Morsels of conspiracy

As I'm wont to do when there's nothing going on at work, I searched for our great deputy defense secretary Douglas Feith on Google News. Today, journalists around the world are picking up on the fact that US intelligence agencies (CIA, DIA, State-Intel) already knew that Saddam Hussein represented no real threat to American interests, so in order to have a war, those agencies would have to be caught in a 'web of lies' within the government, which would remove their ability to challenge the legitimacy of the war. (This was duplicated for the public via organs like the Murdoch-neocon Weekly Standard which forbid dissenting comment) The neocon Pentagon civilians under Wolfowitz, namely Douglas Feith in this case, had to create an ad-hoc executive apparatus to subvert the intelligence functions of the agencies and replace their intelligence with falsehoods drawn from neo-con ideology. The intelligence agencies of Europe are pretty aware of this now. So when you search for Mr Feith in the online news, you will run into a wealth of research into this. For example here is a report in the Asia Times, The Twin Towers and the Tower of Babel Part 2 : The roadmap of human folly. Also check out Part 1 of the report, which has more to do with the Bush administration abandoning its proclaimed rejection of the Baathist (Mukhabarat) security services. A little of the goods:

...Intelligence and scientific inspectors proved almost beyond reasonable doubt that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction. This raised the question of which of the Bush neo-conservatives came up with the false evidence to support the war, which Paul Wolfowitz, the Pentagon number 2, cynically claimed on the record was to "secure a consensus for the war policy". European intelligence confirms that a group of "unofficial" political advisers appointed and controlled by Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith and Donald Rumsfeld in the Office of Special Planning (OSP) were the source of the false claims.

Wolfowitz and Feith, the Pentagon number 3, were responsible for setting up the OSP. Its director was Abraham Shulsky. The OSP included other neo-cons with no professional qualification whatsoever in intelligence and military affairs. It came as no surprise that Shulsky is a protege of the "Prince of Darkness" Richard Perle - who resigned as chairman of the Defense Policy Board before the war (a job he got via Wolfowitz). The OSP also included Elliot Abrams (who supported the Guatemalan genocide of the 1980s), a senior director for Middle East affairs for the National Security Council. These neo-cons intimately connected with the Zionist lobby, even issued reports on Iraq totally contradicting those from the Israeli Mossad, which did not believe that Iraq represented any threat, either to the US or to Israel.

The OSP is just one more arm of the neo-cons - especially Wolfowitz and Feith - in a central strategy of supporting Ariel Sharon's hardcore policy against the Palestinians. Sharon was never interested in the success of the Middle East roadmap to peace - which would imply painful concessions from Israel towards the Palestinians. It's no surprise that Perle, Feith and Wolfowitz are now targeting Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia with a vengeance - with the same barrage of fake "intelligence reports" accusing Arab countries of funding, protecting and promoting terrorism, and now sending terrorists to Iraq. All the fake intelligence is provided by OSP operatives and their elaborate networks....

Here is a long-deleted Fox News story about an Israeli spy ring in the US, which might have had some foreknowledge of the 911 attacks. This is not closely related to the story but still entertaining. What is interesting is that 'Bush Knew' conspiracies still float around, but this crazy line of investigation has been totally squashed.

Also here is a representation of the famous report made to the Defense Policy Board about the need to destroy the government of Saudi Arabia (or 'taking the Saudi out of Arabia').

Well those are just some of the random things I've looked at this afternoon. It's mostly all old news except the Asia Times story.