightful questions who clearly was desperate for a strategy to save his boss,  Aldo Moro.

Within the first week in Rome,  I was already targeted by the Red Brigade for ‘Assassination’.   Clearly someone had inside information about my presence in Rome.

  I received from the Cossiga a 7.4 millimeter Baretta but I refused to wear a bullet proof vest.   I ate my meals with my back to the wall. 

  Most nights I couldn’t sleep,  I was awake all night long with my Beretta pointed at my hotel door,  certain whoever came in would be shot.

 

This is not the story of The  Bourne Identity nor The Mechanic.

  But what Cossiga and I did over the next six or so weeks was to:

[1] Develop a strategy of no–negotiations with the Red Brigade. 

[2] We left everyone out of the ‘loop’ –Italian politicians, specifically Giulio Anddreotti  because my past experience taught me that if the nation/state is to survive then the leaders must be COMPLETELY DIVORCED FROM ANY DECISION MAKING.

  Otherwise, as I had learned in previous hostage negotiations,  if the leader of a particular country becomes involved in the negotiations than the terrorist has won the psychological battle.   The terrorists hold the nation/state in a lock down situation where fear becomes rampant and the state begins to destabilize.  At the time, this was exactly what was happening in Italy.

   

  In order to stop that escalation of FEAR AND TERROR,   a strategy was developed which happened to be called, “THE PIECZENIK STRATEGY”.   That White Paper never was rebutted or changed by anyone in the Italian government.   Giulio Andreiotti  correctly said throughout the subsequent  years that ‘he was not responsible for the non-negotiation policy ‘.   He had acted appropriately by not interfering in the negotiations and left the matter in the competent hands of Cossiga.

As a side note, an important part of the stabilization program was the fact that Berlinguer,  the head of the PCI , the official Communist Party,  which had been inappropriately accused of abetting the Red Brigade,  was indeed very effective in helping to maintain the ‘no-negotiation policy’. 

Sidebar:  I found out during the crisis that both Berlinguer and Cossiga were  related and both were from Sardinia, for whatever that was worth.

  The denouement of the Aldo Moro kidnapping happened just as I had envisioned it—Aldo Moro was ‘assassinated by the Red Brigade’ and in turn they were captured an imprisoned.

There are still some revelations about this time and place despite countless articles, books and even a documentary film done by French/Italian Mossad operative.   This Mossad agent always wanted to know what and how I did what I did and on behalf of who’s authority. The fact that Aldo Moro would have to die ---was already a FAIT ACCOMPLI FOR ME WITHIN HOURS OF STUDYING THE DISASTROUS SITUATION IN ITALY.

Why? How? And by who’s authority?  Are questions for me to address at a different time and place.

  The principal goal for me was the stabilization of Italy and the continuation of a functioning nation/state.

The other goal:

  Elimination of the Red Brigade and in the process the neutralization of the Neo-facist groups inspired by Berlusconi and others.

  In this process of stabilizing Italy with Cossiga we had to trust a few good men who were not beholden to SISME AND SISDE,  both  Italian security agencies that Cossiga mistrusted. 

This blog is intended to correct a moment of history for a despicable Italian politician who at the time he had to be silent and follow instructions from an America operative—he did. 

Here is a tidbit you may not know…

For four decades,  Cossiga and other Italian politicians did not want to admit the one criminal activity that Aldo Moro had participated in. 

Aldo Moro was a MAJOR CO-CONSPIRATOR with ARAFAT,  ABU NIDAL and GEORGE HABASH in letting COUNTLESS THOUSANDS of PALESTINIAN well known terrorists transit freely through the Rome airport to destinations where they killed countless victims on ships, in Latin American countries and elsewhere. 

Forty years later,  Cossiga finally admitted that Aldo Moro had been responsible for the deaths of many innocent Jews and Christians.   When he was then told by an informant that he had been set up by me all along so Aldo Moro would die for his sins,  Cossiga simply had a wry smile and muttered:   Dr Steve Pieczenik was more MACHIAVELLIAN THAN MACHIAVELLI!

Cossiga never knew at any time who I really was.

But Cossiga did admit at the end of his life that in fact I was right in my intuitions.  

Cossiga admitted in an interview that Aldo Moro had made a deal with the devil to let the Palestinian Terrorists through Italy in return for letting Italy stay safe from Palestinian Terrorism. 

Ironic.   The Italians traded one form of terrorism for another.   Either way they would have lost—at least one,  if not more,  leaders of the Christian Democratic Party.  

Cossiga never knew that I grew up in the shadows of the HOLOCAUST…..

Cossiga did not know,   that TERRORISM was an innate part of my Childhood Socialization……… growing up the unofficial “battle zone” of Toulouse, France;  during the Algerian War for Independence…..                

….buildings exploded… innocent muslims, jews, and Christians  died in abundance.

Those were the Haunting Memories of my past that compelled me to be a ‘counter –terrorist expert’ ----whatever that meant.  

My suspicion is that the ‘Honorable Men’ from the State Department knew exactly who I was and what would happen in Italy and to Prime Minister Aldo Moro.

They were Vance, Christopher, Reed--- the “Best and the Brightest”. 

Here is a bit o' homework for my upcoming post,  its an obit
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/world/europe/giulio-andreotti-premier-of-italy-7-times-dies-at-94.html?pagewanted=all

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Conner Expressed Doubts on April 29, 2013- About The Decision to Take on Bush Jr vs Gore Case That Resulted in the Election of POTUS BUSH JR. 

She said the following  to the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board in an interview:

“Maybe the Supreme Court should have said, ‘We’re NOT GOING TO TAKE ON BUSH vs. GORE’.   GOODBYE!”

But wait…. that’s not all she had to say:

“Obviously  the court did reach a decision and thought it had to reach a decision,”  she said,  “It turned out the ELECTION AUTHORITIES IN FLORIDA HADN’T DONE A REAL GREAT JOB THERE AND KIND OF MESSED IT UP.”

  Now,  comes the belated punch-line:

“And PROBABLY THE SUPREME COURT ADDED TO THE PROBLEM AT THE END OF THE DAY.”

  Now, let’s get this straight…..

  Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman APPOINTED to the SUPREME COURT under POTUS Reagan and Chief Justice  William Rehnquist.   The latter was known in the Nixon Administration  as  the “Moron Renchburg”. 

Here is my problem,  as a psychiatrist and  a former Senior Official in both the Nixon and Reagan administrations  and someone who knew both lawyers in the case:  Baker[R] vs Christopher[D],   I don’t believe that she had what I now call-- a TWELVE YEAR POST TRAUMATIC GUILT [PTG].

She can’t convince me that after twelve years she had any doubts!   After she carefully monitored what happened under the disastrous POTUS Bush JR whom she purposefully allowed to ascend to the throne of inequity. ….now comes the calculated re-consideration.

Sandra Day O’Connor,  like any political operative,  be he/she Democrat or Republican,  she slimed her way up to the greasy pole of Republican politics,  so much so that she even dated her classmate at Stanford University Law School—“Renchquest”,  another Nixonian disparaging name.

  Then Sandra weaseled her way through the Arizona Attorney General position,   next she was elected in 1973 to the Arizona State Senate and was the FIRST WOMAN to become MAJORITY LEADER.   In 1975,   she was elected to the Miracopa County Superior Court and in 1979 she was elevated to the Arizona Court of Appeals.   She served there until she BECAME THE SWING VOTE ON THE SUPREME COURT. 

  She voted with her ex-boyfriend, “Renchquest”,  93.4% of the time and with the ‘sexual harassment’ Superior Court Justice Clarence Thomas,  over 80% of the time.

  Clearly,  I am not a lawyer,  thank god!   But I do know how lawyers work and I have treated countless number of women lawyers.

  And guess what?
  Like slimy political men operatives,  women lawyers are as slimy as any man.   Not more, not less. But equally DISGUSTING!!
  WHY?

 

Because like most politicians,  the basis of their LEGITIMACY lies not in COMPETENCE OR ACCOUNTABILITY BUT IN THE ABILITY TO INGRATIATE THEMSELVES TO THE POWER THAT BE---in this case,  she KOWTOWED TO BAKER and THE BUSH FAMILY----

WITHOUT REMORSE!!!! 

Otherwise,  she could not nor would not remain POLITICALLY VIABLE ----like all the JUSTICES.

  Being  judge on the local or federal level has nothing to do with competency.   It has to DO STRICTLY WITH POLITICAL PATRONAGE. 

So why does Ms O’Connor suddenly come out TWELVE YEARS AFTER SHE HAS SEEN THE TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF HER MISTAKE TO RULE IN FAVOR OF BUSH JR,  she wants,  like all politicians to redress the past mistakes of her tenureship before she literally dies without remorse. 

 

Her apology,   is an expression for me of a JUDICIAL COWARD who had to up hold the law the land.   She knew fully well  that the Supreme Court INTERVENING ON BEHALF for BUSH JR would eventually result in the “so called ELECTION for BUSH JR”.

NONSENSE!!!
  She sold the country for a few silver coins and a pat on the rump,  just like Clinton,  the CIA,  the US Military, and legislators and even GORE HIMSELF .

  As for me,  I can never forget nor FORGIVE SUCH AN IGNOMINIOUS , COWARDLY ,  NARCISISTIC ACT that  Sandra Day O’Connor had COMMITTED AGAINST THE HONORABLE CITIZENS OF THE USA.

“Meninerunt Omnia Amante.” 

Lovers [Of America] Remember Everything .

Thanks Ovid.