Shamelessness, Thy Name is Blinken

http://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/27/shamelessness-thy-name-is-blinken/
Date Written:  2021-05-27
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2021
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX24360

It was only eight years ago that it was the US that was forcing down a plane, only in that case it was not just any plane but rather one carrying a head of state, Bolivian President Evo Morales. But as with this latest incident the goal was harassing an "independent media' and nabbing a critic. In that 2013 incident the real target was Edward Snowden, source for one of the biggest stories of the century: the disclosure thousands of documents from a global spying program by the top secret US National Security Agency where he had been employed as a private contractor.