Bush's Executive Orders Put US on Permanent
War Footing
Jon
Rappoport | August 27 2004
Bush is going to sign executive orders giving
the CIA director interim powers to head up the 15 or so intelligence agencies
of the United States.
This is interpreted as a temporary move, until the official
job of a national intelligence director can be invented.
You can bet a lot of people at the agencies in question
are boiling with rage. Turf, and all that.
The basic cover story is: the president is doing this so
these agencies can better coordinate their information-gathering resources.
Yeah. He's also doing it to centralize power to a greater
degree. Never a good sign.
But what about the military? They have intell agencies,
too. Are they going to fall under the intell czar?
In the long run, what is being sought is a coordinated
and slick merger of both civilian and military intell bureaucracy.
Which means PERMANENT WAR FOOTING.
For examples, you can look to the most repressive dictatorships
around the globe. The difference between their intell agencies and their
military is too thin to get into with a scalpel. It's all of a piece.
Protestors at home? Dissident rebels? An organized opposition?
Do you think they spend time debating the niceties
of which agency should legally handle the squashing? It's: get the job done;
we're all on the same team; we have power to protect; wipe them out.
Bush's move is a natural, given his declaration that we
are in an ongoing (endless) war against terrorism.
For that, you need a wartime consiglieri.
When you go to the mattresses, everything is basically
a military op.
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