The Office of the President

The Office of the Vice President

The Office of the Secretary of Defense

The Deputy Secretary of Defense

The Under Secretary of Defense

The Chairman of the Defense Policy Board

The Director of the National Security Council
The US Committee on NATO

The Director of Homeland Security

The Comptroller of the Department of Defense

The Deputy Secretary of State

The Undersecretary of State

The former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

The Counselor to US State Department

The Director of the 9/11 Commission

The Director of Intl Broadcasting Bureau (VOA)

Here Are the PNAC Members Embedded Within the Bush-Cheney Administration
Many of these government officials are reported to have held dual Israeli-US citizenship during their tenure in Washington, DC.

 Dick Cheney  Vice President of the US
 Donald Rumsfeld  Secretary of Defense
 Paul Wolfowitz *  Deputy Secretary of Defense
 Peter Rodman  Asst Secretary of Defense
 Elliot Abrams *  National Security Council
 Richard Armitage  Deputy Secretary of State (2001-2005)
 Robert B. Zoellick *  Deputy Secretary of State (2005-2006)
 Paula Dobriansky  Undersecretary of State Global Affairs
 Richard Perle *  Defense Policy Board Advisory Comm.
 Eliot A. Cohen *  Counselor to US State Dept
 Douglas Feith *  Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
 I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby *  Chief of Staff for VP Cheney (former)
 Dov Zakheim *  DoD Comptroller (missing $2.3 trillion)
 Bruce Jackson  President, US Committee on NATO
 Randy Scheunemann  Advisor to Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq (US Committee on NATO)
 John Bolton *  UN Ambassador
 Zalmay Khalilzad  US Ambassador to Iraq
 Seth Cropsey  Director Intl Broadcast Bureau (VOA)
 Francis Fukuyama  President's Council on Bioethics
 David Wurmser *  State Dept, special assistant to John Bolton
 Michael Chertoff *  2nd Homeland Security Head, co-author of the PATRIOT Act
 Philip Zellikow *  Head of the 9/11 Commission
 Jeb Bush (not in administration, but a family advisor)  Governor of Florida and President George W. Bush's brother
* reported to be of dual-nationality, both Israeli and American.


  NewsFocus, by Tim Watts -
072016

Preface: What you are about to read is historical truth. It shows a clearly conceived, meticulously planned, concerted effort to take over full control of the United States, wresting it from its Constitutional base and thrusting it into a post-9/11 fascist dictatorship. Congress is now but an ancient relic of "we the people," working tirelessly to enslave all in a new system, under the guise of post 9/11 safety from the War on Terror.



The PNAC stands for Project for a New American Century. Formed in 1997 by conservative commentator Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan through the NCP, it is a secretive organization of neoconservative US politicians, government officials, and private individuals of wealth, all holding strong ties and loyalties to Israel.

The group reached infamous notoriety when knowledge of their pre-9/11 wish for a "new Pearl Harbor" in the US went public, as documented in their policy paper, "Rebuilding America's Defenses."

The document was essentially a manifesto for world dominance. The group recognized that such a radical blueprint could not be achieved quickly, not without adverse public reaction. Everything covert is always done in clandestine steps, to keep the public in the dark. It is with that recognition that they wrote the following heinous wish...

"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."

As evidenced from that statement, this was an essential key, critical point that was clearly not lost on this group.

So, extreme doubt was cast as to how fast these aims could be achieved, even under a right-wing administration. They needed a powerful catalyst that would force Congress and the US public to go along with their treasonous plan for alleged US imperialism and dominance. (More on the "alleged" aspect as you read onward.)

By their own numerous admissions, they needed a new Pearl Harbor.

What many don't know is that the genesis for the plan came from the administration of George H.W. Bush, through another infamous document of notoriety, the 1992 Defense Policy Guideline (DPG).

The Start of the Takeover

With the "fall of the wall" in 1989, and its ensuing demolition in 1992, there were many war-hawks who believed that deep military spending would no longer be possible. Under the auspices of the George HW Bush administration, Dick Cheney, along with his minions, was tasked to concoct and fabricate a never ending cause to fund war for all time.

This became the '92 DPG, a highly classified document conceived by Zalmay Khalilzad, Paul Wolfowitz, and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libbey, under then US Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. (Some say Gary Schmitt also had a hand in this.)

Only the original 46 page draft has ever been revealed to the public, while a much revised final version is reported to still be classified. (Scooter Libby is reported to have re-worked the final draft of the DPG document, altering the verbiage to disguise its intent and make it more palatable for those feint of heart.)

It should be made clear that "Defense Policy Guideline" (DPG) is not the name of the plan itself, but is merely an internal set of military guidelines, a policy outline, which is usually prepared every two years. This is very much akin to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which is also produced every year or two.

Before its first draft took even place, critical consultation was sought from staunch neoconservatives such as Albert Wohlstetter, Richard Perle, and Andrew Marshall. It was a neocon plan right from the start, from its conception to its inception.

The trouble started when a copy of the draft DPG was secretly leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times. Public outcry was high, because the document was calling for some very un-American things, primarily a new way of thinking militarily

The plan contained an outlandishly brazen demand for a huge increase in defense spending, even though we were already outspending the rest of the world, combined.

The stated goal of the DPG plan was for "US supremacy," not allowing other nations to rise up to rival the United States, while proposing to freely intervene in foreign disputes whenever it saw fit, even if they have nothing to do with US policy or interests. It also suggested that the US act aggressively on its own, if nation coalitions could not be built, forgoing multilaterlism altogether.

Then there was one other thing that deeply worried many... the DPG stated that the US must “show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests.”

The biggest shock came with the suggestion that the U.S. should set about to "shape circumstances before crises arrived."

This was a shocking and unprecedented call to adopt "preemptive warfare," as a national policy, something which the US had never publicly stood for ever before (much like torture).

The 1992 DPG plan called for:

  • Huge increase in US defense spending.
  • Assertion of US lone superpower status.
  • Discourage industrial nations from challenging the US.
  • Maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors
  • Prevent  emergence of regional competitors and new rivals.
  • Adopt the use of preemptive force - unprovoked warfare.
  • US should forsake multilateralism and act independently to get its own way.
  • Ability to handle two major regional contingencies at once. (SW Asia & Korea)
  • Foreign intervention in global disputes, even if not directly related to US interests.
  • Make Milstar (Military Strategic and Tactical Relay) satellite communications network top priority.
  • Show the leadership necessary to establish and protect "a new order." 

Remember, this was all in 1992, so what were HW Bush and Cheney up to way back then, long before 9/11?

Whatever, it was all clearly quite contrary to long established American principles, and so after much public furor, the DPG was allegedly said to be pulled, but in all reality, it went underground, as a pet project for the neoconservatives.

Defense Secretary Cheney was apparently so utterly enamored with the DPG proposal, he reportedly told Zalmay Khalilzad, “You’ve discovered a new rationale for our role in the world.”

That's a horrifically creepy statement to make for most normal people, but considering that it came from the dark lord of the Sith, it's simply par for the course - business as usual for one Richard Bruce Cheney, known to some as

"Deferment Dick," due to the five deferments he requested to keep himself out of Vietnam. Once the timid, quivering chicken-hawk, he suddenly became quite the tenacious war-hawk once placed in a position of government power.

 

Before the DPG was shelved, both Cheney and then President George H.W. Bush made every effort to save this plan, going out of their way to sell the proposal to Washington. CFR media mouthpiece Charles Krauthammer was used to help promote the plan. He wrote in his Washington Post column, “What is the alternative? The alternative is Japanese carriers patrolling the Strait of Malacca, and a nuclear Germany dominating Europe”

 

Wow.

 

Talk about resurrecting bad memories of horrors past.

 

That reference was obviously a deliberate ploy to bring up already pre-conditioned fears from WWII, much as they did immediately after 9/11, with their numerous references to "Pearl Harbor." (see more on this further ahead)

 

Try as they did, the Defense Policy Guidance (DPG) plan was shelved - for the time being - but a dark seed had already been planted... and taken root.

 

Work Continues Behind the Scenes

 

Just two years later, in 1994, a new non-profit organization, the New Citizenship Project was formed, with political commentator William (Bill) Kristol as chairman and Gary J. Schmitt as president. It was largely funded by many private  conservative donors and right-wing foundations. Their mission statement... "An organization created to promote greater civic participation in our national life."


According to Sourcewatch, "NCP shares the same address and suite as PNAC. According to NCP's listing in The Right Guide, NCP and the Philanthropy Roundtable share the same phone number. The Philanthropy Roundtable's office is on the same floor of the same office building as PNAC and NCP."
 

For all intents and purposes, it is the same organization of people, with two different shingles on the same door.
 

A current US website no longer exists, however, Sourcewatch has more on the original New Citizenship Project.

There does appear to be a new site across the pond by the same name, and with possibly the same objectives, according to a very similar mission statement. According to its UK website: "The New Citizenship Project is a social innovation lab, established in 2014 to help catalyse the shift to a more participatory society." There is an oddly close similarity in mission statements there.

 

As an aside, according to his US Senate bio, John McCain is reported to have served as a past president of the NCP.

 

(NCP would eventually be the group that led to the 1997 Project for the New American Century.)

 

1996: A Very Busy Year
 

When it comes to neocon treachery, 1996 was indeed a very big year, because these same neoconservatives decided to get busy. Very busy.

 

They formed the US Committee to Expand NATO, which later became the US Committee on NATO.)

Neoconservatives Bill Kristol and Donald Kagan co-authored a piece called "Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy," another cornerstone in their plan for complete control of US policy.

Also in 1996, another dark document was conceived and written for the IASPS, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, with dire implications for the middle east. It was entitled "A Clean Break - A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," penned by neocon co-authors David Wurmser and Richard Perle. It formed the basis for the middle east wars which would take place post-9/11.

Most have given credit to Douglas Feith, but he now denies being a "main" contributor, although admits to be consulted on the paper before its publication.


(L-R) Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Douglas Feith

1996 was indeed a very fruitful year for the neocon planners, but the next two following would prove just as successful for them, while even more disasterous for the country.

 

In 1997, the Project for a New American Century was finally born, the PNAC. Spawned from the skewed right-wing brain-trust of neocons William Kristol and Robert Kagan, their sole purpose was to form a new US policy... one that was overly aggressive and self aggrandizing, espousing the US as supreme over all. (In reality, the "supreme US" is all a ruse, which will be explained further on.)

 


(L-R)
Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan

 

In its founding statement of principles, just like the DPG draft, the PNAC statement called for U.S. global leadership and preemptive action, stating,

 

"Of course, the United States must be prudent in how it exercises its power. But we cannot safely avoid the responsibilities of global leadership or the costs that are associated with its exercise. America has a vital role in maintaining peace and security in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. If we shirk our responsibilities, we invite challenges to our fundamental interests. The history of the 20th century should have taught us that it is important to shape circumstances before crises emerge, and to meet threats before they become dire. The history of this century should have taught us to embrace the cause of American leadership."

 

While this is indeed neoconservative rhetoric, it also highlights their thinking at that particular moment in time. The mid to late 90's, as it now appears in 20/20 hindsight, is where things really started getting out of control with the neocon plan for redirecting US policy.

 


“Show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order."


 

Defining Catastrophic Terrorism

The evidence of a clear effort to take down the US becomes even more transparent just a year later in October of '98,  when yet another dark document was conceived, called "Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy."

 

If that title alone isn't enough to raise the ol' Spock eyebrow, then you are more than likely incapable of sentient reasoning.

 

But let's hold on a minute here - just one short brief second... "Catastrophic Terrorism"... as a National Policy?

 

Seriously?

 

Well, that's exactly what the public and other government watchdogs were asking back then as well, and so guess what? All of a sudden - magically, overnight - that document suddenly had a new name... Catastrophic Terrorism: "Tackling the New Danger."

 

So, using our 20/20 hindsight once again, was that earlier title all just some form of eerie prescience, or was it an actual revealing preview of their true intended plans for this country?

 

Thinking minds shouldn't have to parse that one about for too long.

 

Then there was the issue of that little subtitle... "Imagining the 'transformative event.'"

 

Seriously?

 

There are two key components to that title... the act of "imagining," as well as the "transformative event," the latter of which is actually two more things unto itself - something "transformative," and in the form of an "event."

 

Perhaps the only title more telling about its authors might have been "Daydreaming about the transformative event."

 

A very telling admission/concession of guilt came in the form of a later revision which shamelessly changed the subtitle to its present version, "Visions of Governance for the Twenty-First Century."

 

Although, even that small revision reveals much about this group and its plans, because it blatantly spells out in its revised title, a new type of US governance is being implied.

 

Seymour Hersh should have to look no further than this treasonous moment in history for indications of a coup.

 

Imagining Catastrophic Terror

 

This new policy proposal was the byproduct of yet another tiny micro-group of neoconservative men, Ashton B. Carter, John Deutch, and Philip Zellikow. At the time, only John Deutch was publicly well known as the former Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1994-95, and Director of the CIA from 1995-96. Phillip Zellikow would "coincidentally" be later named as the head of the 9/11 Commission, while Ashton B. Carter would later become Secretary of Defense.

 

The thing most damning about the Catastrophic Terrorism (CT) study was their joint speculation on what would have happened had the 1993 World Trade Center bombing brought down the twin towers...

"Such an act of catastrophic terrorism would be a watershed event in American history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America's fundamental sense of security, as did the Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949. Like Pearl Harbor, this event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures, scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects, and use of deadly force."

The proposal then suggests, "More violence could follow, either further terrorist attacks or U.S. counterattacks."

These members of the CT study also wrote:

"Readers should imagine the possibilities for themselves, because the most serious constraint on current policy is lack of imagination. An act of catastrophic terrorism that killed thousands or tens of thousands of people and/or disrupted the necessities of life for hundreds of thousands, or even millions, would be a watershed event in America’s history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented for peacetime and undermine Americans’ fundamental sense of security within their own borders in a manner akin to the 1949 Soviet atomic bomb test, or perhaps even worse. Constitutional liberties would be challenged as the United States sought to protect itself from further attacks by pressing against allowable limits in surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects, and the use of deadly force. More violence would follow, either as other terrorists seek to imitate this great "success" or as the United States strikes out at those considered responsible."

"Like Pearl Harbor, such an event would divide our past and future into a before and after."

"Using imagination, we hope now to find some of the political will that we know would be there later, "after," because this nation prefers prevention to funereal reconstruction. When this threat becomes clear the President must be in a position to activate extraordinary capabilities."

This isn't a proposal as much as it is a full out plan... neocon daydreaming on how to take down the United States. 

Resurrecting an Evil Plan

Two years later, in the fall of 2000,  they put it all together with a supposedly new document which was curiously titled, "Rebuilding America's Defenses," (RAD) and once again co-authored by nothing more than a mere diminutive trio of neoconservative men, Thomas Donnelly, Donald Kagan and Gary Schmitt. The title was certainly intriguing enough, since America had never lost its defenses to begin. The impetus to increase military spending was a huge red flag.


(L-R) Thomas Donnelly, Donald Kagan, and Gary Schmitt.

A disturbing common theme would soon present itself within this document, the reoccurring suggestion of another Pearl Harbor within the US. This was apparently a very wet dream for treasonous neocons - an extreme fascination, to say the very least.

TWO documents referencing a "new Pearl Harbor" for the US, both written before 9/11.

That is not a coincidence. 

Essentially, the alleged new manifesto, "Rebuilding America's Defenses," was nothing more than an old blueprint... the 1992 DPG! Quite literally, RAD was cut directly from the DPG. All they did was dust it off and put a new title on it.

As a matter of fact, it states right in Rebuilding America's Defenses...

“In broad terms, we saw the project as building upon the defense strategy outlined by the Cheney Defense Department in the waning days of the [George H.W.] Bush Administration. The Defense Policy Guidance (DPG) drafted in the early months of 1992 provided a blueprint for maintaining U.S. preeminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests. Leaked before it had been formally approved, the document was criticized as an effort by ‘cold warriors’ to keep defense spending high and cuts in forces small despite the collapse of the Soviet Union; not surprisingly, it was subsequently buried by the new administration [of Bill Clinton].”

 

This is substantial proof that once they developed the original DPG plan, they did not let it go, despite it being shot down by the press and the public in 1992. What this shows is the treacherous resolve of this neoconservative group. They knew what they wanted, and were patient in getting it.

 

This 2000 document would soon become the single harbinger of evil for the people of the US, and the world as well.

"A transformation strategy that solely pursued capabilities for projecting force from the United States, for example, and sacrificed forward basing and presence, would be at odds with larger American policy goals and would trouble American allies."

"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."

Just to be clear... there you have the neocon Pearl Harbor dream, blatantly, purposefully expressed, once again. A reinforcer for the warped thinking of its earlier predecessor, the infamous DPG draft.

 

As coincidence would have it, the damning RAD document was first published just one year, to the month, prior to 9/11, in September 2000. (Author Barbara Honegger says it was actually published on September 11, 2000.)

 

What happened afterward is yet another dark chapter of tainted US history.

 

Setting the Stage

 

When it comes to the numerous repeated references to "Pearl Harbor," it was all very deliberate. It was literally an elaborate mass conditioning scheme, to get people to once again accept the "great lie," as they did leading to WWII.

 

As coincidence would have it... conspicuously enough, the $450-million dollar movie blockbuster "Pearl Harbor" was also released early that year, in May of 2001, settling the horror of Dec 7, 1941 back into the public consciousness.

 

Add to that, this disturbing account. According to author Barbara Honegger, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had given out literally hundreds of copies of Pearl Harbor; Warning and Decision that year, written by Rand employee Roberta Wohlstetter. It was also reported to be required reading for Rumsfeld's personal aides.

 

With a multi-trillion dollar War on Terror looming on the horizon, this was not a coincidence.

 

The PNAC set the stage and then they played it for all its worth. This group was literally the poster-child for all things non-Constitutional mayhem post 9/11, most especially the run-up to the Iraq War.

 

Preceding the war, key PNAC members such as Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle beat the drum for war with Iraq. According the Vanderbilt Television Archives, Wolfowitz was on 180 times to sell the war while Perle was on 187. 

 

They were programming the American public to not only accept their ruse, but then act upon it using classical conditioning methods.

 

And as history shows, it seems to have worked pretty damn well.

 

For the Record

In 2001, after the United States Supreme Court violated US law by usurping Congress' authority to recount the 2000 election, George W. Bush was selected to be the next president of the United States. Just as conspicuously as his questionable appointment, he filled his administration at key positions of power with neocon members of the PNAC. (see the table above)

The historical record is quite clear about an agenda based group of PNAC individuals taking over the White House and the US government. Reporter Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker, publicly addressed an ACLU convention in San Francisco in 2005 about this topic, when he stated in no uncertain terms, "A bunch of guys, eight or nine neoconservatives, 'cultists,' they got together, this small group of cultists... and how did they do it? They did do it. They've taken the government over."

But for that bony pointing finger of Hersh, few dared to stand up to the pre-arranged conditioning of not questioning the Bush-Cheney administration's "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists" stampede on the US Constitution and human rights.

Few dared to stand up back then and publicly say that there had been a coup on this country, the United States of America, but Hersh said it point blank, and even named those who took it over.

One other person who did notice was Jim Lobe of the Inter Press Service (IPS). He was also one of the astute  observers who were noting the similarities with the new Bush Doctrine and the War on Terror. He reported, in no uncertain terms, that the original authors of the DPG had become deeply entrenched in positions of high office within the George W. Bush administration - referring to Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, "Scooter" Libby, and Zalmay Khalilzad.

 

That unsavory collaboration would soon grow. They were later joined in their treasonous effort by the signatories of Rebuilding America's Defense... Donald Rumsfeld, Elliott Abrams, and Peter Rodman.

That was not the end of it though. The engineering of the neocon takeover of America didn't stop with just Rebuilding America's Defenses, because three years later in 2003, the Project on Transitional Democracies (POTD) was created under the US Committee on NATO, by PNAC members Bruce Jackson, Randy Scheunemann, and Julie Finley.

This group created quite the trail of damning policy change in just eight short years time, leading directly from the administration off daddy dearest, HW, to the next Bush in the chain of command, the selection of his son W. Bush.

True Intent

Each of these PNAC proposals were essential pieces to the overall master plan, the takeover and dissolution of the United States, the latter of which is totally contrary to their stated principles, but as many have already figured out, the inevitable outcome of this has already been deviously engineered into the deployment of their aggressive plan, in the form of blowback and retaliation from those oppressed and infuriated by the plans eventual overall execution.

Perhaps most telling of all, the PNAC website (www.NewAmericanCentury.org) and the POTD website (www.PTdemocracy.org) have both been removed from the internet.

What's the old saying about having nothing to hide?

Long story short folks, if you haven't figured it out by now, this was an illegal coup on the United States of America.

Period. End of discussion.

What people need to do now is familiarize themselves with each of these people that were behind this coup, recognize their treachery, and then ask for their immediate arrest and prosecution for treason.

It is clear that the offices needed to steal the policy of this country and take it into unprovoked war were all occupied and run by PNAC coup members.

One of them with perhaps an even more significant contribution would be Dov Zakheim, who was not only the DoD Comptroller in charge of finding the missing $2.3 trillion in Pentagon money, but he has also been directly linked to SPC, which coincidentally just happens to specialize in making remote control drone flight (and destruction) possible.

According to Michelle Ciarrocca and William D. Hartung's book, "Axis Of Influence: Behind the Bush Administration's Missile Defense Revival," World Policy Institute Special Report, July 2002...

"When Zakheim left the Defense Department in 1987, it was for an executive vice president post with the Virginia-based government contractor Systems Planning Corporation (SPC), which has supplied the Defense Department with military technology for several decades and has been a support contractor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Zakheim also served as CEO at subsidiary SPC International and as a consultant for the defense contractors McDonnell Douglas (now a part of Boeing) and Northrop Grumman."

When it comes to the US neoconservative movement, there appears to be dirt from 9/11, no matter where you turn, yet, this is but only the tip of the iceberg.

Follow the Money

There is big money $$$ behind the PNAC, and not just the paltry contributors...

In its first year alone, the PNAC received many lucrative grants from the Bradley, Scaife, and Olin foundations.

 

According to RightWeb.irc... from 2000 to 2005, the PNAC received $241,735 in (known) grants from several conservative foundations.

 

The Bradley Foundation was the PNAC's largest source of foundation support, giving PNAC $800,000 from 1997 to 2005.

RightWeb also states, "From 1994 to 2005, the New Citizenship Project, which sponsored the PNAC and whose chairman was Kristol, received $3.5 million in grants, mostly from many of the largest right-wing foundations."

That is not the only money trail to follow though...

There is also the huge elephant in the room with the issue of the missing $2.3-trillion dollars from the Pentagon. Rumsfeld announced it the day before 9/11, but he was not being totally honest during his allegedly frank speech.

First off, the $2.3-trillion was not from the year before, it was two years before, in 1999.

Second, according to Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, there was another $1.1-trillion dollars missing in 2000.

For those doing the math at home, that's a whopping $4.4-TRILLION dollars total that was mysteriously missing.

So why didn't Mr. Defense Secretary, a guy who was intimately aware of DoD numbers, say anything about that?

Surely he knew the difference from "the year before" and two years before, yet he chose to hide the total amount.

Perhaps because, very likely, that missing money was the seed cash used to orchestrate, engineer and pull off 9/11. Rumsfeld apparently didn't want the American public to know how much money had actually been ripped off.

Make no mistake about it... there is a huge money trail to follow regarding 9/11, both before and after.

Altruism or Deceit

This group claims to actively work for US domination of the world and also space. It claims its purpose is to further US supremacy in the world, however, it's actions speak louder than its words. If their actions are so altruistic and benevolent for society, then why is it that when they get exposed, they run like scared little girls and close up shop?

All of these heritage sites, for each cause, have been shamefully removed from the internet.

http://www.newamericancentury.org PNAC

http://www.iasps.org IASPS

http://www.ptdemocracy.org POTD

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19981101faessay1434/ashton-b-carter-john-deutch-philip-zelikow/catastrophic-terrorism-tackling-the-new-danger.html CTS

Every single one of these sites have been mysteriously taken down. That in itself should be highly suspicious to even the dimmest of junior detectives. It clearly looks like somebody got scared and tried to hide the evidence.

The organizations behind these sites either silently disappear into the shadows from whence they came, or else they change their name and continue on with business as usual, like the PNAC switch to FPI.

Whichever tactic, this undeniably demonstrates a concerted effort to keep themselves hidden as a group, and to withhold this information from the public, which should tell you everything you need to know about the lawfulness of their intent.

If these were truly altruistic and benevolent endeavors, then why have many of these micro-organizations suddenly closed up shop, or changed their names once the public outcry began?

Let's look at it this way...

If three men wrote about a possible plan on how to rob the 1st National Bank, and then three other men wrote about a plan to rob the same bank, in the exact same fashion, and then the bank is robbed exactly as described by the previous six men, you can bet your ass that those six men would be behind bars, if not just for questioning alone.

So why is it so f#@-ing hard to get anyone in a position of authority to recognize this and do something about it?

The only answer I can think of is that all the higher authorities have been taken over, or they're too chicken-shit scared to do anything about it.

Let's look at the facts

While in full control of the Bush-Cheney administration, the US Constitution and our citizen rights were aggressively attacked and egregiously curtailed, all due to their neoconservative treasonous policies which were set in place prior to 9/11, showing nefarious intent to many researchers who often scrutinize the historical record with a new, more informed and knowledgeable hindsight.

Much has been done to undermine the sovereignty of this country, under both Presidents, Bush and Obama.

By every definition, the preceding actions of this secretive neocon organization prior to 9/11 have been a literal blueprint for enabling this bogus War on Terror. They have indeed been the enablers to it all.

First they said it was Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

Next it was the Taliban that we were supposed to worry about.

Then they said it was Saddam and the Iraqi's, with their "weapons of mass destruction".

Then they said it was possible Iranian connections to terrorism.

Now they're saying it was Saudi Arabia connections to 9/11.

A never-ending supply of bullshit and fear porn.

Everyone gets the blame post 9/11, except for the neocons and their US and Israeli supporters who planned it all.

The fact that the mainstream corporate media has said virtually nothing about this infiltration of the US government by a private neoconservative group of individuals, with foreign ties to another government, that is quite telling in itself.

It tends to substantiate and corroborate allegations that the media is a disinformation and propaganda conduit of the government, supported by the ultra-wealthy powers that be.

Another point of contention is the fact that this secretive group is also a key sister organization to another covert group, the Israeli organization known as IASPS, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies. (Responsible for Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.)

The two plans together, Rebuilding America's Defenses, and A Clean Break, both dovetail together as one plan, with a singular agenda and objective.

One could rightfully suggest that there may be more than just these two uncovered plans in play. There very well could conceivably be at least two more plans, covering both the EU and Asia, but they have yet to surface in the public domain.

I've said it many times over and I will keep repeating it every chance I get...

The Taliban did not create the IASPS or the PNAC.

Al Qaeda didn't draft the "Clean Break" document, nor the 1992 DPG, or the 2000 "Rebuilding America's Defenses" document.

Isis is not the one changing US law or restricting your Constitutional rights.

Our politicians did all of this to you... to all of us... and yet they themselves are but minions to the powers that be (TPTB), puppets to the uber-rich marionettes who rule this world with indifference for all but themselves.

Allegedly...  these neoconservative idealists did it all so that they could perpetuate their plan for US supremacy through the "New American Century," but in all reality, it's about the demise of the US, for a one-world globalist rule.

That may be hard to accept, or even fathom for some, but one only needs to look at what's happened to the US post 9/11 as a result of their covert national policy changes.

The Moral Descent of the US Since 9/11

The country hasn't risen in the world's eyes, it has fallen. Since 9/11, we have given in to everything that this country never stood for... all due to tiny neocon micro-organizations pushing anti-democratic and anti-constitutional policy, sometimes under a minimal staff of two or three people, yet heavily funded by those with the ultra-big money $$$.

These policy changes have brought unwelcome change to the US...

  • Unlawful unprovoked warfare policy
  • Unlawful rendition and enhanced torture
  • Unlawful wiretapping & surveillance of citizens
  • Unlawful sneak-and-peak searches
  • Unlawful detention of innocent civilians
  • Unlawful murder of US citizens
  • Unlawful unprovoked war against Iraq
  • Unlawful unprovoked war against Afghanistan
  • Unlawful unprovoked war against Libya
  • Unlawful use of National Security designation to cover up gov crime

Make no mistake about it, these are all repercussions resulting from the actions of a secretive neoconservative group that claims, it wants what's best for America.

Well... is starting unlawful, unprovoked war with another nation, and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of their people, just to steal their natural resources and erect a military foothold in the region... all the while sending our own sons and daughters to fight and die in wars that have all been outright lies to the US people and the world... is THAT what's best for America?

Perhaps it's only what's best for the neocons.

In all reality, this may be just part of the final steps to the one-ruler new world order, to take down the last great superpower, not only from within, but through international disapproval and disdain from the outside.

What's in a Name?

So let's examine that term for a moment, "neoconservative," or "neocon."

What is neoconservative?

This a a very far-right conservative movement, fascist by any other name, and one with deep ties to Israel. These men help promote American-Israeli policy, arguably with allegiance and deference to Israel first.

When you examine their organizations and anti-constitutional actions, a disturbing comparison immediately comes to mind for those from an older generation, not so far removed from WWII.

In it's basic essence and form, it very much resembles all the principles of right-wing fascism.

This isn't such a stretch when you understand US history and WWII.

First off, the nation of Israel was actually born out of WWII, as a decades long plan by the Rothschild's, and then brought to fruition under the crown (Balfour document) and reestablished as a nation after the war. This has created a very intimate relationship between the UK, US and Israel, with pro-Israeli sentiment as a key to western policy in the oil rich middle east.

Second, there was a vast infiltration of Nazi's and Nazi ideology into post WWII America through Operation Paperclip, primarily for scientific purposes, but also as intelligence assets. The CIA was created at this same time, and was embedded with some of the most cunning and vile of Nazi intelligence, courtesy of Reinhard Gehlen and his Gehlen Org. Add on top of that all the ultra-rich treasonous US families who were funding Hitler up to the war and throughout the war, and you have a homegrown fascist component for mayhem festering in this country for over 70 years.

The end result has created an even stronger fascist movement in the US, one with a very pro-Israeli stance, but only because of its key role in shaping the middle east for Rothschild and UK interests (all closely tied to that of the US.)

The ultra-wealthy bankers stole the United States financial system in 1913, (with Rothschild aid) and they have been willfully working ever since to topple the US in exchange for their long sought precious new world order. Despite their contradictory mission statement, the neocon movement has been a large part of this effort since the 1990's.

After receiving much attention from 9/11 researchers over their questionable manifesto, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” the PNAC has since (gutlessly) changed its name to the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI).

It still operates to this very day.

In short... neocons have essentially become the new Nazis of the post-9/11 new millennium world. Whether you know them as the FPI or the PNAC, they are Naziesque in character and in deed.

In Summary

One thing is certain... those responsible for the 1992 DPG wanted that plan back, and it clearly appears they went to great lengths to get it, at any and all cost.

The Bush Sr., neocons went out of their way after the DPG was defeated to find another way to put it into play.

The eight year period from one Bush administration to the other shows a detailed history of preparation to do just that.

It's extremely important to recognize that everything that was realized out of Rebuilding America's Defenses, post-9/11 during the George W. Bush administration (with Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz), was all specifically sought out by the administration of George H.W. Bush (with Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz) eight years earlier under the 1992 Defense Policy Guidelines (DPG).

Gosh, what a wild coincidence.

The fact that we had groups "imagining"... literally yearning for a new Pearl Harbor, and then benefiting from it once they received it, should be motive enough to merit an investigation from any responsible judiciary in this country.

Probably most alarming is that we had a small group that was tasked in 1998 with just the sole idea of developing a way to adopt "catastrophic terror" as a national policy. As abhorrent as that may sound to most normal humans of any moral character and integrity, this was a totally new concept for them to sell to the world. This was their new long sought replacement for the Cold War. This was a potential never-ending money trough, with never-ending war. This was something they wanted to exploit, and history shows that they did. The smoking gun is there for all to see.

The worst of all had to be the appointment of "Catastrophic Terror" creator Philip Zelikow to oversee the investigation of the crime itself, as the head of the 9/11 Commission.

This PNAC group wrote up the plan for a US policy takeover, saw it through to its fruition, and then took over the investigation of the crime.

Those with the motive, who are suspected of the crime, get to run the criminal investigation...

And nobody in the Justice Department thinks this is just a tad bit absurd?

Un-fricking-believable.

These neocons have clearly changed US policy in a manner that is contrary to the vision of our forefathers and which is the antithesis of their original intent for this nation, as well as the US Constitution that was put in place to safeguard its freedoms and independence. Understand that we were never given a vote on this plan, nor any public discussion whatsoever. They simply took it upon themselves, in secret. It was all planned that way, as covertly as possible, which tells you they knew full well that it was unlawful right from the start, and would not be embraced by "we the people."

They used deceit and deception every step of the way.

 

In retrospect, it's is easy to see how a coup could take over so easily within the US, simply through the appointment of select individuals to key positions of authority within the government, who were all aligned together in common cause.

 

As a direct result of their behind the scenes scheming and skullduggery, the US has undeniably suffered a crippling and devastating coup, taken over from within by neocon (fascist) criminal elements.

This is undeniably treason against the United States people and our government - hands down.

The big question is, what authority can we turn to for help, that isn't already in league with the neocons?

These cultists, as referred to by Seymour Hersh, need to be held responsible for overtaking this country and using it to viciously attack those countries opposed to their neoconservative ideas and their intent for a one-world global rule, with the ultra-rich backers of this coup in charge of it all.

So, what can we as citizens do to stop such a deeply funded criminal cartel?

 

People always say, "I'm just one person," but each of us has more power inside than we truly know. The most important thing to know and recognize is that, collectively, we are a daunting, unstoppable force to be reckoned with.

 

It's time to awaken that force.

 

First off, understand the treachery and danger that this group poses to the US and the world.

 

Second, recognize their Achilles' heel. They fear prosecution, and they also fear public recognition of their crimes.

 

This was all done in covert, clandestine fashion, so it would seem then that our single best weapon is to TALK.

Talk as much as you can to everyone that you can, because talk is what they fear most... that the truth might come out one day about their immoral crimes... and sully their self-revered upper-crust family names. To get them behind bars, we need to first publicly expose and excoriate them for the criminals and traitors that they truly are.

They've literally erected a multi-billion dollar media machine just to prevent people from knowing about the real truth, so talk... as much as you can and as often as you can - loud and clear for all to hear.

Let everyone know about those responsible for the fall of this nation, and then let us hold them accountable as traitors under our forefathers' Constitution. If by chance we can't have them put behind bars, then let us also find out where they live, and endeavor to let their local communities know what they've done.

These traitors to this country and "we the people" should not be allowed to walk for mass murder and global mayhem.

The PNAC/FPI are one of the first groups to go after with traceable dirt on their hands, because theirs is a history full of documentable surreptitious planning and adverse policy change, all detailing exactly where that dirt came from.

The reality is, the neocons are nothing more than policy makers and agenda facilitators. While they are a indeed a basic cog in this crooked system, they essentially do the bidding of the heavily-moneyed forces much higher up. The neocon minions do all the dirty work, while insulating the big $$$ power behind the operation from any public scrutiny.

The sad thing about it is, these PNAC criminals are still working uninhibited behind the scenes, with seeming impunity from the law. They need to be immediately arrested, and then tried and prosecuted in a court of law for their treason.

So make sure to tell others about the PNAC/FPI. Familiarize yourself with all of the people associated with this group,  those who were behind the coup on the US, and expose them to as many people as you can. Above all, recognize their crimes against humanity and ask for their immediate arrest and criminal prosecution for treason and war crimes.

Over 100-million have died in banker-concocted, politician-engineered wars since 1913. What hope could we possibly have that a globalist new world order run by them would now somehow be any different or any better?

In summation, it is in our best interest as a nation to finally make a real effort to get every single one of the treasonous rat-bastards who have assaulted this country through criminal action, political crime, and or high crimes of state.

The PNAC/FPI seems to be a pretty good place to start.

Let's once and for all find the will to put the real 9/11 criminals behind bars, and let's do it soon, before they destroy more sovereign nations and innocent people, in the quest for their own perverted concept of neocon Shangrala.
 

~

 

 

 

Complicity: Bush sat. Cheney was emotionless as the towers fell. Rumsfeld left his post and went outside. How did he know the attack was over?

Premeditated Steps Toward Taking Over the United States

1992  Defense Policy Guidance (DPG) draft created...  by Zalmay Khalilzad, Paul Wolfowitz,  I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby 

1994  New Citizenship Project (NCP) is created, by Bill Kristol and Donald Kagan

1996  US Committee to Expand NATO (later becomes US Committee on NATO)

1996  Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy by Bill Kristol and Donald Kagan

1996  A Clean Break - A New Strategy for Securing the Realm by David Wurmser and Richard Perle

1997  Project for a New American Century is born (PNAC) William Kristol, Robert Kagan Later FPI

1998  Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy, (CT) October (Ashton B. Carter, John Deutch, Philip Zellikow)

2000  Rebuilding America's Defenses (RAD) by Thomas Donnelly, Donald Kagan and Gary Schmitt

2003  Project on Transitional Democracies (POTD) US Committee on NATO, Bruce Jackson, Randy Scheunemann, Julie Finley

This man looks far too unsurprised with what is on the TV. He is very relaxed... unemotional, as he watches the events play out. Pretty sad.

A Dark Scenario to Consider

Remember the Iran-Contra hearings when Jack Brooks asked Colonel Oliver North about the plan for a Continuity of Government (COG)? North became visibly very agitated and quite upset over the repeated questions regarding the possibility of a secret government being planned for at that time. Why did North get so worked up over this question?

One other thing to think about... the 1992 presidential election, when the press and political pundits thought Bush was not running as hard as he could. I remember some saying if he didn't make more of an effort, he would lose to Clinton.

So, what if... the COG was secretly put into place under President and former CIA Director George HW Bush, and he was actually running the show behind the scenes for years, with Clinton as his partner in crime? It's not such a stretch. Remember the Iran-Contra drug running in Mena, Arkansas, where they have been reported to be linked with Barry Seal. Bush could certainly trust Clinton as a partner. Don't forget their co-sponsoring of the Haiti Disaster Relief Fund ("Just send cash.") Maybe Clinton was used as the front end of the coup, handling the day to day administrative duties, while Bush was the back end, working covertly in the shadows behind the scenes with his neocon team as plans were drawn up and put in play for 9/11? Like it or not, the way this cartel has operated in this country, this is a theory with plausible merit for consideration.

This may have happened prior to 9/11, or perhaps not, but in all reality, all that was needed was an intimate, close working relationship between Bush and Clinton, leading up to 9/11. I do believe that connection has been documented and already well established, so a sinister plan to takedown the US could realistically have taken place even without a COG in place, although we know that on 9/11 they did let it slip that the COG plan was in play at that time.

It all may sound a bit far fetched, but consider this curious event that happened prior to 9/11... George HW Bush coincidentally showed up at the White House the night before, even though his Presidential son was not there, because "W" was away in Florida for his prearranged 9/11 photo-op at Emma Booker Elementary School. Since Cheney was already established in the PEOC, that suggests then that someone else with a very high security clearance was in control of the E4B flying command center on the morning of 9/11, such as possibly HW.

When you look at how DPG '92 first originated from the HW Bush administration, and that many of his key officials later "coincidentally" migrated to his son's new administration, (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz) where his DPG was recast and sold as Rebuilding America's Defenses, and that his plan for a new world order, of which he spoke fondly of many times, is now further along as a result of 9/11... well, let's just say it's hard not to go with an engineered "conspiracy," as opposed to just mere innocent "coincidence."

You may be thinking that this is probably just a wild imagination running away with the facts, and it very well may be, but then, whoever thought that someone would plan something like 9/11 to begin with? What I come away with from my neocon research is that those mo-fo's were busy, busy, busy... from the end of the HW administration, right up to the start of the W administration. There is a clear line of planning and effort being made in that time. So who's to say?

The fact is, history and the almighty will be the final judge. No matter how much time passes, those from the PNAC/FPI must all be held accountable for their treason.

And he is absolutely right. These people do have fear. They fear us. People need to recognize that.

The Catastrophic Terrorism Study

The Differences in What Zelikow, Carter, and Deutch wrote:

Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

October 1998, Occasional Paper 6, volume 1,
CATASTROPHIC TERRORISM: Elements of a National Policy
By Ashton Carter, John Deutch, and Philip Zelikow

IMAGINING THE TRANSFORMATIVE EVENT

Readers should imagine the possibilities for themselves, because the most serious constraint on current policy is lack of imagination. An act of catastrophic terrorism that killed thousands or tens of thousands of people and/or disrupted the necessities of life for hundreds of thousands, or even millions, would be a watershed event in America’s history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented for peacetime and undermine Americans’ fundamental sense of security within their own borders in a manner akin to the 1949 Soviet atomic bomb test, or perhaps even worse. Constitutional liberties would be challenged as the United States sought to protect itself from further attacks by pressing against allowable limits in surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects, and the use of deadly force. More violence would follow, either as other terrorists seek to imitate this great "success" or as the United States strikes out at those considered responsible. Like Pearl Harbor, such an event would divide our past and future into a "before" and "after." The effort and resources we devote to averting or containing this threat now, in the "before" period, will seem woeful, even pathetic, when compared to what will happen "after." Our leaders will be judged negligent for not addressing catastrophic terrorism more urgently.

Compare the above version with the following "kinder, gentler," softer revision below... where they omit "National Policy" from the headline.

Foreign Affairs

November/December 1998, Volume 77, Number 6
CATASTROPHIC TERRORISM: Tackling the New Danger
By Ashton Carter, John Deutch, and Philip Zelikow

IMAGINING THE TRANSFORMATIVE EVENT


Terrorism is not a new phenomenon. But today's terrorists, be they international cults like Aum Shinrikyo or individual nihilists like the Unabomber, act on a greater variety of motives than ever before. More ominously, terrorists may gain access to weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear devices, germ dispensers, poison gas weapons, and even computer viruses. Also new is the world's dependence on a nearly invisible and fragile network for distributing energy and information. Long part of the Hollywood and Tom Clancy repertory of nightmarish scenarios, catastrophic terrorism has moved from far-fetched horror to a contingency that could happen next month. Although the United States still takes conventional terrorism seriously, as demonstrated by the response to the attacks on its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August, it is not yet prepared for the new threat of catastrophic terrorism.


The full text of this publication is available at:
 
Foreign Affairs.org
(The official publication of the
CFR)
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19981101faessay1434/ashton-b-carter-john-deutch-philip-zelikow/catastrophic-terrorism-tackling-the-new-danger.html

[ARTICLE GONE]
Removing this article is indeed very telling. It shows… guilt, willful deception, and genuine deviousness.

 
 

More PNAC / FPI Information

 

The Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) is a neoconservative think tank begun in 2009 by William Kristol, the founder of the Project for the New American Century. FPI is, according to its website, "... promotes continued U.S. engagement -- diplomatic, economic, and military -- in the world and rejection of policies that would lead us down the path to isolationism; robust support for America's democratic allies and opposition to rogue regimes that threaten American interests; the human rights of those oppressed by their governments, and U.S. leadership in working to spread political and economic freedom; a strong military with the defense budget needed to ensure that America is ready to confront the threats of the 21st century; and, an international economic engagement as a key element of U.S. foreign policy in this time of great economic dislocation."  (From: Sourcewatch)
 

From the FPI website... http://www.foreignpolicyi.org

The Foreign Policy Initiative seeks to promote an active U.S. foreign policy committed to robust support for democratic allies, human rights, a strong American military equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century, and strengthening America’s global economic competitiveness.

The United States--and its democratic allies--face many foreign policy challenges. They come from rising and resurgent powers, including China and Russia. They come from other autocracies that violate the rights of their citizens. They come from rogue states that work with each other in ways inimical to our interests and principles, and that sponsor terrorism and pursue weapons of mass destruction. They come from Al Qaeda and its affiliates who continue to plot attacks against the United States and our allies. They come from failed states that serve as havens for terrorists and criminals and spread instability to their neighbors.

The United States faces these challenges while engaged in military operations across the globe, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. The sacrifice of American lives and significant economic expenditure in these conflicts has led to warnings of U.S. strategic overreach, and calls for American retrenchment. There are those who hope we can just return to normalcy--to pre-9/11 levels of defense spending and pre-9/11 tactics. They argue for a retreat from America’s global commitments and a renewed focus on problems at home, an understandable if mistaken response to these difficult economic times.

In fact, strategic overreach is not the problem and retrenchment is not the solution. The United States cannot afford to turn its back on its international commitments and allies--the allies that helped us defeat fascism and communism in the 20th century, and the alliances we have forged more recently, including with the newly liberated citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan.  Our economic difficulties will not be solved by retreat from the international arena. They will be made worse.

In this new era, the consequences of failure and the risks of retreat would be even greater than before. The challenges we face require 21st century strategies and tactics based on a renewed commitment to American leadership. The United States remains the world’s indispensable nation -- indispensable to international peace, security, and stability, and indispensable to safe-guarding and advancing the ideals and principles we hold dear.

The Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) is a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code that promotes:

  • continued U.S. engagement--diplomatic, economic, and military—in the world and rejection of policies that would lead us down the path to isolationism;
  • robust support for America’s democratic allies and opposition to rogue regimes that threaten American interests;
  • the human rights of those oppressed by their governments, and U.S. leadership in working to spread political and economic freedom;
  • a strong military with the defense budget needed to ensure that America is ready to confront the threats of the 21st century;
  • international economic engagement as a key element of U.S. foreign policy in this time of great economic dislocation.

FPI looks forward to working with all who share these objectives, irrespective of political party, so that the United States successfully confronts its challenges and make progress toward a freer and more secure future.
 


Ed Note: Of all those neo-cons involved in this plot since 9/11, only Francis Fukuyama has had the moral integrity to recognize the wrongdoing, and come forth to damn the policies of the PNAC and its resulting human atrocities.
 


Original 25 signatories to Rebuilding America's Defenses were:

[From Sourcewatch.org, Rightweb.irc, and the original PNAC website]

PNAC Leadership:

From the original PNAC website:

Project directors:

Other leaders:

Other PNAC members (Updated June 2007)

Non-overlapping signatories to a January 28, 2005, letter to Congress

Source: Letter to Congress on Increasing U.S. Ground Forces, PNAC, January 28, 2005.

See more on the PNAC here...

Funding:

MediaTransparency.org has documented $600,000 in donations to PNAC since 1997 from conservative foundations.

Contact information:

Project for the New American Century
1150 17th St. NW, Suite 510
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 293-4983
Fax: (202) 293-4572
http://www.newamericancentury.org

Project Participants:

  • Roger Barnett

  • U.S. Naval War College

  • Alvin Bernstein

  • National Defense University

  • Stephen Cambone

  • National Defense University

  • Eliot Cohen

  • Nitze School of Advanced International

  • Studies, Johns Hopkins University

  • Devon Gaffney Cross

  • Donors' Forum for International Affairs

  • Thomas Donnelly

  • Project for the New American Century

  • David Epstein

  • Office of Secretary of Defense,

  • Net Assessment

  • David Fautua

  • Lt. Col., U.S. Army

  • Dan Goure

  • Center for Strategic and International Studies

  • Donald Kagan

  • Yale University

  • Fred Kagan

  • U. S. Military Academy at West Point

  • Robert Kagan

  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Robert Killebrew

  • Col., USA (Ret.)

  • William Kristol

  • The Weekly Standard

  • Mark Lagon

  • Senate Foreign Relations Committee

  • James Lasswell

  • GAMA Corporation

  • I. Lewis Libby

  • Dechert Price & Rhoads

  • Robert Martinage

  • Center for Strategic and Budgetary

  • Assessment

  • Phil Meilinger

  • U.S. Naval War College

  • Mackubin Owens

  • U.S. Naval War College

  • Steve Rosen

  • Harvard University

  • Gary Schmitt

  • Project for the New American Century

  • Abram Shulsky

  • The RAND Corporation

  • Michael Vickers

  • Center for Strategic and Budgetary

  • Assessment

  • Barry Watts

  • Northrop Grumman Corporation

  • Paul Wolfowitz

  • Nitze School of Advanced International

  • Studies, Johns Hopkins University

  • Dov Zakheim

  • System Planning Corporation

The above list of individuals participated in at least one project meeting or contributed a paper for discussion.
The report is a product solely of the Project for the New American Century and does not necessarily represent
the views of the project participants or their affiliated institutions.

 Cheney still gives Rummy the same look, after all these years. (L) Cheney and Rumsfeld in the early 90's. |  (R) Cheney, "Scooter" Libby, and Rumsfeld after 9/11.

 

Reference

 
Reference:

The PNAC (Project for a New American Century)

The FPI (Foreign Policy Initiative)

Defense Planning Guidance 1992  (PDF format)

Rebuilding Americas Defenses  (PDF format)

National Security Council Document 12  (PDF format)

A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm  (PDF format)

A Summary Blueprint of the PNAC Plan for U.S. Global Hegemony

A Complete List of PNAC Signatories and Contributing Writers

U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11

U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop

PNAC Signatories: Connecting (Some of) the Dots

Exposing the Project for the New American Century

A Clean Break - A new strategy for securing the realm

Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies

Excerpts from 1992 Defense Planning Guidance

Lone Superpower Plan: Ammunition for Critics

10 Years On: Where Are the PNAC Signatories

1992 Draft Defense Planning Guidance

Project for the New American Century

Prevent the Reemergence of a New Rival

9/11/01 as a Pretext for U.S. Imperialism

http://911review.com/motive/pnac.html

9/11/01 as a Pretext for U.S. Imperialism

The Federal Project

The Weekly Standard

The 9/11 Guide

U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop - A One-Superpower World

Axis Of Influence: Behind the Bush Administration's Missile Defense Revival, by Michelle Ciarrocca and William D. Hartung, World Policy Institute Special Report, July 2002

 
 

Archive Documents

 

Documents Related to 1992 DPG
[from National Security Archive]


Document 1:  Slides for "USDP [Under Secretary of Defense for Policy] Brief to DPRB [Defense Planning Resources Board] on June 5, 1991," Secret

Briefing slides prepared for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz to be used in a presentation to the Defense Planning Resources Board, chaired by Deputy Secretary Donald J. Atwood, provide an overview of the process for preparing the DPG for fiscal years 1994-1998.  Designed to take into account the lessons of the 1991 Gulf War, developments in the Soviet Union, and other "regional security challenges," and the implications of the "military-technological revolution" (e.g., emergence of "smart munitions"), the DPG would explain policy goals and military spending priorities for the years ahead.  The slides optimistically forecast the completion of the Guidance in December 1991.
 


Document 2:  Memo from Dale A. Vesser to Scooter, "First Draft of DPG," September 3, 1991, Secret, Excised Copy

Retired Army general Dale A. Vesser, who served as Assistant to Principle Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Strategy and Resources) "Scooter" Libby, played a key role in coordinating the DPG writing.  As Vesser suggested, the first draft was "uneven," somewhat of a cut and paste job. It included contributions from a variety of working level defense officials, including an overview section prepared by Abram N. Shulsky.   Paul Kozemchak, a career official at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was another major contributor.  Andrew R. Hoehn, a staffer at Wolfowitz's office (and more recently a vice-president at the RAND Corporation), prepared the section on "The New Defense Strategy" at the end.

Composed in a world where the Soviet Union still existed, although not for long, the opening pages prepared by Shulsky declared that, with the Soviet Union's "internal economic crisis and political collapse," the United States "may be said to be the world's sole superpower." As such, it could not be the policeman of the world, but it would have "preeminent responsibility for addressing those wrongs which threaten not only its interests, but those of its allies and friends, or which could seriously unsettle international relations." To preserve its preponderant position, the United States would have to curb regional challenges that—although not as dangerous as the former Soviet threat—could become "more likely." Above all, the United States would have to maintain technological superiority by staying a "generation ahead" in new weapons technology. According to Shulsky, that could mean reduced reliance on nuclear weapons by "developing new, more effective, conventional weapons systems."

The new policy would support alliances and multilateralism, but unilateral action remained a possibility. While the United States would continue to value alliances and working with allies, crises could "develop in areas outside of existing alliance commitments." Washington would try to work through the United Nations to the extent possible, but would retain "the responsibility to act on its own if the situation warrants."

The prospect that the Soviet Union or some other country could someday emerge as a global threat meant that the United States needed to maintain organizational and material resources to reconstitute military forces to "designated level of … capabilities." It was this requirement that led Andrew Hoehn to name the new strategy: "Crisis Response/Reconstitution Strategy." So that regional threats did not become global problems, Hoehn emphasized the importance of strategic nuclear deterrence based on a "diverse mix of survivable forces," a U.S. "forward" military presence at "reduced levels," and a capability to respond to regional crises "on very short notice."

As in the other draft DPGs included in this release, the sections on regional situations, such as Western Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America, are heavily excised.


Document 3: Dale A. Vesser to Secretaries of the Military Departments, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis and Evaluation, and Comptroller of the Department of Defense, "FY 94-98 Defense Planning Guidance Sections for Comment," February 18, 1992, Secret, Excised Copy

[Excerpts from the leaked Defense Planning Guidance that The New York Times published on March 8, 1992, can be compared here with the excised version recently released by the Department of Defense through the National Security Archive’s mandatory review request.]

Drafting continued, but it was not until mid-February that the DPG had reached the point where Vesser was ready to distribute it to senior civilian and military officials at the Pentagon. Although the draft does not credit anyone for writing it, so far Khazilzad has received the most credit, although plainly his draft drew on the earlier work of Shulsky and Kozemchak, among others. While the draft was tighter and shorter, it was in the same conceptual universe. Now, however, it was called a "regional defense strategy" instead of a "Crisis/Response/Reconstitution Strategy." Like the earlier drafts, the possibility of "regional challenges" and the need for strategic deterrence, forward presence, crisis response, technological superiority, and reconstitution were central concepts. The draft, however, put more emphasis on the danger of WMD proliferation.

With the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a "fundamentally new situation," the drafters were preoccupied with identifying and articulating the mix of policies that would preserve the U.S.'s status as the sole superpower. In this respect, the Guidance posited two major policy goals. The first was "to prevent the reemergence of a new rival" for world power, which meant that Washington had to develop a "new order" that met the security, political, and economic interests of potential competitors, including Japan and Western Europe, so they would not feel the need to challenge U.S. "leadership." Moreover, the United States had to develop "mechanisms," such as a reconstitution capability, to deter potential competitors for military predominance. The second objective was to "address sources of regional conflict and instability" that could "unsettle international relations" by threatening U.S. interests or those of allies. The United States would have "preeminent responsibility" in checking threats that could involve proliferation, terrorism, or energy and raw materials sources. While Washington alliances would remain central to U.S. policy, the "United States should be postured to act independently when collective action cannot be orchestrated" or when a larger collective response needs jump-starting by an "immediate" U.S. response.

A long section of the document, beginning on page 30, details the "minimum military capabilities" that would be needed to support the regional strategy, including appropriate readiness levels, prepositioned supplies, war reserve inventories, strategic deterrence forces, and high priority areas for critical investments in conventional forces.

It was this draft that one of the recipients leaked to New York Times reporter Patrick Tyler sometime before March 7. The next day the Times ran a front-page story, "U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop." (Note 5) According to Tyler's account, the leaker "believes that this post-Cold War debate should be carried out in the public domain." Because Tyler had the entire document, his story in the Times and an accompanying side-bar included quotations and long passages which the Defense Department has excised in the recent release. Some examples: U.S. nuclear strategy must target "those assets and capabilities that current – and future – Russian leaders or other nuclear adversaries value most." Moreover, "to buttress the vital political and economic relationships we have along the Pacific rim, we must maintain our status as a military power of the first magnitude there." "While the United States supports the goal of European integration, we must seek to prevent the emergence of European-only security arrangements which would undermine NATO."
 

Document 4: "Defense Planning Guidance, FY 1994-1999," February 29, 1992, Revised Draft for Scooter Libby, Secret, Excised Copy

This annotated but incomplete draft shows the impact of more editing, but the basic objectives and method, e.g., no "new rival" and the regional strategy, remained the same. This draft, however, introduced language about "strategic depth" that would survive further re-writing. The United States' success in pushing back former global threats, such as the Soviet Union, meant that a new strategic relationship with Eastern Europe and Eurasia was possible. That Washington faced no hostile alliances and that "no region of the world critical to our interests is under hostile non-democratic domination" meant that the United States had "great depth for our strategic position." Through a regional defense strategy, the United States could "take advantage of this position and preserve capabilities needed to keep threats small."
 

Document 5: Dale A. Vesser to Mr. Libby, "Comments Received on Draft DPG – Potential Issues," March 17, 1992, Secret, Excised Copy

This post-leak draft, with comments from a variety of Pentagon offices, showed the impact of disclosure and controversy, which had unfolded during the previous nine days.  White House and State Department officials had called the DPG  "dumb," Pentagon spokesperson Pete Williams disavowed some of the language, Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) criticized its "Pax Americana" thinking, and some foreign policy analysts observed that the report's "chauvinistic tone" might encourage other powers to try to catch up by procuring advanced weapons systems. (Note 6) Under the weight of the criticism, the wording about preventing a "new rival" disappeared, but, as James Mann has noted, the version worked out by Libby and his associates "contained most of the same ideas as the original" by coming up with "euphemisms in order to make the wording sound less confrontational." For example, instead of "preeminent responsibility," the new version used terms like "U.S. leadership," and "hostile power" instead of "rival."

The section on nuclear deterrence continued to focus on the need for a "hedge" against the emergence of a major threat, but it had a new emphasis on the necessity of missile defenses against the threat of global missile proliferation and the danger of an "accidental or unauthorized missile launch."  Broaching the possibility of junking the ABM treaty, Libby's draft raised the prospect of a "day when defenses will protect the community of nations embracing liberal democratic values from international outlaws armed with ballistic missiles."


Document 6a: "Scooter" to Mr. Secretary, circa March 20, 1992, enclosing Libby memorandum to Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense, "Draft Defense Planning Guidance," 20 March 1992, enclosing "Defense Planning Guidance, FY 1994-1999," Secret, Excised copy

Document 6b: Lewis Libby memorandum for the Secretary through the Undersecretary of Defense (Policy), March 26, 1992, enclosing "Defense Planning Guidance, FY 1994-1999," Secret, Excised copy

The draft Guidance that was under discussion during March 1992 was getting closer to the version that would ultimately be released by the Defense Department, with the section on minimum military capabilities shorn off. As Libby explained to Cheney in a detailed cover memorandum on March 20, the draft was as "near to an unclassified text as possible in this stage of drafting." According to the memorandum, "Tab A" was the latest draft of the DPG, while Tabs "B" and "C" were unclassified and classified versions of the secret programming guidance. Neither was attached in the version received by the Archive; instead, Tab "B" was the material sent by Libby to Cheney on March 26 (see "6b" above).

In Libby's personal cover memo to Cheney (see 6a above) he alluded to the criticism that the February 18 draft stood for unilateralism. To counter this, he and Wolfowitz had come up with "more defensible" language found on page 12: "America must plan forces for major contingencies that would enable us to act where prudent and practical even ‘where very few others are with us,' and ‘with only limited additional help.'" Libby argued that there were "no major contingencies" where "we would not have at least political support from some limited number of countries."

The DPG draft that Libby sent Cheney on March 26 responded "more fully" to the Secretary's "guidance," including making the opening pages "sharper and tighter."  Perhaps in response to Cheney's comments, the section on "Continued U.S. Leadership" included new wording about working with allies, but left open in explicit language the possibility of unilateral action (as earlier drafts had): "A future U.S. president will need to have options that will allow him to lead, and where the international reaction proves sluggish, or inadequate, to act to protect our critical interests." Further, "we will not ignore the need to be prepared to protect our critical interests and honor our commitments with only limited additional help, or even alone, if necessary." Such language would survive in later drafts.


Document 7:  Dale A. Vesser to Mr. Libby, "Extracts from 18 Feb 92 DPG Draft," March 26, 1992, Secret, Excised copy

Believing that despite the controversy some of the February 18 draft still had value, Vesser suggested, first, points that should be reconsidered for including in the final draft, and second, points that were "properly deleted" or recast. One subject that Vesser thought was important was the definition of a "critical region": one "whose resources [and population] could, under consolidated control, generate global power." According to Vesser, that wording is "as thorough and concise as any." Vessey also made suggestions about earlier language on arms control, forward basing, crisis response strategy, and NATO. For example, he recommended reinstatement of the section on arms control, which argued that arms control "will take on new forms in this post-Cold War era," such as "regionally focused initiatives," and other "innovations in approach" to address the problem of WMD proliferation.


Document 8:  Dave [David Shilling, Director of Plans] to Mr. Libby, "New Policy Directions in DPG," enclosing paper "New Policy Directions Noted in Draft Defense Planning Guidance," March 24, 1992, Prepared by Andrew Hoehn and Rod Fabrycky, Secret, Excised copy

Possibly used for briefing Cheney or some other senior official, this document provides some of the highlights of recent DPG drafts. Most of the language may be found in the versions cited above, but a few new points appear—for example, that a 7-
8 year "warning time" for the emergence of a major threat would kick in military reconstitution activities.


Document 9: Dale A. Vesser to Mr. Libby, "Abbreviated Scenarios for Inclusion in DPG – Issues?" circa April 11, 1992, Secret, Excised copy

An important element in the DPG process was the development of a scenarios paper that envisioned a number of possible regional crises that posed security threats to the interests of the U.S. and its allies, and the possible U.S. military response to those contingencies.   Prepared for "illustrative" purposes, they depicted "plausible future events illustrating the type of circumstances in which the application of U.S. military power might be required."  While speculative in nature, the group of scenarios would be used as an "analytic tool for the formulation and assessment of defense programs" and the sizing of "appropriate levels of combat power, mobility, readiness, and sustainment [sic]."

This document is massively excised, but an earlier version was the subject of a leak to New York Times reporter Patrick Tyler, even before that of the February 18 DPG draft.  On February 16, 1992, Tyler published a story that showed that there were seven scenarios, including regional wars against Iraq and North Korea and a major campaign in Europe against a "resurgent Russia." In addition, U.S. forces were to be ready to respond to possible coups and instability in countries such as Panama or the Philippines.

According to Tyler's story, the source of the leak "wished to call attention to what he considered vigorous attempts within the military establishment to invent a series of alarming scenarios that can be used by the Pentagon to prevent further reductions in forces or cancellations of new weapons systems." (Note 7)


Document 10: "Issues in the Policy and Strategy Section," April 14, 1992, Secret, Excised copy

Reflecting the contention over the DPG, this paper highlights some of the more controversial points, such as the balance between unilateral and multilateral action and the role of allies, as well as whether to extend alliances to Eastern Europe. An interesting point on the bottom of the first page is excised, but the surviving language on "disarming capabilities" probably relates to the controversial notion of "preemptive" action against weapons of mass destruction held by adversaries.


Document 11: Distribution Memos, Secret

By April 16, the drafting process had reached the point where the DPG could be distributed somewhat more widely inside the Pentagon for comment on an "eyes only" basis. Among the outside recipients were Admiral Donald Pilling of the National Security Council staff and State Department Policy Planning Staff director Dennis Ross. 


Document 12:  Memo from Don Pilling, National Security Council, to Larry [Libby's assistant, Capt. Lawrence Seaquist], April 23, enclosing NSC comments

The April 16 DPG draft was not part of the recent release, but a significant chunk of it appears here with the NSC's editorial suggestions. This version is close to what Cheney ultimately approved for public dissemination in the last weeks of the Bush administration. The language showed continued reworking from the drafts that Libby had sent Cheney in March. For example, the section on "Defense Policy Goals" included language about the importance of a reconstitution capability as a signal "that no potential rival could quickly or easily gain a predominant military position." Perhaps the drafters believed that, despite the controversy, it was permissible and necessary to use language about precluding new rivals, certainly in a classified version. It is worth noting that wording excised from this document—such as Korean peninsula, Taiwan, India and Pakistan—appears in the version that Cheney publicly released in January 1993 (see Document 15).

As Pilling noted in his memo, some of the editorial suggestions were language designed to conform to scheduled speeches by President Bush. Some wording suggestions add to the discussion of the relationship between U.S. leadership and multilateral action, while others touch upon the flow of oil and regional arms control. As indicated on Pilling's memo, copies of the changes went to others on Libby's staff, including Khazilzad and Vesser.

Declassification Anomalies: This document is a near-final draft of the April 16, 1992, Defense Planning Guidance that Secretary Cheney issued in January 1993 in declassified form as the "Regional Defense Strategy" (see Document 15). Much of the language in the two documents is identical or nearly so. Nevertheless, the version of the April 16 draft as released by the Defense Department included excised words and phrases—such as Israel, Japan, India, Pakistan, and North Korean nuclear program—that later appeared in the unclassified strategy document. To illustrate this, the Archive has produced an edited version of Document 12, with the excised language filled in. Not all of the words and phrases that we have added are exact matches to the excised portions, but they are very close. These examples demonstrate the subjectivity of the declassification review process; that the country names appeared in a classified document made it look like the information was still sensitive, even though it was not.
        

Document 13: Annex A "Illustrative Planning Scenarios," Secret, Excised copy

Drafting and redrafting work on the planning scenarios continued as is evident from the four versions of the preface—with marginal comments excised in their entirety—in which drafters tried to be more and more concise about the role of the scenarios as "yardsticks" for formulating military programs.


Document 14:  Wolfowitz to Secretary of Defense and Deputy Secretary of Defense, "Approval Draft of the Defense Planning Guidance – Action Memorandum," circa May 19, with attached memoranda on "Defense Planning Guidance – Major Comments Received," dated May 5 and May 13, 1992, Secret, Excised copy

By around May 19, 1992, work on the Guidance was finished. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell signed off on it and Paul Wolfowitz sent the document to Cheney and Atwood. Earlier in the month, Wolfowitz had sent them memos transmitting the DPG and the annex on "Illustrative Planning Scenarios," highlighting the problems that remained under discussion. In both versions, Wolfowitz observed that the current draft of the DPG "is still a rather hard-hitting document which retains the substance you liked in the February 18th draft." The drafts that Secretary of Defense Cheney and Deputy Secretary of Defense Atwood received included footnotes indicating the concerns of various offices and individuals at the Pentagon on a number of issues, including missile defense, propositioning of supplies to help counter possible threats in Southwest Asia (SWA), and the extent to which a "major contingency in Europe" was plausible enough to be factored into the military planning. Wolfowitz's memorandum of May 13 mentions that he had received comments from David Addington, who was Cheney's special assistant and would work with him in the years to come (currently as Chief of Staff and Counsel to the Vice President).


Document 15: "Defense Strategy for the 1990s: The Regional Defense Strategy," Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, January 1993

Perhaps in light of George H. W. Bush's drive for re-election in the fall of 1992 and the need to avoid controversy, the thought of declassifying and publishing the Guidance must have become a low priority. Nevertheless, it happened in the administration's last month.  The declassified version was not called the "Defense Planning Guidance," but it is very close to what is available of the April 16 version (see Document 12). As with the earlier drafts of the Guidance, Cheney's statement stressed strategic depth, technological superiority, strategic deterrence, forward presence, and reconstitution, all in the name of maintaining capabilities to check regional crises before they turned into more serious threats to U.S. security interests. While developing a "collective" response to threats had preference, as Libby had written before, "a future U.S. president will need options allowing him to lead and, where the international reaction proves sluggish or inadequate, to act independently to protect our critical interests." Moreover, the statement retained the language about the importance of a reconstitution capability to check a future "rival."  The statement's release coincided with the approaching inauguration of the Clinton administration, which gave it no significant press coverage in January 1993, a stark contrast with the controversy over the DPG draft in March 1992.

Other Known PNAC Members That Need to be Scrutinized by We the People and Investigated by the DOJ

(This list was copied from the internet)

 

Member

Background

William Kristol PNAC founder and chairman, editor of The Weekly Standard. Political contributor for the FOX News Channel and regular contributor to Special Report with Brit Hume. chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bush administration and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Reagan.
Gary Bauer Former presidential candidate. American Values president.
Abram Shulsky Former Director of Office of Special Plans. Mentored by Leo Strauss.
William J. Bennett Former Secretary of Education and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Empower America co-founder. Book of Virtues author.
Ellen Bork Deputy director of PNAC, and daughter of failed Reagan Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork
Rudy Boschwitz Former US Senator from Minnesota.
Jeb Bush Governor of Florida.
Eliot A. Cohen Professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Thomas Donnelly Lockheed Martin director of communications.
Steve Forbes Multi-millionaire publisher of Forbes Magazine. Former presidential candidate.
Aaron Friedberg Director of the Center of International Studies.
Frank Gaffney Columnist, founder of Center for Security Policy.
Reuel Marc Gerecht Middle East Initiative director.
Fred Ikle Center for Strategic and International Studies
Donald Kagan Yale University professor. Conservative columnist with State Department ties.
Jeane Kirkpatrick Former U.S. ambassador.
Charles Krauthammer Conservative columnist.
Christopher Maletz PNAC Assistant Director.
Daniel McKivergan PNAC Assistant Director. The Weekley Standard Research Director, 1995-7.
Richard Perle A PNAC founder, formerly of the Defense Policy Board. American Enterprise Institute fellow.
Norman Podhoretz Hudson Institute senior fellow. Council on Foreign Relations member. Father of New York Post columnist John Podhoretz
Dan Quayle Former vice-president
Stephen Rosen Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs, Harvard University.
Henry Rowen Former Rand Corporation president.
Gary Schmitt Executive Director of PNAC. Appointed by President Reagan to post of executive director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Defended Presiden Bush's withdraw from the ABM Treaty. Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Adjunct Professor.
George Weigel Political commentator. Institute on Religion and Democracy board member.
R. James Woolsey Former director of the CIA for President Clinton, vice-president at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Vin Weber Minnesota congressman. Board member of National Public Radio. "Sperlobbyist" for the National Endowment for Democracy.