Bust out of Lie Factory connection to Israel

A lot happened in two weeks while we were away. I've decided not to post on Karl Rove's swift boat smear campaign against Kerry, except this — it seems to be working as Kerry's lead in certain key states, like Pennsylvania, has evaporated.

A story to really watch broke all over CBS, CNN and the rest of the mainstream media on the last day of our trip back from the Midwest. It's a shocker for most people who get their news from the commissars of FOX and the like.

Readers of Deep Blade Journal and the insightful media it promotes, however, will not be shocked by news that the Bush Pentagon is stocked with partisans for Israel. Previous Deep Blade posts contained some links to major articles describing the hijacking of US intelligence and foreign policy operations by what Seymour Hersh quotes that they themselves call "the Cabal". Please see the Deep Blade post on the Lie Factory for links. See especially the Hersh article on Selective Intelligence and the Mother Jones piece by Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest.

Other backgrounders on the real policy origins of the Iraq conquest and other neo-con Middle East planning include the essential Securing the Realm, a planning document prepared by Lie Factory principals for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996. See also After Iraq by Nicholas Lemann on "The plan to remake the Middle East" in The New Yorker issue of 2003-02-17. Lemann presents a deep examination of the consequences of Securing the Realm and includes an interview with Douglas Feith, the supervisor of suspected spy Larry Franklin.

On Counterpunch for December 13, 2002, the Christisons laid bare the "dual loyalties" of the Neo-cons in the Henhouse. They write:

The link between active promoters of Israeli interests and policymaking circles is stronger by several orders of magnitude in the Bush administration, which is peppered with people who have long records of activism on behalf of Israel in the United States, of policy advocacy in Israel, and of promoting an agenda for Israel often at odds with existing U.S. policy. These people, who can fairly be called Israeli loyalists, are now at all levels of government, from desk officers at the Defense Department to the deputy secretary level at both State and Defense, as well as on the National Security Council staff and in the vice president's office.

Juan Cole in the last two days has at least 1, 2, 3, 4 detailed postings so far on the current developing story.

Will all of these current treasons just bounce off of Bush while John O'Neil and the swift boat smearers continue to succeed against Kerry? We'll see in the coming days.