Obsessive Secrecy!

Cheney warned Bush when he started out, “Don’t write anything down; don’t take memos…”

Why?

Because then they can’t pin anything on you.

Nixon lost 18 minutes of tape.

Bush and Cheney lost 96 months of communications via email, Palm, whatever.

In the Bush/Cheney camp, paranoia runs supreme.

And with good reason….

So, now we learn that McCain/Bush are having their big fund-raiser in private. (Maybe the results would be too embarrassing)……

Why should that be a surprise?

Have they ever done anything in public?…..

Of course, not.

That wouldn’t be fitting with their regime.

Remember, the Nazi’s wrote everything down.

That’s why there was a Nuremberg trial.

It’s hard to have a trial when there are no records.

But there is clear evidence of their penchant for secrecy beyond reason.

Have they ever told people that they give tax-payer money to church groups that those church groups use for maintenance rather than helping people?

Have they ever told anyone how the government can get away giving prime contracts to personal friends?

Have they ever explained how Enron got to call the shots on energy in California, thereby, bringing about a Recession?

Have they ever admitted why they forced NO Child Left Behind on schools around the country; never mind that it doesn’t work?

Have they ever explained their basis for preemption?

Have they ever explained the Don Siegelmann mess? Or why Federal prosecutors were asked to focus on democratic elections?

Bush only showed his public side when he wanted to gain some perceived advantage. Truth to tell, his public side was flush with lies and misleading information anyway and was only to help himself or the cause of his friends.

Usually, his public utterances had little to do with what he really did….Or if they did, he had already turned the words around. In the Bush lexicon, good was bad, and bad was good!

None of it made any real sense.

And even as I write this McClellan is admitting some of the truth.

Why do you think his first press secretary resigned and moved to England?

yOu know the old story, liars lie and Bush is used to it. His life has largely been a lie.

And that wasn’t quite what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they set up this democracy that was easy to transform into a despotic form of government in front of our eyes without most of us realizing it.

After all, weren’t we stopping terrorists?….

Take energy. Didn’t we need an energy policy developed in private away from the terrorists’ prying eyes.

Why this penchant for secrecy?

It makes it possible to do things that you don’t want the people to see….

You would imagine that people would react.

They didn’t.

After all, it was secret. You see, we didn’t want the terrorists to know, too.

All too often, this government has cloaked everything under the mantle of secrecy with the expressed reason being protection of the people.

A pig’s foot!

Maybe it would be nice for an open government to remain open instead of looking incredibly suspect in every possible way, shape and form…..

But the real reason has more to do with what they’ve been able to get away with under the mantle of protecting Americans.

Have they ever really protected Americans?

Well, they raise a lot of hell at airports? But is that the same thing?

I am very confident that our vigilant security will protect us against eighty year old nuns and Mother Superiors who intend to take over the United States; I can’t be sure about the rest.

It is true that most Israeli security think we’re damned fools because we don’t select out those who look or act suspicious. And that we don’t seem to make use of extensive background checks.

But how can you yell about that when are borders are porous like Swiss cheese so it’s all like a movie set with grade B actors that can’t find their way out of the bathroom putting on this big pretense of protecting the American people.

The truth is that instead of protecting us, they are checking out citizen’s debts, the people they call and their friends and are so screwed up they spend hundreds of millions on computer systems that don’t work….

Why do I say that?

Flash back to 93. At that time, we had every warning that bin Laden’s cohorts were going to make our life miserable—including hijacking our planes.

It was info that was available to our FBI.

Did they use it?

No.

Okay, what about after the explosion in 93?

We had their plans for 2001; they were sitting in a file cabinet on the apartment they raided on Third Avenue in Brooklyn.

What did they do?

Nothing.

Why?

They didn’t have speakers of Farsi or Pashtun on the payroll.

They didn’t even open the files.

Nor did they check out the hard drives that spelled out their hijacking intentions.

This is not only deficient; its unconscionable.

Who got dismissed?

The head of the CIA.

Why?

He was the scapegoat. But even he got a medal and a pension. More than we can say about those lives that might have been saved with thoughtful planning.

The bottom line: The FBI culture has not changed.

Ask anyone.

If you paid attention to the 9/11 investigation made by the former governor of New Jersey and a fairly distinguished panel of democrats and republicans, I think they all called for immediate changes.

That was despite the fact that neither the president, vice president or secretary of state testified to what they knew except behind closed doors when no notes could be taken.

No reason was ever given for sending all Saudi’s in this country back home the next day after the hijacking even though we knew that 17 out of 19 suspects bore Saudi passports.

Or why Bush sat for seven minutes with his thumb up his ass waiting to determine where to hide.

Anywhere you want to go with this, I can point to a system that is in desperate need of remediation and rethinking.

Going back to the reports filtering in to FBI offices and ignored….to the reports filed by civilians who happened to notice that there was a particularly high number of foreign born civilians seeking to find out how to fly a one-way trip!

Egads, man, when will the public get rid of these incompetents, restore our constitutional rights and get back to a security organization that does more than play games with our minds.

Yet, there is one other option: They are not incompetents at all and part of the Secret Society’s great plan for America.

Les Aaron