that goes in depth on some of the odd claims KG makes, and adds a lot of background. The short version about KG is that although she is an insider to the power-elite, she is not a government official and she is not an expert on deep politics (in that she has never studied it, unlike people like Howard Zinn etc).
I think all in all KG's story is valuable, it's just that there's a lot of fother for nay-sayers.
on the GNN Intelligence forum
http://www.gnn.tv/forum/thread.php?id=4733As I am watching the interviews (long version), taking notes and such, I realize that Mrs. Griggs is making some innocent mistakes along the way. She makes mistakes usually when it comes to explaining historical material outside of her experience, or she misinterprets/mislabels some events. She is also a proper and pleasant Virginian lady, steeped in the Protestant and (paleo) Conservative culture.
However, despite occasional mistakes and misinterpreations, the bulk of her knowledge about the USA power structure is correct and her insider position makes her knowledge invaluable.
Here is how I correct some of her mistakes/misinterpretations….
KISSINGER is a “communist”? Innocent Paleoconservative Americans, like Mrs. Griggs, are correct that there’s something very fishy about Kissinger and the whole globalist/CFR movement. But they mislabel this anti-constitutional globalist movement as being communist. In fact, US citizens complained in the 1930s to the FBI that the CFR was a secret communist plot. It’s not communist, but the globalist CFR crowd has some communist background, and a willingness to implement bits of communism and fascism.
THE CIA is nothing, “a distraction”? No, the CIA certainly is a force. However, Mrs Griggs apparently is verifying what other researchers have concluded. For example, John Judge {911 Citizens' Commission} has concluded that the Pentagon/DIA/black ops network makes up the bulk of the US intelligence complex. The CIA, says Judge, is more of a smaller cadillac think-tank which distributes/oversees some activity to the larger intel community. Yes, there’s CIA station chiefs and CIA covert ops. But Judge says the military part of intelligence is 10 times the size of the CIA and much more powerful. And now it is getting more powerful than ever before, as the CIA is being whipped into shape and pare down further.
Also, many covert operations which people assume are totally CIA are in fact not. They are DIA or in some way related more to the army, marines, etc. Many of the worst intel offenders in fact were military, such as North, Secord, Singlaub, Wilson, much like how Kissinger himself was army intel.
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one of the posters' blog on GNN
http://www.gnn.tv/users/user.php?id=63Deep Politics
B06012 / Tue, 10 May 2005 01:28:04 / Miscellaneous
Entry 1: Generalizations
To gain greater insights into how US foreign policy and national security have developed over the decades, one must look seriously at certain arrangements which are not discussed in conventional history books.
I’d like to talk about the curious relationships which have evolved over time between certain 1) US law enforcement, military, and intelligence bureaucracies, 2) political elites and foreign lobbies, 3) organized crime syndicates, and 4) multinational business interests. In every country, at one time or another, there has been instances when these 4 broad forces have intersected to pursue mutual aims. The results, when exposed, are given the terms “corruption”, “crime”, or sometimes the presently ridiculed term “conspiracy”. In the history of America, we can all agree that instances of these have occurred at least on occasion. However, the enduring perception is that these 4 forces are still quite separate from one another, and that their alliances for mutual benefit are temporary and unorganized.
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