Sept. 18-William Binney's presentation to the 140 persons attending the September 9 Manhattan EIR conference, "The 'Russian Hack' Inside Job: Who's Trying To Destroy the Presidency and Start a World War with Russia?" contained not one, but two explosive revelations regarding the practice of disinformation and obfuscation carried out by various "national security" agencies against the American people over the past twenty years. While the forum was devoted to disproving the now thoroughly discredited "Russian hack" story, Binney, a thirty-plus year veteran of the National Security Agency (NSA) who resigned in disgust in October 2001, besides demolishing the "Russiagate" hoax, revealed to the astonished audience that security systems he had designed prior to 9/11 would have prevented that attack from occurring, had he and his associates not been deliberately prevented from deploying them by others at the NSA. Instead, Binney asserted, universal surveillance capabilities that he personally designed to protect Americans from terrorist attack, were deployed after 9/11 to monitor virtually every citizen of the United States who has an electronic device. Binney's revelation was not beside the point, especially when presented to New Yorkers on the weekend of the 16th anniversary of 9/11, the September 11, 2001 killing of 3,000 persons at the World Trade Center's North and South towers, which, together with World Trade Center Building 7, disintegrated that day. It was not beside the point, given that, were the contention proven true-as it indeed was again, in the course of Binney's presentation-that the so-called "Russian hack of the DNC" was in fact an inside job, it would be not only reasonable but necessary to conclude that the continuing irresponsible scapegoating of Russia, for whatever reason, by media, the legal system, and political figures is in fact intended to provoke war, including possible thermonuclear war, perhaps with Russia, perhaps with China, just as the 9/11 attacks had ensured war in their immediate aftermath. There is a precedent in recent American history for the use of multiply connected agencies, private and governmental, to carry out such illegal operations. In his introduction of the panel that day, moderator Dennis Speed pointed out that the same criminal elements involved in the attempt to overthrow the Presidency of the United States today-including former FBI Director Robert Mueller, for example- were also involved in the 1987 prosecution of Lyndon LaRouche. That prosecution was characterized in September 1994 by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark as representing "a broader range of deliberate cunning and systematic misconduct over a longer period of time utilizing the power of the federal government, than any other prosecution by the U.S. Government in my time or to my knowledge." LaRouche, who had acted as a back channel negotiator with the then Soviet Union on behalf of the policy that became known in 1983 as the Strategic Defense Initiative, was at that time feared by his policy enemies, according to a former Reagan Administration staffer participating in the September 9 meeting as "the most dangerous man in the world." The fact that Robert Mueller, FBI Director on September 11, 2001, has in recent days come under renewed scrutiny in the press for his role in then preventing the follow-up of crucial "9/11" leads (including by the FBI itself), and that Mueller is also now at the center of the "Russia probe of the Trump Administration," is ominously consistent with the crimes that have been committed by a British-manipulated "treason faction" for some time inside the United States.