Italian General Claims: NSA Forced Benedict To Resign
Retired Italian army general Piero Laporta has claimed that a high-ranking representative of the US National Security Agency (NSA) bragged in Rome ("in a large Roman circle") during the first weeks of Benedict's pontificate that Benedict would soon be "forced to resign" (PieroLaporta.it, 3 January).
The NSA man was and is still involved in Italian finances and politics. Allegedly, Roman circles panicked after Benedict's election.
Laporta also believes that the wars and attacks on Syria, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, the Caucasus and Russia, the nerve agents and viruses would have been impossible if the Church had kept its independence and free voice.
Laporta's account, however, is not credible. Even as a cardinal, Ratzinger insisted that a pope could resign. Benedict did not resign "soon", but only after eight years. It is a fantasy that the Church has any influence on geopolitical events controlled by criminal regimes.
Since the alleged NSA man made his statements so openly, the question is why Laporta does not reveal his name.
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The NSA man was and is still involved in Italian finances and politics. Allegedly, Roman circles panicked after Benedict's election.
Laporta also believes that the wars and attacks on Syria, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, the Caucasus and Russia, the nerve agents and viruses would have been impossible if the Church had kept its independence and free voice.
Laporta's account, however, is not credible. Even as a cardinal, Ratzinger insisted that a pope could resign. Benedict did not resign "soon", but only after eight years. It is a fantasy that the Church has any influence on geopolitical events controlled by criminal regimes.
Since the alleged NSA man made his statements so openly, the question is why Laporta does not reveal his name.
Picture: © M.Mazur/www.thepapalvisit.org.uk, CC BY-NC-ND, #newsQapkhkhthw