Never Trust the NSA or the MSM.

Early this week, NBC, MSNBC reporter William Arkin, sent an email to his employer, and every news outlet that mattered, announced his resignation, causing this notice to go viral, due to its scathing content. Arkin tells MSM that he has had enough, as a captive of militarism, and the National Security State, as MSM is nothing less than an 'unedited mouthpiece' for the many interventionist wars, which he states, “the National Security Establishment not only hasn't missed a beat but indeed has gained dangerous strength” and “is evermore autonomous and practically impervious to criticism.”

It may be news to some, but the National Security State, including the CIA, etc., had infiltrated the news media for many years, writing articles, editorials and controlling content. See “Operation Mockingbird”...) In a recent article in The Intercept. Glenn Greenwald wrote:

That MSNBC and NBC have become Security State Central has been obvious for quite some time. The network consists of little more than former CIA, NSA, and Pentagon officials as news “analysts”; ex-Bush-Cheney national security and communications officials as hosts and commentators; and the most extremists pro-war neocons constantly bashing Trump (and critics of Democrats generally) from the right, using the Cheney-Rove playbook on which they built their careers to accuse Democratic Party critics and enemies of being insufficiently patriotic, traitors for America’s official enemies, and abandoning America’s hegemonic role in the world.

Glenn Greenwald won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the Edward Snowden revelations.. His writing on the National Security State , is second to none. Let's break the above paragraph down. He states that MSM (have) become “Security State “Central” consisting little more than CIA, NSA, and Pentagon” cronies as “analysts”. When one watches Rachael Maddow, for example, over the last two years, has done nothing but speculate on #Russia-gate, spewing out one conspiracy theory after another. To lend her speculation credence, her guest will be John Brennan, ex- head of the CIA under Obama. The problem is their speculation is just that, “guessing”, without evidence. That said, many people will take their words as the absolute truth, when in fact, it's unadulterated propaganda.

William Arkin goes on to write:

To me there is also a larger problem: though they produce nothing that resembles actual safety and security, the national security leaders and generals we have are allowed to do their thing unmolested. Despite being at“war,” no great wartime leaders or visionaries are emerging. There is not a soul in Washington who can say that they have won or stopped any conflict. And though there might be the beloved perfumed princes in the form of the Petraeus’ and Wes Clarks’, or the so-called warrior monks like Mattis and McMaster, we’ve had more than a generation of national security leaders who sadly and fraudulently have done little of consequence And yet we (and others) embrace them, even the highly partisan formers who masquerade as “analysts”. We do so ignoring the empirical truth of what they have wrought: There is not one county in the Middle East that is safer today than it was 18 years ago. Indeed the world becomes ever more polarized and dangerous. …

This is absolutely correct. The Middle East is not safer today than it was 18 years ago. It has become much more dangerous, and with US “interventionist foreign policy”, we are creating more “terrorists” than we are stopping or, more accurately, murdering. These generals come on MSM and spout their “wisdom”, when they are actual trained killers, and whose sole objective is to promote more war. These are not “analysts” but cheerleaders for War. This is not news but pure propaganda, telling us that war is good, or anything to get the people behind them. And the MSM is the National Security State's mouthpiece and number 1 “tool” to spread this disinformation.

The problem is that since Trump came to power, there has been a new generation of people interested in politics. Most if not all of them go to the MSM for their information. Since Trump, the left wing media has swung to the Right. Because Trump does not follow “protocol” the establishment has turned against him. This has become big business for MSM.

Strangely, however, the old BUSH 2 neocons, like Kristol, Boot, and Frum, are now constant guests on MSNBC, because they despise Trump. Suddenly the CIA, NSA and the FBI are pillars of goodness and symbols of patriotism, when these are the people who got us into all these illegal wars in the first place. Now, to question these institutions, as Trump has, you're now a “Putin Puppet” a “Russian Spy” or a “traitor”. I see my Progressive friends on Social Media named worse, simply for calling out the warmongers and illegal wars overseas.

Arkin's email resignation should be an eye-opener for many. It reveals the collusion between the National Security State, corporate weapon manufactures, and the MSM.

Unfortunately there is so many other issues happening around the world of greater value than President Trump's infantile tweets. However, this is an intentional distraction, from the Military Industrial Complex, its perpetual wars, and the countries we are funding to commit war crimes.

William Arkin, a seasoned journalist, who wrote about the NSA and perpetual war, has finally had enough of this collusion to promote War. In NBC and MSNBC. And made his reasons known to the world.

And we are better for it.