Sipsey Street Irregulars: Kathleen Millar on the Terrorist Gang Who Couldn't Plot Straight & Wagging the Gunwalker Dog. "ATF and the FBI have a history…"

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Kathleen Millar on the Terrorist Gang Who Couldn't Plot Straight & Wagging the Gunwalker Dog. "ATF and the FBI have a history…"

"Plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador or murder-for-hire sting? Spin knocks DOJ, ATF scandals off the frontpage…"

The news that Holder’s DOJ had bagged a ‘terrorist mastermind’ named Manssor J. Arbabsiar followed shortly on the heels of my last post about ‘spin,’ and the ways ‘stakeholders’ in the DOJ/ATF Fast and Furious story may be using it to sell their own POV, lack of culpability, or, in the case of the press, newspapers or their e-equivalents.

So the caller who woke me up way too early to tell me about US law enforcement’s latest tour de force, the discovery and preemption of an Iranian murder plot to assassinate the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia, really only had one question: “Is this the kind of ‘spin’ you’ve been talking about?”

Well, gee. It took me a minute, but my initial impression is the one I’m sticking with–if it isn’t spin, it should be, because the media ball is back in DOJ’s court–the story’s knocked the Fast and Furious scandal off the front page, replacing it, apparently, with a tale told by an idiot, a US national who’s failed at every job he’s ever had, from selling used cars to hawking luncheon fajitas.

On full display as well is an exceptional discharge of sound and fury—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (the lady in charge of issuing exemptions to the Arms Export Control Act) and top dogs from the FBI, DOJ, ICE, DEA, and even the CIA, charging through the halls of the UN in Manhattan demanding further ‘isolation’ of Iran. Brrrrr…

And, of course, in the end, it’s a tale that signifies…what?

That there are countless wannabe conspirators wandering the mean streets of LA, Dallas/Ft. Worth—wherever USA—heads filled with squeegee plots to rid the world of real or imaginary evils?

That when these hapless miscreants connect with law enforcement informers, whose own fates depend on helping agents build career-enhancing cases, the pot begins to boil?

That the best way to kill a story about the enemy within is to refocus attention on a bigger, badder enemy without?

I’m not sure. . .

But here’s a version of the “Iran Plots Terrorist Strike on US Soil” story (told to me) that I’d like to share with you.

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journeytogao said...: Dammit dammit dammit! Where's that news story about ATF officials asking agents to play up other cases to try to divert attention away from F&F? Sharyl Attkisson refers to it in this C-SPAN interview, starting around 13:40. I remember that story, but I'm going crazy trying to find it.; October 16, 2011 at 11:32 PM

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Kathleen Millar on the Terrorist Gang Who Couldn't Plot Straight & Wagging the Gunwalker Dog. "ATF and the FBI have a history…"

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