[political-research] Background to Betrayal: Behind the CIA Leak Investigation (Justin Raimondo)
Antiwar.com October 26, 2005 Background to BetrayalBehind the CIA leak investigation by Justin Raimondo Has I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, made a deal with CIA leak investigator Patrick J. Fitzgerald and turned on his boss in return for leniency? It sure looks like it. Or else how is it that Scooter suddenly discovered his notes of a "previously undisclosed" conversation held with Cheney on June 12, 2003, in which the vice president was the first to tell him that Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie, worked for the CIA? Prior to Scooter's eleventh-hour revelation, he had been telling the grand jury that he got the information from journalists. That makes at least three neocons "turned" by the Bulldog. Libby follows John Hannah, the VP's national security adviser, and David Wurmser, Cheney's Middle East expert-in-residence, down the well-trodden path to collaboration with the special counsel. All roads lead directly to Dick Cheney. What crime, however, has been committed? New light has been shed on this mystery with the breaking news that Fitzgerald is homing in on the question at the heart of his investigation who forged the Niger uranium documents, and how did they get passed off as reliable enough information to be referenced in the president 2003 State of the Union address? UPI's Martin Walker confirms what I reported in this space last Wednesday: "The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NATO intelligence sources. NATO sources have confirmed to United Press International that Fitzgerald's team of investigators has sought and obtained documentation on the forgeries from the Italian government. Fitzgerald's team has been given the full, and as yet unpublished, report of the Italian parliamentary inquiry into the affair." The key to finding out who outed deep cover CIA agent Valerie Plame has always been the motive. Why would anyone in the U.S. government deliberately expose the identity of an agent working in the vitally important realm of nuclear proliferation identifying not only Ms. Plame, but also her co-workers at "Brewster Jennings and Associates," the CIA front company whose real function was to scour the world for evidence of rogue nukes and other weapons of mass destruction? In busting up the Agency's operations designed to prevent the spread of WMD, whoever outed Plame was taking a very big risk but why? In investigating what led to the outing of Valerie Plame, Fitzgerald discovered that a fraud had been perpetrated on the American people and the Congress of the United States. In detailing the case for war, the administration based much of its argument that Saddam was close to acquiring nuclear weapons on a cache of documents that purported to show an agreement between Iraq and the African nation of Niger to purchase "yellowcake" uranium. The president referred to this, albeit obliquely, in his 2003 State of the Union address. A few weeks after that speech was delivered, however, the White House was forced to retract its statement because the documents turned out to be forgeries. Now we discover and Fitzgerald no doubt knows more about this than anyone that it wasn't an error, another dreaded "intelligence failure," that had allowed the Niger uranium forgeries to be marshaled along with similarly bogus intelligence as "evidence" of Iraqi WMD; it was a deliberate act of deception, carried out at the highest levels of the U.S. government. A series of articles in La Repubblica exposes the provenance of the documents, shows how they were funneled to U.S. policymakers, and maps their course all the way up to the White House. Go here for an English translation of the firstinstallment. Here is the Italian version of Part II, and here is the translated version. Authors Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d'Avanzo describe how SISMI, the Italian intelligence agency, was a party to faking the documents. Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi was keen to put SISMI at America's disposal in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and SISMI's chief, Nicolo Pollari, was eager to make himself and Italy indispensable to the warlords of Washington. Pollari's initial attempts to pass off the Niger uranium forgeries as authentic evidence of Iraq's nuclear ambitions didnot, however, meet with success. Whereupon Pollari took advantage of the developing split between
[political-research] Two Thousand Dead - and for What? (Patrick Buchanan)
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=7764 Antiwar.com October 26, 2005 Two Thousand Dead and for What? by Patrick J. Buchanan These are not the halcyon days of George W. Bush. With his approval rating below 40 percent, his reputation as a decisive leader ravaged by Katrina, his conservative base shattered by Harriet, and his closest aide facing indictment, the president is said to be shouting at and blaming subordinates for the lost opportunities of his second term. None of the above problems is insoluble. For if or when the Miers nomination dies, and Bush sends up a Michael Luttig or Edith Jones, his base would rally and he could lead his coalition in a decisive battle over whose judicial philosophy should guide the Supreme Court. The real crisis the president faces, and we all face, is Iraq. If the war ends in failure, no success will redeem the Bush presidency. By the time this column appears, the remains of the 2,000th U.S. soldier to die in a war that has lasted longer than World War I for the United States will be on the way home. And it is difficult to visualize the end of this war or the victory so often predicted and promised. Even critics now praise the successes of Bush's father: the liberation of Kuwait, unification of Germany, the deft handling of the collapse of the Soviet Empire and breakup of the Soviet Union. But the son's foreign policy is on the precipice of failure. Only a third of the nation still supports him as a war leader, while more than half believe Iraq was a mistake and we should begin to bring the troops home now. A preliminary list of winners and losers from our invasion seems to show that it is our enemies who have prospered and our friends who have suffered. As of today, the principal winner of the Iraq war is Iran. While our invasion of Afghanistan smashed a Taliban regime hostile to Iran, our invasion of Iraq was even more beneficial. It brought down a Ba'athist regime that had inflicted hundreds of thousands of casualties on Iran in their eight-year war in the 1980s. In power in Baghdad today, in place of Saddam, is a Shia regime that looks to Iran as patron and ally. In 2001, Iranians had demonstrated in support of the United States after 9/11, and in successive elections, a moderate presidential candidate had carried 70 percent of the vote. The Tehran mullahs were on the ropes. But with Bush declaring Iran an "axis-of-evil" nation, which was to be denied, even if it meant preventive war, any nuclear program or weapon of mass destruction, Iranians responded as nationalists. A hardliner won the presidency, and Tehran's defiance is now a popular policy. Meanwhile, the U.S. threat of military strikes to effect the nuclear castration of Iran becomes less and less credible the longer the war next door goes on. With Iraq smashed and perhaps splintering after we depart, Tehran is set to fill the power vacuum. History may yet record that the U.S. Army did all the heavy lifting in the Persian Gulf to make Iran its preeminent power. A second winner of the Iraq war is al-Qaeda. While the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan dethroned the Taliban enablers of bin Laden, killed countless followers, and destroyed his base camp, our invasion of Iraq compensated him for his losses. The Iraq war radicalized the Islamic world, recruited thousands of jihadists, and converted Saddam's country inhospitable terrain for Islamists into the world's training ground for Islamic terrorists. Among the other beneficiaries of America's Iraq war are the Shia fundamentalists who stand to inherit their first Arab country. Among the losers are the Turks, who must contend with Kurdish nationalism inflamed by Kurdish successes next door, and Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Kuwait. If the Iraqi insurgency evolves, as it appears to be doing, into a civil-religious war, the Sunni and Shia populations of those three autocracies cannot but be affected and those nations perhaps drawn in. And peoples' wars have almost always proven unfortunate for kings and emirs. How does the balance sheet look for the United States? Saddam and his neo-Stalinist regime are history, the Iraqi people, especially the Shia and Kurds, are free, a threat to U.S. interests and the region is removed forever. On the liability side, there is the high cost in dead and wounded, in alienated allies, in a radicalized Middle East, and in the creation in the Sunni Triangle of a base camp and training ground for jihadists that did not exist
[political-research] The Russian Oligarchs and Oil
In response to one of Barbara's recent remarks: http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enc2coff=1safe=offq=russian+oligarch+OR+oligarchs+oil+OR+gas+OR+petroleumspell=1 Also: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=russian+oligarch+OR+oligarchs+israel+OR+israeli+OR+israelisbtnG=Google+Search Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Competitive intelligence Market intelligence Emotional intelligence Military intelligence Critical thinking Artificial intelligence YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "political-research" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[political-research] [Fwd: [News_Junkie_GP] Eric Hufschmid explains an intelligence matrix]
Original Message Subject:[News_Junkie_GP] Eric Hufschmid explains an intelligence matrix Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:17:18 - From: scottl44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mirror (with pictures): http://snipurl.com/j2to --or-- http://austin.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21780/index.php The Most Ruthlessly Censored News Blog in North America (BTW, use BugMeNot.com for any article that requires registration.) persistent sources sites: Astronomy Pic of the Day ATPTennis.com Baltimore.Indymedia.org globalresearch.ca Portland.Indymedia.org WSWS.org lists: 911InsideJobbers (at) yahoogroups.com Anti-allawi-group (at) yahoogroups.com CatapultThePropaganda (at) yahoogroups.com CIA-Drugs (at) yahoogroups.com PlaneHuggers (at) yahoogroups.com blogs: http://www.Legitgov.org http://www.Rense.com Remember: Censorship of a few affects everyone. DEPOPULATION (from Dictionary.com): Depopulation: To reduce sharply the population of, as by disease, war, or forcible relocation. (the only word that consistently describes today's events is 'depopulation'. The global elites are trying to dramatically lower the number people living on Earth.) INDYMEDIA CENSORSHIP This news blog cannot even be posted at Portland IMC. Apparently, every new article that comes in is approved by a collective member! Now, that's promoting free speech! Also, last night Philadelphia and New Jersey IMC *BOTH* censored this news blog. And, a Washington DC IMC censor removed the news blog from that site at 10:45 p.m. NJS feels sorry for the CIA/FBI/NWO, agent/spook/traitor monitoring IMC sites in the evenings. Poor soul. He/she gets paid a salary by the public. He/she fufills the job requirement by attempting to destroy US democracy. It must be very lonely doing this important work! Kidding aside, in the last month Boston, Cleveland, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia and Portland Indymedia centers have censored this blog. Of course, the reason for the heavy censorship is Indymedia is terrified that the general public will realize the 911 Hoax. If that happens the Bush dictatorship falls and the Republic is saved. (Hopefully.) daily IMC censorship updates: http://www.911Hoax.com/ Indymedia_Hysteria.asp Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. 911 NEWS MEDIA HOAX We Went to War over Cartoons (the Webfairy) What do you think would happen if the world became aware that there were no hijacked planes that day, that two of the flights didn't exist, that the towers were attacked with secret technology, that the horrifying image which people saw on TV was just a movie, and that media also faked lists of passengers on the non existent flight which didn't hit the North tower, that a missile of some sort was fired into the pentagon and that fake videos and fake eyewitness reports were concocted to try to sell the story? (Gerard Holmgren) What really hit the South Tower of the WTC? http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/11/304303.shtml (folks, an aluminum plane is not going to enter a steel building like a hot knife through butter.) NEW ORLEANS DISASTER New Orleans 2005 links views: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/News_Junkie_GP/message/453 inside: 25 questions about the murder of New Orleans also: 1. Fox TV aired a program called Oil Storm which accurately predicted the destruction of New Orleans after a hurricane. 2. New Orleans's 17th street canal was apparently blown up with explosives. 3. The US military subsequently invaded Louisiana. 4. Martial law was imposed. 5. FEMA systematically impeded rescue efforts. 6. Hundreds of prisoners deliberately left to drown. 7. the US military kept thousands of (mostly Black) New Orleans victims without food and water for days. BIO-WARFARE **FLU PANDEMIC** Bird flu terror fear: http://snipurl.com/if0w --or-- http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16892681% 255E661,00.html Is the bird flu an American bio-weapon? http://www.inforos.com/?id=7869 Flu oddities (updated frequently): http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html GENERAL NEWS *INTERNET SURVEILLANCE* Order broadens surveillance of Internet users: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/oct2005/calea-o26.shtml *ANIMALS* Whales die in mass Tasmanian stranding: http://snipurl.com/j1vt --or-- http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Whales-die-in-mass-Tasmanian- stranding/2005/10/25/1130006110331.html *ENVIRONMENT* Red tide poisoning Gulf of Mexico beaches: http://snipurl.com/j1vr --or-- http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/ 2002581484_redtide25.html
[political-research] Re: Background to Betrayal: Behind the CIA Leak Investigation (Justin Raimondo)
--- In political-research@yahoogroups.com, Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antiwar.com October 26, 2005 Background to Betrayal Behind the CIA leak investigation David Wurmser: A professional fabulist, as Raw Storyreports: Wurmser was a member of a two-man team, the Counter-Terrorism Evaluation Group, which, last we heard, was being investigated for leaking sensitive U.S. secrets to Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, and thence to the Iranians. The Israelis, too, are involved, as the Washington Post reported a year ago: Maybe this part of evidence is starting to make sense?: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/international/middleeast/26cnd-iran.html Iran's President Says Israel Must Be 'Wiped Off the Map' By NAZILA FATHI Published: October 26, 2005 TEHRAN, Oct. 26 - Iran's new hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told a group of students at an anti-Israel event today that Israel must be wiped off the map and that attacks by Palestinians will destroy it, the Iranian student news agency, ISNA, reported. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM ~- Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[political-research] Re: The Russian Oligarchs and Oil
--- In political-research@yahoogroups.com, Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to one of Barbara's recent remarks: Sean dear, http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enc2coff=1safe=offq=russian+oligarch+OR+oligarchs+oil+OR+gas+OR+petroleumspell=1 aktually Wikipedia supports my larger argument via Forbes: Although not bad 38% are somehow involved in energy. From Russian Forbes, May 2005. Wealth in 1,000,000,000 USD. 1. Roman Abramovich 14.7 (#1056;#1086;#1084;#1072;#1085; #1040;#1073;#1088;#1072;#1084;#1086;#1074;#1080;#1095;, *Sold Sibneft Oil* and owns Chelsea Football Club) 2. Vladimir Lisin 7.0 (#1042;#1083;#1072;#1076;#1080;#1084;#1080;#1088; #1051;#1080;#1089;#1080;#1085;, metallurgy) 3. Viktor Vekselberg 6.1 (#1042;#1080;#1082;#1090;#1086;#1088; #1042;#1077;#1082;#1089;#1077;#1083;#1100;#1073;#1077;#1088;#1075;, *petroleum*, color metals) 4. Oleg Deripaska 5.8 (#1054;#1083;#1077;#1075; #1044;#1077;#1088;#1080;#1087;#1072;#1089;#1082;#1072;, Russian Aluminium) 5. Mikhail Fridman 5.8 (Alfa Group) 6. Vladimir Evtushenkov 5.1 (#1042;#1083;#1072;#1076;#1080;#1084;#1080;#1088; #1045;#1074;#1090;#1091;#1096;#1077;#1085;#1082;#1086;#1074;, telecommunications, finance, real estate) 7. Aleksey Mordashov 5.1 (#1040;#1083;#1077;#1082;#1089;#1077;#1081; #1052;#1086;#1088;#1076;#1072;#1096;#1086;#1074;, black metallurgy) 8. Vladimir Potanin 4.7 (#1042;#1083;#1072;#1076;#1080;#1084;#1080;#1088; #1055;#1086;#1090;#1072;#1085;#1080;#1085;, Norilsk Nickel). 9. Mikhail Prokhorov 4.7 (#1052;#1080;#1093;#1072;#1080;#1083; #1055;#1088;#1086;#1093;#1086;#1088;#1086;#1074;, color metals) 10. Vagit Alekperov 4.1 (#1042;#1072;#1075;#1080;#1090; #1040;#1083;#1077;#1082;#1087;#1077;#1088;#1086;#1074;, *petroleum* (LUKoil)) 11. Viktor Rashnikov 3.6 (#1042;#1080;#1082;#1090;#1086;#1088; #1056;#1072;#1096;#1085;#1080;#1082;#1086;#1074;, black metallurgy) 12. German Khan 3.5 (#1043;#1077;#1088;#1084;#1072;#1085; #1061;#1072;#1085;, *petroleum*, finances, telecom) 13. Boris Ivanishvili 3.0 (#1041;#1086;#1088;#1080;#1089; #1048;#1074;#1072;#1085;#1080;#1096;#1074;#1080;#1083;#1080;, metellurgy, finances) 14. Alexamder Abramov 2.9 (#1040;#1083;#1077;#1082;#1089;#1072;#1085;#1076;#1088; #1040;#1073;#1088;#1072;#1084;#1086;#1074;, black metallurgy) 15. Aleksei Kuzmichev 2.7 (#1040;#1083;#1077;#1082;#1089;#1077;#1081; #1050;#1091;#1079;#1100;#1084;#1080;#1095;#1077;#1074;, *petroleum*, finances, telecom) 16. Suleiman Kerimov 2.6 (#1057;#1091;#1083;#1077;#1081;#1084;#1072;#1085; #1050;#1077;#1088;#1080;#1084;#1086;#1074;, investor) 17. Vladimir Bogdanov 2.3 (#1042;#1083;#1072;#1076;#1080;#1084;#1080;#1088; #1041;#1086;#1075;#1076;#1072;#1085;#1086;#1074;, *petroleum* (Surgutneftegaz)) 18. Iskander Makhmudov 2.2 (#1048;#1089;#1082;#1072;#1085;#1076;#1077;#1088; #1052;#1072;#1093;#1084;#1091;#1076;#1086;#1074;, color metals) 19. Nickolay Tsvetkov 2.2 (#1053;#1080;#1082;#1086;#1083;#1072;#1081; #1062;#1074;#1077;#1090;#1082;#1086;#1074;, *petroleum*, finances) 20. Alisher Usmanov 2.0 (#1040;#1083;#1080;#1096;#1077;#1088; #1059;#1089;#1084;#1072;#1085;#1086;#1074;, black metallurgy) 21. Mikhail Khodorkovsky 2.0 (#1052;#1080;#1093;#1072;#1080;#1083; #1061;#1086;#1076;#1086;#1088;#1082;#1086;#1074;#1089;#1082;#1080;#1081;, *Yukos oil*) Also: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=russian+oligarch+OR+oligarchs+israel+OR+israeli+OR+israelisbtnG=Google+Search Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM ~- Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[political-research] Bloglines - Neocon Plumbers
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Neocon Plumbers
By Brian
While the name of the blog is Gorilla in ihe Room, right about now it should be Elephant in the Room. All the talk of the Plamegate indictments, and nobody can mention what the real bottom line of all this is.
Nobody except Bob Cesca, that is:
It's almost laughable to watch various pundits and analysts focus so closely on the details of who leaked what and when, while completely missing the big, diabolical picture. Smearing Joe Wilson and leaking his wife's name to Judy Miller, Matt Cooper, Bob Novak, and the rest is just one small part of a much larger and prearranged plot orchestrated by the PNAC neocons since the first Gulf War ended and Bush 41 lost re-election.
Tell it like it is, Bob.
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[political-research] Bloglines - TagCloud.com
Bloglines user SeanMcBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has sent this item to you. Google Blogoscoped Google, the World, and the World Wide Web, Weblogged TagCloud.com In Internet TagCloud.com allows you to create your own tag clouds by providing a list of RSS feeds. The service then automatically extracts the most popular words from the feeds, and displays them as links of different size and color. Click on a word, and you are taken to snippets of the blogs covering this topic. While I've reported on this tool earlier t ... (Full post) Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Competitive intelligence Market intelligence Emotional intelligence Military intelligence Critical thinking Artificial intelligence YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "political-research" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[political-research] Bloglines - Cheney's Personal Intelligence Agency, and the folks who made it possible
Bloglines user SeanMcBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has sent this item to you. CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS - LiveJournal.com Cheney's Personal "Intelligence Agency," and the folks who made it possible Cheney's Personal "Intelligence Agency," and the folks who made it possible by recontext Wed Oct 26, 2005 at 02:08:04 PM PDT I resist conspiracy theories with all my gusto, but the undisputed convergence of all these players in the Plame/Cheney/fake-intelligence fiasco, IS downright CHILLING. Unfortunately, the under-reported December 2001 meeting in Rome finally removes this whole "Plame conspiracy" case from the realm of "theory." Perhaps we could just call it "amazing cooperation" among people in the "neo-con" universe. A must read article on the Niger Forgeries by former UPI intelligence reporter Richard Sale, is the most efficient yet at describing the time line and connections between all these right wing nut jobs, who somehow, incredibly, managed to bypass nearly the entire American military and intelligence establishments. The bottom line in all this is that Dick Cheney created his own amateur intelligence "agency" (hey, like the Reagan crew!) operated it out of the White House, fed his own twisted version of "intelligence" directly into the feeble mind of G.W. "no nation building" Bush, and precipated their own personal Mid-East war. More... The scary fact is that Dick Cheney (and his "neo-con" associates around the world) were SO SURE of their own dillusions, that they went around the "professionals" (yes, much like they avoid those idiot "scientists" who promote "global warming") and created an "intelligence" entity that existed only to confirm their nutty PREVIOUSLY HELD beliefs. We may fairly call this "Faith Based Foriegn Policy," or even the deliciously self-canceling "Faith Based Intelligence." Cheney, Libby, Michael Ledeen (the Fascistophile expert who literally wrote the book, and links them all, including Karl Rove) Pentagon "special planner" Doug Feith, his aide Larry Franklin (currently UNDER INDICTMENT accused of espionage for Israel) "conservative" elements of Italian intelligence SISMI who literally brought us the fake Niger documents, and even Iran-Contra figures, all attended, or knew about, that December 2001 meeting in Rome, that even the CIA knew nothing about! Google the above names, and those that may well surface in the coming indictments, like Larry Franklin, Stephen Hadley, Harold Rhode, David Wurmser, Eliot Abrahms, Manucher Ghorbanifar (yes, THAT Ghorbanifar, of Iran-Contra fame) and you will have a field day exploring their long association and whacky agenda for the world (especially the mid-east) that LONG PREDATES the events of 9/11 The fact that Fitzgerald is SHARING evidence with the Larry Franklin prosecutor on the Niger forgeries should be sending reporters scurrying to expose the links between these guys. But so far precious little has emerged about the larger history and agenda of this group that people casually call "neo-cons." That Cheney was essentially running his own personal intelligence agency was widely reported before the last election, and even brought up vaguely by Kerry in the debates. But it was so successfully denied by Cheney, and sufficiently ignored by the press, that there was never any real national debate about the wisdom of the Vice President single handedly running American intelligence. And it has never really been made clear why, with the almost complete opposition to the invasion of Iraq by the American military, intelligence agencies, and even old guard Republicans like Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft (none of whom could be accused of being mushy-headed liberal pacifists) a handful of people were able to push us into war anyway. Dr. Strangelove finally became a reality. These guys didn't even need to drop The Bomb (yet) to complete the take over. Tags: Michael Ledeen, Plamegate, Niger, SISMI, JINSA, Israel, Larry Franklin, Dick Cheney (all tags) View Comments | 29 comments http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/26/1784/4019 Comments Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Competitive intelligence Market intelligence Emotional intelligence Military intelligence Critical thinking Artificial intelligence YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group
[political-research] Bloglines - Plame it all on the Greater Israel
Bloglines user SeanMcBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has sent this item to you. CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS - LiveJournal.com Plame it all on the Greater Israel Plame it all on the Greater Israel by prophet Wed Oct 26, 2005 at 03:26:29 PM PDT Plame was outed to protect efforts to establish a Greater Israel and guarantee unrestricted access to cheap oil at its source. Israel hardliners would like nothing more than the re-establishment of the ancient Kingdom of Israel. Of course, this requires that Israel's ancient enemies be defeated. A happy side effect of this, of course, is the rejuvenation of the Israel national ideal - proud, wealthy, solid, and strong. Oh, did you notice some of the familiar names on the report in that last link? Do Perle, Feith, Wurmser ring a bell? An American attack on Iraq was seen as the lever to extricate Israel from its economic, security, and social quagmire. Such an attack was seen as helping Israel impose a new order and see Iraqi bases become American bases. Of course, the benefit to America was that Iraq has the second largest known oil fields in the world. And it would be "ours", courtesy of Cheney and Co. So, thus was born the current administration's drive for the war against Iraq. With Israel policy and fund-raising organizations (AIPAC, WINEP, American Enterprise Institute) and Cheney and Bush's connections to the oil industry, it was (pardon the pun) a no-brainer. Oh, and tell Israel to keep quiet about their support for it! Ok, ok, So, you can find it all here in one piece. This was why is was SO IMPORTANT to shut Joe Wilson up. These plans were threatened by Joe Wilson's assertions that WMD did not exist in Iraq and especially so if others got it into their heads to spill some beans. A swift kick to the wife would put everyone on notice not to mess with the plan. It could also serve to bitch-slap the CIA into submission. Such a deal. Oh, by the way, if you google AIPAC, WINEP, or AEI along with names like, say, oh, Perle, Wurmser, Hannah, Ledeen, Kristol, Wolfowitz, Feith, Bolton, Franklin, etc., you may see some connections with the current administration. Tags: plame, israel, cheney, plamegate, aipac, winep, wurmser, hannah, franklin (all tags) View Comments | 0 comments http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/26/182629/47 Comments Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "political-research" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[political-research] Bloglines - Emancipate The Think Tanks
and Germans). But since France and Germany so staunchly opposed the war, there is little likelihood that they will be willing to jump into the fray now—especially with the escalating violence of the insurgency. Liberal think tanks are also stuck in a conundrum when it comes to nuclear proliferation. So enamored with arms control, they are unable to recognize its limitations. When non-proliferation efforts fail, their answer is to redouble those efforts. But this is exactly the definition of insanity: to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. And they do not see that if the threat of military action is part of enforcing a non-proliferation regime, then the use of force logically follows if arms control fails. And both sides are victims of the intimidation factor. Conservative think tanks wanting to be in the good graces of the administration cannot advocate truly different, if not radical, alternatives to existing foreign policy initiatives— especially in Iraq—for fear of being labeled “unpatriotic” or “not serious.” Their liberal counterparts are afflicted by the same problem—indeed, more so—given the McGovernite legacy of liberals being “weak on defense.” Ultimately, the problem with too many think tanks is that they have become captive of politics. Many people in these organizations aspire to be political appointees—indeed, many are former political appointees. So they say and write what they believe will help them land a job in the current administration or what they hope will be the next administration. Too often that means pulling their punches, which only perpetuates the status quo thinking that permeates Washington. The think tanks tolerate this because their donor bases are increasingly political, seeking to use what should be apolitical institutions to advance their political agendas. Like any business, think tanks need money to operate. But funders are not the same as customers, and think tanks should not exist simply to satisfy their donors. This is especially true when those donors are corporations.There is nothing wrong with corporations supporting policy research organizations, but the latter should not be captive of the former.And it is only fair to ask how objective a think tank can be on national security issues if a substantial portion of its funding comes from the defense industry. In the final analysis, think tanks should be captive to producing ideas that advance the public policy debate. When those ideas are at odds with the politics of Washington, think tanks should not bend to politics or seek to be players in the political power game. Unfortunately, it seems that they are drifting—if not already moored—in that direction. Given the current state of play, the Washington think tank landscape needs a makeover. Maybe it is time for new think tanks to take root and do what too few seem to be willing to do: Like the child in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, say that the emperor has no clothes. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051026/emancipate_the_think_tanks.php Comments Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "political-research" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[political-research] Bloglines - COVER-UP: The Publisher and Exec Editor of The NYT Sanctioned a Cover-up in Criminal Investigation
Bloglines user SeanMcBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has sent this item to you. CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS - LiveJournal.com COVER-UP: The Publisher and Exec Editor of The NYT Sanctioned a Cover-up in Criminal Investigation William E. Jackson Jr. 10.25.2005 COVER-UP: The Publisher and Executive Editor of The New York Times Sanctioned a Cover-up in a Criminal Investigation It should now be painfully obvious that the top leadership of The New York Times sanctioned, and participated in, a scandalous--if not legally liable--cover-up in a federal criminal investigation into how the name of a CIA covert operative was divulged to the press as part of an act of revenge against a Bush Administration critic of the war in Iraq. The Valerie Plame case traces back directly to an effort by the White House to rebut criticism of its abuse of intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. There is journalistic corruption at the highest levels of The New York Times. Irreparable damage has been done to the reputation of the most eminent newspaper in the world. The resignations of both Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., and Bill Keller, should be on the table--not to mention the reporter known as “Miss Run Amok.” Both men have been engaging in what might be termed “limited, modified hangouts” as they shift from one foot to the other in offering explanations of their own conduct in regard to the license granted Judith Miller, and the role of the Times in the handling of the Plame story. Imagine the consequences if it was reported (in the NYT) that the two top officers of a major American corporation had received information that one of its employees may have witnessed a felonious act involving national security and that the employee might possibly be involved in a conspiracy to obstruct justice so as to protect herself and a high government official whose name was known; that they coincidentally and tacitly cooperated with the White House to suppress the information on that employee’s relationship with the top aide to the Vice President; that they knowingly instructed other employees to “cook the books” in writing (or not writing) reports on what transpired in that relationship; and that they hired high-priced legal talent to fight the case all the way to the Supreme Court, so as to prevent the employee from appearing before a grand jury. You get the idea. Uncle BarneyWhile critics have favorably noted public editor Byron Calame’s belated effort to address “The Miller Mess” that had been before the Times for over a year, his column of October 23 came across as more of an attempt to be an arbitrating force within the paper--a curmudgeonly “Uncle Barney”--than as an independent critic and “readers representative.” He had come to the game very late, after all! He began his column: “THE good news is that the bad news didn’t stop The New York Times from publishing a lengthy front-page article last Sunday about the issues facing Judith Miller and the paper, or from pushing Ms. Miller to give readers a first-person account of her grand jury testimony.” But, of course, the bad news DID stop the editors from publishing the article about some very serious lingering questions facing Miller and the paper--until October 16, 2005. That is NOT good news. And to suggest that Judy Miller gave readers a first-person account worthy of being considered reliable--after her lawyers vetted it and a friend co-wrote it--is not to be taken seriously. Fundamentals Calame seems satisfied that most of his fundamental concerns have been addressed. Well, how is this for an unaddressed FUNDAMENTAL question? Bill Keller and Arthur Sulzberger had been involved in what amounted to a COVER-UP of a provocateur's name (call Scooter Libby a “source” for a story that was never written by a reporter acting in an extra-reportorial activist role) that they knew to be a key suspect in the Valerie Plame case! That cover-up, incidentally, served to facilitate a White House strategy of non-cooperation. Add that fundamental issue to another one: the deferential treatment of Ms. Miller by the top command. To Calame’s credit, he edged up to the heart of the matter: “The apparent deference to Ms. Miller by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the publisher, and top editors of the Times, going back several years, needs to be addressed more openly...” Indeed, Miller has acknowledged Mr. Sulzberger’s special support in this case: “He galvanized the editors, the senior editorial staff... He metaphorically and literally put his arm around me.” Why is it that--as Greg Mitchell in EditorPublisher has pointed out--no one high up at the Times is calling outright for her to be fired? It is probable that Sulzberger and Keller have a real stake in not running her off the reservation because they fear a “memoir” that washes the dirty linen of The Times in public. One other fundamental concern:
