Sandra Myers

Have you ever had one of those times, when the presentation of the simplest truth absolutely stuns you? Even though you already knew this truth, somehow, it being softly spoken aloud just walloped you? In this case, it made me wonder anew at the depth and void of truth and trust in our government and its agencies.

    In a recent interview Tucker Carlson asked Joe Kent, former head of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), why the Thomas Crooks shooting range surveillance tapes haven’t been released. Kent’s simple answer blew him away (and me also). He explained the government deliberately withholds information to create noise with conspiracy theories, so the “actual question never gets answered.”

TUCKER: “For example, the surveillance tape from the shooting range at which Thomas Crooks trained, because it would answer the question, was he training with somebody? And if so, who? They have that footage, and they won’t release it. What could possibly be the explanation for that?”

KENT: “I know what the result is. The result is people come to their own conclusions. And this is where crazy conspiracy theories come from. And then those conspiracy theories usually are easy to ‘debunk’ or make the people saying them sound crazy. So then the actual question never gets answered.” [Tucker laughs in awe.]

TUCKER: “Sorry. Can you say that again for people who haven’t lived in Washington? I try to explain this to people all the time because this has been ongoing since at least the Kennedy assassination. But this is a very serious and recurring thing. It’s a tactic. And you just explained it better than anyone I’ve ever heard. Can you just do that again?”

KENT: “So basically, you give no information whatsoever on something that’s obvious, that there should be information. You outlined there’s potentially footage of Crooks at the shooting range. Again, Police 101, get the tapes. Let’s figure it out. If you don’t want to address that question, then you just go silent. You say, ‘you can’t ask that question,’ which then creates people who come out of nowhere, and they start drawing their own conclusions. Knowing the way the internet works, half of them, are probably going to be so far off in left field... then you can just be like, ‘Oh, these people asking these questions about that tape at the gun range. Crazy conspiracy theorists.’ And so then you’ve just diverted all attention away from the thing that you’re trying to conceal. And now everyone’s focused on the crazies. And then the second someone asks a legitimate question, they’re ‘crazy.’”

    One person who commented on the interview nailed it: “So the strategy is: hide the facts, let the internet go feral, then discredit everyone asking questions. Clean, effective, and... sinister.”

Joe Kent made air quotes around the word “debunk” knowing its just another strategic weapon used to discredit those who ask questions.

Charlie Kirk

Tucker Carlson and Joe Kent also discussed looking into Charlie Kirk’s assassination where the same tactic was used. During the interview Kent indicated, there were enough signals for the NCTC to pursue leads potentially tying the shooting to foreign involvement. (I’ll let you read between the lines, given some of the questions and issues Charlie Kirk was discussing shortly before his murder.)

    Kent was stymied saying, “The way the bureaucracy works is they can just kill things in process. So, initially we were cut off pretty early on from being able to access the files and to send people out there. We were not allowed to ask questions. When the FBI did finally allow questions, they refused to respond, thus snowballing the NCTC.”

    According to a report by The New York Times, it was reported that in October Kent had finally obtained access to the FBI’s files on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, alarming the bureau’s director, Kash Patel. As a result, according to The Wall Street Journal, Kent was sidelined in the final months of his tenure.

Keep Asking Questions

Although I focused on just one interview between Tucker Carlson and Joe Kent, it is not really about them. Somehow I was stunned by the simplicity of the information vacuum as a weapon against truth. Disinformation, misinformation or lies may be found out. But creating an information vacuum so that the void gets filled in by the “conspiracy crazies” is brilliant. Those on target are easily corraled with the “crazies” and all are dimissed without any answers given. And they wonder why we don’t trust our government.

    Charlie Kirk, Seth Rich, Covid, JFK, Las Vegas, Epstein... These are just but a few examples of the truth vacuum. Although we must keep asking questions, don’t hold your breath waiting for them to reveal the truth. The truth is in the vacuum and answers will likely never see the light of day on this side of God’s judgement.