December
19, 2019
The Washington
Post has just released a trove of previously secret records
documenting that the U.S. war in Afghanistan has been based on a multitude of
lies and deception. It is beyond dispute that the Pentagon and other elements
of America’s deep state were determined to keep those records secret from the
American people.That’s because it took three years and two federal lawsuits to
force deep-state officials to finally release the records.
No
one is accusing the Post of publishing lies. It is undisputed
that what the Post has published is the truth.
Why
then did the deep state oppose release of the records? Why was the deep state
so insistent that they be kept secret?
The
answer is: Because the deep state knew that the records recounted the truth,
and the last thing the deep state wanted was for the American people to know
the truth about its war in Afghanistan — that “Operation Enduring Freedom” was
built on lies, just like the Vietnam War was.
But
that’s also what Julian Assange and Edward Snowden did. They didn’t publish any
lies either. They simply published records that revealed the truth about the
deep state. That’s why the deep state has condemned and vilified them as bad
people, even as traitors — because they revealed the truth, just like the Washington
Post has.
Arguably
the information released by Assange, through his organization Wikileaks, and
Snowden was much more valuable than the information released by the Post. The Post’s
information involves lies within the deep state regarding the progress that was
supposedly being made in the Afghanistan war. Assange and Snowden released the
truth about some of the actual dark-side practices of the deep state, such as
the killing of innocent people and illegal surveillance schemes to spy on the
American people.
Questions
naturally arise: Why should anyone who publishes the truth about the deep state
be condemned or punished? Why should’t the condemnation and punishment instead
be leveled at the entity that engages in sordid, dark-side practices and the
intentional utterance of lies and deception, especially with respect to
something as important as war?
Today,
Assange is sitting in a brutal prison in England because the U.S. deep state
wants him sent to the United States to be punished for revealing the truth
about its sordid, dark-side practices.
Snowden
is living his life in exile in Russia for the same reason. He knows that if he
returns to the United States, the deep state will go after with a vengeance for
revealing the truth about its sordid, dark-side practices.
Neither
man deserves condemnation or punishment, any more than the Washington
Post does. No one who discloses the truth about the deep state’s
sordid, dark-side practices and its intentional lies and deception deserves
condemnation or punishment. The ones who deserves condemnation and punishment
are those who engage in sordid, dark-side practices and who then cover it up
and lie about it.
Assange
and Snowden deserve immediate pardons, which would enable them to be released
from prison and exile and to begin resuming their normal lives. The fact that
they even have to seek pardons only reflects what the deep state has done to
our values as Americans. In actuality, it is the deep state that should be
seeking a pardon from Assange, Snowden, and the American people.
This
post was written by: Jacob G. Hornberger
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