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In reply to the discussion: In 2012 the US had a $7 million bounty on the guy Greenwald is claiming Obama invented two weeks ago [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)6. Funny how Greenwald's fans don't read his stuff
The solution to both problems was found in the wholesale concoction of a brand new terror threat that was branded The Khorasan Group. After spending weeks depicting ISIS as an unprecedented threat too radical even for Al Qaeda! administration officials suddenly began spoon-feeding their favorite media organizations and national security journalists tales of a secret group that was even scarier and more threatening than ISIS, one that posed a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland. Seemingly out of nowhere, a new terror group was created in media lore.
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There are serious questions about whether the Khorasan Group even exists in any meaningful or identifiable manner. Aki Peritz, a CIA counterterrorism official until 2009, told Time: Id certainly never heard of this group while working at the agency, while Obamas former U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford said: We used the term [Khorasan] inside the government, we dont know where it came from .All I know is that they dont call themselves that. As The Intercept was finalizing this article, former terrorism federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review that the group was a scam: You havent heard of the Khorosan Group because there isnt one. It is a name the administration came up with, calculating that Khorosan had sufficient connection to jihadist lore that no one would call the president on it.
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There are serious questions about whether the Khorasan Group even exists in any meaningful or identifiable manner. Aki Peritz, a CIA counterterrorism official until 2009, told Time: Id certainly never heard of this group while working at the agency, while Obamas former U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford said: We used the term [Khorasan] inside the government, we dont know where it came from .All I know is that they dont call themselves that. As The Intercept was finalizing this article, former terrorism federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review that the group was a scam: You havent heard of the Khorosan Group because there isnt one. It is a name the administration came up with, calculating that Khorosan had sufficient connection to jihadist lore that no one would call the president on it.
The fact that Greenwald quoted, with adoring approval, Andrew fucking McCarthy of the National Review--author of
Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama's Impeachment
http://www.amazon.com/Faithless-Execution-Building-Political-Impeachment/dp/1594037760
to support his Infowars-lite tinfoil nonsense, tells you everything you need to know about that recovering white nationalist libertarian troll.
Greenwald is in bed with the extreme right because they have a common enemy in the White House.
Fuck him and his ilk.
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In 2012 the US had a $7 million bounty on the guy Greenwald is claiming Obama invented two weeks ago [View all]
geek tragedy
Sep 2014
OP
This is why people have gotta be careful about taking Greenwald's snake oil. nt
Cali_Democrat
Sep 2014
#3
people who are emotionally invested in hating the President consciously decide
geek tragedy
Sep 2014
#4
But of course that's not what Greenwald's said. You already know this.
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2014
#5
I will bet you have no good explanation for why Greenwald cited Andrew McCarthy's claim
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#11
The words are there for everyone to read. I did forget this line of Greenwald's:
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#10
just like there are people who hate Obama so much they believe that a grand crime against
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#30
I didn't miss Will Pitt's post, and you can take that up with him (again)
DisgustipatedinCA
Oct 2014
#71
Those same people also don't understand that people of varying/differing political
cui bono
Oct 2014
#75
"There are serious questions about whether the Khorasan Group even exists . . . " n/t
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#47
MCarthy's book is titled "Building the political case for Obama's Impeachment"
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#46
The title of his article was "the fake terror threat used to justify bombing syria"
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#89
Or maybe he was "aware"? He knows there's a certain element who will believe anything
Cha
Oct 2014
#12
He claimed Obama 'concoctred' the Khorosan group to provide legal justification
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#52
Looking every where for a mention of the Khorasan Group. Not finding it.
Luminous Animal
Oct 2014
#14
Greenwald is saying the entire terror threat and the existence of the group
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#22
I've got nothing but sympathy for you. Really. You can't fill Prosense's shoes.
Luminous Animal
Oct 2014
#37
The title of his article was "the fake terror threat used to justify bombing syria"
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#41
They'll never get it.. it must be strange to stick ones head in the sand and keep repeating
Cha
Oct 2014
#63
GG is a dumba$$ winger and his fans can't handle that.. so they try using what they think are
Cha
Oct 2014
#43
"Nothing in this post goes against Democrats and the Alerter, clearly a GG fan, needs to grow a
Cha
Oct 2014
#82
he is the guy we bombed, right? Greenwald is claiming there was no terrorist threat or need
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#24
Greenwald is saying this was a scam, sham, concoction, and fake by the US government.
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#27
Your story changes and changes the further one reads down the thread.
DisgustipatedinCA
Oct 2014
#29
Greenwald is saying there was no terrorist threat in that area. that Obama's claim that there were
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#31
Where the US bombed "Khorosan"--he referred to Khorosan as a "fake terror threat"
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#92
Greenwald is denying that there was any kind of terrorist threat in the area.
geek tragedy
Oct 2014
#34