Petraeus’s CIA Provides Grist for Iran Murder Plot

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/15-6

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, in his accustomed role as unofficial surrogate CIA spokesman, has thrown light on how the CIA under its new director, David Petraeus, helped craft the screenplay for this week’s White House spy feature: the Iranian-American-used-car-salesman-Mexican-drug-cartel plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.

In Thursday’s column, Ignatius notes that, initially, White House and Justice Department officials found the story “implausible.” It was.

But the Petraeus team soon leapt to the rescue, reflecting the four-star-general-turned-intelligence-chief’s record of pandering to those determined to blacken Iran, no matter how flimsy the “evidence.” Not that much better was to be expected from Petraeus — given his disingenuous record in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nonetheless, given his new perch (not to mention his sainted status in Official Washington and in the Fawning Corporate Media), this is very bad news indeed.

Before Ignatius’s article, I had seen no one allude to the fact that much suggesting that important evidence about this crime-stopper tale had come from the CIA. In public, the FBI had taken the lead role, presumably because the key informant inside a Mexican drug cartel worked for U.S. law enforcement via the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Petraeus ex Machina

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[sarcasmo]

1. The Empire fabricates another story in order to push for another War.

[hulka38]

2. It's as implausible and lazy a story as any I heard

from the previous administration.

[90-percent]

3. Lazy

Lazy is a good way to put it.

Do they really think we are all that stupid. Do they not realize the OWS Movement knows all about CORPORATE PROPAGANDA and the mutual interests of multi-national corporations and the purchased politicians that sell out the public to serve the elite.

Their establishment corporate-state propaganda machine has been run into the ground. We've seen this bull shit movie before!

-90% Jimmy

[FarCenter]

4. The most plausible explanation is that it was concocted to get the Saudis to increase oil production

in retaliation against Iran.

The idea is that various sanctions against Iran have already been tried, but if the Saudis increase production and the world price goes down, then Iran will be hurt.

However, it is a little dubious, because Saudi Arabia is probably close to full production now. Furthermore, their large fields are slowing as sea water rises in the oil bearing formations.