It is the job of journalism not only to report what authorities say, but also to confirm their claims, and address anomalies, errors, inconsistencies, outright lies, and cover-ups, large and small.
When it comes to falsehoods of all types, we’ve seen plenty of doozies, and you don’t have to go all the way back to the Tonkin Gulf incident—which helped pave the way for the escalation of the Vietnam conflict. Most people now understand that circa 2002-2003, the George W. Bush Administration knowingly exaggerated and deceived in order to justify a desired invasion of Iraq.Baker is an investigative journalist who, like myself, is appalled by the collusion of mainstream media with official government sources regarding the event. In this Orwellian time that we are now living in, corporate media has become nothing more than a propaganda organ of the ruling capitalist class.
Now that they have drilled their messages on the Boston bombing into the minds of the 99 Percent, mainstream media has gone on to other subjects like the persecution of Tea Partiers by the IRS. However, this investigative journalist is just beginning to examine the evidence, and to look for more, in order to unravel the many mysteries related to this incident that he outlines in this article.
The latest mystery, that Baker didn't mention, is the very recent "discovery" of a note supposedly written by the younger brother on the side of the boat where he was hiding. As reported by Ray McGovern, I find it rather mysterious that a former intelligence officer, now CBS correspondent, broke the "news" about the note. I also wonder how many mainstream media personnel have intelligence/CIA backgrounds. Like the Mafia, they say that once one becomes a member of the CIA family, one can never really leave.