WAR: English Words and Western Voices Heard on Nick Berg Beheading Video, page 7

Originally posted by Leveller

Originally posted by Ocelot

Exactly! There's the USS Liberty Incident, The Lavon Affair.

A bit more complicated than making a video though, wouldn't you say? They are also examples that occured before Mossad became the force it is today.
I think it's utterly ridiculous to accuse the CIA of this crime based on the evidence in hand. Suggesting it is one thing, but stating it as fact is entirely another.

Logic seems to have flown totally out of the window in the rush to pin the blame.

Let's just look at it this way shall we?

I'm a CIA agent and I'm going to execute one of my own compatriots. Don't you think I would take every single precaution to make sure that the video couldn't be traced back to me? As an agent of the CIA, I've got some of the best training available to any secret service in the world (maybe Mossad comes close). I am aware of all the media technology that my video will be exposed to. I am aware of all the professional analysists and video tape experts that are out there - hell, ain't there even some of those guys at Langley?

So what do I do? I make a grainy video of an execution that is open to it's authenticity being questioned. I leave my ring on to make me look Western. I use a chair that we've seen in US military prisons. I use the ubiquitous jumpsuit for my victim. I speak English in the video.

Yeah right. If I were CIA I'd do that.
Not.

If you were a CIA agent you wouldnt do that. And I agree that it seems kinda silly that a CIA operative would make such mistakes. This reasononing does not work to discredit the video, however. The idea that the video is a psy-ops operates on the idea that whoever made the video did leave traces behind, whether they likely should have known how to avoid them or not.

Example of why this reasoning doesnt work:
Let's say you are a staunch UFO/ET skeptic. You cannot fathom the idea that extraterrestrial intelligent life is visiting planet Earth. One day you are out alone on a hike when a flying saucer comes down and you are abducted. You wake up and remember some of what happened. You say to yourself, however, "I didn't get abducted because UFOs aren't real, and ET's don't haven't come to Earth," and then list off to yourself all the evidence against ET visitation. YOu count it as a hallucination or something and continue on your way.