Cyberattack on US army website another false-flag: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Scott Bennet, former US army counterterrorism analyst from San Francisco, to get his take on reports of a Syrian hacking group hacking the official website of the US army.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

 Press TV: Looking at the situation with the hacking of the site, how important are these hacks, because we see it happen periodically, but are they able to actually get sensitive information or is it just the overall effect that they are able to hack it to begin with that perhaps can be effective?

Bennet: Well, I think there is a very important thing to understand here. There are a lot of military and intelligence people who look to these hacks is really false-flag wild-goose chase operations that are really designed to reinforce the American agenda of waging war against Syria and Iran. And I think it is very dangerous. The majority American people do not want that. However, there are defense contractors, military agencies and political agents within the United States that are absolutely obsessed with going to war with Iran. And to see this sort of hacks supposedly needs to be put up on a sort of a whiteboard and a constellation of similar events to be tracked, because at first watch, when I look at this sort of operation I see President Obama’s speaking of the G7 summit making statements about ‘we need to be more proactive and aggressive and we’re going to be attacked more,’ and then this hack occurs and it’s almost like ‘you see, you see, I told you so, now I need to take more of your rights, now you need to let the NSA listen into more of your privacy, now you need to let operation Jade Helm invade the states of Texas, California and other places, because you see this is happening.’

And it’s a classical false-flag operation at the very least. No Syrian operative would be so stupid to launch an attack and then claim blatantly that they are the Free Syrian Army. I mean it’s a ludicrous, they are smaller than that.  They would call themselves the Nigerian army if they were from Syria or something. But they would not call their own country because they know the US is looking for opportunities and rational to do more aggressive kinetic operations against the Syrians. So, I don’t buy it for a minute.

Press TV: Let’s look at what you have said…that President Obama talked about being more proactive. This “proactive stage,” how dangerous is that in general? How likely is in this type of being proactive that many of the rights of the United States is supposed to abide by whether domestically or outside of the country are basically just trampled all over?

Bennet: Well, they are trampling them all over. They trampled over the rights of American citizens and really the globe in September 11, 2001 with this operation called the twin-towers operation and it’s later come to be known 10 years later that there’s a massive amount of evidence that was a false-flag operation. And now we see a similar ginning up of the ISIS (ISIL) threat is replacing al-Qaeda supposedly. And now we also see a lot of hypocrisy because the same ISIS threat the US has been arming and training to specifically undermine the Syrian regime and ultimately the Shia regime. And I think that’s a losing side. I think the United States has been on the wrong side really. It’s sided with Wahhabist, Salafist [Persian] Gulf nations, when in fact, the American people have more in common temperamentally with [Iran and Syria]. And it is the most baffling poor opposite that you can imagine. Now I’m hoping that more and more people will step forward and articulate this very clearly in more intelligent military, political thinkers will articulate that. The United States needs to do a major tectonic shift and not look at Iran and Syria and Russia and China as competing countries that need to be weakened and destroyed, but rather countries that have been around thousands of years should be treated with deep respect and nobility and not undermined in favor of the United States’ oil and energy ambitions and money ambitions, which largely have fueled their geopolitical hegemony desires which we see expressed in the destruction of Iraq, the destruction of Libya and it almost happened with the destruction of Egypt but we see very clearly Syria is now on the crosshairs.

So this hacking, I don’t think it was Syria at all, I don’t think it was Syrians at all, I think more and more digging will occur and we will find out that it was not what has been put forth to be, but we need to watch and see what other things are happening on the global stage that are going to try and use this hacking to justify other operations. It’s a classical behavioral pattern with the United States’ military and intelligence community. It’s very destructive to the United States. And the American citizens do not approve of that they do not war or aggressive activities with Iran or Syria. We saw that recently with the Sterling, CIA agent case, where he had been forth and reported that the CIA and their Stuxnet cyber operations was akin to treason, because it’s the United States giving nations cyber technology and then claiming that they’re being used against the United States. It’s the epidemy of hypocrisy.  

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