The fact that the video was edited doesn't take away from the evidence of the atrocity. It just brings up more questions as to what is the psyops being played out here and ultimately 'who benefits.' - Kenny's Sideshow
Questions are being raised about why Wikileaks left a 30-minute gap in its Iraqi's and Reuters journalists' slaughter video presentation, a gap with less damning footage about the Pentagon and pointing more towards Wikileak involvment in a psyop and its video project a Modified Limited Hangout to help cover up US war crimes impacting millions of people such as through widespread torture and genocide through depleted uranium.
Wikileaks passed off its video as the "full version" and released the 17-minute clip as an "edited" version, but both are edited as the gap indicates. The Jawa Report, that called the video a "perverse and evil slight of hand," broke the story about the video oddities.
The 30-minute gap leaves "a hole right-wingers can drive a propaganda truck through. This gap seems to put Wikileaks back into the category of Pentagon media manipulation tool," writes a commenter, Xymphora on Kenny's Sideshow.
Yesterday, Jullian Assange, editor of Wikileaks, told CNN that the 39-minute video is 'everything we have. It is a continuous take except for one 20 minute interval.'
"So, Wikileaks did not edit the video themselves—their source did. But the point still stands: both the "edited" and the "full" version appear to have been selectively edited. Why leave in the second attack after the cut? And how can this be called an "uncut" or "unedited" version—the implication being that this video depicts what "really happened"—when 20 minutes of less-incriminating footage was removed?" writes Adrian Chen reporting for Gawker TV.
"It also deepens the mystery of Wikileak's military source: Who is so disgruntled as to not only leak the video, but also edit out the slightest bit of redeeming footage?" asks Chen.
A private investigator told Dupré shortly after Wikileaks' first video, "I wondered when the MSM [mainstream media] put out this information," adding that when MSM does so, "[I]t is usually a Modified Limited Hangout."
A limited hangout is spy jargon described by Wikipedia as:
"[A] form of deception, misdirection, or coverup often associated with intelligence agencies involving a release or "mea culpa" type of confession of only part of a set of previously hidden sensitive information, that establishes credibility for the one releasing the information who by the very act of confession appears to be "coming clean" and acting with integrity; but in actuality by withholding key facts is protecting a deeper crime and those who could be exposed if the whole truth came out. In effect, if an array of offenses or misdeeds is suspected, this confession admits to a lesser offense while covering up the greater ones.
"A limited hangout typically is a response to lower the pressure felt from inquisitive investigators pursuing clues that threaten to expose everything, and the disclosure is often combined with red herrings or propaganda elements that lead to false trails, distractions, or ideological disinformation; thus allowing covert or criminal elements to continue in their improper activities."
"In effect, if an array of offenses or misdeeds is suspected, this confession admits to a lesser offense while covering up the greater ones."
David Schlesinger, Reuters editor in chief, "declined to run a story by one of his own reporters containing claims that the 2007 killings of two Reuters staffers in Baghdad by U.S. troops may have been war crimes," reports Gawkers. (See: Exclusive: Reuters Chief Spikes Story on Killing of His Own Staffers In Baghdad)
Sources:
Gawkers
Wikipedia
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Deborah, you might want to pay attention to this story in other ways as well. FB friend wonders at the coincidence of the coal mining disaster on the same day the Wikileaks video was released. There was a mention of the mine having been evacuated prior to the explosion, but not sure if this story is true or not. The release of this video really stirred up things, as it should have. I also saw mention, in some document, by someone that I can't remember, that much of the information provided to the Senate Church Committee by US intelligence agencies constituted a limited hangout.
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