Inside the Committee that Runs the World

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2601&print=1&PHPSESSID=c7107ddb024f2ee2ad75cffd9a3815ff



September 11, 2001, was a catalytic event that revealed the core character of the Bush administration’s national security team. As rival factions fought for the president’s ear, the transformative ideals espoused by the neocons gained ascendancy—triggering a rift that has split the Republican foreign-policy establishment to its foundations.

The inner circles of the U.S. national security community—members of the National Security Council (NSC), a select number of their deputies, and a few close advisors to the president—represent what is probably the most powerful committee in the history of the world, one with more resources, more power, more license to act, and more ability to project force further and swifter than any other convened by king, emperor, or president.
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you can also, on the same page, read this:



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was sign the NSC into existence, thereby creating a shadow government completely removed form the citizens of this country and accountable to no one but each other.

The first act of any future president who has a real mandate should be to disband this body. The Cold War is long over, and they've lost whatever usefulness Truman expected them to have.

What a bunch of fuckups.

says the hottest spots in hell are reserved for TRAITORS...they have earned their place..

I also don't like Operation Paperclip which Truman approved..talk about shadow govt..