While CNN has been doing a great job covering the September 11 terrorist attacks on American soil (America Under Attack) as well the on-going war preparations (America At War), there has been some slack of analysis on what President Bush and other senior U.S. officials are saying. For example, the mere fact that the President is saying it will likewise hunt down those who harbor terrorists is a subtle attempt by Mr. Bush to indicate that not just Terrorist Numero Uno Bin Laden is believed to be the mastermind behind the attack, but that the U.S. is certain that other countries are involved.
The CIA is so sophisticated in communicating its position that even the country's top news agency cannot seem to read behind the lines. Some CNN commentators are even commenting that the longer the war preparation and the investigations take, the harder it becomes to hunt down Bin Laden. Well they seem to have missed the point entirely.
For what the U.S. propaganda is doing right at this very moment is to send the subtle message that it knows what's going on, although it really doesn't. It is a subtle approach to ferret out more information from other countries who may be involved in the wordwide conspiracy to destabilize the U.S. economy. That this is true can be shown by the subsequent reaction from other countries as the propaganda carries on. Very early in the game you have the Taliban issuing a statement that it had nothing to do with the WTC and other attacks on the U.S. Then, a spate of washing-of-hands in the true Pontius Pilate fashion (i.e., "we are not involved") from a number of countries: Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan, India, Russia, etc.
The U.S. intelligence strategy is working. Like a mother trying to ferret out the truth from its kids in a typical household trouble, countries are lining up around the world saying "I didn't do it!" or "They did it!" Kudos to the CIA. Great way to gather intelligence information! Of course, there was hardly a chorus in the countries involved, each of them said their piece in different ways, yet the message is the same: "We didn't do it!"
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