Posted on 02/06/2005 2:01:24 PM PST by quidnunc
The film Seven Days In May is one of my all-time favourites. The gripping 1964 drama, starring Burt Lancaster, depicts an attempted coup by far rightists in Washington using a top-secret Pentagon anti-terrorist unit called something like "Contelinpro."
Life imitates art. This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive, with the Orwellian name "JCS Conplan 0300-97," authorizing the Pentagon to employ special, ultra-secret "anti-terrorist" military units on American soil for what the author claims are "extra-legal missions."
In other words, using U.S. soldiers to kill or arrest Americans, acts that have been illegal since the U.S. Civil War.
This frightening news comes as Washington is gripped by reborn, Cold-War-style paranoia, ominous threats of war against Iran from the real president, Dick Cheney, and a titanic bureaucratic battle just won by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Instead of being fired for the grotesque military-political fiasco in Iraq and the shameful torture scandals, Rumsfeld has just managed to create a new, Pentagon spy/special ops organization, blandly named "Strategic Support Branch," that will replace or duplicate many of the CIA's tasks.
The CIA has been sent to the doghouse. Too many CIA veterans criticized or contradicted Bush's and Cheney's phony claims over Iraq and terrorism. So Bush has imposed a new, yes-man director on the agency, slashed its budgets, purged its senior officers, and downgraded CIA to third-class status.
Rumsfeld's new, massively funded SSB will become the Pentagon's CIA, complete with commando units, spies, mercenary forces, intelligence gathering and analysis, and a direct line to the White House. The Pentagon has just effectively taken over the spy business.
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(Excerpt) Read more at canoe.ca ...
The only thing Orwellian about the name of the alleged plan is the fact the journalist is so ignorant of the subject he doesn't understand standard JCS plan designators. And by my guess, the -97 designator indicates the plan, if it exists, was probably published in 1997 -- I believe Clinton was the president then and Rumsfeld was still in exile.
These ultra secret units are so secret that only 96 people plus Eric Margolis know they are already operating, and Rumsfeld needs to be fired because of it. That last part is no secret, and Eric is here to make sure you know it.
, the Pentagon's new special-ops units are headed up by notorious religious fanatic, Lt. Gen. William Boykin, who calls the U.S. Army "the house of God" and Islamic insurgents "agents of Satan." He warned Muslims, "my God is bigger than your god, which is an idol."Boykin's command will now dispatch post-modern Christian crusaders to cleanse the world of Satanic Muslims and other miscreants.
Did he really say such things?
Margolis--Pre-9/11 terrorist sympathizer, post 9/11 terrorist sympathizer.
http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/2000/12/the_usrussian_c.php The U.S.-Russian Crusade Against Osama bin Laden(December 03, 2000)
Typical lefty stupidity. Prove how in touch with reality you are by citing 60's-era fiction.
Funny how the Left now thinks the CIA are a bunch a good and noble guys for standing up to Bush - after hammering them for not spotting 9/11. The reality is that the CIA leadership that recently resigned was more tuned to the politics of DC than they were to the threats from the MidEast. They back-stabbed Tenant and selectively leaked things to the press to make Bush look bad before the election. When they saw Porter Goss coming to take scalps they ran like Frenchmen, and now they want to be praised for such careerist behavior. Good riddance.
Hahahahaha! What a libelous moron! Armies have been in the intelligence business since there have been armies. The pentagon doesn't report to the CIA, dimbulb! I've seen comic books that were more factual than this guy's articles. No wonder he is published in a Canadian paper.
HMMM...maybe he got it from here:
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2005w03/msg00343.htm
I stopped reading after that.
For those of you with no knowledge of Margolis's background, he used to be fairly sensible writer on middle eastern topics, of which he considered himself to be an expert. He loved to go on Canadian TV and expound at length on the views then prevailing in the corridors of power in the regions totalitarian states. He loved to name drop. "When I last spoke to Saddam Hussein he told me blah, blah, blah." You get the idea.
After Bush whacked Saddam and warned the other regional thugs to cool it or else, Margolis's sources dried up, he lost his claim to credibility as the insider with the latest and he's hated Bush ever since.
He has become a transparently amusing little piss ant scribbler trying to get even with Bush for ruining his only claim to fame - nothing more.
It sounds suspiciously like Mr. Margolis found a few of J.C. Pollock's novels from the 1980s while deluding paranoically on acid and a touch of "The Turner Diaries".
Jack.
This is ridiculous. Everyone knows that General Jack Ripper won't let this happen.
This, I agree with, but how does this make him a paleoconservative? I guess I'm missing something (must be, just saw the same stupid ad for the third time (frozen guy driving a Ford mustang convertible).
Margolis is a paleoconservative of long standing.
David Frum confirms it here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/frum031903.asp
WOW!! I sure hope he did!
Sorry to be so late with my thanks for that Frum article. Copied for reading later, but looks great. Thanks!
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