May 11, 2006 at 15:58:29

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RUMSFELD'S POWER GRAB CONFIRMED

By Allen L Roland (about the author)     Page 1 of 3 page(s)

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" 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.

Allen L Roland

THE PENTAGON AS SECRET GOVERNMENT

By Henry Adams

United for Peace of Pierce County

May 10, 2006

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4453/

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."

In January 2005, ace *Washington Post* reporter Barton Gellman ("Secret Unit Expands under Rumsfeld's Domain," [http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2135/]) wrote: "

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