Monday, July 21, 2008
The Bureaucracy of Fascism
The Washington Post runs down the list of usual suspects in the ongoing White House cover-up of the Plame affair.
Maybe someday we'll be treated to a treatise on the history of these suspects, following their covert, criminal careers under Nixon, Reagan and Bush at the National Security Agency, State Department, and Department of Defense. If nothing else, focusing on the felonies and high crimes of bureaucratic perps like Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Richard Armitage and General Wayne Downing, will serve as a guide to understanding how our national security state has never been and can never be conducive to maintaining an open, democratic society--a fact that somehow escapes otherwise seemingly intelligent people.
For the time being, we have The Iran-Contra Scandal by Peter Kornbluh and Peddlers of Crisis by Jerry Sanders to fill in part of that history.
Maybe someday we'll be treated to a treatise on the history of these suspects, following their covert, criminal careers under Nixon, Reagan and Bush at the National Security Agency, State Department, and Department of Defense. If nothing else, focusing on the felonies and high crimes of bureaucratic perps like Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Richard Armitage and General Wayne Downing, will serve as a guide to understanding how our national security state has never been and can never be conducive to maintaining an open, democratic society--a fact that somehow escapes otherwise seemingly intelligent people.
For the time being, we have The Iran-Contra Scandal by Peter Kornbluh and Peddlers of Crisis by Jerry Sanders to fill in part of that history.
