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Today's
Stories
January 25,
2008
Douglas Valentine
Operation
Two-Fold: How the CIA Infiltrated the DEA
January 24,
2008
JoAnn Wypijewski
Obama
as Anthologist of Uplift
Paul Craig
Roberts
President Hillary
Alexander Cockburn
Hillary Wants to Talk About Dirty Legal Dealings? Remember Her
Nursing Home Scam?
Kathleen Christison
One and Two State Solutions and the Myth of International Consensus
Jeff Halper
Power to the (Palestinian) People!
Stanley Heller
The Siege of Gaza is Broken
George Wuerthner
The Moronic Sport: ORVs on the Public Lands
Patrick Cockburn
Desperate Iraqi Farmers Turn to Opium
Jeff Sher
Just How "Good" is Your Health Insurance?
Patrick Irelan
Musharraf, the Steadfast Ally?
Charles Modiano
Restoring the Anti-War King
Website of
the Day
An Illustrated History of Trepanation
January 23,
2008
David Rosen
The
Great Disappearing Act: the Presidential Candidates and the Politics
of Sex
David Isenberg
Is
It Really So Hard to Believe That Iran Stopped Its Nuclear Weapons
Program?
Farzana Versey
Hillary's
Harem
Paul Craig
Roberts
The Empire That Must Be Obeyed
Alan Farago
Where Did All the Good Times Go?
Allan Nairn
Indonesian Intelligence Service Threatens to Kill Human Rights
Activist
Kenneth Couesbouc
Another Turn of the Screw
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
How the West was Re-Sold
Michael Donnelly
Obama Strikes Back
Norman Solomon
The Power of Love
Website of the Day
Rafah Today
January 22,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
Farewell
to Old Economic Nostrums
JoAnn Wypijewski
King Day in Columbia, South Carolina
Al Giordano
Divide and Conquer Politics: How the Clinton Campaign Armed a
Black-Latino Time Bomb in Nevada
Felice Pace
Power Politics in the Klamath: Water, Dams and Salmon
Paul Wolf
Bolívar's Sword
Robert Weissman
Deregulation and the Financial Crisis
Dave Lindorff
The Bush Dollar Trap
Marjorie Cohn
Cheney Impeachment Gains Traction
Richard Neville
Keeping Shakespeare in a Box
Don Fitz /
Zaki Baruti
St. Louis Mayor Booed Off MLK Platform
Ben Terrall
Cindy Sheehan and the Virtues of Divisiveness
Sam Husseini
Stoning Martin Luther King, Jr.
Website of
the Day
Defend the Mapuche!
January 21,
2008
Kevin Alexander
Gray
Playing
the Race Card
Linn Washington,
Jr.
Deferring Dreams, Delusions of Democracy
Pam Martens
How Wall Street Blew Itself Up
David Macaray
Labor's Grim Dilemma: Do We Need a Labor Party?
Uri Avnery
Look Who's Talking
Omar Barghouti
Europe's Collusion in Israel's Slow Genocide
Joe DeRaymond
Protest and Trial in D.C.
B.R. Gowani
Why Islam Should Tolerate Images
Shepherd Bliss
The False U.S. Economy
Jean-Guy Allard
Philip Agee Versus the CIA
Dan Bacher
Leaping Steelhead!
Website of
the Day
Destroyed
By a Rising Flood
January 19
/ 20, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
The
Campaign in Black and White
Saul Landau
Good Time Charlie's War
China Hand
Endgame for Pakistan?
Conn Hallinan
Desert Mirage: What Was the Bombing of Syria Really About?
Ron Jacobs
No Retreat
Dave Lindorff
A Tax Rebate Won't Fix This Mess
Andy Worthington
Canada's Humiliating Double Standard on Torture
Paul Armentano
What's the Going Price for a Joint? More Than You Might Think
Seth Sandronsky
High Crimes and Economics
Michael Donnelly
Dodging Ecocide
Patrick Irelan
The Ordeal of Dr. Safdar Sarki
Martha Rosenberg
The Drug Industry Takes Another Hit
Sherwood Ross
Making the World Safe for Despots: Bush's Global Arms Trade
David Michael
Green
So You Want to be My President, Eh?
James Rothenberg
Unimpeachable: Under House Protection
Daniel Gross
Starbucks Shortchanges Dr. King
Peter N. Carroll
In Memory of Milton Wolff
Susie Day
Croakin' on Hudson
Paul Krassner
Woody Allen Meets Tongue Fu
Poets' Basement
Wolff, Buknatski and Orloski
Website of the Day
Rocky Mountain
Blues
January 18,
2008
Allan Nairn
Killing
Civilians, Carefully
Ralph Nader
When
the Big Boys Get in Trouble, Who Pays the Ultimate Bill?
Joanne Mariner
Terrorism and Preventative Detention
Alan Farago
The Stimulus and the Meltdown
P. Sainath
Pity the Brahmins
R.F. Blader
Beyond Steinem's Feminism
Andy Worthington
A Letter from Guantánamo
John Jonik
Private Insurance is Bad for Your Health
Brian McKenna
Where Even Sharing is Prohibited: Notes from Inside a Michigan
Women's Prison
Daoud Kuttab
This Time Next Year?
Website of the Day
Those South Carolina Voting Machines
January 17,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
Leader
and Vassal
Christopher
Brauchli
The FBI's Bills Come Due
Robert Fantina
Leadership, Bush and the New York Times
Patrick Irelan
Eternal War
Paul A. Moore
When the Rich Pay No Taxes
Stephen Lendman
Institutionalized Spying on Americans
Beena Sarwar
Bhutto and the "State Within a State"
Walter Brasch
Buzzwords in the Echo Chamber: Change and the Establishment
Brenda Norrell
Bush Legacy in Texas Sours
Adam Federman
End of the Left?
Website of the Day
Democrats for Romney
January 16,
2008
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Return
of the Native
Franklin Lamb
The Bombing at Qarantina
Julian Sanchez
David Weigel
Who Wrote Ron Paul's Newsletters?
Sharon Smith
Ron Paul and the Left: a Slippery Slope?
Allan Nairn
Economic Indicator: No Free Lunch, No Free Market
Ayesha Ijaz
Khan
How the American Media Enables Bush's Iran Fixation
Andy Worthington
A Strategic Call to Close Guantánamo
Richard Behan
Nancy Pelosi, You Must Impeach!
Website of the Day
Obama the New JFK? He's Not That Bad!
January 15,
2008
Andrea Peacock
Breach
of Trust in America's Most Toxic Town: How the EPA is Rubbing
Poison Into Libby's Wounds
Wajahat Ali
An Interview with Seymour Hersh on Iraq, Bush Foreign Policy
and the Prospects of War with Iran
Joe Bageant
Getting Out the Bling Vote
Ralph Nader
The Candidate Taboos
John Ross
Zero Hour: NAFTA and Mexico's Agrarian Apocalypse
Elaine Cassel
Jose Padilla vs. John Yoo: Can a National Disgrace be Rectified?
Peter Morici
The Fed Needs More Than a New Communications Strategy
Beena Sarwar
Pakistan's Dirty Tricks Brigade
Robert Weissman
Big Business is Even More Unpopular Than You Thought
Binoy Kampmark
Going Tata in India
Dave Zirin
Dennis Brutus Smacks Down the Hall of Fame
Website of
the Day
David Lynch on the iPhone
January 14,
2008
Ishmael Reed
Ma
and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man
Roger Morris
Burials in the Sind
Uri Avnery
The
Hands of Esau
Mike Whitney
Bush's Voodoo Stimulus Package
Allan Nairn
General Suharto of Indonesia: One Small Man Leaves a Million
Corpses
William Blum
Oh, By the Way, the Iraqis Don't Really Want Us
Alan Farago
A Subprime Wake Up Call
David Macaray
Are Labor Unions Ready for Prime Time?
Eva Liddell
Getting Drunk with Obama
Zoe Blunt
Road Kill: New Highway Blocked by Protesting Raccoons
Website of the Day
Doug and Andrea Peacock on Grizzlies
January 12
/ 13, 2008
Andrew Cockburn
How
the New England Journal of Medicine Undercounted Iraqi Civilian
Deaths
Saul Landau
60
Years of Empire
Corey D. B. Walker
Barack Obama and the Crisis of the White Intellectual
Col. Dan Smith
Bush, Iran and the Magician of the Tarot
Eric Toussaint
The US Subprime Crisis Goes Global
Ron Jacobs
Television, Murder and Vietnam
Fred Gardner
The People vs. Christopher James Chakos
Stan Cox
Don't Take That Pill!
Jacob G. Hornberger
The Warfare State
Ramzy Baroud
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Joseph Grosso
The Anglosphere: a Special Relationship of Elites
David Díaz-Arias
Imagining An/Other Latin American Left
Stacey Warde
Before We Move On ...
Dan Bacher
Pumped to Extinction: the Decline of the Delta Smelt
Michael Dickinson
Georgie in Jesusland
Website of
Weekend
CounterPunchers Protest Outside NYT Offices
January 11,
2008
Dave Lindorff
Did
Hillary Really Win New Hampshire? More Questions About Diebold
Voting Machines
Paul Craig
Roberts
No
Escape from War and Unemployment
Andy Worthington
Six Years of Guantánamo
Kenneth Couesbouc
Banking on Thin Ice
Jeff Ballinger
Inside the Vienna Consensus
Christopher
Brauchli
Lethal Injection, the Supremes and China
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Paying No Attention to the Presidential Campaigns
Andrew Silverstein
Bush's Weepy Visit to Jerasulem
Marwan Bishara
Bush in the Middle East
Robert Weissman
The First Amendment Gone Wild
Patrick Irelan
Damn the Small Boats!
Website of
the Day
Hillary and the Superdelegates: Or Why She Wins Even When She
Loses
January 10,
2008
Alexander Cockburn
Now
Nader Claims He Didn't Endorse Edwards
Bob Wing
Marqueece Harris-Dawson
Race Within the Race: Obama, the NH Vote and the Specter of Tom
Bradley
Michael Donnelly
White Women Gone Wild?
David Macaray
Three Big Reasons for the Decline of Labor Unions
China Hand
Bush's Delusional Policy Pushes Pakistan to Brink of Catastrophe
Ayesha Ijaz Khan
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: Brotherly, Friendly Countries?
Rannie Amiri
Obama, Man of Kansas or Kenya?
Website of the Day
Iranian Video of the Hormuz Incident
January 9,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
The
Empire Strikes Back
Dave Lindorff
The Bad News from New Hampshire: Death By Triangulation
John Chuckman
Pardon My Laughter: Watching the US Primaries from Canada
James Bovard
Stomping Freedom: Inside the Martial Law Act of 2006
Alan Farago
As Florida Sinks: the View from the Titanic
Russell Mokhiber
Why Picket the New York Times in DC on Friday?
William S. Lind
Kicking the Can Down the Road in Iraq
Peter Morici
Beyond the Sophistry: Why the Trade Deficit Matters
Josh Reubner
Sudan vs. Israel: Double Standard on Divestment
Mike Roselle
The Pursuit of Happiness
Website of the Day
Bottles of Tears on the Wall: Steve Perry on NH
January 8,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
No
Jobs for the New Economy (or the Old)
Russell Mokhiber
The Black Hillary: Obama is Just Another Political Sedative
Robert Fantina
The Gulf of Tonkin and the Strait of Hormuz
Dave Zirin
Butts on Parade
Shamako Nobel
I Am an Emcee: the Politics of Hip Hop
John Ross
Zapatista Women Encounter Themselves
Brenda Norrell
Apaches Defend Homeland from Homeland Security
Laura Carlsen
Why Bolivia Matters
Patrick Irelan
Remember the Maine!
Evelyn J. Pringle
The Holes in Bush's FDA
Jonathan M.
Feldman
After Iowa and New Hampshire: a Strategy for Rebuilding the Peace
Movement
Michael Dickinson
Playing Soldier
Website of
the Day
Sean Hannity on the Run!
January 7,
2008
Chris Floyd
There
Will Be Blood: But No Justice for Iraq Atrocities
John Blair
Remove That Man! Creeping Fascism in Indiana
Uri Avnery
The Case of the White Bird
Andy Worthington
Who Are the Gitmo Saudis?
Binoy Kampmark
Needling the Convict: Lethal Injection and the Supreme Court
David Macaray
Women on Strike
Ralph Nader
Obamarama: the Politics of the Smooth Mood
Michael Donnelly
It's the War Vote(s), Stupid!
Ron Jacobs
Ron Paul's Run: Is Being Against the War Enough?
Gideon Levy
The Hostile President
Dave Lindorff
A Real 9/11 Cover-Up? Sibel Edmonds, Turkey and the Bomb
Website of
the Day
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
January 5 /
6, 2008
Douglas Valentine
Good
Guys in Black Hoods
Kevin Young
The
US Occupation and Popular Opinion in Iraq
Richard Rhames
Saddam
Who?
Saul Landau
Bush Snatches Defeat from Victory
Marc Lynch
Why Bush's Iran Strategy is Failing
Robert Fantina
Iowa, Democrats and the Iraq War
Donna Volatile
Antiwar Soldier: an Interview with Jonathan Hutto, Sr.
Jelle Bruinsma
Norman Finkelstein in The Netherlands
Bob Sutcliffe
Remembering Andrew Glyn, Rebel Economist
Harvey Wasserman
Anti-Nuclear Renaissance
Missy Beattie
Why Obama Can't Save Us
David Swanson
Remembering the Separation of Powers
Jacob Hornberger
The Importance of the Padilla Case
Shepherd Bliss
Survival Tools from Kokopelli Farms
Ron Jacobs
Bleeding Kansas
Poets' Basement
Patti Smith, B.R. Gowani and Peter Buknatski
Website of the Weekend
Jimmy Dean Sausage Call Complaint
January 4,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
A
Good Night in Iowa
Jonathan Cook
War Crimes Airbrushed from History
Paul Craig Roberts
Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime
Stan Goff
Ron Paul's Monkeywrench
Dave Lindorff
Clinton's Iowa Flop Exposes DLC Myths as Frauds
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
To Pindi Station
Allan Nairn
U.S. Elections Over Before They Began
Joshua Frank
The Failures of Sectarianism
Peter Morici
Economy on the Skids
Mary McInnis
Iowa Cocky-Us: How to be a Caucus Tease
Website of the Day
The Return of Obama Girl
January 3,
2008
Fatima Bhutto
Farewell
to Wadi Bua
Pam Martens
The
Free Market Myth Dissolves into Chaos
Joanne Mariner
The Presidential Candidates and Torture
Zoltan Grossman
Remember the '80s: Social Movements Between Woodstock and the
Web
David Domke
The Echoing Press and Huckabee
Norman Solomon
Edwards Reconsidered
Nikolas Kozloff
Return of the Faux Liberal
Jacob G. Hornberger
The Padilla Case and the Future of Habeas Corpus
Martha Rosenberg
Quit Picking on Huckabee's Son, Michael Vick
Russell Means
This Property is Condemned: a Notice to Those Occupying Lakotah
Lands
Website of the Day
WolfQuest
January 2,
2008
Jeff Taylor
The
Left and Ron Paul
M. Shahid Alam
The Life and Death of Benazir Bhutto: a Pakistani Tragedy
Gary Leupp
Madness Compounding Madness: Calls for Intervention in Pakistan
Paul Craig Roberts
Criminals with Badges
Heather Gray
Georgia's Racist Death Penalty
Fred Gardner
and Shobhit Arora
Dr. Strangelove's Nemesis
David Macaray
Labor Unions and Taft-Hartley
Benjamin Dangl
Fear and Loathing in Bolivia
January 1,
2008
Iain A. Boal
City
of Disappearances
B. R. Gowani
Benazir's Death in Crisistan
Shahid Mahmood
Bhutto and the Press
Linn Washington,
Jr.
Old Injustices Endure: From Crack Sentences to Racial Profiling
Harvey Wasserman
Taking Leonard Peltier to Iowa: the Moral Low Point of the Clinton
Era
John Ross
2008, Already a Year to Forget
Website of the Day
The Thrill is Gone: BB and Gladys
December 31,
2007
Alexander Cockburn
Goodbye
2007 and Good Riddance!
Tariq Ali
Pakistan, the Aftermath
Liaquat Ali Khan
The Perfidy of Pakistan's Rulers
Wajahat Ali
After Bhutto, a Nuclear Pakistan?
Robert Fisk
Who Killed Bhutto?
Ajai Sahni
Myths and Realities About Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan's Dark
Future
Marwan Bishara
You Say Talk, I Say Attack: The Middle East and the US Presidential
Election Campaigns
Uri Avnery
The Beilin Syndrome
Mark T. Harris
Does This Happen in Canada?
Brenda Norrell
Resistance and Censorship
Website of the Day
A People United Will Never Be Defeated
December 29
/ 30, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Options
in America: Kill Yourself or Have a Baby
Tariq Ali
Indignation and Fear Stalk Pakistan
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
My Encounter with Benazir Bhutto
Gary Leupp
The U.S. and Pakistan After 9/11: Blowback from an Unholy Alliance
China Hand
Pakistan Stares Into the Abyss
Jacob Hornberger
Stop Medddling in Pakistan
John Chuckman
Pakistan and the Failure of Quick-Fix Politics
Missy Beattie
Evaluating Bush with the Bhutto Corruption Standard
Ralph Nader
Who Will Take the Next Step?
Fidel Castro
There Hasn't Been a Day in My Life When I Haven't Learned Something
Robert Fantina
The Sham of Homeland Security
Greg Moses
Beauty from the Heart of Texas
Catherine Lutz
What We Can Not See: Art and Bombing
Kristin Van
Tassel
Seeing in the Dark
Kim Nicolini
Redacted: Brian DePalma's Scream of Outrage
Phyllis Pollack
Keith Richards Runs With Rudolph Once More
Poets' Basement
Landau, Gibbons and Davies
Website of
the Weekend
Driving Karachi in Search of the Perfect Naan
December 28,
2007
Farzana Versey
The
Complex Electra
Wajahat Ali
A
Pakistani Requiem
Binoy Kampmark
Death in Rawalpindi: Bhutto and Her Legacy
Ayesha Ijaz
Khan
Not Dead Yet: The Pakistan People's Party Still Survives
Anthony DiMaggio
Turkey's Bombing of Iraq
Ray McGovern
Creeping
Fascism
Jim Goodman
Biofuels, the Biggest Scam Going
Ron Jacobs
Transcending the Colonizer's History: Iran, a People Interrupted
Russell Hoffman
Mini-Nukes by Toshiba
John Murphy
Greens Gone Wild
Website of the Day
Guiliani Campaign Official: "Only Rudy Can Defeat the Muslims"
December 27,
2007
Dilip Hiro
A
Tragedy Foretold: Will Bhutto's Death be a Boost for Her Party?
Murtaza Shibli
Who Killed Bhutto?
Stephen Soldz
Fallujah,
the Information War and U.S. Propaganda
Bill Quigley
Locked
Outside the Gates
Paul Craig Roberts
The Great American Lock-Up
Omer Subhani
Killing Bhutto: What Happens Next in Pakistan?
Marjorie Cohn
The Torture Tape Cover-Up: How High Does It Go?
Allan Nairn
Cataclysm By Money Whim
Jacob G. Hornberger
Smearing Ron Paul: Shame on the NYT
Norman Solomon
Channeling Suze Orman
Patrick Irelan
Rumsfeld Spills the Ink
Ben Tripp
Pass the Razor Blades
Website of the Day
Quagmire, For What It's Worth
December 26, 2007
Charles Tripp
From
One Saddam to Fifty
Paul Armentano
No-Knock, You're Dead
Rannie Amiri
Lebanon in Search of a Government
Stanley Heller
Brzezinski and Charlie Wilson's War
John Walsh
Two Unreasonable Men
Martha Rosenberg
The Strange Career of Scott Gottlieb
Norman Madarasz
Bolivia Amends New Constitution and Faces Mutiny from Within
Website of
the Day
Cockburn at the Battle of Ideas
December 25,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
Conscience
and Empire
December 24,
2007
Andrea Peacock
A
Dark Ride on the Border
Tariq Ali
Thinking of Edward Said
Uri Avnery
Help! A Ceasefire!
Jill Jameson
Burma is Not Back to Normal: A Trip from Rangoon to Mae Sot
Steve Melendez
Russell Means Goes to Washington
Mike Whitney
The Big Fix
Chuck Munson
Not Getting It About New Orleans
John Walsh
Clueless Crusaders
Farzana Versey
Tony Blair and the Hawking of Religion
Richard Neville
Dreaming of a White House Christmas
Website of the Day
Back in the USSR
December 22 / 23, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Mike
Huckabee's Ascending Chariot
Ralph Nader
Politics
and Profits: How the Oil Cartel Gets Its Way
Andy Worthington
Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons
in Afghanistan
Ahmad Faruqui
The Comedian of Pakistan
Bill Moyers
Society on Steroids
Rev. William
E. Alberts
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Timothy J. Freeman
From Kant to Lennon: Can War Really be Over?
Anthony DiMaggio
Democrats Continue to Capitulate on Iraq
Fred Gardner
Molecule of the Year, Cannabiodiol
Paul Krassner
Enhanced Hazing Techniques
Seth Sandronsky
17 Years of Meanness: Repealing California's Three Strikes Law
William Loren
Katz
Christmas Eve Freedom Fighters: Recalling the Battle of Lake
Okeechobee
Michael Dickinson
In the Dungeon of the Zabita
Ron Jacobs
Why Leon Russell Still Matters
David Vest
Doyle Bramhall's "Is It News?"
Poets' Basement
Orloski, Davies and Ford
Website of the Weekend
George W. Hates Santa
December 21,
2007
John Ross
New Massacres Loom in Mexico
Jacob Hornberger
Nothing Can Morally Justify the Invasion of Iraq
Dick J. Reavis
A
Way Out of the Newspaper Abyss
Jeff Cohen
and Norman Solomon
The 2007 P.U.-litzer Prizes
Peter Morici
Business as Usual as Recession Looms
Jack McCarthy
Let Us Now Praise Judith Regan (Even If She Did Sleep with Bernie
Kerik)
Raúl Zibechi
Sex and Revolution
Steve Early
How the Presidential Candidates Made Me an Atheist
David Macaray
Union Aftermath
Patrick Bond
Zuma, the Center-Left and the Left-Left in S. Africa
Lakota Freedom Delegation
A Declaration of Independence from the USA
Website of
the Day
Solomon v. Beck: Tale of the Tape
December 20,
2007
David Rosen
Mitt
Romney's Secret Life as a Pornographer
Alan Farago
The
Huckster and the Wreckage: Jeb Bush and the Subprime Mortgage
Crisis
Laura Carlsen
Standing Up to NAFTA
Ashley Dawson
The Return of the Bread Riot
Wayne Smith
and Jennifer Schuett
Cuba Changes, US Policy Stagnates
Website of
the Day
How to Talk to a FoxNews Reporter
December 19,
2007
Saul Landau
Is
the NIE Bush's Watergate?
Paul W. Lovinger
Hillary the Hawk
Norman Solomon
The Mad Corporate World of Glenn Beck
Dave Zirin
George Mitchell's Drugs of Choice
Marjorie Cohn
Bush Still Spinning Iranian Nukes
Sen. Russell
Feingold
The Iraq War is Exhausting Our Nation
Sonja Karkar
A Christmas Reflection on Palestine
Anthony Papa
Open the Drug Gulags
Christopher Ketcham
Pave the Holy Lands with Good Intentions
Davey D
Britney's Little Sister is Pregnant: Should We Blame Hip Hop?
Website of
the Day
When Republicans Use the F-Word on TV
December 18,
2007
R. F. Blader
The
Politics of Teen Pregnancy
George Wuerthner
Gunning for Wolves in Idaho
Steven Higgs
Can the NAFTA Superhighway be Stopped?
Vijay Prashad
Encounters with Ghadar
David Macaray
The Free Rider Problem
Ralph Nader
Nine Books That Make a Difference: a Reading List for the Holidays
Eva Liddell
Privatizing War Abroad, Invading Privacy at Home
Martha Rosenberg
While the Bodies are Still Warm: Drugs, Shrinks and Shooters
Dave Lindorff
When Impeachment is Out of Print
Peter Morici
The Consequences the Trade Deficit
Website of
the Day
Ron Paul: How Fascism Will Come to America
December 17,
2007
Mike Whitney
Staring
Into the Abyss
Tom Barry
Planning
the War on Immigrants
Uri Avnery
A
Gaza Masada?
Greg Moses
Crossing the Line in Texas
Allan Nairn
Terrorism; Counter-
Terrorism: Excuses for Murder
Patrick Bond
South Africa's Fight Between Hostile Brothers
Stephen Lendman
Police State America
Charles Jonkel
Grizzly Right of Way
Laray Polk
An Inside-Out Crisis in Gaza
Stephen Fleischman
Pawns in Their Game
December 15
/ 16, 2007
Peter Linebaugh
A
People's Penny for the Magna Carta
Howard Zinn
Bomb After Bomb
Standard Schaefer
The Greening of Big Tobacco
Raymond J.
Lawrence
Let's Take Christ Out of Christmas
Alan Farago
Down on Desolation Row: the Vultures and the Growth Machine
Saul Landau
Lord Byron and the Bad Tourists
Jenna Orkin
Lying to "Reassure" the Public: Bush's EPA and the
Post-9/11 Toxic Air Cover-Up
Ahmad Samih
Khalidi
Why a Palestinian "State" is a Punitive Construct
Robert Fantina
Politics By Photo-Op
Missy Comley
Beattie
Resistance Amid the Ruins
Ramzy Baroud
Of Mormons and Muslims
James L. Secor
A Vision for China's Future
Elijah Wald
Ike Turner's Music Won't be Forgotten
Website of
the Weekend
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies Needs (and Deserves) Your Support
December 14,
2007
JoAnn Wypijewski
The
Dirty Cad: What Giuliani's Sex Life Tells Us About Him
John Ross
Iraqi
Refugees Return: One Cruel Hoax
Jacob Hornberger
Terror Suspects Belong in Federal Court
Andy Worthington
Guantánamo and the Supreme Court: What Happened?
Allan Nairn
"Shoot Them on the Spot": Rewarding War Crimes
Dave Zirin
The Mitchell Report: Absolving the Owners
Dave Lindorff
The First Cut is the Deepest
Misty MacDuffee
Toxic Grizzlies
Ben Terrall
What Happened to Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine?
Dr. Mustafa
Barghouthi
Prerequisites for Peace
Website of the Day
Sen. Kit Bond: "Waterboarding is Like Swimming"
December 13,
2007
Paul Craig
Roberts
Shrinking
the Dollar from the Inside-Out
Mike Whitney
Dershowitz for the Defense--of Waterboarding
Ron Jacobs
Blank Check DemocratsL the Great War Funding Conspiracy
Norman Solomon
The USA's Human Rights Daze
Peter Morici
The Dragon and the Toothless Dog: China Doesn't Flinch
Sandy Mayes
Blocking the Strykers: 13 Days of War Resistance at Port Olympia
Franklin Lamb
The UN in Lebanon: Whose Mission Is It Fulfilling?
Jacob Hornberger
Don't Reform the CIA, Abolish It
Nadim Rouhana
An Interloper in My Own Land
Dave Zirin
On Pigskin and Petrol
Website of the Day
Rachel's Needs (and Deserves) Your Support!
December 12, 2007
Allan
Nairn
US Intelligence is Tapping Indonesian
Phones
Alan
Farago
How Sprawl Eats Its Young
Ray
McGovern
Torture, Lies and Videotape
Winslow
T. Wheeler
The Phony Pentagon Budget Cuts
Evan
Jones
The Raid on Great Western: Why an Australian Bank Might Spell
Doom for the US Farm Belt
James
Petras
An Open Letter to Sarkozy on the Exchange of Political Prisonsers
Joel
Hirschorn
The Horserace Fiction: Clinton, Obama and the Democratic Machine
Joshua
Frank
Why Ron Paul Deserves Our Attention
Sherry
Wolf
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January
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A
CounterPunch Special Investigation
How the CIA Inflitrated
the DEA
Operation
Two-Fold
By DOUGLAS VALENTINE
The DEA and its predecessor federal
drug law enforcement organizations have always been infiltrated
and, to varying degrees, managed by America's intelligence agencies.
The reason is simple enough: the US Government has been protecting
its drug smuggling allies, especially in organized crime, since
trafficking was first criminalized in 1914. Since then drug law
enforcement has been a function of national security in its broadest
sense; not just protecting our aristocracy from foreign enemies,
but preserving the Establishment's racial, religious and class
prerogatives.
The glitch in the system is
that while investigating traffickers, federal drug agents are
always unearthing the Establishment's ties to organized crime
and its proxy drug syndicates. US intelligence and security agencies
recognized this problem early in the early 1920s and to protect
their Establishment patrons (and foreign and domestic drug smuggling
allies fighting communists), they dealt with the problem by suborning
well-placed drug law enforcement managers and agents.
They have other means at their
disposal as well. In 1998, for example, in a series of articles
in the San Jose Mercury News, reporter Gary Webb claimed
that the CIA had facilitated the flow of crack cocaine to street
gangs in Los Angeles. After the Agency vehemently denied the
allegations, Webb was denounced by the CIA's co-conspirators:
the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and
the Washington Post. Frightened into submission by the
growls of its biggers and betters, the Mercury News retracted
Webb's story and sent the reporter into internal exile. The CIA's
Inspector General later admitted that Webb was partially right.
But being unjustly discredited is the price one pays for tearing
the mask off the world's biggest drug trafficker.
It's always been that way.
Case in point: in 1960 MacMillan published Russ Koen's book The
China Lobby. In it Koen said the Nationalist Chinese were
smuggling narcotics into the US, "with the full knowledge
and connivance" of their government in Taiwan. He said that
"prominent Americans have participated and profited from
these transactions." The idea of prominent Americans profiting
from drug trafficking was unthinkable and quick as a flash, Harry
J. Anslinger, the Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
(FBN), denounced Koen as a fraud. Within weeks Koen's book was
remaindered into obscurity by MacMillan.
Professor Al McCoy's seminal
book The Politics of Heroin,
published in 1972, is another example. The CIA knew about McCoy's
research and approached his publisher, demanding that it
suppress the book on grounds of national security. Harper Row
refused, but agreed to allow the CIA to review the book prior
to publication. When McCoy objected, Harper Row said it would
not publish the book unless McCoy submitted.
Examples of federal drug law
enforcement's complicity with the CIA also abound and many are
recounted in my first book on the subject, The
Strength of the Wolf: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1968.
In my new book, The Strength of the Pack: The Politics, Espionage
Intrigues, and Personalities that Defined the DEA, I explain
how the CIA infiltrated the DEA and how, under CIA direction,
the war on drugs became a template for the war on terror. One
example shall be presented in this essay.
The Merry
Pranksters
My new book, Strength of
the Pack, begins in April 1968, when, in the wake
of a huge corruption scandal, the Johnson Administration folded
the FBN into a new organization called the Bureau of Narcotics
and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD). Attorney General Ramsey Clark announced
the appointment of thirty-eight year old John E. Ingersoll as
the BNDD's director. In a letter to me Clark said that Ingersoll
"offered a clean break with a past that had ended in corruption
and, I hoped, a new progressive, scientific based approach to
drug control in a time of deep social unrest."
Clark appointed Ingersoll while
Johnson was president and after the elections, in an attempt
to preempt the in-coming Nixon Administration, Clark held a news
conference to proclaim the Johnson Administration's success in
cleansing the BNDD of any lingering corruption. "32 Narcotics
Agents Resign in Corruption Investigation Here," read the
headline in the 14 December 1968 New York Times. Clark
noted that five of the bad agents had been indicted, and that
additional prosecutions and resignations would soon be forthcoming.
The Democrats had lost the
election, largely because the "law and order" candidate
Richard Nixon had promised to win the war on drugs. Ironically,
once he was elected president, this vow would pit Nixon against
the CIA, which was aiding and abetting the major politicians
and generals commanding America's allies in Vietnam, Laos and
Thailand, many of whom were part of a huge Kuomintang drug smuggling
network. In order to defeat the Communists, their drug smuggling
activities had to be protected. But in order for Nixon to make
good on his promise to win the war on drugs, they had to be stopped.
Thus began the CIA's infiltration of the BNDD, and its struggle
with Nixon's anti-Establishment, felonious minions for control
over targeting of major traffickers as a mean of managing the
war on drugs.
BNDD Director John Ingersoll
was totally unprepared for the political tug-of-war he found
himself in the midst of. He had joined the Oakland police department
in 1956, serving as a motorcycle cop and later as an administrative
assistant to the chief. In the mid-1960s he became the police
chief in Charlotte, North Carolina where he earned a reputation
as a straight arrow and fighter against corruption. But within
a year of taking control of the BNDD, Ingersoll realized he was
no match for the wily federal drug agents he inherited. They
were a cunning and dangerous wolf pack, and the organization's
top officials were among the worst offenders.
As one agent explains, "Most
were corrupted by the lure of the underworld. They thought they
could check their morality at the door--go out and lie, cheat,
and steal--then come back and retrieve it. But you can't. In
fact, if you're successful because you can lie, cheat, and steal,
those things become tools you use in the bureaucracy. You're
talking about guys whose lives depended on their ability to be
devious and who become very good at it. So these people became
the bosses. Meanwhile the agents were losing their simplicity
in subtle ways."
Ingersoll knew this, but he
was also aware of the high priority Nixon placed on winning the
war on drugs. Rather than generate a scandal, Ingersoll decided
to go outside of the organization, to the CIA, for help in quietly
rooting out corruption. The 1975 Rockefeller Commission Report
On CIA Activities Within The United States stated that the joint
CIA-BNDD anti-corruption program began when Ingersoll became
"vitally" concerned that some of his employees might
have been corrupted by drug traffickers. Lacking the necessary
security apparatus to expunge these corrupt agents, Ingersoll
in early 1970 asked the Director of Central Intelligence, Richard
Helms, for help building a "counter-intelligence" capacity.
The request was "apparently" supported by President
Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell.
The man Ingersoll appointed
chief inspector of BNDD, Patrick Fuller, had served with IRS
investigations for nearly 20 years in California. Fuller was
Ingersoll's close friend, but apart from that, he was incapable
of mounting internal security investigations against federal
drug agents. When Ingersoll proposed that they turn to the CIA,
Fuller readily agreed. The plan, known as Operation Twofold,
involved the hiring of CIA officers to spy on ranking BNDD officials
suspected of corrupt practices, past and present. As Pat Fuller
recalls, "We recruited the CIA officers for BNDD through
a proprietary company. A corporation engaged in law enforcement
hired research consultants, and three CIA officers posing as
private businessmen were hired to do the contact and interview
work."
The principle recruiter was
Jerry Soul, assisted by CIA officers John F Murnane, Joseph Cruciani,
and Chick Barquin. Then a personnel officer at CIA headquarters,
Soul had managed Cuban exiles during the Bay of Pigs invasion,
and later directed the CIA's exile Cuban mercenary army and air
force in the Congo.
Apart from one exile Cuban,
the CIA officers hired for Operation Twofold were, typically,
Anglo paramilitary officers whose careers had stalled due to
the gradual reduction of CIA forces in Vietnam and Laos. Those
hired were put through the BNDD training course and assigned
by Fuller to spy on a particular regional director and his trusted
subordinates. According to Fuller, no records were kept and some
participants will never be identified because they were "cut-outs"
who never went to a BNDD office, but spied from afar and reported
clandestinely. Some were not even known to Fuller. All were supposed
to be sent overseas but most remained in the US.
Much of Twofold remains a mystery
because, as the Rockefeller Commission reported, it "violated
the 1947 Act which prohibits the CIA's participation in law enforcement
activities."
No one was ever prosecuted.
Twofold
Case Studies
Twofold was aimed at the BNDD's
top managers. One target was Joseph J. Baca, the assistant Regional
Director in Los Angeles. The cousin of a top Mexican cop, Baca
in July 1969 was charged by the New Mexico State Police with
trafficking in drugs and stolen property. He was accused of arranging
burglaries and holdups, and allegedly sold heroin to a drug smuggler.
But the local investigations were closed without any adverse
action against Baca, so Twofold torpedo Charles "Chuck"
Gutensohn was asked to investigate.
Gutensohn had served with the
Special Forces in South Vietnam. He left the army in 1964, earned
a college degree, and in 1968 joined the CIA. For the next two
years, Gutensohn served in Pakse, Laos, one of the major drug
transit points between the Golden Triangle and Saigon. He had
drug experience and upon returning to the US, Gutensohn was given
the choice of being the CIA's liaison to the BNDD in Laos, or
joining Twofold. Gutensohn's brother Joel, also a Vietnam veteran,
had joined the Twofold program six months earlier in Chicago.
That being the case, Chuck joined too.
"After meeting with Jerry
Soul," Gutensohn recalls, "I met Fuller at a hotel
near Tyson's Corner. He said that when we communicated, I was
to be known as Leo Adams, for Los Angeles. He was to be Walter
De Carlo, for Washington, DC."
Fuller recruited Gutensohn
and the other CIA officers because they did not have to be trained
in the "tradecraft skills" required for the job of
spying on their bosses. But Gutensohn's cover was blown before
he got to LA. As he recalls, "Someone at headquarters was
talking and everyone knew. About a month after I arrived, one
of the agents said to me, "I hear that Pat Fuller signed
your credentials."
A similar situation occurred
in Miami, where Fuller's targets were Regional Director Ben Theisen
and Group Supervisor Pete Scrocca. Terry Burke, who would cap
his career as the DEA's acting administrator in 1990, was one
of the Twofold agents assigned to investigate Theisen and Scrocca.
Tall and handsome, Burke's background is fascinating. After serving
as a Marine guard at the US Embassy in Rome, he joined the CIA
and served as a paramilitary officer in Laos from 1963-1965,
working for legendary CIA officer Tony Poshepny at the 118A base
near Ban Houei Sai--the epicenter of the Golden Triangle's opium
and heroin trade. Burke received the CIA's highest award, the
Intelligence Star, for gallantry in combat in Laos. He served
his next tour in the Philippines but in 1969 was assigned to
a dead-end job at CIA headquarters. Knowing his career had stalled,
Burke contacted a friend from Italy, Customs Agent Fred Cornetta.
Then the agent in charge at Dulles airport, Cornetta persuaded
Burke to join the BNDD.
Burke applied and was hired
in December 1970. Fuller recruited him into the Twofold operation
and assigned him to Pete Scrocca's group. But instead of spying
on his new colleagues, Burke set about proving that he was tough
and smart enough to work "undercover cases on bad guys with
shotguns in motel rooms." Burke never sent any negative
reports to Fuller, and Theisen and Scrocca eventually accepted
him.
Gutensohn and Burke's experience
was not unusual, and Twofold never resulted in a single dismissal
of any corrupt BNDD agent. The astonishing reason for this is
quite simple. Little did Ingersoll or Fuller know that the CIA
never initiates a program unless it is deniable and has "intelligence
potential." Twofold conformed to these criteria: it was
deniable because it was, ostensibly, a BNDD program; and it had
intelligence potential in so far as it was perfectly suited for
Angletonian style "operations within operations."
As the BNDD's chief inspector
Pat Fuller told me, "There was another operation even I
didn't know about. Why don't you find out who set that one up,
and why?"
Boxes Within
Boxes
Well, I did find out about
this operation. Quite by accident, while interviewing a DEA agent
in Miami, I was introduced to Joseph C DiGennaro, a member of
the CIA's secret facet of Operation Twofold, its unilateral drug
operations unit. Hidden behind Fuller's "inspections"
program, the purpose of the CIA's unilateral drug unit was to
identify drug-dealers worldwide, and selectively kidnap and/or
assassinate them. As DiGennaro explains, his entry into the program
began when an eminent surgeon, a family friend, suggested that
he apply for a job with the BNDD. Then working as a stockbroker
in New York City, DiGennaro in August 1971 met Fuller at a Howard
Johnson's near the Watergate complex. Fuller told him that if
he took the Twofold job, he would be given the code name Novo
Yardley. The code name was based on DiGennaro's posting in New
York, and a play on the name of the famous American spy, Herbert
Yardley.
DiGennaro took the job and
was sent to a CIA security officer to obtain the required clearances.
That's when he was told that he and several other recruits were
being "spun-off" from Fuller's inspection program into
the CIA's unilateral "operational" program. He was
told that he had been selected because he had a black belt in
Karate and the uncanny ability to remember lists and faces. The
background check took 14 months, during which time DiGennaro
received intensive combat and tradecraft training. In October
1972 he was sent to BNDD regional headquarters in New York and,
as a cover, was assigned to a compliance group that mostly inspected
pharmacies. His paychecks came from official BNDD funds, though
the program was funded by the CIA through the Department of Interior's
Bureau of Mines. The program had been authorized by the "appropriate"
Congressional committee.
DiGennaro's special group was
managed by the CIA's Special Operations Division (then under
Evan Parker, first director of the CIA's Phoenix Program) in
conjunction with the military, which provided assets within foreign
military services to keep ex-filtration routes open. Ex-filtration
routes were air corridors and roads. The military also cleared
air space when captured suspects were brought into the US. DiGennaro
spent most of his time on operations in South America, but served
in Lebanon and other places too.
Within the CIA's special anti-drug
unit, which numbered about 40 men, were experts in printing,
forgery, maritime operations, and telecommunications. The operatives
knew one another by first name only. DiGennaro, however, was
aware that other BNDD agents, including Joseph Salm and Paul
Seema, were in the program. No one else in the BNDD, however,
knew about the program. When the call to duty came, DiGennaro
would check with Fuller and then take sick time or annual leave
to go on missions. There were lots of missions. As his group
leader in New York, Joe Quarequio, told me: "Joey was never
in the office."
The job was tracking down,
kidnapping, and if they resisted, killing drug dealers. The violence
was the result of the "limited window of opportunity"
needed to get the job done. Due to the need for plausible deniability,
there was minimal contact with the American Embassy where the
mission was conducted. DiGennaro had "a Guardian Angel"
who "assembled intelligence, developed routines, and contacted
informants." But the host country and its uniformed police
and military services were rarely aware of his presence, and
there was little coordination with the local BNDD outpost.
The operations were extremely
dangerous. As DiGennaro recalls, "There was a case in Colombia.
There was seventy-two to ninety-six hours to get it done. I was
flown to Colombia where I contacted my Guardian Angel. He had
paid someone off and that someone had led him to a cocaine lab.
The operators of the lab had been surveilled and followed to
their hideout. In order to capture them, we had to work with
a local military unit, which we contacted by two-way radio. In
this particular instance, someone intercepted the call, and the
next thing we know there's a woman on the radio alerting the
suspects. She was an agent of the traffickers inside the local
military unit. We hear her screaming at the soldiers. Then she's
shot. We didn't know who she was calling," he continues,
"so we had to leapfrog by helicopter and military truck
to where we thought the subjects were. That time we happened
to be right. We got the violators back to the United States.
They were incapacitated by drugs and handcuffed in various men's'
rooms in Chicago and Miami."
As one DEA Agent recalls, "We'd
get a call that there was 'a present' waiting for us on the corner
of 116th St and Sixth Avenue. We'd go there and find some guy
who'd been indicted in the Eastern District of New York, handcuffed
to a telephone pole. We'd take him to a safe house for questioning
and, if possible, turn him into an informer. Sometimes we'd have
him in custody for months. But what did he know?" If you're
a Colombian or a Corsican drug dealer in Argentina, and a few
guys with police credentials arrest you, how do you know it's
a CIA operation?
Expendable operative DiGennaro
did not see the management apparatus that was directing him.
He never knew much about the people the CIA unit was snatching
and snuffing either; only that people were prosecuted and that
defendants screamed.
DiGennaro's last operation
in 1977 involved the recovery of a satellite that had fallen
into a drug dealer's hands. By then he had all the CIA tradecraft
skills required to fly solo; he learned who owned satellite,
negotiated for it in good faith, and purchased it back on the
black market. Such was the extent of the "parallel mechanism"
the CIA had with the BNDD; a mechanism the CIA obviously used
not only for anti-drug purposes, but for counter-terror reasons
as well.
Fallout
By 1977, some 125 "former"
CIA officers had been infiltrated into the DEA at every level
of the organization, especially in intelligence units, making
everything possible--from black market arms exchanges, to negotiations
with terrorists, to political assassination. It also put the
CIA in total control of targeting.
However, as the CIA's influence
became pervasive, more and more DEA agents felt its adverse impact
on their cases. First the CIA demanded a list of all overseas
DEA informants, as well as copies of all its intelligence reports.
They got both. Next they began recruiting traffickers the DEA
was working on. These recruits were subtracted from the DEA target
list. In Chile in 1973, for example, the CIA allowed five drug
traffickers to leave the soccer stadium in Santiago where dissidents
were being tortured en masse. These traffickers fled to Colombia
where they helped form the cartel that would eventually supplied
crack cocaine to street gangs in Los Angles, through other CIA
assets in Latin America.
As one DEA agent puts it, "The
relationship between the CIA and DEA was not as it was originally
intended. The CIA does not belong in any type of law enforcement
activity, unless it can result in a conviction. Which it rarely
does. They should only be supportive, totally."
In February 1977, as he was
about to resign in dismay, this agent and a group of other senior
DEA officials felt compelled to document a litany of CIA misdeeds.
The CIA was causing so many
problems that in early 1977, outgoing Assistant Administrator
for Enforcement Dan Casey sent a three page, single-spaced memorandum
to DEA Administrator Peter Bensinger expressing his concern "over
the role presently being played by the CIA relative to the gathering
of operational intelligence abroad." Signing off on the
memo were six enforcement division chiefs. "All were unanimous
in their belief that present CIA programs were likely to cause
serious future problems for DEA, both foreign and domestic."
Unilateral CIA programs in foreign countries were a "potential
source of conflict and embarrassment and which may have a negative
impact on the overall U.S. narcotic reduction effort." He
referenced specific incidents, citing CIA electronic surveillance
and the fact that the CIA "will not respond positively to
any discovery motion." Casey foresaw more busted cases and
complained that "Many of the subjects who appear in these
CIA promoted or controlled surveillances regularly travel to
the United States in furtherance of their trafficking activities."
The "de facto immunity" from prosecution enables the
CIA assets to "operate much more openly and effectively."
Casey was especially upset
that the CIA demanded that DEA provide telephone numbers for
its operations. "This practice is most disturbing because,
in effect, it puts DEA in the position of determining which violators
will be granted a de facto immunity." Considering the seriousness
of the problem, he recommended that "all DEA support for
CIA electronic surveillance be suspended at once." He asked
DDEA Administrator Peter Bensinger to insist that the CIA adhere
to guidelines set by the Carte White House Domestic Council,
which limited the CIA to gathering strategic intelligence. He
advised that DEA personnel not request CIA support "which
might end to prejudice the domestic prosecution of any drug trafficker."
Alas, Bensinger suffered the
CIA at the expense of the DEA's integrity. He ignored Casey and
his division chiefs. The Strength of the Pack features
examples of how this accommodation with the CIA emasculated the
DEA. One major example is the CIA's Contra Connection, as revealed
by Gary Webb. There is also the fact that Manuel Noriega was
a CIA asset and that his DEA file was destroyed by CIA infiltrators,
paving the way for the invasion of Panama. There was also the
Pan Am 103 case in December 1988, in which a bomb was planted
by enemy agents who had penetrated a protected CIA drug ring,
which was making a "controlled delivery."
This huge crack in the CIA's
protective shield led to the formation of the CIA's Counter-Narcotics
Center, and business continued as usual. In December 1989, as
reported in the 4 May 1990 issue of Newsday, "a small
US special operations team both planned and carried" out
a raid that resulted in the death of drug lord Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez
Gacha, his 17 year old son, and several bodyguards. Pablo Escobar
in 1994 was similarly assassinated by a CIA led execution squad.
The Gacha and Escobar hits,
and many more like them which the public knows little or nothing
about, are extrapolations of those performed by Joey DiGennaro.
And the beat goes on. Shortly after he resigned in 1993, DEA
chief Robert Bonner revealed that the CIA in 1990 had shipped
a ton of pure cocaine to Miami from its Counter Narcotic Center
warehouse in Venezuela. The Orwellian "controlled delivery"
was accidentally lost.
With Bush's war on terror,
the situation has only gotten worse. In Afghanistan and South
West Asia, the DEA is entirely infiltrated and controlled by
the CIA and military. DEA headquarters is basically an adjunct
of the Oval Office. And the Establishment continues to keep the
lid on the story. After sending my manuscript to two reviewers--one
with CIA connections, the other with DEA connections--my publisher
has stopped communicating with me. I think my editor just wants
me to go away.
One can only wonder how deeply
America will descend into this vortex of fear and subservience
to state security before it vanishes altogether.
Douglas Valentine is the author of The
Hotel Tacloban, The
Phoenix Program, and TDY.
His fourth book, The
Strength of the Wolf: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1968,
which received the Choice Academic Excellence Award and is
being published in Russia. The sequel, The Strength of the
Pack, is being published by University Press of Kansas in
2008. For information about Mr. Valentine, and his books and
articles, please visit his web sites at www.DouglasValentine.com
and http://members.authorsguild.net/valentine
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