Karma Over Russia? By Jacob G. Hornberger!!
(2016-12-12 at 15:09:50 )

Karma Over Russia? by Jacob G. Hornberger

Not surprisingly, the mainstream media is aghast that President-elect Donald Trump is not automatically deferring to the Central Intelligence Agency and its pronouncement that Russia intervened in the United States presidential election with the intent of helping Trump defeat his Democratic Party opponent Hillary Clinton.

Never mind that the Central Intelligence Agency has provided no evidence to support its claims. In the eyes of the mainstream media and the national-security establishment, that is irrelevant. Trumps responsibility, they hold, is to automatically, without question or challenge, defer to the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and accept whatever it says.

Of course, one big problem here is that the Central Intelligence Agency, along with the rest of the national-security establishment, sometimes lies. In fact, Central Intelligence Agency officials are expected to lie if they feel that "national security" depends on it.

Recall when Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms was asked under oath by Congress about the United States governments meddling in Chiles presidential elections.

He denied that the United States government had engaged in such meddling. He lied, and his lie was ultimately discovered. Since he was the CIA director, he was given special treatment, permitted to plead to a misdemeanor, given probation, and fined. When Helms returned to CIA headquarters after sentencing, he was met with overwhelming cheers and support, which gives one a pretty good idea as to the CIAs attitude about lying.

Do not forget Defense Intelligence Agency chief Gen. James R. Clapper, Jr. He was asked under oath by Congress about whether the National Security Agency was engaging in massive secret surveillance of the American people. He said, "Not wittingly." He lied. As Edward Snowden revealed, the NSA was very wittingly, knowingly, and deliberately spying on the American people when Clapper made that statement. He was luckier than Helms. Nobody charged him with anything.

Indeed, casting doubts on the CIAs pronouncement, Trump referred to the CIAs bogus Weapons of Mass Destruction pronouncements that were used to gin up support for the United States invasion of Iraq.

It might also be instructive to mention in this context Operation Northwoods, the secret plan that the military component of the national-security establishment proposed to President Kennedy in 1962. It called for terrorist attacks and plane hijackings by United States operatives posing as agents of Cubas communist regime, which thereby would provide a false pretext for invading Cuba and effecting regime change there. To Kennedys everlasting credit, he summarily rejected the plan.

Of course, the bogus pronouncement that North Vietnamese forces had attacked United States warships operating off the coast of North Vietnam, which provided the pretext for the unrestrained United States war in Vietnam, also come to mind.

There is another factor to consider in all this: the fact that the United States government has no moral standing to object to any foreign interference in United States elections. That is because United States officials come into the controversy with what is known in the law as "unclean hands." That is the legal doctrine that holds that whenever a party comes into court seeking equitable relief, it will be denied such relief if it has “"unclean hands"-that is, if it itself has engaged in wrongful conduct.

While the Central Intelligence Agencys complaint about Russia is in the court of public opinion, the principle of unclean hands still holds, at least from a moral standpoint. For decades, the United States government has been meddling in the affairs of other countries, in both democratic and non-democratic regimes.

I have already mentioned Chile, where the CIA engaged in bribery, kidnapping, murder, and a violent military coup which resulted in the kidnapping, rape, torture, incarceration, execution, or assassination of tens of thousands of innocent people, including two Americans, with the full support of the United States government.

There is also Guatemala, where the CIA violently ousted the democratically elected president of that country and replaced him with a brutal unelected military general.

Also, the violent coup in Iran, where the CIA ousted the democratically elected prime minister, Mahammad Mossadegh, and replaced him with the brutal Shah of Iran.

Also, the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, with the aim of installing United States-approved regimes into power.

And there is the United States support of the military coup in Egypt, which destroyed that countrys experiment with democracy.

The list of countries, both democratic and non-democratic, in which the United States government has intervened goes on and on. If I were Buddhist, I would say that what is now happening with Russia might be karma, given all the meddling in other countries that the United States national-security state has engaged in since its establishment in 1947.

Indeed, it would be a particularly ironic form of karma given the United States governments meddling in the affairs of Ukraine, with the aim of ousting the democratically president of that country, who was friendly to Russia, and replacing him with a president who was friendly to the United States.

It was that United States meddling, along with the NATOs wish to install United States missiles on the Russian-Ukraine border, that led to the crisis with Russia over Ukraine.

In fact, one cannot help but wonder if the United States national-security establishment and the United States mainstream media might not be suffering from some sort of massive subconscious guilt for all the damage, death, and destruction that their meddling and support of meddling have wrought in other countries. It certainly would not be the first time that deep, unresolved guilt manifested itself through projection and paranoia.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!