Reply #6: Another open letter here

[JohnyCanuck]

Letter to The Nation:

This is my second open letter to The Nation. The first can be found here: "Bad Faith Again: An Open Letter To The Nation Magazine" http://www.mediamonitors.net/jameyhecht1.html

When you're writing to somebody on another planet, you're more likely to reach them if you broadcast outside the confines of a sealed paper envelope. And planet Nation is far, far away.

Their September 27, 2004 issue has a review of David Ray Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor written by Robert Baer, a celebrated CIA agent whose career involvement with the agency is acknowledged on the review's lead page. Griffin's book has a foreword by Richard Falk, who sits on The Nation's advisory board. But that hasn't inhibited the editors from frying the book in lard.

Baer's review is a heavy load of condescension, flustered contempt, false dichotomies, and a few undisputed facts, borne along by that old workhorse: the claim that elites can't possibly conspire in something horrible (like the murder of an American President in 1963, or three thousand people in NYC in 2001) and then execute it, because (1) too many people would need to know in advance, and (2) once done, it wouldn't remain a secret.

Well, FBI field agents like Robert Wright and Colleen Rowley who desperately tried to prevent 911 were stopped by one man, Special Supervisory Agent David Frasca - not by the entire FBI. All that's required are a few well-placed, key people. As for keeping it a secret, of course the big crimes can't be kept secret. That's where The Nation comes in.

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