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Press TV has conducted an interview with Scott Bennett, former US
army psychological warfare officer and counter-terrorism analyst in San
Francisco, to discuss a report saying that American intelligence
agencies have been spying on Russian President Vladimir Putin for over
the past twenty years.
Following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: How do you think Russia will respond to spying on Vladimir Putin?
Bennett: Well I think Vladimir Putin is
probably the best thing that has happened to Russia in a hundred years.
He is the equivalent of what Ronald Reagan was to the United States.
Reagan took America out of a deep depression and economic stagnation and
Vladimir Putin did the same thing.
Of course they have been watching him since the early 80s when he was
high up in the intelligence apparatus of Russia and they have continued
that listening and watching throughout the 90s. But the
accusations that he stole and robbed this country are ludicrous. I do
not think a more patriotic figure with a greater love of country and
people than Vladimir Putin exists because we saw in the 90s
when Soviet Union started to fall apart, Vladimir Putin took the side of
Russians and loved his country and his people when the United States
was actively trying to sabotage and scuttle and destroy Russia. And they
revealed that they despise Russia and Putin now is because it is a
conservative God-fearing, family-loving country which the American
people are as well. It is sadly only the Obama administration which has
become anti-family, anti-marriage and is gone on this maniac crusade
around the world to cultivate hegemony and start wars in Ukraine and
start wars in Libya and start wars in Iraq and trying to start wars now
in Syria with the ultimate goal of going into Iran.
So I think they are very nervous and angry and do not know what
to do with Vladimir Putin because he is the smartest guy in the room. He
can speak fluent languages. Obama can hardly speak English. And
President Putin knows his people and also has a diplomatic gift where
Obama has nothing but arrogance and presumption that the rest of the
world needs to bow down to the American empire as colonies under Rome.
So I think all of that is catching up to the American political system now and
the American people are beginning to wake up and there is a slow
revolution in this country that has started to pick up since the
September 11 attacks were revealed as false and very engineered and
curious with some other parties specifically the Zionist Israeli
intelligence apparatus having a hand in it. And the more
Americans pick up and learn that, I think the more they are going to be
looking for refresh friendships and relationships with Russia, Iran and
China and throwing overboard this arrogant regime that we have with John
Kerry, with President Obama and with some of these old men that really
have taken America on the course that its people do not want. So I think
Russia will have a positive effect on this.
Press TV: But can legal action be taken
against the United States for this illegal spying activities not only on
the US but on other countries as well?
Bennett: Well certainly I think there is a
case that the Russian authorities can take to the European Council and
the Human Rights Court and claim all sorts of legal infractions and
violations of treaties and that is precisely what they should do. If we
were a world of law and order, then present the violations of law to the
other bodies in Europe and the world to show clearly that the
United States under the Obama administration and under the Bush
administration has been violating the rights of citizens and violating
the integrity of national borders and illegally collecting information.
Press TV: And of course being a psychological warfare officer, do these spying activities give the United States the upper hand?
Bennett: Well it depends on how it is used.
And sadly I saw in my time a lot of very dumb, dull and stupid people
who had no creativity or flexibility or adaptability, whatsoever,
working in the intelligence sectors or the psychological warfare
community. I saw far superior people in the Russian, Ukrainian in
foreign establishment that I did not in the United States and that was
very upsetting to me and it was one of the reasons that I was targeted
as a whistleblower and I underwent extraordinary persecution by the
Obama administration.
That is really illegal and still in the court systems and it is still being challenged but it is an indicator that the
psychological warfare community theoretically could use the material it
has on Putin if it had the brains and understanding how to use it. I am sad to say they just do not have the brains. They
do not know how to properly use it. All they have is a biography and a
lot of accumulated data but they do not know how to manipulate it into
any sort of diplomatic leverage or information operations that can be
used. If I was working in the intelligence sectors, I be looking recruit
people from inner circles, I be looking to cast doubt on inter
relationships and splinter operational effectiveness within the
political high level military connections in Russia and I just do not
think they are thinking that far ahead.
The United States under the Obama administration is much more
obsessed with doing what the American Israeli political action committee
tells it to do which has specifically created ISIS, created ISIL,
created these rabid Wahhabist Salafist entities in the Middle East using
Saudi money that is coming through Union Bank of Switzerland,
HSBC, ... and create a torrent, a hurricane of chaos that can be spread
up into Assad and from there it can then penetrate deeper into Russia
and eventually into Iran.
Now I think that is going to have an enormous blowback. I do not think
there is going to be anything good from that because all of the human
wreckage that we are seeing coming out of that policy is going to
Europe. It is going into Germany, into United Kingdom, into Italy, into
France and those countries are having an enormous right-wing backlash.
Their indigenous people are refusing admittance into their country of
this tsunami of refugees because they do not have the social services to
support them and they do not have the political will to have them in
their country because it is a giant flotilla of human refugees that are
all the fruit of American imperial ambitions in the Middle East. It is
tragic.
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