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Buzzwords Words that should be on every voters lips
Project for the New American Century. The organization, funded by foundations closely linked to the defense and energy industry, outlined their goals in their policy paper Rebuilding America's Defenses (.PDF). Their plans for creating an American Empire, toppling regimes unfriendly to their corporate interests, creating an archipelago of military bases throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, control the internet, and militarize space all hinged upon one thing: According to this document (page 52). "The process of transformation," the plan said, "is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor." September 11th served as the needed "Pearl Harbor". Upon his appointment to President in 2000, George W. Bush appointed the hierarchy of this organization to the top levels of the White House, The Pentagon, and the State Department:
Able Danger was a classified United States Special Operations Command military intelligence program under the command of the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). It was created as a result of a directive from the Joint Chiefs' to develop an Information Operations Campaign Plan against transnational terrorism, "specifically al-Qaida." According to statements by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and confirmed by four others, Able Danger had identified the September 11, 2001 attack leader Mohamed Atta, and three of the 9/11 plot's 19 hijackers, as possible members of an al Qaeda cell linked to the '93 World Trade Center Attacks. Congressman Curt Weldon has stated that Able Danger identified Mohamed Atta 13 separate times prior to 9/11 and asserted that the information was blocked from following the proper channels to prevent the 9-11 attacks. Weldon has also alleged the intelligence concerning Able Danger was provided to the 9/11 Commission and ignored. Two 9/11 Commission members, Timothy J. Roemer and John F. Lehman, both claimed not to have received any information on Able Danger. On August 12, 2005, Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, former Chair and Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission, issued a statement admitting that the Commission had been aware of the Able Danger program, and requested and obtained information about it from the Department of Defense following publicity of Able Danger in Government Security News.
Specialists in public relations and "perception management," funded by the CIA and the Pentagon for the express purpose of selling the Iraq war to the public and world. The Rendon Group, has made millions off government contracts since 1991, when it was hired by the CIA to help "create the conditions for the removal of Hussein from power."
The Office of Special Plans, which existed from September, 2002, to June, 2003, was an office in the Pentagon created by Donald Rumsfeld and led by Douglas Feith, dealing with (and manipulating) intelligence on Iraq to sell the idea of invading Iraq to the public.
The Whitehouse Iraq Group, Aka, White House Information Group or WHIG, was the marketing arm of the White House whose purpose was to sell the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the public.
The K Street Project is a project by the Republican Party to merge corporate and state power by pressuring Washington lobbying firms to hire Republicans in top positions, and to reward loyal GOP lobbyists with access to influential officials. It was launched in 1995, by Republican strategist Grover Norquist and House majority leader Tom DeLay. This project has resulted in creating an environment for industry lobbyists to author legislation and lobbyists and industry heads being appointed to head the offices which would normally police their own industries, such as the EPA and the Department of the interior.
In American political and legal discourse, the unitary executive theory is a theory of Constitutional interpretation that addresses aspects of the separation of powers. The theory argues that the power of Congress to divest the President of control of the executive branch is limited. This theory allows the President to override the mandates of Congress and is supported by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts, appointed by G.W. Bush. This theory paves the way for the Presidential Signing Statement.
Presidential signing statement Statements issued by the President upon signing a bill into law -- to expand his power to disregard elements of the bill he's signed. Each of his signing statements says that he will interpret the law in question "in a manner consistent with his constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch." By using a signing statement, The President asserts not only his authority to internally supervise the "unitary executive branch," but also his power as Commander-in-Chief, as the basis for his interpretation of the law -- which observers have noted allows the President to create a loophole to permit the ability to ignore the intentions of Congress. Examples.
Leo Strauss is widely considered to be one of the leading intellectual sources of neoconservatism. Shadia B. Drury, in her 1997 book, Leo Strauss and the American Right, named the following prominent Washington players as among Strauss' protégés: Paul Wolfowitz; Supreme Court Justic Clarence Thomas; Judge Robert Bork; neo-con propagandist and former Dan Quayle chief of staff, William Kristol; former Secretary of Education William Bennett; the National Review publisher William F. Buckley; former Reagan Administration official Alan Keyes; current White House bio-ethics advisor Francis Fukuyama; Attorney General John Ashcroft; and William Galston, former Clinton Administration domestic policy advisor, and co-author, with Elaine Kamark, of the Joe Lieberman-led Democratic Leadership Council's policy blueprint. The hallmark of Strauss' approach to philosophy was his belief in a totalitarian system, who rejected all universal principles of natural law, but saw their mission as absolute rulers, who lied and deceived a foolish "populist" mass, and used both religion and politics as a means of creating trust and compliance. For Strauss and all of his protégés (Strauss personally had 100 Ph.D. students), the greatest object of hatred was the United States itself, which they viewed as nothing better than a weak, pathetic replay of "liberal democratic" Weimar Germany. |
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