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How the NSA and CIA use porn against terrorism

The words NSA, CIA, and porn make such an improbable combination one would wonder how they find themselves in the same sentence in the first place. That the two national security bodies would use porn against terrorism sounds farfetched even to the wildest imaginations. Nevertheless, the truth of the matter is they DO use porn as a way of fighting terrorism. Am sure you are already asking yourself the million dollars question. How?

Three big ‘P’s

Just like I’ve always told you, porn is a universal language. It is spoken even by insurgents in Iraq. According to one NSA staffer, the CIA and its partner, the Defense Intelligence Agency took the fight against terrorism a notch higher by seizing terrorist suspects’ laptops, perusing through, and always somehow found p0rn in those laptops which ‘would be covered in blood.’  If that is not surprising enough, the porn would be deemed “extremely useful” in humiliating and “breaking down” for interrogation the people who owned them.

The story of how the NSA used porn against prisoners in Iraq was revealed in the agency’s internal newsletter SIDtoday. It is alleged that Marines would seize laptops and take them to an NSA staffer and his team who found pornographic videos and photos together with thousands of audio collections of the Quran and sermons, and enrollment and training CDs with video of bombings, torment, and beheadings. The team “jokingly” indicated to the content as the “three big ‘P’s – porn, propaganda, and prayer.”

Breaking down suspects

Like you may or may not know, the war in Iraq was supposed to find weapons of mass destruction and also put an end or at least disrupt terrorist activities in Iraq. Perhaps what the agency had not anticipated was the importance of porn in helping them achieve that objective. The seizing of laptops that ‘quite often contained pornography’ was used against captured suspects (owners of the laptops) ‘who maintained that they were devout Muslims, but had porn on their computers,’ according to the NSA staffer. Military units used the porn to break down the suspects. Some of them, strict Muslims, were forced to watch the materials in a bid to break them down (as you may know, watching Islam strictly prohibits porn). Those who have been underestimating the power of porn, here is proof.

Rewarding detainees

Apart from forcing detainees to watch porn, porn was also used to reward other detainees. The CIA would turn prisoners into double agents then send them home to help the U.S. kill terrorists, current and former U.S. officials said. This was achieved by promising the prisoners freedom, safety for their families and millions of dollars from the agency’s secret accounts. This program was carried out in great secrecy.

Reports indicate that targeted suspects who were to be turned into double agents were ushered from the confines of prison to Penny Lane (a cluster of cottages in the United States run Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) relative hominess. The cottages had private kitchens, showers, and televisions. All these are things you would expect to find in a place looking to turn extremists into double agents. Perhaps what you may not have expected is the fact that some of the prisoners requested and received porn as part of the deal. According to U.S officials, some of the prisoners who passed through Penny Lane assisted the CIA to find and kill many top al-Qaida operatives. The role of porn in the whole process is there for all to see. It appears even hardcore mujahedeen are not immune to some good old smut.

Propaganda

Using porn to induce detainees was but a way of fighting terrorism. The intelligence community has as well used seized pornography as a form of propaganda. Apparently, the enormous cache of computer files taken from Osama bin Laden’s compound contained a considerable quantity of pornographic videos. The files were not released by the CIA together with other files. What would the agency do with such material, you ask? Spread fucking propaganda.

It was reported that the adult material “will be welcomed by counterterrorism officials because it could tarnish his legacy and erode the appeal of his brand of religious extremism.” You see, Bin Laden was known as a religious extremist who had no time for ‘evil’ stuff like porn. Seizing pornographic material would be used by the US government to demoralize all those who were devoted followers of Bin Laden and show them that he didn’t practice what he preached. The disclosure would fuel accusations of hypocrisy counter to the founder of Al Qaeda, who was 54 and lived with 3 wives at the time of his death.

The contempt with which Bin Laden held western culture is expressed in a letter dubbed “letter to the American people,” WHICH HE WROTE IN 2002. In the letter, Bin Laden denounced American culture for its exploitation of women’s bodies in dress, advertising and popular culture (porn obviously included).

The letter continued; “Your nation exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools, calling upon customers to purchase them,” he wrote. “You plaster your naked daughters across billboards to sell a product without any shame. You have brainwashed your daughters into believing they are liberated by wearing revealing clothes, yet in reality, all they have liberated is your sexual desire.”

Seizing porn at Bin Laden’s compound can, therefore, be seen as one win for the agency against religious extremism and terrorism.

Conclusion

Porn power is not be underestimated; I’m sure you have that clear in your mind by now.

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