Buzzwords
Words that should be on every American's lips
PNAC
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.
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". Some people support the
idea that 9-11 was allowed to happen so that the PNAC could realize
their goal of seizing the oil reserves of the Middle East and
enforcing our position as the world's lone superpower.
Upon
his appointment to the Presidency 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:
Dick Cheney Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense, Douglas J. Feith (former) Undersecretary of Defense, I. Lewis Libby Vice President Cheney’s former Chief of Staff and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, Aaron Friedberg Vice President Cheney’s deputy National Security advisor, Robert Zoelick US Deputy Secretary of State, Paula Dobriansky Undersecretary of State, Elliott Abrams Deputy National Security Adviser, Frank Gaffney Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, Fred C. Ikle Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, Eliot A. Cohen Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, Henry S. Rowen Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, William J. Bennett Presidential speech writer, Jeb Bush Governor of Florida, Paul Wolfowitz World Bank President, John Bolton Ambassador to the U.N., Zalmay Khalilzad U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
Able Danger
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.
The Rendon group
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
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
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.
K Street Project
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.
Unitary Executive Theory
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.