February 26, 2024

Mike Benz, a former State Department official, argues that over the decades since World War II the U.S. has developed a huge intelligence system to spy and spread propaganda and influence elections in foreign countries. In about 2016 the U.S. government converted these intelligence systems elections to spy and censor and manipulate elections right here in the U.S. (Clarice Feldman already reviewed here Tucker Carlson’s interview of Mike Benz published on February 16, 2024 on the question of our national security state.)

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I will be referring to the interview transcript at Happyscribe.com.

The idea that the government is spying on us right here at home would be nothing but a conspiracy theory but for The Twitter Files. If nothing else, Matt Taibbi & Co. clearly showed that the intelligence community was directing traffic during the late COVID unpleasantness through direct communication with social media companies and the disinformation/misinformation/malinformation ideology of the nation’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency.

Benz told Tucker that the U.S. has been rigging foreign elections since we stopped the Italian Communist Party from winning the Italian elections of 1948 with a spot of ballot-box stuffing. Eventually we graduated to the “color revolutions” that changed governments in Yugoslavia, Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and the Arab Spring. Says Wikipedia:

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[C]ritics have accused the United States of orchestrating these revolutions to expand its influence.

No, no, no. It was all about Democracy! Mike Benz:

So you had the systematic targeting by our State department, by our IC, by the Pentagon, of groups like Germany’s AfD, the alternative for Deutschland there, and for groups in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Then came Brexit in June 2016, and within a month NATO changed its policy from tank warfare to information warfare. NATO?

[Because] the entire rules based international order would collapse unless the military took control over media, because Brexit would give rise to Brexit in France with Marine Le Pen, to spexit in Spain with the Vox party, to Italy. Exit in Italy to Gregson in Germany to Grexit in Greece.

And Trump Russia here at home!