Zombie Lie: WND’s Farah Still Peddling ‘Civilian National Security Force’ Falsehood

It was more than three years ago that we first caught WorldNetDaily spreading the lie that Barack Obama’s call for a “civilian national security force” meant that he wanted to create a police-state apparatus and imprison his critics. In fact, Obama was referring to an expansion of the foreign service and diplomatic and humanitarian aid.

WND has regularly fearmongered about it ever since, and it shows no sign of abandoning the lie. 

Joseph Farah keeps up the bogus scaremongering his Dec. 22 WND column, kicking things off with a blatant falsehood:

Way back in July 2008, when Barack Obama was just a candidate for the presidency, he gave a speech in which he called for the creation of a “civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the U.S. military.

No one in the media reported it.

The line was chopped from transcriptions of the speech handed out to the media and public.

The Obama campaign stonewalled WND’s efforts to question what he meant.

Finally, I broke the story in this column.

In fact, as we documented, Obama explained what he meant by a “civilian national security force” at the time he talked about it. Farah is simply lying through his teeth when he claims Obama never explained it.

Farah’s claim that WND was “stonewalled” by the Obama campaign is also suspect. Remember that WND was starting to delve into birtherism around that time, plus it had already embraced the thoroughly discredited Larry Sinclair. What Farah self-pityingly describes as “stonewalling” seems actually to be about the Obama campaign refusing to deal with a “news” organization that was clearly hostile to him. That’s just smart politics. 

But who cares about the truth when there are readers to scare? Farah continues:

In fact, I think Obama may have pushed his “civilian national security force” through the Congress and signed it into law.

What am I talking about?

I’m talking about the defense reauthorization bill that sailed through both houses of Congress and was signed into law recently. I called it, “The day habeas corpus died.”

I mean, who needs a “civilian national security force” if Obama can simply rewrite the rules of engagement for the U.S. military and employ those forces to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or trial?

Obviously Obama has broken the bank at the U.S. Treasury several times over and run up the deficit to $15 trillion. He’s not going to find the money necessary to build a new domestic military force, so he did the next best thing – with bipartisan help from Congress.

The “civilian national security force” is now in place. The U.S. military has been authorized by Congress and Obama to arrest and detain indefinitely without charge or trial any U.S. citizen on suspicion of being a terrorist. The only one who can override the order is Obama himself. 

Between these falsehoods and Jerome Corsi’s plagiarism scandal, can anyone really trust what WND has to say about anything?