Know your BFEE: Judge Laurence Silberman, Go-To Guy of the Military Industrial Complex

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17. How Corporate McPravda Torpedoed Treason

This Silberman story was too important to miss and those who know it needed to get discredited. Like a metaphor for democracy, the "journalist" who helped sink the October Surprise story by destroying Robert Parry in print by smear also managed to torpedo the good works of Capt. Gary Sick, USN (ret.):

GARY SICK’S BALD-FACED LIES

The October Surprise hoax is laid to rest -- at least outside the Clinton Administration.

By Steven Emerson
The American Spectator, March 1993

The "October Surprise" episode -- based on the assertion that Reagan campaign aides sought to delay the release of American hostages in Iran in 1980 -- represents one of the most scandalous political hoaxes this century. And on January 13, 1993, following that morning's release of the exhaustive House report that categorically disproved it, the man who did most to legitimize the fraud was nowhere to be found. Carter Administration national security aide Gary Sick left a message on his New York answering machine that he would have no comment until he'd had a chance to read the report.

That in itself was surprising, for Sick had spent two years making himself readily available to reporters, talk shows, and op-ed pages. From "Donahue" to "Nightline," from the New York Times to the Associated Press, he flooded the news pages and airwaves to defend his account of what he called the Reagan campaign's "political coup." He had been quick to disparage his critics. He accused Frank Snepp, the ex–CIA official turned freelance journalist who exposed Sick's sources as fabricators, of being still connected to the CIA. He and his Random House editors, Steve Wasserman and Peter Osnos, accused me of being part of a "Zionist" or "Israeli" campaign to discredit him.

When his facts were challenged, Sick would jump into the fray. In May 1992, when CNN reported that secret 1980 wiretaps showed that a Paris meeting Sick alleged William Casey attended could not have taken place, Sick immediately told an AP reporter that Casey could have traveled to and from Paris on the Concorde. In November 1992, when a Senate report called the October Surprise unfounded, Sick showed up just hours later on television, claiming the report showed that a new "cover-up" was underway. Sick said he would await the outcome of the House investigation. Sick's partner in crime, the New York Times editorialists -- who endorsed the conspiracy from the day they put it on the opinion page -- leaped to his defense, saying "a fuller, fairer understanding may have to await a parallel House inquiry."

For Sick, however, the day of the House report's release was a day of reckoning. Ever since he first began making the charges publicly, he had been careful to cloak his accusations in the mantle of wanting to assure justice and fairness. "If [the October Surprise] did not happen," he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in November 1991, then "we owe it to Mr. Casey and others to clear any suspicion from their name." In a separate interview, Sick promised to apologize to President Bush if the charges were disproved.

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On January 24, eleven days after the report was issued, Sick finally surfaced, returning once again to the scene of the crime -- the New York Times op-ed page. Instead of acknowledging that his charges had been proved to be utterly false and that he had been duped -- it would have been a bit much for him to confess to having fabricated them -- Sick contended that in fact the House report "does not lay those claims [that Casey met in Madrid secretly with Iranians to delay the release of American hostages] to rest." And he went on in his op-ed piece to engage in the same blatant mendacity that had characterized his allegations from the very beginning. (That the New York Times collaborated in this deception is another story for another time.) In alleging the continued existence of a Casey conspiracy, Sick betrayed his dishonesty. He wrote: "The Committee's own evidence places [Casey] at the [Bohemian] Grove" on the weekend of August 1-3 rather than on July 26-27, thus keeping alive the possibility that Casey was actually meeting with the Iranians m Madrid. But that is a lie: the committee's evidence -- including diaries, telephone call records, credit card receipts, eyewitness accounts, and photographs -- showed that Casey "attended the Bohemian Grove on the weekend of July 25-27, and that he was not there on the weekend of August 1-3." Sick refused even to acknowledge that every single source he cited in his book had been discredited as a liar. If there were still any doubts that Sick has become detached from reality, one had only to read his concluding statement that he was "gratified that my research prompted these investigations." For Sick had effectively accused the late William Casey, George Bush, Robert McFarlane, Laurence Silberman, Richard Allen, and several others of treason. He had triggered a $5.4-million investigation and unleashed a collection of wholesale liars on newspapers and broadcasts throughout the world. It boggled the mind that the instigator of a McCarthyite witchhunt could profess himself "gratified" with the result.

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http://spectator.org/articles/34632/gary-sicks-bald-faced-lies

Once printed, Corporate McPravda picked up the story and repeated it ad infinitum until October Surprise and those who talked about became nothing more than "Conspiracy Kooks."

Gary Sick is a true patriot and an American hero. Without Sick standing up to Poppy Bush, and Ted Shackley's chums in the corrupt portions of CIA and Safari Club, we wouldn't see it mentioned at all. Even then, we don't see it anywhere on Corporate Owned News. We do see the wars for profit drone on and on.

PS: Thank you, summerschild. Your kindness really means the world to me.