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nation as well as the Constitution is being shredded
The depths of this
"sell-out" of the public by the courts and the congress, in
support of this treasonous administration are so deep, that should the
public actually begin to fathom the true extent of the rot, currently
working on overtime at light-speed; the result would simply boggle the
capacities of the human mind: What is clear is that any response must
begin with Impeachments.
"Red alert: Our national
security is being outsourced.
The most intriguing secrets of
the 'war on terror' have nothing to do with Al Qaeda and its
fellow travelers. They're about the mammoth private spying industry that
all but runs U.S. intelligence operations today.
Surprised? No wonder. In April,
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell was poised to publicize a
year-long examination of outsourcing by U.S. intelligence agencies. But
the report was inexplicably delayed -- and suddenly classified a national
secret. What McConnell doesn't want you to know is that the private spy
industry has succeeded where no foreign government has: It has penetrated
the CIA and is running the show.
Over the past five years (some
say almost a decade), there has been a revolution in the intelligence
community toward wide-scale outsourcing. Private companies now perform key
intelligence-agency functions, to the tune, I'm told, of more than $42
billion a year. Intelligence professionals tell me that more than 50
percent of the National Clandestine Service (NCS) -- the heart, brains and
soul of the CIA -- has been outsourced to private firms such as Abraxas,
Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon." (1)
Now the author of that article,
R. J. Hillhouse, has revealed that the reach of these private corporations
has extended into the Oval Office - and in particular into the president's
"daily brief." The interview begins about ten minutes into the
program and lasts roughly twenty minutes. (2)
To clarify the relevance of why
the privatization of national intelligence is so important; there is also
a recent article by Kathleen Parker, in the Washington Post: "Just
when you thought the war in Iraq couldn't get any stranger, a high-ranking
al-Qaeda figure who was first captured and then killed -- his body
displayed on state-run TV -- turns out to have been a fiction.
He didn't exist.
The apparently invented character
called Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was known as the head of the Islamic State of
Iraq -- believed to be a front group for al-Qaeda.
He wasn't captured, as was
reported previously. He wasn't killed May 1 by hostile fire from U.S.
forces, as reported in a May 3 New York Times story. He wasn't even real,
according to the U.S. military.
All this we learn from a leading
al-Qaeda figure captured July 4 by U.S. forces in Mosul. Khalid Abdul-Fattah
Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, who in the interest of economy will be
referred to hereinafter as "Smitty," told interrogators that
Baghdadi was invented by Abu Ayyub al-Masri, aka Abu Hamza al-Muhajer,
hereinafter referred to as "Jimbo." (3)
If this can be done so boldly,
then even the 'idea' of Al Qaeda, as a threatening and an intimidating
concept must be publicly questioned. After all, hasn't this convenient
little group always been a giant black hole for any policy that had
unexplained actions - especially our own questionable but oh-so-convenient
explosions that have kept all aspects of these problematic wars not only
alive, but also firmly on the side of whatever is needed from escalation
to chaos, from potential civil wars in the region to the futility of ever
leaving this situation that was created solely to benefit the Decider's
supporters.
How did privatization find its
way into the system in the first place? For that we only need to go back a
little way to the Godfather of political corruption and personal greed, in
times of war: To Henry A. Kissinger, and the example he set through
several administrations. Kissinger has truly been the Forgotten Man behind
a hideous yet very public mask of Treason and mass murder. Financed by
Rockefeller, Gerald Ford gave him his political start, but he soon turned
on his benefactor and embraced Nixon (whom he supposedly despised), just
to further his own political and financial ends. The film, in the
footnotes here tells much of this story, but his life has been one long
series of betrayals for personal greed, and private ambition at the
expense of the millions of people that his polices murdered. (4)
Reagan's Raiders who were
otherwise known as the Outlaws of Iran-Contra also owe much to Kissinger's
shadow-works of sheltered-duplicity and false flag diplomacy, which was
practiced by GWH Bush when 'Poppy' engineered the release of the American
Hostages captured by the Iranians after the overthrow of the Shah of Iran.
Kissinger is also probably the example that Cheney uses to guide his own
government-within-the-government, to obtain his own totally illegal and
vile ends that suit his private agenda's, at the expense of actual
American interests-to say nothing of what would be good for most
Americans.
This is also interesting because
Nixon was not punished and because he was allowed to return to politics we
then got Reagan who built upon the paranoia and the hate that Nixon
engineered. We also saw the beginnings of presidential pardons of
political operatives who served the president in one administration: some
of whom were charged and found guilty-and then pardoned, or who were not
formerly charged because of Ronnie's faulty memory: thus allowing these
half-dead political failures to resurface under the Decider as fully
fledged characters in this new political charade that the world now calls
the Bush administration. Among these are John Bolten, Admiral Poindexter,
John Negroponte, Robert Gates, and many, many more. (5)
This was possible because of the
public's very short attention span coupled with a basic disinterest in all
things political: preferring perhaps ignorance to knowledge, so long as
their private status quo was not disturbed. Now we're looking at a
meltdown in the economy that only underscores the entire debacle in both
Iraq and Afghanistan where we're spending $12 billion a month. Many of
those leading lights in this also received the direct benefit of major tax
CUTS in a time of war. All of this has served to keep the profits flowing
into the coffers of those same corporations that have now privatized over
half of the entire intelligence community within the US.
We need to resurrect the
penalties for War-Profiteering, for trading with the enemy in a time of
war, and we must rediscover an appetite for our own national integrity.
Americans seem to have forgotten that the only thing common to all
Americans is supposed to be the components in our unifying Constitution.
Look at the oaths of office that all high officials take - and you will
find that they have sworn "to protect and defend the Constitution and
the people (of this nation) against all enemies, both foreign and
domestic. So when congress, the courts and the Tarnished House all
uniformly fail to enforce their own oaths: then law, justice, and the true
health and welfare of this nation are all doomed.
This is not a matter of
"if" but only "when" this cataclysmic collapse will
happen: and it will take place unless people across the spectrum begin to
embrace the concepts behind the national need for Impeachment at the
highest levels of this government-beginning with Dick Cheney!
Jim Kirwan
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