{"id":24815,"date":"2013-01-21T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=24815"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T12:01:47","slug":"pope-thanks-cia-war-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/01\/pope-thanks-cia-war-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Thanks CIA War Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leon E. Panetta had an audience on Wednesday [16 Jan 2013] morning at the Vatican with Pope Benedict XVI, who told him, Mr. Panetta said, \u201cThank you for helping to protect the world.\u201d Mr. Panetta said he replied, \u201cPray for me.\u201d Mr. Panetta, who attends Mass every Sunday, is halfway through a week-long trip to Europe meant as a goodbye tour of American allies.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The reader is invited to read the whole short NY Times<\/i> report before going on to the paragraph below on Panetta\u2019s to-be-prosecuted crimes, a quote from Reagan\u2019s Asst. Sec. of Treasury Paul Craig Roberts, and the author\u2019s commiseration with fellow born-Catholics.<\/p>\n

During Panetta\u2019s time as CIA Director and Secretary of Defense US illegal wars (illegal, even according to Ron Paul), have gone on un-mercilessly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen at the cost of thousands of lives of men, women and children murdered in their own beloved, innocent and poor nations. Under Panetta thugs were paid to destroy the government in the most prosperous nation in Africa before US NATO bombing took place while a near million Libyans in a population of only six million demonstrated for their Green democracy government and Gaddafi. At last count 60,000 have died in Syria for the attempt of the former colonial powers led by the US and satellites like Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey to do the same there in the face to similar massive pro-government rallies which are denied coverage in the Pentagon fed network news programs.<\/p>\n

\u2018It is a known fact that the CIA has violated US law and international law with its assassinations, kidnappings and torture. But it is not this criminal agency that will be held accountable. Instead, those who will be punished will be those moral beings who, appalled at the illegality and inhumanity of the CIA, leaked the evidence of the agency\u2019s crimes. The CIA has asked the US Justice (sic) Department to investigate what the CIA alleges is the \u201ccriminal disclosure\u201d of its secret program to murder suspected foreign terrorist leaders abroad. As we learned from Gitmo, those suspected by America are overwhelmingly innocent.\u201d2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Those brought up as Catholics, can only hope that the Pope said something else to that monstrous war criminal that Panetta was reluctant to mention to US foreign policy promoting reporters.<\/p>\n

NOTES:<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Elizabeth Bumiller, \u201cPanetta, at Vatican, Says Pope Thanks Him for Service<\/a>,\u201d NY Times<\/i>, 1\/16\/13. [\u21a9<\/a>]<\/li>\n
  2. Paul Craig Roberts, \u201cUS Hypocrisy Astonishes the World<\/a>,\u201d Antiwar.com<\/i>, 7 September 2009. [\u21a9<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Jay Janson, spent eight years as Assistant Conductor of the Vietnam Symphony Orchestra in Hanoi and also toured, including with Dan Tai-son, who practiced in a Hanoi bomb shelter. The orchestra was founded by Ho Chi Minh and it plays most of its concerts in the Opera House, a diminutive copy of the Paris Opera. Everyone in the orchestra lost family, “killed by the Americans” they would mention simply, with Buddhist un-accusing acceptance. Jay can be reached at: tdmedia2000@yahoo.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

    Go to Original \u2013 dissidentvoice.org<\/p>\n

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    Leon E. Panetta had an audience on Wednesday [16 Jan 2013] at the Vatican with Pope Benedict XVI, who told him, \u201cThank you for helping to protect the world.\u201d Mr. Panetta replied, \u201cPray for me.\u201d During Panetta\u2019s time as CIA Director and Secretary of Defense US illegal wars have gone on un-mercilessly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen at the cost of thousands of lives of men, women and children murdered in their own beloved and poor nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}