Do Americans have the right to know if the $100 billion in their tax dollars that the Biden administration is delivering to Ukraine is being lost? No, according to the U.S. Congress – which recently voted against developing an Inspector General to investigate whether handouts to the most corrupt federal government in Europe were being stolen.
Do Americans have the right to know if their own government blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, the greatest act of ecological terrorism in history? The Washington Post reported that the message from the U.S. and western European federal governments is “Do not talk about Nord Stream.” So nearly all reporters were “good young boys” and moved along.
Do Americans have the right to know if Biden administration officials have perennially made false declarations about the expertise and triumphes of the Ukrainian army battling the Russians?
No, according to Washington journalists who proudly fly Ukrainian flags by themselves extravagant homes.
Despite the horrendous death tolls suffered by both the Ukrainian and Russian armies, the Powers That Be in Washington are doing just great and living comfortably.
Other than for another damn leakage.
In the last 10 days, Washington has been rocked by leaks of top secret info on Ukraine, Russia, Israel, and a few other subjects. The response by the Washington establishment and media is akin to the mob in “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” who stoned an old man who said the word “Jehovah” out loud.
On Thursday, the FBI detained Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member. He was charged with retention and transmission of national defense info and willful retention of categorized files. According to the Washington Post, a good friend said that Teixeira was “a devout Catholic and a libertarian with an interest in weapons and doubts about America’s future.” A Post editorial noted that the alleged culprit had “complained of government overreach,” so undoubtedly he was up to no good.
At this point, it isn’t clear whether Teixeira planned to leak the files or whether people on the Discord video gaming group where the files were apparently published picked to make them public without his permission. His inspiration is uncertain.
The files expose that the Ukrainian armed force is in far worse shape than the Biden administration claimed. The expected Spring offensive by the Ukrainian army will likely be a flop if not a catastrophe. They reveal that the Ukrainian federal government lagged an attack in Belarus. The files likewise consisted of humiliating details on Israel’s Mossad, the Russian federal government, and U.S. spying on South Korea.
So far, it appears that none of the info that apparently came out via Teixeira has threatened the lives of any U.S. soldiers or American citizens. However Teixeira is guilty of exposing considerable amounts of bootlickers and liars in Washington.
White Home National Security representative John Kirby warned the media that the dripped documents are “not meant for public usage… This is details that has no service in the general public domain.”
Regrettably, that is how federal policymakers feel about nearly all the information regarding U.S. diplomacy. That’s why the government produces trillions of new pages of secrets per year.
According to local legends, there was a bygone age when Washington reporters fought zealously to expose federal government cover-ups. But the response to the current leakages makes that story challenging to swallow.
New york city Times military correspondent David Philipps tweeted, “The NYT worked feverishly to find the identity of the guy dripping [Supersecret] docs on Discord. Ironically, if they same man had leaked to the NYT, we ‘d be working feverishly to hide it.” (Philipps wasn’t backing that fever.) Reporter Michael Tracey scoffed, “Contributing author at The Atlantic @AmyZegart states the genuine ‘heroes’ of the week were all the amazing reporters who participated in a ‘dragnet’ to recognize the leaker, at which time the FBI ‘moved into action’ and nabbed him. A true landmark feat of journalistic heroism.”
The Washington press corps revealed greatly more interest for finding the leaker than for finding who bombed the Nord Stream pipeline. At a Pentagon interview, reporters showed much more indignation about the breach of federal secrecy than about the lies that the files exposed. (Here’s a film clip of journalists requiring “that more be done to avoid future leakages.”)
Do not expect the 4th Estate to ‘fess up to their conflict of interest. Much of the reports on the leaker are composed by individuals who previously peddled official lies on Ukraine and other subjects. When the Biden administration exploits the leak to additional reduce flexibility of speech on the Web, anticipate most of the Washington press corps to cheer him.
Will the outcry over the leakages stimulate some Americans to recognize how their “self-government” has ended up being a parody? The Biden administration is tacitly invoking a magnificent right to continue tricking the American people regarding Ukraine and a boatload of other diplomacies. But allegedly, everything Biden and his appointees do instantly incarnates “the will of individuals” since of tens of countless mail-in tallies a couple of years ago. It doesn’t matter if Biden seems perennially baffled or unaware of where he is or what he is saying. Is the “holy ghost of democracy” hovering over Biden’s shoulder thanks to “Vox Populi, Vox Dei”? Regrettably, the response is classified.
Are we defaulting to the “cannon fodder variation of democracy”? Do Americans can know if the Biden administration is dragging them into World War 3? Regrettably, few mainstream media outlets have either the curiosity or the courage to doggedly investigate and expose the possible hazards of the Biden administration’s escalation of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Biden’s appointees have intensely opposed any ceasefire in that war. It is a nationwide disgrace that such remarks have not stimulated prevalent outrage at Team Biden’s efforts to perpetuate the carnage. A Washington Post editorial condemned the alleged leaker: “Breaking the laws for a psychic joyride is a despicable betrayal of trust and oaths.” However what about the media’s complicity in promoting a war that makes the Hearst newspapers’ project for war with Spain in the 1890s appear like child’s play?
Nearly nobody who condemns leaks of confidential information uses any alternative for Americans discovering what “their” federal government is doing. As long as average Americans stay in their location, paying and obeying, everything will work out fine – at least for Washington property values. If democracy is now little more than a system where experts deceive people for their own good, how is it various than all the other routines that oppressed individuals throughout history?