By Pepe Escobar – with permission and cross-posted with Consortium News
It was a leak, not a hack. Yes: Brazilgate, unleashed by a series of game-changing bombshells published by The Intercept, may be turning into a tropical Russiagate.
The Intercept’s Deep Throat – an anonymous source — has finally revealed in detail what anyone with half a brain in Brazil already knew: that the judicial/lawfare machinery of the one-sided Car Wash anti-corruption investigation was in fact a massive farce and criminal racket bent on accomplishing four objectives.
- Create the conditions for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the subsequent ascension of her VP, elite-manipulated puppet, Michel Temer.
- Justify the imprisonment of former president Lula in 2018 – just as he was set to win the latest presidential election in a landslide.
- Facilitate the ascension of the Brazilian extreme-right via Steve Bannon asset (he calls him “Captain”) Jair Bolsonaro.
- Install former judge Sergio Moro as a justice minister on steroids capable of enacting a sort of Brazilian Patriot Act – heavy on espionage and light on civil liberties.
Moro, side by side with prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol, who was leading the Public Ministry’s 13-strong task force, are the vigilante stars of the lawfare racket. Over the past four years, hyper-concentrated Brazilian mainstream media, floundering in a swamp of fake news, duly glorified these two as Captain Marvel-worthy national heroes. Hubris finally caught up with the swamp.
The Brazilian Goodfellas
The Intercept has promised to release all the files in its possession; chats, audio, videos and pics, a treasure trove allegedly larger than Snowden’s. What has been published so far reveals Moro/Dallagnol as a strategic duo in synch, with Moro as a capo di tutti i capi, judge, jury and executioner rolled into one – replete with serial fabrications of evidence. This, in itself, is enough to nullify all the Car Wash cases in which he was involved – including Lula’s prosecution and successive convictions based on “evidence” that would never hold up in a serious court.
Moro: Installed as justice minister.
(Wikipedia/Marcos Oliveira/Agência Senado.)
In conjunction with a wealth of gory details, the Twin Peaks principle — the owls are not what they seem — fully applies to Brazilgate. Because the genesis of Car Wash involves none other than the United States government (USG). And not only the Department of Justice (DoJ) – as Lula has been stressing for years in every one of his interviews. The op was Deep State at its lowest.
WikiLeaks had already revealed it from the start, when the NSA started spying on energy giant Petrobras and even Rousseff’s smart phone. In parallel, countless nations and individuals have learned how the DoJ’s self-attributed extraterritoriality allows it to go after anyone, anyhow, anywhere.
It has never been about anti-corruption. Instead this is American “justice” interfering in the full geopolitical and geo-economic spheres. The most glaring, recent case, is Huawei’s.
Yet Mafiosi Moro/Dallagnol’s “malign behavior” (to invoke Pentagonese) reached a perverse new level in destroying the national economy of a powerful emerging nation, a BRICS member and acknowledged leader across the Global South.
Car Wash ravaged the chain of energy production in Brazil, which in turn generated the sale – below market prizes – of plenty of valuable pre-salt oil reserves, the biggest oil discovery of the 21stcentury.
Car Wash destroyed Brazilian national champions in engineering and civil construction as well as aeronautics (as in Boeing buying Embraer). And Car Wash fatally compromised important national security projects such as the construction of nuclear submarines, essential for the protection of the “Blue Amazon”.
For the Council of Americas – which Bolsonaro visited back in 2017 – as well as the Council on Foreign Relations—not to mention the “foreign investors”–to have neoliberal Chicago boy Paulo Guedes installed as finance minister was a wet dream. Guedes promised on the record to virtually put all of Brazil for sale. So far, his stint has been an unmitigated failure.
How to Wag the Dog
Mafiosi Moro/Dallagnol were “only a pawn in their game,” to quote Bob Dylan– a game both were oblivious to.
Lula has repeatedly stressed that the key question – for Brazil and the Global South – is sovereignty. Under Bolsonaro, Brazil has been reduced to the status of a banana neo-colony – with plenty of bananas. Leonardo Attuch, editor of the leading portal Brasil247, says “the plan was to destroy Lula, but what was destroyed was the nation.”
As it stands, the BRICS – a very dirty word in the Beltway – have lost their “B”. As much as they may treasure Brazil in Beijing and Moscow, what is delivering for the moment is the “RC” strategic partnership, although Putin and Xi are also doing their best to revive “RIC”, trying to show India’s Modi that Eurasian integration is the way to go, not playing a supporting role in Washington’s fuzzy Indo-Pacific strategy.
Dallagnol: Serial fabricator. (Wikimedia Commons/José Cruz/Agência Brasil)
And that brings us to the heart of the Brazilgate matter: how Brazil is the coveted prize in the master strategic narrative that conditions everything happening in the geopolitical chessboard for the foreseeable future—the no-holds-barred confrontation between the U.S. and Russia-China.
Already in the Obama era, the U.S. Deep State had identified that to cripple BRICS from the inside, the “weak” strategic node was Brazil. And yes; once again it’s the oil, stupid.
Brazil’s pre-salt oil reserves may be worth as much as a staggering $30 trillion. The point is not only that the USG wants a piece of the action; the point is how controlling most of Brazil’s oil ties up with interfering with powerful agribusiness interests. For the Deep State, control of Brazil’s oil flow to agribusiness equals containment/leverage against China.
The U.S., Brazil and Argentina, together, produce 82 percent of the world’s soybeans – and counting. China craves soybeans. These won’t come from Russia or Iran – which on the other hand may supply China with enough oil and natural gas (see, for instance, Power of Siberia I and II). Iran, after all, is one of the pillars of Eurasian integration. Russia may eventually become a soybean export power, but that may take as long as ten years.
The Brazilian military knows that close relations with China – their top trade partner, ahead of the U.S. — are essential, whatever Steve Bannon may rant about. But Russia is a completely different story. Vice-President Hamilton Mourao, in his recent visit to Beijing, where he met with Xi Jinping, sounded like he was reading from a Pentagon press release, telling Brazilian media that Russia is a “malign actor” deploying “hybrid war around the world.”
So the U.S. Deep State may be accomplishing at least part of the ultimate goal: to use Brazil in its Divide et Impera strategy of splitting the Russia-China strategic partnership.
It gets much spicier. Car Wash reconditioned as Leak Wash could also be decoded as a massive shadow play; a wag the dog, with the tail composed of two American assets.
Moro was a certified FBI, CIA, DoJ, Deep State asset. His uber-boss would ultimately be Robert Mueller (thus Russiagate). Yet for Team Trump, he would be easily expendable – even if he’s Captain Justice working under the real asset, Bannon boy Bolsonaro. If he falls, Moro would be assured the requisite golden parachute – complete with U.S. residency and talks in American universities.
The Intercept’s Greenwald is now celebrated by all strands of the Left as a sort of American/Brazilian Simon Bolivar on steroids – with and in may cases without any irony. Yet there’s a huge problem. The Intercept is owned by hardcore information-war practitioner Pierre Omidyar.
Whose Hybrid War?
The crucial question ahead is what the Brazilian military are really up to in this epic swamp – and how deep they are subordinated to Washington’s Divide et Impera.
It revolves around the all-powerful Cabinet of Institutional Security, known in Brazil by its acronym GSI. GSI stalwarts are all Washington consensus. After the “communist” Lula/Dilma years, these guys are now consolidating a Brazilian Deep State overseeing full spectrum political control, just like in the U.S..
GSI already controls the whole intel apparatus, as well as Foreign Policy and Defense, via a decree surreptitiously released in early June, only a few days before The Intercept’s bombshell. Even Captain Marvel Moro is subjected to the GSI; they must approve, for instance, everything Moro discusses with the DoJ and the U.S. Deep State.
As I’ve discussed with some of my top informed Brazilian interlocutors, crack anthropologist Piero Leirner, who knows in detail how the military think, and Swiss-based international lawyer and UN adviser Romulus Maya, the U.S. Deep Stateseems to be positioning itself as the spawning mechanism for the direct ascension of the Brazilian military to power, as well as their guarantors. As in, if you don’t follow our script to the letter – basic trade relations only with China; and isolation of Russia – we can swing the pendulum anytime.
After all, the only practical role the USG would see for the Brazilian military – in fact for all Latin America military – is as “war on drugs” shock troops.
Intercept Exclusive: Brazilian Judge in Car Wash Corruption Case Mocked Lula’s Defense and Secretly Directed Prosecutors’ Media Strategy During Trial.
There is no smoking gun – yet. But the scenario of Leak Wash as part of an extremely sophisticated, full spectrum dominance psyops, an advanced stage of Hybrid War, must be seriously considered.
For instance, the extreme-right, as well as powerful military sectors and the Globo media empire suddenly started spinning that The Intercept bombshell is a “Russian conspiracy.”
When one follows the premier military think tank website– featuring loads of stuff virtually copy and pasted straight from the U.S. Naval War College – it’s easy to be startled at how they fervently believe in a Russia-China Hybrid War against Brazil, where the beachhead is provided by “anti-national elements” such as the Left as a whole, Venezuelan Bolivarians, FARC, Hezbollah, LGBT, indigenous peoples, you name it.
After Leak Wash, a concerted fake news blitzkrieg blamed the Telegram app (“they are evil Russians!”) for hacking Moro and Dallagnol’s phones. Telegram officially debunked it in no time.
Then it surfaced that former president Dilma Rousseff and the current Workers’ Party president Gleisi Hoffmann paid a “secret” visit to Moscow only five days before the Leak Wash bombshell. I confirmed the visit with the Duma, as well as the fact that for the Kremlin, Brazil, at least for the moment, is not a priority. Eurasian integration is. That in itself debunks what the extreme-right in Brazil would spin as Dilma asking for Putin’s help, who then released his evil hackers.
Leak Wash – Car Wash’s season two – may be following the Netflix and HBO pattern. Remember that season three of True Detective was an absolute smash. We need Mahershala Ali-worthy trackers to sniff out patches of evidence suggesting the Brazilian military – with the full support of the U.S. Deep State – might be instrumentalizing a mix of Leak Wash and “the Russians” Hybrid War to criminalize the Left for good and orchestrate a silent coup to get rid of the Bolsonaro clan and their sub-zoology collective IQ. They want total control – no clownish intermediaries. Will they be biting more bananas than they can chew?
Man…maybe fot the Double Hellix is not a priority right now, but for us latin americans it is extremely dangerous. We will fight back!
Bolsonaro, Moro, Dallagnol — three fascist specimina who succeeded in Brazil where their mate Guaidó in Venezuela failed. That’s the difference which the (lack of) spine of the attacked government makes.
Winning elections, when the media and the other brainwashing machines remain in capitalist, both local compradore and foreign, hands, is a waste of time. If your economy is globalised and the currency freely traded, and largely owned by foreign investors, then any real economic advances in social justice, ecological protection, local production and control of elite privileges will be met by economic warfare, either by the global parasite castes in capital strikes, currency runs etc, or by the US regime, through sanctions and NED etc subversion.
When the Rightist opposition is aided and abetted by the Fascist International, where creatures like Bannon can stick their noses, finance and micro-targeting and social media manipulation tools, into target societies’ business, the Rightwing, pro-parasite, anti-worker, class-hating, socially vicious and US and Israel loving thugs will always be in power. And poverty, elite wealth, inequality and debt will all grow like topsy and the environment that guarantees our existence, be destroyed mercilessly. As is happening now.
Moreover, as I strongly suspect occurred in Austfailia in the May 18 election, the secret squirrels of the intelligence networks, the real not so secret guarantors of elite and slavishly pro-Israel and US rule, have numerous ways, in these days of total information networks and round-the-clock surveillance and social manipulation, to nudge the results just that 1 or 2% that ensure continued thug rule, no matter what opinion polls say, or how viciously incompetent the preferred regimes may be.
”There is no smoking gun – yet. But the scenario of Leak Wash as part of an extremely sophisticated, full spectrum dominance psyops, an advanced stage of Hybrid War, must be seriously considered.”
This piece is one of many well-written and very interesting submissions by Pepe Escobar. Here, I just have a minor issue with his above judgment of the putsch in Brazil. Pepe continues:
”For instance, the extreme-right, as well as powerful military sectors and the Globo media empire suddenly started spinning that The Intercept bombshell is a ’Russian conspiracy’ ”.
Not too sophisticated/advanced a narrative, if you ask me. It’s the same ridiculous tripe the Zionazis apply to every problem and/or adversary they encounter. What Brazil does teach us is the lesson that contemporary fascism is simply neoliberalism in its most coarse, inept, corrupt, treasonous form of which Chile’s Pinochet was the pioneer. Bollocksonaro predictably achieves similar results in Brazil.
Fifty percent of the population is of below median intelligence, many far below. And the population in Brazil, as in the rest of the Western world, is relentlessly brainwashed by the Right, every second of their waking existence. That you or I might see this as utter codswallop is not the question. That 5 or 10% of Brazilians will buy it, is enough to say that the propaganda lies have succeeded. That’s how it works in Austfailia, let me assure you.
Mulga I had a conversation with my son this morning about education.
It is a conversation we have been having since his school days. Now he is a parent, and facing all the same dilemmas: education which is inherently about bringing out – ‘educing’ a child’s true gifts and vocation, is in most educational systems about knocking out said gifts and producing slaves to the system.
I’m told Californian beaches are ghettoes for the homeless. We are seeing the same pattern in SE Qld, just not the numbers. But they are increasing…while major stores like Target in some places have minuscule staff and mostly self-serve machines.
All sovereignty around the globe is to be destroyed, so it seems to me.
” /…/ the plan was to destroy Lula, but what was destroyed was the nation.”
Collateral damage doesn’t matter much, I suppose. It’s personally rewarding, after all. Poroshenko/Zelinsky and their faithful Ukronazis seem to have similar priorities.
Aprendi mais com este artigo de Pepe Escobar do que com todo o lixo internético que por aí anda.
A democracia parlamentar brasileira é mais uma casca de banana para fazer cair ingénuos nas mãos das elites brasileiras e tudo nela é teatro: é teatro a liberdade de informação e a honestidade da mesma; é teatro a imparcialidade da Justiça; é teatro (no sentido de ópera bufa de terceira classe) até esse governo de atrasados mentais do Bozo que agora se prepara para a sua noite das facas longas.
A Dilma ganhou eleições democraticamente e foi destituída? Lula não roubou nada e foi parar na prisão? Pois só me resta uma conclusão: do que essa direita brasileira está a precisar é de uma velha e boa receita revolucionária cubana para poderem ir chorar para Miami a suas eternas saudades da Terra de Vera Cruz.
yandex translate
I’ve learned more from this Pepe Escobar article than from all the internal garbage out there.
The democracy in brazil is more of a banana peel to cause it to fall gullible into the hands of the ruling elites in brazil and all of it is in the theater: it’s theater, the liberty and the honesty of it; it is the theatre of the impartiality of Justice; it is the theatre, the opera buffa of the third class) ‘ until this government is in arrears to mental of the Bozo who is now getting ready for the night of the long knives.
Dilma won democratic elections and was dismissed? Lula didn’t steal anything and go to prison? For I have only one conclusion: what this Brazilian right is in need of is a good old Cuban revolutionary recipe so that they can go to Miami and cry for their eternal longing for the Land of Vera Cruz.
What I draw from this, and the Real Evil Empire’s stunning, but expected, success in destroying the ‘Pink Tide’ in Latin America and installing a new generation of compradore thugs (eg Bolsonaro, Macri, Moreno, Pinera etc)in power and inflicting another generation of poverty, want, inequality, social destruction and, coming, repressive terror, on the people, is that ‘democracy’ under capitalism, in a world terrorised by the USA, is more than a sad, sick, joke. It is an absolute Evil. The only country with any hope of holding out against US barbarism is China, and it is public enemy number one for every compradore, Yank-loving, piece of shite on the planet.
The demonisation of Russia is merely tactical, and temporary. The US, undoubtedly, expects to see Putin followed into office by a New Yeltsin, through MASSIVE and real ‘meddling’ and ‘interference’ in public life and politics, and Russia brought on board for the War on China. If Putin retires early enough, this Quisling, no doubt, will rendition Putin to the USA, to be tried for ‘Russiagate’. The prospects are grimmer than ever in history, because the Western ‘elites’, under Darwinian pressures, arising mostly from the need to obey the Zionazis and the real local rulers, the intelligence-military-private capitalist power of the Deep State, have been selected for viciousness and bloodlust, plus sundry other human failings, producing a cadre of thugs like Pompeo, Bolton, Clinton, Morrison, Williamson, Molan et al, of the very worst type imaginable. The total dominance of these creatures explains just why we will self-destruct within decades, perhaps merely years.
America’s “postmodern coup” against Brazil is only part of longer and deeper game, which has been to neutralize the BRICS countries as a geopolitical counterweight to the Anglo-Zionist Empire and its unipolar world order.
Indeed, some analysts were warning about this agenda dating back the last years of Barack Obama’s regime.
“The buildup of NATO air and ground forces along the borders of Russia in eastern Europe and President Barack Obama’s American power-influencing trip to Asia have a single purpose. The seen and unseen forces who dictate policy to their political puppets in Washington, London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, and other vassal capital cities have decided to smash BRICS – the emergent financial power bloc encompassing Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.”
Obama prepares to smash BRICS during his last few years in office
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/05/05/obama-prepares-smash-brics-during-his-last-few-years-office/
I see that the Gods Upon the Earth are paying their favourite ‘House Negro’ $600,000 per speech. Beats chipping cotton, don’t it.
Pepe, excellent work. Yes, it took but few measly years to dismantle the BRICS. India is only hanging by the thread, it seems that Modi is flipping the coin which most of the time falls in favor of the money flowing from US.
What is interesting though, is the fact that Intercept may be attempting to take the pressure off the Wikileaks.
“What is interesting though, is the fact that Intercept may be attempting to take the pressure off the Wikileaks.”
I don’t follow this. Indeed, I was pretty disappointed that Greenwald in his video about Brazilgate, which wrapped up with a exhoration regarding press freedom and the courage of the young reporters who helped expose this Brazil story, made **no** mention of Assange, at apoint in GG’s monologue when it would ahve been most appropriate. In fact, Wasn’t it Wikileaks that provided a lot of the original material on the Car War conspiracy? Anyhow, for GG not to take the obvious oppy to stand up for Assange IMHO stinks.
Again, makes me question GG and his actual agenda, although I certainly appreciate this Moro bombshell. but Pepe does take the whole question further, that is, turns over a few rocks further. I GG doing some kind of limited hangout?
Katherine
If “The Intercept may be attempting to take the pressure off the Wikileaks” the last thing one would do would be to mention Wikileaks or Assange. Your concerns are based on pure principle or whatever is appropriate.
Kat, your comment made me look around for “The Intercept” and as it happened what Wikipedia has to say about it and I concluded that although it is said that it had released some leaked docs, in essence it stays on the news side.
So, not quite the Wikileaks.
There is no link between WikiLeaks and car wash.
Car Wash was driven by the State Department with regular meetings. All in the newspaper…
The entire gay scene is an psyop from You Know Who. Why do you have any expectations from GG at all.
You are very close in your description of the relationship between Glen Greenwald, The Intercept, Wikileaks and Julian Assange. Edward Snowden released a lot of information to The Intercept. And they did initially publish some of them but stopped. Was it because they were afraid and wanted to see what would happen to Wikileaks and Julian Assange? And when they saw what happened they stopped publishing anymore of the information which Snowden gave them? Would Wikileaks have carried on publishing?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-intercept-shuts-down-access-to-snowden-trove?ref=scroll
In the article Greenwald is quoted as saying
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“From the time we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts the documents in context and makes them digestible to the public, and that the welfare and reputations of innocent people be safeguarded,” Greenwald wrote in a 2016 post.
“As time has gone on, The Intercept has sought out new ways to get documents from the archive into the hands of the public, consistent with the public interest as originally conceived.”
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Surely the information that Snowden revealed is about the practice of the NSA today or in the past.
So if right NOW is not the right “context” then when is?
Snowden should have given his NSA doc stash to Wikileaks, not the oligarch owned Greenwald. But Snowden wanted the criminal evidence to be curated by “journalists”.
A huge effort is being made behind the scene by Israel, the US and their minions in Europe to see Erdogan dislodged in Turkey.
Him surviving the US-backed coup is one thing, but his dermination to go ahead with the S-400 will serve as a huge slap in the face for the US, and that is just unacceptable for the empire.
Also his generally good relations with Russia and Iran is viewed as disturbing on Tel-A- Viv and Washington.
His election loss today is being welcomed by those who want to see him replaced by an Empire-friendly government in Istanbul.
Just take a look at this screaming headline from historic propaganda outfit, the BBC:
Istanbul mayoral re-run: Erdogan’s ruling AKP lose again
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48739256
Haaretz in Israel is shouting something similar.
They want a regime in Istanbul that will be; anti-Russian, ant-Iranian, but pro- Israel and pro-US.
The Empire cannot be trusted because its relentless and paronoid, but as Iran said recently, “Maximum Pressure” will meet “Maximum Resistance”…
Selah
OT, but is anyone else having trouble accessing Moon of Alabama this a.m.?
I am getting a “Can’t find that page” message.
Katherine
Might be on vacation, so information would be scarce.
Glad to see Mr. Escobar is aware of Greenwald’s corporate ownership. Of course he is.
Greenwald and his client garch privatized the Snowden NSA doc stash; less than 1% of those docs were published. Both Greenwald and Snowden enjoy profits, and to date, free protection from Brazil’s Policia Federal and Russia’s FSB, respectively. Greenwald traded NSA evidence of US spying on Brazil’s elites — who do not care about US spying on BR’s gen-pop — in return for body guards in Rio, but Greenwald may be forced to live his life of luxury in the country of his birth, if he actually publishes gifted evidence even the most moronic Bolsonaro supporters cannot ignore. Up until now, the collective middle class reaction here in Sao Paulo is an instinctive shrugging of shoulders while muttering “E complicado”, to change the subject to the PT.
Greenwald’s track record is poor and treacherous. In 2013, he promised fireworks, and many of us — some of the thousands of USG Zersetzung torture subjects — waited and waited for those fireworks. Some of the tortured folk thought we might soon enjoy legal standing, along with outing of identities of many torturers working at the NSA who disseminate information to street level, medical-lab level and [*, you-name-it level] torturers, as well as those who spy on, harass, blacklist and rob targets from their cubicles at Alphabet Stasi HQ, and from uncountable, unaccountable public trough guzzling private enterprises. But the fireworks never came. His excuse is still “responsible journalism”, his euphemism for collaborating with murderous torturers for dosh and a Pulitzer. He callously argued he wanted to protect “innocent” people as he ignored a flood of requests from Zersetzung targets for evidence about human torture subjects, not exclusively the neato spy tech. In the end, five NSA targets were given legal standing to sue the NSA. Each one of those “horribly suffering” espionage targets were wealthy celebrities, and one of them worked for the G. W. Bush administration. (My targeting began in earnest during W’s first term, but attacks on me escalated in frequency and brutality during Obama’s terms. This tangential fact about my targeting may be interesting to any one out there who thinks there’s any difference between the two wings of The Party concerning meat and potatoes issues such as war and peace, and the domestic torture industry that always blooms a country as psychotic as the US.)
The Intercept also has a reputation for ratting on sources, such as Reality Winner.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-intercept-source-burning/228652
The Intercept’s self-declared expertise in protecting sources was also belied by Scahill’s sloppiness in his relationship with source Daniel Everette Hale.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/daniel-hale-another-whistleblower-bites-the-dust-as-the-intercept-adds-a-third-notch-to-its-burn-belt/258386
The lesson for anyone thinking of supplying interesting facts to any US journalist, especially those at The Intercept, is leaker beware.
I can speak for thousands, not just myself; we have an axe to grind with Greenwald. He has betrayed many stil being tortured by the USG, inside and outside the US. I live in Brazil, where the US also stalks & harasses me, and has pleasured me with US taxpayer funded physical torture sessions in a nearby medical lab and barber shop. But personal experience and opinions aside, what I related above is true, and Greenwald’s promises should be processed with a huge boulder of salt. He’s an American lawyer, and they think their B* rearranges stars in the universe, so don’t be surprised if he balks and rearranges a few constellations to avoid having to move back to the US.
Mr. Escobar said “There is no smoking gun – yet.” I too want to see it all, just like I wanted to see all of the NSA docs in 2013. But now I know I must manage my expectations about The Not So Courageous Intercept. Greenwald Worshipers would be wise to manage their expectations too.
On the other hand, Greenwald might be what Mr. Escobar is deliberately (or not) implying, that Greenwald is an unwitting Leak Wash tool to facilitate a naked military coup. I have a dim view of the USG’s intelligence, but the USG’s and Greenwald’s cynicism is limitless.
“orchestrate a silent coup to get rid of the Bolsonaro clan and their sub-zoology collective IQ.”
Bolsonaro is smart enough to know his place. He’ll soon be living the life of a rich Brazilian retiree and loving every minute of it.