" The real issue is not military control of intelligence, but the development of the Pentagon as an independent branch of government, free of all oversight from other branches -- even the executive branch."
The Cheney/ Rumsfeld fascist organization chart is almost complete and with its completion a new secret government will emerge.
It all started with the Office Of Special Plans ~ set up by the Pentagon to feed tainted intelligence to Dick Cheney ~ who in turn directed Bush on what to say on the run up to the war with Iraq.
Now it has become a government within itself and Henry Adams, United for Peace for Pierce County, blows the whistle and names the principle players.
A front-page piece in today's *New York Times* calls attention to the important role of Stephen A. Cambone as "one of the nation's most powerful intelligence officials."[2]
He is, after all, "one of [U.S. Secretary of State Donald] Rumsfeld's most trusted aides." But Eric Schmitt of the *Times* is oblivious to what is most important about Cambone, which is his role in Donald Rumsfeld's all but completed redesign of the Pentagon as an independent branch of government -- or rather, a government within the government, independent of oversight.
In other words, when the *Times* calls Cambone "the Pentagon's intelligence czar," it's more than just a metaphor.
The military's intelligence grab has been underway for years. Consider the case of the Pentagon's "Strategic Support Branch."
[T]he Pentagon, expanding into the CIA's historic bailiwick, has created a new espionage arm and is reinterpreting U.S. law to give Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over clandestine operations abroad. . . . The new unit . . . the Strategic Support Branch . . . has been operating in secret for two years -- in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places. . . [T]he creation of the espionage branch, the scope of its clandestine operations and the breadth of Rumsfeld's asserted legal authority have not been detailed publicly before." Gellman reported that the unit had been created "without explicit congressional authority or appropriation."
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website more...)
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