May 17, 2004

Categorical Denials

I'll keep this short since I bombarded you all this weekend.

The Admistration and Pentagon officials are categorically denying the existence of any "Special Access Program" as was exposed by Seymour Herch's latest article (and others). Let me tell you about these types of denials.

I remember the denial that the FBI and local police were infiltrating activist groups or keeping dossiers on people during the Vietnam War.

I remember the denial that we had troops in Vietnam or Cambodia.

I remember the denial that Republican operatives had stolen info from the Democrats (Watergate).

I remember the denial that the US was involved in any way with the Contras or drug trafficking (Iran - Contra).

I remember the denial that the military had "black" helicopters (Black Hawk).

I remember the denial that the military had a secret stealth airplane (I actually saw it on test flights while camping in central Nevada - of course we all know it exists now).

Lesson - take denials with a large dose of skeptism - especially if there is a lot to lose, it is illegal, or it will tick off the public.

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Well said. If only we could put these messages ( updated daily) up on billboards around the country then what would these beauracrats say? How many Lies would they willingly comit if it was up along the freeway like panhandlers?
WHo has the nerve and the finances to pull off such a trick?
I would be willing to pursue this if I had a lead on who would finance it?

Posted by: Jack at May 17, 2004 7:06 PM

I agree with Jack everybody go to:

www.freewayblogger.com you can't stop the people !

I have been listening to denials since Eisenhower anybody remember Power's spy plane ?

Posted by: Bill Whitlatch at May 17, 2004 7:58 PM

Denials are priceless. See, what they do is allow an unseemly or downright wrong possibility, stew in the minds of confused citizens. We sit there and ponder whether or not something like this could actually happen.

By the time full disclosure and irrefutable evidence emerges (usually several years down the line), the parties directly involved have moved on, the public has gotten used to the idea that this did, in fact, happen, and the hoopla is extremely mitigated.

Denial is a tool to buy time for damage control.

And yeah, the billboard idea would be wonderful.

Posted by: Pamela at May 18, 2004 9:11 AM
Crd Lorraine Denicourt