If the US State Department’s Victoria Nuland had not said “Fuck the EU,” few outsiders at the time would have heard of Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, the man on the other end of her famously bugged telephone call. But now Washington’s man in Kiev is gaining fame as the face of the CIA-style “destabilization campaign” that brought down Ukraine’s monumentally corrupt but legitimately elected President Viktor Yanukovych.
Ray McGovern, who worked for 27 years as an intelligence analyst for the agency, mocks -
“Geoffrey Pyatt is one of these State Department high officials who does what he’s told and fancies himself as a kind of a CIA operator.He tells Democracy Now that -
It used to be the CIA doing these things. I know that for a fact.“Now it’s the State Department, with its coat-and-tie diplomats, twitter and facebook accounts, and a trick bag of goodies to build support for American policy.
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State Department's credibility is about as great as Al Sharpton's with the mob.
ReplyDeleteHeh! :) Perfect. :)
DeleteState Department and credibility; an oyxmoron. the State Department suffers from out of touch with reality delusions of competency. The majority of them would out of their depth in a parking lot puddle
ReplyDeleteThe majority of them would out of their depth in a parking lot puddle
DeleteThat's good. :)