{"id":36575,"date":"2018-08-08T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36575"},"modified":"2018-08-08T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:00:20","slug":"must-watch-interview-iraq-war-whistleblower-banned-from-twitter-tells-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36575","title":{"rendered":"Must Watch Interview \u2013 Iraq War Whistleblower Banned from Twitter Tells His Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Must Watch Interview \u2013 Iraq War Whistleblower Banned from Twitter Tells His Story<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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During my time in Iraq working for the State Department, a time that I initially was a red, white and blue government official, I frequently lied to the media. I lied to them about how things were going, I lied to them about how successful we were. My colleagues and I were contemptuous of them, most of the people we talked to in the media didn\u2019t know enough to ask important questions, most of them didn\u2019t care enough to ask questions and simply jotted down whatever we told them, and it was just remarkably easy to fool them. It\u2019s almost as if they wanted to play along with us. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

At one point I described it as they weren\u2019t looking for \u201cthe story,\u201d\u00a0just \u201ca story.\u201d I made some remarks about how many of them were more concerned about looking good in their stand-ups, getting their makeup on straight than looking for details or questioning the lies that the government put forward.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Peter Van Buren, Iraq War Whistleblower, banned from Twitter a few days ago<\/p>\n

The above quote is from an extraordinary discussion between Daniel McAdams, Scott Horton and\u00a0Peter Van Buren that occurred yesterday.<\/p>\n

Stop whatever you\u2019re doing right now and watch this, it\u2019s that important.<\/p>\n