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Charles Drago's avatar

Let us not forget the video captures of unidentified males dressed like the alleged perpetrators and carrying parcels nearly identical to the "bomb" containers.

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Vivek Jain's avatar

Colleen Rowley shared some concerns about neocons and their narratives https://consortiumnews.com/2013/04/19/chechen-terrorists-and-the-neocons/

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DR DAVID BLACKALL's avatar

Fine long-form investigative journalism.

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Ryann Jordan's avatar

This is a decent article, so I checked out some of your other work on Substack. Merely another Communist you are with little-to-no understanding of from where Freedom stems. Won't be following.

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Harold Saive's avatar

I researched the Boston Bombing event to discover it was another Intel service fabricated event.

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WhateverLolawantsLolagets's avatar

I feel like the manhunt was meant to instill fear in the Boston area, so they could continue with the overreach of the Patriot Act, which was enacted under false pretenses. 9-11 was avoidable. The emails found between Bush & Blair talking about "fixing intelligence to go to war" never received any coverage. The press was too busy screaming, "but, her emails" & harassing Hillary Clinton to answer the same question over & over ad nauseam. While desperately trying to smear Hillary over email nonsense, the press made nary a sound over the 22 million emails Bush/Cheney erased. Journalists refuses to criticize Bush for anything he's responsible for...like all the deaths from automatic weapons that were banned until he let it expire during his reign of terror.

The case against the guy they locked up for the bombings has holes large enough to drive a truck through. Doesn't appear that he received adequate representation from any lawyer & the jury pool was already poisoned by the media coverage. The so called "proof" they showed on this guy could easily have been fabricated by the FBI. This case should not have been the slam dunk that they made it into by getting the public scared & incensed.

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Vivek Jain's avatar

Questions mount about Boston bombers’ links to US intelligence agencies https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/26/bost-a26.html

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Vivek Jain's avatar

To my knowledge, WSWS, consortiumnews, and whowhatwhy (Russ Baker) were among the few places where critical questions challenging the official narrative about the events on the Boston Marathon a decade ago were asked.

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Vivek Jain's avatar

See also the article at RT dot com, titled "'Special' service: Declassified Guantanamo court filing suggests some 9/11 hijackers were CIA agents (What does the intelligence agency have to do with the suicide terrorist attack?"

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WhateverLolawantsLolagets's avatar

No. RT is Russian propaganda. It is not a legit source.

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Jac's avatar

I’m liking this series 😊 very interesting

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Charlotte Ruse's avatar

I remember hearing about the aftermath of the bombings and how so many young healthy people were mutilated, it's just too diabolical to imagine that such a horrific event could've been designed by a depraved organization working within the US government who wanted to remind Americans that terrorism is "alive and well" and therefore continue to fund security state operations, or terrorist bombings and martial law might become a way of life.

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Russ's avatar

That's perfectly understandable. Of course, what you're saying is that in any situation where people are killed or badly injured, we must assume that the perpetrators were always those arrested, and not pursue anomalies or disturbing facts and unanswered questions. Investigative reporters never come to any sort of conclusions up front, but on the other hand, we see our job is following up and investigating, and reporting what we find. Hope you agree that is a valuable public service. I encourage you to google "WhoWhatWhy" and "Boston Bombing" and read more of the facts we found. And also, by the way, what other news organizations found that perplexed them. It's all very sensitive and painful, regardless of the particulars.

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Charlotte Ruse's avatar

Actually, you misconstrued my comment. What I was saying is that the horrific Boston bombing, if done by a group within the intelligence agencies is further proof that those who are employed or direct those organizations are little more than pyschopathic degenerates.

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Russ's avatar

I see. Thanks for clarifying. Of course, we have no idea whether there is more to the story or not. We're merely following up leads and puzzling aspects.

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Charlotte Ruse's avatar

I agree, there were a number of puzzling parts to the official narrative, including that supposed terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev who might've been an FBI informant.

https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2017/06/15/tsarnaev-mcphee-fbi

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Charlotte Ruse's avatar

Governments worldwide operate like mobster cartels. I'm familiar with his website which I thought was interesting, especially when he described how the Democratic Party Primaries are "corrupt pieces of shit" and how "Bernie the Coward" was overtly "ripped off twice." But in the end, the sellout weasel was just a loudmouth thespian sheepdog. 💩🐶

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Charlotte Ruse's avatar

I used to enjoy reading that website before it became the "COVID Daily." 💉

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R9 Media's avatar

"agenda-driven actors (including, sometimes, government itself)"

Sometimes, the government?

Always the government.

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Stephan Kuttner's avatar

Thanks for asking questions

The inanity and absurdity of some disinformation operations must not prevent us from following the facts at the risk of embarrassment or reduction of trust in state security apparatus

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vcragain's avatar

Reading stories like this is what makes groups like QAnon what they are - if you raise the suspicion that the powers-that-be make ridiculous decisions & blame/incarcerate anyone they can just to get the case 'solved' then none of us can be sure about any of the legal structure, and everybody loses. It is simply impossible to put back any faith in those authorities once the idea they are not trustworthy has been introduced. So - we are all the losers now ! For heaven's sake get it right people, life is hard enough without all the distrust & suspicion being thrown around willy-nilly !

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Russ's avatar

hi -- you have an interesting attitude. Are you familiar with thousands of "wrongful convictions" where the government railroaded innocent people? Are you suggesting we should ignore those cases and just accept everything a government does, no matter how malign? Because if so, Putin would be glad to have you as a citizen.

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