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“Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is clearly doing her best to defuse the bombshell dropped last week by Israel’s outgoing Mossad chief, Meir Dagan. During a visit to the Gulf states yesterday, she stressed that Dagan’s assertion that Iran will not go nuclear before 2015 is no excuse for not keeping up the pressure on Tehran. In their posts last week, Jonathan Tobin and J.E. Dyer both offered good reasons not to be reassured by Dagan’s prediction. But Clinton also alluded to a very different reason. “We don’t want anyone to be misled by anyone’s intelligence analysis,” she said. That’s a diplomatic way of saying what two respected Israeli military analysts said openly that same day: Dagan’s public assessment must be evaluated in the light of its clear political purpose — to thwart any possibility of an Israeli military strike on Iran, which he is known to oppose. […] Dagan is both a dedicated patriot and a consummate professional, but even patriotic professionals are still human. And it is only human nature to read the tea leaves in a way that supports what you would most like to believe.”
— EVELYN GORDON - 01.10.2011 (commentarymagazine.com)
Double crosses? Triple crosses? In the bowels of 21st-Century clandestine warfare there are more crosses than in a 3-D game of tic-tac-toe. Even the major political players know only as much as their operatives want them to know. As for the public, you don't know jack, Jack. And that goes for Hillary, too.
Even Stuxnet is just the tip of the iceberg. The stakes have never been higher, and include nuclear weapons, existential warfare, and the survival of Western civilization. You think unemployment is a big deal? Well, it is. But it shrinks by several orders of magnitude in comparison with stuff you don't know anything about.
How do I know all this? Funny you should ask. Call it intuition or an educated guess. The truth is I don't know jack either. But I do know that I don't, which puts me one giant leap ahead of your average talking head, and two giant leaps ahead of that jolly old headless-horseman, Joe "BFD" Biden.
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