Today's must-read piece is National Security Whistle Blowers: The ‘Undead’?, found over at Congressional Quarterly. What struck me about Jeff Stein's article is that it reads like deep-dish conspiracy theory -- an indicator, perhaps, of the loopiness of our times.
The Bush administration has actively punished patriotic insiders who tried to expose the following outrages:
The escape and protection of Osama Bin Laden, who could have been captured with relative ease...
Saudi Arabia's attempt to buy off a Republican Congressman...
Penetration of the FBI by a foreign intelligence service...
The compromise of a Federal program to catch drug smugglers...
Foreign intelligence services hacking into hundreds of military computers...
A defense contractor whose "Arabic" translators could not speak or write that language...
Each of these offenses far exceeds the alleged Clinton-era "Chinese spying," about which we once heard so much (and which turned out to have taken place during the Bush I period). Indeed, this systematic pattern of abuses -- of abuses protected at the highest levels -- defies any attempt at conventional explanation.
Human stupidity, a force one should never underestimate, here seems insufficient. Even the most paranoid of presumptions -- American officials involved in the drug trade -- do little to make this pattern more understandable.
Outlandish as the idea may seem, I am now beginning to wonder if our current rulers want the country to fail. After all, the Bush family can always escape to its own private fiefdom in South America. The fall of the USSR made a handful of individuals exceptionally rich when they bought up state assets. Is that history our future?
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"Outlandish as the idea may seem, I am now beginning to wonder if our current rulers want the country to fail."
Would explain a lot, would it not?
And Joe, just to take your "idea" or "conspiracy theory" one step further, whom do you mean when you use the term "current rulers"? Bush & Co.? Or their rulers?
in a word, yes. the international oligarchs were so successful in bankrupting the ussr by sinking them into afghanistan, why not go for 'broke,' the big enchilada. these idiots are clearly more than happy to oblige.
but we can't lose sight of the fact that there is far less organization in the process than might appear. who's rulin' who? it doesn't matter ultimately, because the force that drives these folks pits everyone against each other.
they're all only in it for themselves, and that will ultimately be their downfall. unfortunately, their determination to destroy each other threatens to take us all down with them.
I'm not sure there's a need to loot the country. The process is already in slow motion. The problem is that the American middle class is just too expensive and demanding. We've become accustomed to our rights, and won't accept the role of serfs as easily as some other countries may.
I'm 69 years old and scared shitless for our nation. You are all right, I think, although Dr. E. seems a bit optimistic to think 'They' will experience a downfall. Sucking a nation's economy dry through wars and controling the financial institutions by the 'rulers' has gone on for a long time. The term 'International Oligarchy' fits perfectly in explaining those behind the manipulation process currently in place. I think the course is set, and not even a revolution in the U.S. would change the world script of the 'Octopus'. Kinda depressing.
The very same speculation that some group of elites is trying to do to the US what was done to the USSR also occurred to me some months back. Intriguing also is the known business relationship between Neil Bush and Russian oligarch/criminal Berezovsky who Putin is pitted against in the interests of the Russian people.
Oh lordy -- you don't need a conspiracy theory to explain this behavior, it's as old as human institutions.
These people are protecting their own venality and incompetence from exposure. Nothing new there....
The cumulative effect may be to destroy the country, but that's not the conscious intention.
Some sources think Bushco is getting ready to bail:
"The Cuban news service reports that George W. Bush has purchased 98,840 acres in Paraguay, near the Bolivian/Brazilian border."
Story at Wonkette entitled, "We Hate To Bring Up the Nazis, But They Fled To South America, Too".
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