civlib.domestic

> Domestic Surveillance: The History of Operation CHAOS by Verne Lyon from Covert Action Information Bulletin, Summer 1990

> Bush, the unauthorized biography http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/www.tarpley.net/bush15.htm

> President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act in 1947 (Title 50 USC 403). Congressman Clarence Brown, however, warned: "I am very much interested in seeing the United States have as fine a foreign military and naval intelligence as they can possibly have, but I am not interested in setting up here in the United States any particular central police agency under any President, and I do not care what his name may be, and just allow him to have a Gestapo of his own if he wants to have it. . . . Every now and then you get a man that comes up in power and has an imperialist idea."

> One month after the president's killing, President Harry Truman wrote: "For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational arm and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. . . . I never had any thought when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak-and-dagger operations." Victor Marchetti writes: "Probably the worst thing for society is to have a head of state who is also a former covert operator. During those times the secret services get out of control." In 1981, with a former CIA director (and lifelong CIA agent) installed as vice president, the White House issued an executive order that allowed the CIA and its equivalents to start spying on American citizens and to conduct covert operations inside American borders. The new order no longer required the CIA to collect information by the "least intrusive means possible," thus enabling searches without warrents, surreptitious entries, and infiltration of political organizations, as reported by Time magazine. Congressman Don Edwards, chairman of the House Civil and Constitutional Rights Subcommittee, said the order would "put the CIA back in the business of domestic spying." During the next eight years, the White House issued 300 National Security Decision Directives, none of which are rquired to be revealed to Congress or to the citizens. Only 15% have been declassified. Anna Nelson, an historian at Tulane University, said the White House was "extraordinary in its abuse of the process. . . . The arrogance of this arrangement is incredible." Senator William Fullbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, declared: "But this secrecy . . . has become a god in this country, and those people who have secrets travel in a kind of fraternity . . . and they will not speak to anyone else." Senator Stuart Symington, a member of the joint Senate Committee for CIA Oversight, noted that: "It is shameful for the American people to be so misled. There is no federal agency of our government whose activities receive less scrutiny and control than the CIA." Joel Bainerman, in Crimes of a President, writes: "NSDD Number 77 is a good example of how [the 1980 to 1992 White House] employed NSDDs to serve secret agenda goals. It allowed the National Security Council to coordinate interagency efforts for what was called the 'Management of Public Diplomacy Relative to National Security.' This directive served as the basis for 'public diplomacy activities' (i.e., propaganda) by enabling 'organizational support for foreign governments and private groups to encourage the growth of democratic political institutions and practices.' In reality, the directive created propaganda ministries within the National Security Council, the State Department and the White House. The [Congressional] General Accounting Office believed these activities violated the law banning 'covert propaganda' within the U.S."

> "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." —President-Elect George "Texascutioner" Bush, CNN News, Aired December 18, 2000 HISTORY CHANNEL - Adolf 'Hitler' Shicklegruber Rothchild, heir to a Jewish banking dynasty that "controlled half the world's wealth", terrorized Germany and beget the Third Reich that would usher in a "NEW WORLD ORDER" that murdered 15 Million Germans - "6 Million Aryan soldiers, 3 Million Aryan civilians and 6 Million Jewish civilians - and in 6 years killed a total of 55 Million people with World War #2 and left another 30 Million homeless and destitute" "By 1939, Franco and his Fascist allies were victorious. The democracies of America and England had failed to intervene. An opportunity to challenge Fascism had been lost. A 'New World Order' began to take shape. In August 1941, Hitler visited the Eastern Front. Euphoric from German victories, he envisioned a Thousand-Year Reich: A 'New World Order' was still clear in the mind of the Fuhrer." —Edward Hermann, History Channel, "The Color of War - World War 2 - A New World Order", May 2002 [click for WAV sound bite]

> http://www.geocities.com/sept911treason/

> "There ought to be limits to freedom." –Governor George Bush Jr, May 21, 1999

> "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." —Edmund Burke "In Germany the Nazis came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, but by that time there was no one left to speak for me." –Pastor Martin Neomoller, leader of Underground Resistance in Nazi France

> pril 28, 2002 - A top Central Intelligence Agency official has warned Americans that a new terrorist attack is unavoidable, despite all efforts to prevent it and the fact that the CIA is now "stealing more secrets" than ever. "Now for the hard truth. Despite the best efforts of so much of the world, the next terrorist attack -- it's not a question of if, it's a question of when," CIA Deputy Director for Operation James Pavitt told an academic conference earlier this month. Pavitt dismissed charges the CIA was caught unaware by September 11 suicide attacks in the United States that killed some 3,000 people. The CIA knew the network led by Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden was planning a major strike, he said. "Today, the year 2002, I have more spies stealing more secrets than at any time in the history of the CIA," he said, adding that the agency was now training more than 10 times as many operatives than just five or six years ago.

> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/opinion/15SAFI.html NYT: William Safire: Seizing Dictatorial Power
> "ASHINGTON -- Misadvised by a frustrated and panic-stricken attorney general, a president of the United States has just assumed what amounts to dictatorial power to jail or execute aliens. Intimidated by terrorists and inflamed by a passion for rough justice, we are letting George W. Bush get away with the replacement of the American rule of law with military kangaroo courts. In his infamous emergency order, Bush admits to dismissing "the principles of law and the rules of evidence" that undergird America's system of justice."

> " No longer does the judicial branch and an independent jury stand between the government and the accused. In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination "a full and fair trial." "

> Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, March 27, 2000 - Reports in the Dutch newspaper Trouw (2/21/00, 2/25/00) and France's Intelligence Newsletter (2/17/00) have revealed that several officers from the US Army's 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group at Ft. Bragg worked in the news division at CNN's Atlanta headquarters last year, starting in the final days of the Kosovo War. In the U.S. media, so far only Alexander Cockburn, columnist for The Nation and co-editor of the newsletter CounterPunch, has picked up on the story. A senior US official described OPD as a "vast psychological warfare operation of the kind the military conducts to influence a population in enemy territory." (Miami Herald, 7/19/87) "You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." —CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories, from the book, MOCKINGBIRD — The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA, and from the article "Tales from the Crypt: The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA's Operation MOCKINGBIRD" by Alex Constantine "There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows." —Katharine Graham, chairman of the board, The Washington Post Company (inherited after her husband Philip mysteriously died) slave 1 a person who is completely dominated by some influence, habit, person, etc. 3 a person who slaves; drudge —Websters New World Dictionary

> "Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman, or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed, or 'disappeared', at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame." / "The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world." -Amnesty International, 1996, 1998 "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." -George Orwell http://www.geocities.com/sept911treason/

> "First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror. The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism, ownership of the government by the individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." —President Franklin Roosevelt,

> A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there." —William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937