The Jimmy Carter Conspiracy that always gets glossed over – especially in death

There is no doubt that Jimmy Carter became the most moral post presidency President ever.

He called Israel out for its deplorable treatment of the Palestinian people, he has championed building homes for the poor and he has criticised everything from America’s vile foreign affairs policy to its vile free market domestic policies.

He, like almost everyone else in power, suddenly found his conscience and voice once he wasn’t President.

Legitimate criticism can be dumped upon him for seeding the very Free Market orgy America was transformed into…

Jimmy Carter’s presidency was transformational in the wrong ways.

Whatever one might say about Jimmy Carter’s presidency, it was clear that the man himself meant for it to be transformational. From a subdued 1977 inauguration — Carter skipped the motorcade and black-tie balls in favor of business attire and an open-air stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue — to subsequent promises to restore American energy independence, reform welfare, and even transcend the “inordinate fear of communism” that had dominated US foreign policy since the 1940s, the thirty-ninth president put a lot on his plate.

Elected president in the wake of the catastrophic US intervention in Vietnam and amid divisive racial tensions and widespread economic distress, Carter hoped to, as he put it in his inaugural address, “bring a resurgent commitment to . . . basic [moral] principles” and establish a government “both competent and compassionate.”

Though Carter achieved more than he is generally given credit for — and remains among the more decent men to have held the office — his presidency failed to bring about the fundamental transformation he sought. Instead, his term helped establish a far more dubious pattern: Democratic presidents with admirably ambitious policy agendas stymied by an inability to form a durable coalition or stem the erosion of their party’s support among the working and middle classes.

…but for me the most fascinating part of the Carter Presidency is the one that ALWAYS gets glossed over and ignored, and that is the conspiracy that cost him the election to Reagan in the first place.

This was all exposed in the Netflix documentary – The Octopus Murders.

Danny Casolaro was a journalist working on an explosive book that detailed a domestic Rogue CIA campaign that was part Organised Crime and part corporate greed wedded to a far right Republican agenda.

After picking apart a weird Department of Justice ruling against a small tech firm who had provided them with a new software program that was so advanced that the Department of Justice just decided to steal the tech, the Carter Conspiracy was unearthed.

From that moment on a bewildering carousel of spooks and rogue spies amalgamate around this story and opens up vast new story lines as Casolaro attempts to trace a crazy cavalcade of conspiracies all emanating out of the CIA and NSA.

The doco discusses the Inslaw/PROMIS software conspiracy theories, the Iran–Contra affair and the 1980 October Surprise theory.

Here’s how it plays out.

While investigating the Inslaw/PROMIS Software case, Casolaro found that a Reagan fixer was awarded the Department of Justice contract as a reward after he was used to approach the Iranian Government and offer them $40million in exchange for holding onto the American hostages held in Iran beyond the election so that it would damage Carter’s chances of beating Reagan.

The Iranians held onto the hostages and released them after Reagan won.

Before publishing his book, Danny Casolaro committed ‘suicide’ in a hotel in a manner that was impossible to actually do.

Carter was set up by Republican henchmen who all transitioned into National Intelligence roles which ended up deeply involved in organised crime tactics and money laundering operations.

Carter was a decent man and a moral human being, but he was up against a Republican Mafia who had no problem keeping American Hostages longer if it helped them politically.

Carter may well be the only American President alongside Lincoln and Kennedy who can actually rest in peace.

 

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