America's Matrix

In a wide-ranging critique of the Matrix-like "false reality" that Americans experience through their TV screens, journalist Bob Parry examines the CIA's recent report on mobile laboratories that it claims were designed to produce biological weapons. "The report reads like one more example of selective intelligence, which spurns plausible alternatives if they don't fit Bush's political needs," Parry states. "Captured scientists said the labs were used to produce hydrogen for artillery weather balloons. In the CIA-DIA report, U.S. analysts agreed that hydrogen production was a plausible explanation for the labs." Moreover, "U.S. intelligence analysts found no evidence that these labs had been used to make biological weapons or that the two labs alone could produce weaponized BW agents. But that was obviously the wrong answer. ... So the CIA-DIA analysis veered off into an argumentative direction. The report asserted that the labs would be 'inefficient' for producing hydrogen" and "concluded that hydrogen production must be a 'cover story.'"