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December 20, 2005
Transparency is Bipartisan
Not to get all conspiracy-minded today, but while researching NSA stuff, I ran across this Salon review of James Banford's Body of Secrets:
Among the more shocking things Bamford learned is that in 1962, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff approved something called Operation Northwoods. Fortunately never implemented, it involved committing random acts of terror on Americans in the United States and then blaming them on Cuba. Most of the documents detailing this Bamford found in the National Archives, among the thousands of papers the Joint Chiefs of Staff released about the Cuban missile crisis.
In 1967, the Israeli military attacked and destroyed the USS Liberty, a spy ship that had eavesdropped on an Israeli massacre of surrendered Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai. The ship's intercepts were destroyed, but the NSA also had spy planes eavesdropping. The details, including President Johnson's coverup to save the Jewish vote in the next election, were in a box in the back of the NSA Museum. They were in a public place, but no one had bothered to look at them before.
Juicy stuff. And there's a larger point here: these were Democrats. Kennedy, particularly, remains an American icon. But even in his administration, there was contemplation and tentative implementation of wildly duplicitous, unethical schemes. Presidents cannot have carte blanche. That goes for Republicans and Democrats, for Bush and for Kerry. Oversight is how you safeguard the republic and ensure a leader's darker ideas don't manifest. No matter how certain administration apparatchiks are trying to spin this NSA stuff, it isn't a partisan issue and it shouldn't become one.
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Agreed, Ezra. I don't think Bush would have been denied any of his requests for these wiretaps. I don't think anyone in their right minds would believe that listening in on international calls involving suspected terrorists or terrorist supporters is a bad idea.
So, let's be clear.It's the lack of utilization of the system in place that is the problem, not the spying itself. Bush should have been more transparent, no doubt.
Posted by: Fred Jones | Dec 20, 2005 12:15:46 PM
Presidents cannot have carte blanche.
Especially ones who are, and have surrounded themselves by people who are, not very good at their jobs. All the more tempting to abuse their power.
Posted by: PapaJijo | Dec 20, 2005 12:32:13 PM
It's easy to forget that the beginnings of what we would recognize as the modern intelligence community started under FDR and Truman (though Hoover's FBI predated them), and bloomed into its full Cold War glory under under Kennedy and Johnson. Democrats all.
I sometimes wonder if the traditional GOP hostility towards the CIA had its root in the fact that the older Birch Society types still consider it as something created by Democrats.
Posted by: the dreaming ape | Dec 20, 2005 12:48:04 PM
Except that with project Notrthwood - Kennedy was the single voice to Veto the Joint Cheifs of Staff.....
Posted by: zedd | Dec 20, 2005 12:54:26 PM
Ahhh...Kenndy (not Ted). Now there's a Democrat I could have voted for. Tough on crime, tough on communists, tax cutting kind of guy. And to boot, here's the quote that shoots him into the super-patriot category: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
Contrast that to todays Democratic party. By contrast, today's Democratic party is soft on crime, soft on communists (professional courtesy), tax raising kind of party.
My how things change.
Posted by: Fred Jones | Dec 20, 2005 3:14:52 PM
I read Body of Secrets a few years ago; the sections concerning the USS Liberty and the briefly mentioned Operation Northwoods are extremely captivating. While the book is very heavy on NSA history and technology, it contains an enormous amount of "new" history on events since the beginning of the NSA. Also, check out "A Pretext For War," also by Bamford, about the NSA's role in the leadup to Iraq.
Posted by: robola | Dec 20, 2005 3:22:35 PM
Fred, we'll be happy to move tax rates towards where they were when Kennedy was done with them.
Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf | Dec 20, 2005 5:46:29 PM
Fred, we'll be happy to move tax rates towards where they were when Kennedy was done with them.
Why not just take it all and be done with it?
Posted by: Fred Jones | Dec 20, 2005 9:19:47 PM
I sometimes wonder if the traditional GOP hostility towards the CIA had its root in the fact that the older Birch Society types still consider it as something created by Democrats.
Not so much Democrats, but northeastern Ivy League types. The old OSS and the new CIA were very much the preserves of the upper class, so the lumpenrepublicans were instinctively suspicious of them, as they were of much of the rest of the federal establishment.
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