t didn't start with Joe Wilson, George Tenet or George W. Bush manipulating the intelligence about weapons of mass destruction ostensibly gathered by Tenet's CIA since there was no "intelligence" gathered by Tenet's CIA over whether or not Saddam Hussein tried to purchase yellowcake (enriched uranium) from Niger. Zip. Zilch. Nada. The CIA, defanged by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency in 1976, lacked the ability to do deep covert intelligence—and, in fact, it lacked the ability to share information about international terrorism that could impact the United States, with the FBI. The FBI was restricted by law from engaging in covert ops on suspected international spies within the United States if the information came to them from the CIA. In fact, the CIA operative that shared such information was subject to jail time for giving the heads up to the FBI that Americans were in danger. (We can thank Teddy Kennedy and John Conyers for that slice of liberal logic.)

It started with Sen. Frank Church [D-ID] in July, 1973 when the Democratically-controlled Congress decided it was time to pull the fangs of Richard Nixon who had successfully mastered the FDR art of manipulating the constitutional prerogatives of the President of the United States in times of "national emergency." Congress feared Nixon more than any president in the history of the United States even though two of them— Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed dictatorial powers neither granted nor allowed to them by the Constitution. The pro-Communist antiwar Democrats were determined to clip not only Nixon's wings, but those of any minority party president. (The Democrats had controlled both houses of Congress for all but about a dozen years in the 20th century—and therefore had no reason to believe that Congress, jointly, would ever fall into the hands of the GOP) for more than two years at any one time.

The Church Commission investigations began during the brief tenure of Congressman Gerald Ford [R-MI] as President of the United States. Ford was appointed Vice President upon the resignation of Spiro Agnew. He briefly ascended to the presidency when Nixon resigned. As America's only unelected president, Ford sat back and let Congress eviscerate the intelligence community to the detriment of the nation. CIA Director William Colby (whose liberal credentials would have more comfortably dovetailed with the ideology of Jimmy Carter than Richard Nixon) became the whistleblower of his own department.

Colby invited New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia for a private chat. Colby confided to Hersh that CIA operatives regularly investigated American citizens who were suspected of collaborating with our enemies. Colby said that during World War II, the OSS covertly spied on American citizens whose views dovetailed with those of our enemies. During the Vietnam War, the CIA investigated not only Jane Fonda and antiwar activist John Kerry but several antiwar activists—including several members of Congress who were outspoken critics of the war, and critics of democracy—including Teddy Kennedy, John Conyers, J. William Fulbright and Alan Cranston. While James Angleton, who headed spy operations for the OSS during WWII took the blame for the illegal snooping, the covert operations—including mail tampering and wiretapping—were approved by Nixon not because they were Nixon's political enemies as his detractors claim, but because the FBI viewed them as potential threats to the security of the United States who had quite possibly committed sedition under the guise of "free speech." When America is at war and the lives of the American military are at stake, the United States cannot afford to view seditious protest as free speech. That didn't happen in World War I, and it didn't happen in World War II. It did not happen in this country until the United Nations was formed, and the globalists, who were attempting to create world government, needed to destroy the thread of democracy in America and weaken the fibers of sovereignty so that the deconstructionists in our own government could destroy us from within.

The Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency was formed in July, 1973 to dissolve the national emergency powers of the president—but not abolish those supra-powers outright. The action would simply transfer those illegal powers to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue—to Congress. This was an usurpation of the separation of powers since Congress, whose powers are purely legislative, does not constitutionally possess executive authority. Congress—the Senators behind the effort to strip the president of his power to act expeditiously on matters of national emergency—insisted they never intended to exercise those powers themselves, but would simply act as the custodian of that authority until such time as Congress felt the president needed it. At that time, Congress would grant that power to him—temporarily. This, of course, meant whenever a minority party President occupied the Oval Office, Congress—by a preponderance of the votes—would be able to restrict the executive power of that specific president. Once again, it didn't seem to occur—or matter—to the Democrats that, while the President is constitutionally required to work with the Congress, he does not work for the Congress.

Colby, who led a fabled life as an operative with the CIA, was a James Bond-type spy who parachuted behind Nazi lines during WWII and, later, headed the CIA's covert Phoenix project in Vietnam. That's why Nixon picked him to lead the CIA. Colby was a man who had done it all. Nixon should have dug a little deeper. Because the storybook hero was also a critic of his job and the type of work he did his entire life. When Jimmy Carter replaced Colby with Admiral Stansfield Turner (a man wholly out of his elements in the CIA), Colby joined Strategic Investments, a prestigious financial newsletter.

On April 29,, 1996 Colby disappeared from his country home on the Wicomico River in rural Maryland. His waterlogged canoe was found along the bank of the river a short distance from his home. His body, without a life vest, was discovered in a nearby marsh a week later. Colby always wore a life vest when he was on the river. An autopsy ruled the cause of death was accidental drowning. The coroner theorized that Colby suffered either a heart attack or a stroke and fell overboard, drowning. However, no pathological evidence was offered to show that Colby suffered either.

The AP reported that Colby's wife—who was not at home—said that her husband had called her earlier that day and told her he wasn't feeling well but was going canoeing anyway. Colby's wife rebutted the AP report, telling the Washington Times that her husband was well and that he had not mentioned going canoeing that day. Conspiracy buffs created a link between Colby's death and his media "confession" about the covert intel ops of The Company within the United States since Colby's revelations were the catalyst that brought about the gutting of the intelligence community by the very people the FBI and the CIA were investigating.

When police investigators entered his home to begin their investigation of his disappearance, they found the radio playing, the previous night's dinner dishes still on the table and waste from the meal's preparations in the kitchen sink. Those who know Colby said he was too meticulous and would never have left an untidy kitchen—nor would he have gone boating and left the radio playing.

Clinton conspiracy fans insist that Colby was done in by the Clintons because he was going to reveal information about the co-presidency that would have destroyed Bill Clinton's chances of getting re-elected. Strategic Investment was edited by Lord William Rees-Mogg, the former editor of the Times of London, and James Davidson, a former Clinton buddy who became convinced by London Daily Telegraph reporter Ambrose Evans Pritchard and Strategic Investment reporter Jack Wheeler that the Clintons had ties to organized crime that have not existed in the White House since President Lyndon B. Johnson and his chief of staff Bobby Baker were in the vending machine business with the Mafia. While Colby never wrote about the Clintons' mob friends, he loaned his identity to the effort launched by Strategic Investment's direct mail effort to raise questions about Clifton's integrity.

Upset by Colby's admissions, Congress created the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities on Jan. 17, 1975. The mirror committee in the House of Representatives shortened the name to Select Intelligence Committee. In May, 1976 the Senate followed suit, shortening the name so it would fit in the headlines better. The McGovern liberals who controlled both Houses of Congress staidly announced that since national security was too important for party politics, the House and Senate Select Intelligence Committees would not be chaired by the majority party, but they would be co-chaired by both parties—with equal authority. By proffering the golden carrot to the GOP—who hadn't led anything for so long they forgot how to lead—the Democrats knew the GOP would grab the offer...and sit back, shut their mouths and look important as the liberals gutted the FBI and CIA

Nixon, like every president since Herbert Hoover, used the technical "services" of the FBI, courtesy of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover—who utilized the vast resources of his agency to indebt the incoming president to him, and make the new president complicit in the blatantly illegal act of using a government agency—to spy on the president's political detractors and congressional enemies. The FBI also made available to Nixon, and previous presidents, the FBI security clearance reports on government hires and political appointees. In 1974, this practice was outlawed and criminal penalties were assessed to those who either gave the White House personnel access to that information, or to FBI personnel who shared the data with those not authorized to receive it.

The pro-socialist liberals in both the House and Senate resented the fact that their ties to anarchist groups like the Weathermen and the Vietnam Veterans Against War and the patriotically-challenged think tanks (that were engaged in "society-planning" discussions with the Kremlin which openly advocated the destruction of the American way of life) were regularly scrutinized by hard-hitting columnists like Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson, and patriotic radio guru Paul Harvey.

Antiwar doves like Senators Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Walter Mondale, J. William Fulbright, Edward "Ted" Kennedy, and Alan Cranston (a California liberal who was taking illegal campaign money from the Chinese government from 1984 to 1988, and funneling it to liberal Senatorial candidates through the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee which he chaired). Liberal House members who helped destroy America's intelligence network were: House Speaker Carl Albert, Edward Boland, High Carey, John Conyers, George E. Danielson, Ronald Dellums, Father Robert F. Drinan (the first practicing Catholic priest ever to be elected to Congress), James G. O'Hara, and Otis Pike. Needless to say, others voted "yea" when stripping the intelligence community of its ability to protect the United States came up for a vote in the House and Senate. (But the ring leaders are listed above.) Only Kennedy and Conyers remain in office. Both men need to be voted out of office in 2006. The fingerprints of both men are indelibly etched into 9-11 since both men helped construct the legislation that prevented the American government from hiring, as spies, people with evil motives, or people viewed by their native lands as criminals since those were the only types of operatives which could have gained access to the information in enough time to thwart their plans. (Remember: John Hancock, Samuel Adams, George Washington, Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale were viewed by the British as criminals. As such, had the National Emergencies Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-412) existed in 1775 when the Revolutionary War began, none of the Founding Fathers could have been utilized by the colonies to help America win the war for independence.)

Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter initiated the deconstruction of the American intelligence apparatus. It's evisceration was completed by Bill and Hillary Clinton who pulled the plug and drained the intelligence pools in Arlington and Langley, Virginia. Ironically, under the restrictive terms of the USA Patriot Act, if they were actively engaged in their Vietnam era antiwar protests today Jane Fonda and John Kerry could, although they likely would not, have been arrested for their anti-American advocacy.

Fonda went to North Vietnam and offered aid and comfort to the enemy. John Kerry, an active reserve US Navy Lieutenant (j.g), went to Paris and negotiated the surrender of the United States to North Vietnam. And John Conyers and Teddy Kennedy tried to force the US government to accept the terms of that surrender. The only war America ever lost was left un-won by liberal politicians who defunded it and arbitrarily pulled US troops from a war that lasted 12 years shortly after a ceasefire was signed on January 27, 1973.

After promising the government of South Vietnam the financial support it needed to defeat the Chinese and Soviet-backed communist regime in Hanoi, the Democratically-controlled Congress pulled the plug early in 1975. The South Vietnamese government collapsed on April 30, 1975 as the United States was forced to airlift its last remaining military personnel and embassy staff from Saigon by helicopters as the North Vietnamese army streamed into the city. Fifty-five thousand Americans died in vain in a war against a 10th-rate power that the United States should have easily won in less than 90 days.

What defeated America in Vietnam wasn't a more powerful or even a more aggressive enemy in North Vietnam. It was a covert enemy in the United States Congress— the same antiwar socialist Democrats who are now doing their utmost to help al Qaeda win against the United States, and the Caucasian industrialized world, in the Mideast and in the underbelly of Eurasia under the guise of getting America out of an "illegal" war orchestrated by a vindictive president who, they claim, used false and misleading Intel to justify his vendetta against Saddam Hussein for trying to assassinate his father. In point of fact, the intel the United States used to formulate a decision of whether or not to invade Iraq was the best Intel the British could uncover since America had no clandestine operations in the Mideast even though the Clinton Administration had been waging a virtually blind, deaf and dumb war against Osama bin Laden and the Wahabbi Islamic extremists since 1993.

When Jimmy Carter assumed the CIA housecleaning task from Ford in 1977, he fired Colby and replaced him with Stansfield Turner. Turner, his admiral's stars notwithstanding, was about as qualified to run the spy agency as a burger flipper at McDonalds would be to run the kitchen at the Waldorf-Astoria. Turner gutted the agency. He fired over 800 critical intelligence jobs and virtually destroyed the Clandestine Service. No foreign linguists (except a handful of people who spoke Chinese, Korean and Russian) were left on the payroll. Not one linguistic was left who spoke or read Arabic.

What that meant was, if we needed to drop a covert agent into a foreign country other than those of our historic enemies, it pretty much had to be an English speaking foreign country. We had the ability to spy on England, Canada or Australia but not Iran, Iraq or Syria. Nor could we read their intercepts. It could take up to a week or two to decipher intercepts from the Muslim world. Generally the CIA had to rely on the British intelligence service to translate foreign language intercepts. That was why the American intelligence community was forced to rely on communiqué from MI-5 to learn what Saddam or other Muslim leaders were doing. Other than our embassy officials picking up "chatter," we had no intelligence capabilities of our own in any of those countries. When George W. Bush inherited the CIA in January, 2001, there was reportedly only two CIA covert operatives in the entire agency who spoke Farsi. When the American military overran Iraq and seized tons of government files, there were no linguists within The Company to read them. Much of the data we know about Iraq's military capabilities—including Iraq's weapons of mass destruction—chemical and biological agents and whether or not Saddam had any enriched uranium—has been in the possession of the military, but much of it is now being read for the first time.

Captured documents reveal that before the American invasion, Iraq had produced approximately 1,500 gallons of weapons-grade chemical agents. They had over 1,000 dirty bomb Scud warheads—radiological devises containing a powdered form of radiological debris. They also had 17 Scud warheads filled with cyclosarin. Cyclosarin is a much more lethal form of sarin gas. The seized Iraqi documents claim that Saddam had just under 2 metric tons of uranium. (While a recently published book claims the uranium cache was yellowcake, logic suggests it was not since if it was, Saddam would not have been trying to buy 200 pounds of yellowcake from Niger.)

Only two nations in the world—the United States and the former Soviet Union—have the volume of yellowcake the otherwise dynamite book Disinformation by Richard Miniter suggests was in the possession of Iraq. Yet, the media claims that no weapons of mass destruction were found and, sadly, the administration has given up trying to convince the public that while no nuclear weapons were found—and no yellowcake was found—Saddam did possess weapons of mass destruction and fully intended to use them against his neighbors. Evidence further suggests that Saddam intended to provide the deadly components he possessed to al Qaeda through either Iran or Syria since he needed to make sure any help he provided al Qaeda could not be traced back to Baghdad. If the CIA, the DIA or the NSA had trained Arabic-speaking agents in the theater in the fall of 2001, much that we've learned about al Qaeda in the last 12 to 18 months would have been common knowledge in the intelligence community by the spring of 2002. Furthermore, had the Democratically-controlled Congress not defanged the intelligence community, there is a good chance 9-11 would have been diverted since the pre-1976 Company would have covertly employed the warlords in Afghanistan that were fighting the Taliban and the Wahabbi terrorists who became al Qaeda.

In addition, had it been allowed, it's likely that the FBI, working closely with the CIA, would have known that clandestine Muslim extremist groups were either fundraising for al Qaeda in the Muslim communities in the United States, or that Muslim advocacy groups were engaged in a massive Islamic indoctrination program through several Democrat-protected liberal 501[c]3 Islamic "educational" advocacy groups in the 1990s that were, and still are, distributing the Koran to America's elementary and secondary schools with impunity.

Groups like the Council on Islamic Education began working with educators in California in 1997-98 to place the book, Across the Centuries, in California public schools—claiming the book was necessary because Americans have a been taught an inherently flawed and biased perspective of Islam. The CIE was leased office space in the Carden Hall Elementary School in Fountain, California to distribute not on Muslim-slanted textbooks but the Koran as well to schools all over America. While Christian students are not allowed to carry their personal Bibles to school for their own perusal during lunch, Muslim advocacy groups were leased office space within the public school system to make it convenient for them to distribute their bible—the Koran—to Jewish and Christian students within that system.

Clearly, since CIE promotes Islam—a religion—and is the largest distributor of the Koran in the United States, there has never been a more clear violation of the 1st Amendment than allowing a theological education group to use school property to distribute the Koran to schools all over America. By defanging the American intelligence community, the American people were largely kept in the dark that the liberal bureaucrats within the government had successfully adopted an official State religion—Islam—while its elected officials were preparing to fight Wahabbi Muslims in a bloody war brought about by the events on September 11, 2001.

Under Bill Clinton, CIA counterintelligence chief Paul Redmond was fired by Clinton-appointee George Tenet who wanted his own man, David Cohen—an analyst with no experience in espionage—as Deputy Director of Operations. Cohen was to be the head of covert ops. Tenet replaced John Deutch who, you will recall, took reams of highly classified top secret CIA intelligence and stored them on an unsecured computer in his home. Deutch emailed the files to himself through his unsecured AOL account. That pretty much shows how inept the heads of the CIA were once the job was politicized by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. What is most shocking is that, two years after he left the government, Deutch still had reams of classified data that he was no longer cleared to even see let along possess, on his home computer.

In June, 1990 Guatemalan Army Col. Julio Alpirez, a CIA asset, ordered the death of Michael DeVine, an American restaurant-hotel owner. DeVine, whom many believed was a covert CIA operative, learned that Alpirez was involved in the Guatemalan drug trade. DeVine's death, and that of Guatemalan opposition leader Efrain Velasquez—who was married to an American attorney, Jennifer Harbury—became embarrassments for then-CIA Director William Webster. When Bill Clinton appointed John Deutch—a talentless political hack—in 1995, Deutch came with a new housecleaning mandate. Risk aversion. Hillary didn't want any embarrassing headlines. Deutch's orders were to get rid of the unsavory intelligence assets used by the CIA and do a thorough background check on every human asset that was going to be used by the Company.

CIA Director John Deutch implemented what became known as the "Deutch Rule." Extensive background checks would be done on any asset before they could be employed by The Company. (It's interesting that the Clintons made it almost impossible for the FBI to do background checks on most of the White House employees that the Clintons brought with them from Arkansas like so much dirty laundry. For 8 years, scores of Clinton operatives in the Executive Branch who could not pass simple FBI background checks for employment were handling classified material that "Top Secret" Clearances were needed just to see).

Under the Deutch Rule, it did not matter how many American lives an asset could save, or how important that asset might be in the "war on terrorism" that was already in its formative stage as early as 1993, if there was a chance that asset could become an media embarrassment to the Clintons, the CIA could not use them. Prior to Deutch, the job of the clandestine division was to recruit informants by penetrating the enemy's command and control structure and "turning" key people who possessed the intelligence the United States needed to save American lives or the infrastructure of the United States.

During the Clinton years, if those assets were "unsavory," the intelligence community was not allowed to use them regardless what information they could ferret for us. Prior to Deutch—even being hamstrung by the House and Senate Select Intelligence Committees which has tied the hands of the intelligence community since 1976—our covert ops people in the CIA's Counter-Intelligence Center (created by Reagan in 1986 in response to the rise in Muslim skyjackings), anti-terrorist assets provided the Intel that allowed the FBI to arrest several of the co-conspirators involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, including Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who was captured by the CIA in Pakistan. Unsavory assets also provided the Intel that led to the apprehension of Wali Khan Amin Shah, a bin Laden associate whose arrest aborted plans to blow up 12 US jet airliners and assassinate Pope John Paul II on his planned trip to the Philippines.

The House and Senate Intelligence Committees made the Deutch Rule binding on all spy agencies until the 1994 Republican Revolution. Even though the Deutch Rule was rescinded when the Republicans took control of the Intelligence committees in 1995, George Tenet maintained the precedent established by Deutch. Daniel Benjamin, Bill Clinton's National Security Council director for transnational threats, rejected the notion that deep background checks on potential intelligence assets in any way inhibited intelligence gathering by the CIA. "The last time I checked," he told the media, "the agency had never turned down a source because of an unsavory record. Agency leadership has made it abundantly clear that terrorism is its very top priority. It increased collection on terrorism many-fold in the last four years. We still go through a process where we have to have an accurate assessment of who it is we're intending to recruit. But just because somebody has, say, been involved in a terrorist operation 10 years ago hat resulted in the death of Americans...[i]f that person now has a change of heart and is willing to provide us information that could lead to the prevention of future terrorist incidents, we're not going to turn that person away and say, 'Sorry, we can't deal with you because you killed a few Americans ten years ago.' But that person is going to have to deliver."

The rhetoric, however, doesn't match the behavior. In December, 2001 when Congress enacted the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2001 to remove the legal hindrances to collecting intelligence that have existed since the Democratically- controlled Congress imposed them in 1976, the Deutch Rule was legislatively rescinded. Even with specific instructions from both Congress and the White House to do so, Tenet refused to rescind the restrictive guidelines of the Deutch Rule which ultimately led to the Joe Wilson yellowcake mission to Niger and the forced resignation of Tenet.

Randall Scheunemann, a former advisor to both former Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Trent Lott observed that the CIA is nothing more than a miniature version of the State Department where diplomacy is more important than results. Even with George W. Bush and the Intelligence Authorization Act, the bureaucracy that has controlled the agency since the indelible Clinton fingerprint changed the impetus of the leadership from protecting the nation to protecting one's own job. Those rewarded with promotion within the Company from 1976 to 2000 were those who played the bureaucratic game, not those who actually attempted to protect the nation from foreign aggression.

The Clintons changed the CIA into a politically-correct bureaucracy that was more concerned about ferreting out homophobes within the Company than it was in ferreting out spies and saboteurs. In addition, the Clinton Justice Department issued an edict that prevented the CIA from sharing information with the FBI or the Feds at 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in the District from talking to the spooks at Langley. If the CIA stumbled over domestic Intel concerning a terrorist threat in, say, New York, they could not legally share that information with the FBI so the Feds could act upon it. When the Senate Select Intelligence Committee was holding its 9-11 hearings, Committee vice-chairman Richard Shelby [R-AL] noted that "...[t]he Clinton curbs have hindered the work of our human intelligence agents around the world. We have to turn our intelligence people loose." A former Clinton official, testifying before the committee said it was unfair to blame Clinton for costly intelligence lapses resulting from the Deutch Rule that might have inadvertently contributed to the success of the terrorists. Former CIA Director Woolsey said that the Deutch Rule could be compared to telling the FBI they could recruit informants from within the Mafia as long as they didn't hire any crooks. The idea of recruiting informants is to look for them in the pig sty with the rest of the pigs, knowing the best informants will be just as dirty as the big pigs you're trying to convert into pork chops.