Pentagon Tries to Blame Financial Crisis on Foreign Financial Terrorists

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Washington’s Blog

The Pentagon is paying contractors to claim that it was foreign financial terrorists – instead of fraud by American financial executives – which caused the 2008 financial crisis.

While a Pentagon contractor said, “This is the equivalent of box cutters on an airplane,” Paul Backen – a Yale University professor who has studied economic warfare – said he saw “no convincing evidence that ‘outside forces’ colluded to bring about the 2008 crisis.”

Indeed, the claim that terrorism caused the financial crisis is about as believable as Gaddafi trying to blame the Libyan protests on Osama Bin Laden, or al-Maliki blaming Al Qaeda for the Iraqi protests.

But it’s not an isolated incident. In fact, the government is trying in many ways to convince us that financial fraud is isolated, not systemic, and – most of all – not important to rein in.

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