Spin doctors manipulate news
to guard prez, spooks on terror
Though we can't definitively rule out an "inside job" in the Boston bombings, we can reasonably infer that the strange silence of the press on important angles of the story is intended to prevent the Obama administration and security agencies from looking bad in the eyes of the American people.


For example, suppose the initial suspect, Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, was maybe an intelligence operative. That would explain how he got on a no-fly list as someone with "derogatory" information before the blasts and why he was spirited from public view once he was let go. But to admit the Saudi had terror ties would be, officials might well think, too confusing to the public and raise all sorts of political trouble for both Obama and the security apparatus.

Never fear, the press compliantly fails to do a thorough job examining not only Glenn Beck's document, but Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano's shifting story and obvious attempts to mislead, behavior which itself tends to validate Beck's document.

So why would the government go to "no comment" mode as to who hired the military-style security firm, Craft International, to assist police at the marathon, why would the media act like getting such an obvious detail is only something for a "conspiracy theorist" reporter?

Again, a likely reason is that the security-media complex doesn't want to feed conspiracy theories; administration politicos, spooks and media managers worry that ANY coverage of Craft will help stoke suspicion and destabilize "Our Thing."

Recall that the U.S. media in the recent past have obeyed CIA news controls for political reasons. And, Obama's current CIA chief, John Brennan, was the White House point man for scamming the public about the Benghazi terror attack. And let us also recollect that President Obama's position -- stated well before the investigation's conclusion -- is that his White House and the security forces couldn't have been prepared for the Boston atrocity because the brothers Tsarnaev were "self-radicalized," or that is, Obama is asserting that there was no international conspiracy despite various terrorism and intelligence connections to the elder brother, Tamerlan.

And here too we see much of the media playing down, and failing to do much followup of, of disclosures of FBI and CIA warnings.