More than ever, it’s necessary to interpret and judge all news items. One has to measure them against common sense, the interests of those providing information, similar events in the past, internal reliability, the logic of situations, human motivations, and the credibility of various sources. One has to look at multiple reports and sources. Case in point: Yesterday, we learned that a Libyan anti-Gaddafi position had been struck by NATO aircraft. That was the initial report. Within a short time came a report that it was a Gaddafi airplane. This lacked credibility because his air force has been degraded by NATO attacks. and because the large explosions came from missiles, and that is the NATO pattern, not the Gaddafi pattern. Video became available of the explosions. That may have prompted today’s retraction or contributed to it. Today NATO acknowledges its airplanes struck “rebel forces near Brega” twice. What this tells me is that there is probably a very rapid propaganda response team, such as the CIA would use, that quickly put out the false cover story that it was a Libyan plane, not a NATO plane. I could be wrong in surmising that someone with an interest in protecting NATO put the false story out in almost a knee-jerk fashion. But even if I’m wrong in this particular instance, there are too many others like it in the past that show the same pattern of disinformation, misinformation, news manipulation, and cover stories that is so typical of the CIA.

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