Bourne Chupidee
Watch meh…I've been following this SSA story intently, as it is the most intriguing example of ineptitude I’ve seen in a long time. For those of you who don’t know the specifics, allow me to bring you up to speed, here are the highlights:
So this week the PM sent the head of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA), which I believe is T&T's equivalent of Uncle Sam's National Security Agency (NSA ), on administrative leave. The reason given was that the National Security Council received disturbing information from the TTPS regarding the personnel and use of equipment at the SSA.
Shortly thereafter, a Pastor at the center of the hullabaloo, came out and declared he was a spy for the SSA and has been doing “spy work” (his technical term not mine) for many many years. Since then, revelations that are equally comical and disturbing have been oozing out of the SSA like a “bohboh” on your knee with no kind of flavine or mercurochrome in sight.
Every time more information comes out I keep thinking the same thing, “allyuh not asking the right questions!”. Forget about how the members of a small church were allowed to infiltrate the nation’s highest intelligence gathering institution. Forget about this alleged plot by that same group to takeover the country. Forget about how a man who sounds like a raving lunatic could be the subject of an investigation into his activities as part of an institution that is supposed to be keeping the country safe. Those are the mundane, obvious questions.
What I want to know…nay…what I NEED to know is why in 1984 some random German dude would watch a common bloke working at Ministry of Works and decide yeah, I could train he to be a spy? Did he give off a special covert operative vibe during lunch while downing he boneless chicken roti and big red?
Another question nobody is asking is whether him becoming a pastor was because he was called to the lord or was it part of his cover? I mean what kind of missions was this pastor carrying out? Was he like the bad man in The Usual Suspects where nobody would suspect him of being a ‘spook’? Pastor Soze if you will.
Mind you, I forgot to mention that he’s not only a pastor, according to him, he was made a special reserve police, and even gave his alleged “regimental number”. That's another thing, what kind of spy just goes on national media and announces “yeah I’m a spy…here’s my badge number and I’m a master of disguise as well”…without even suffering a lil torture self? Not even a Campari waterboarding self…nothing? He said the police break his cover. LOL that’s hilarious if he’s lying, even more hilarious if they really did.
I also want to know who are the people in the SSA that, according to him, refer to him as “the Phantom” and the “ghost who walks”? I guess it’s possible that maybe they saw him call forth the power of 10 tigers to move a couch or something.
However, the real question of national importance, the question I had from the very beginning is….when the police raided his compound, where was the pastor going dressed as a rastaman? How yuh go be incognito in that disguise when Prophet Benjamin say “rasta are the usual suspects”.
Listen to meh, until I see actual evidence, there’s no way I’m going to believe that anybody could keep anything a secret for so long in this ‘macocious’ country. He was bound to tell he wife, he gal, he lady or man parishioners who need ‘special attention’ (what? the man say he have bout 9 chirren).
Anyway…I can’t wait for the Netflix movie….or a 2025 ‘Men in Grey’ remake.
TANA