However, the article is long and logwinded, and bereft of tart turn A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists The author is Karen Kwiatkowski, who seems to know her subject:<\/em><\/p>\n In July of last year, after just over 20 years of service, I retired Here is her dilemna in a nutshell.<\/em><\/p>\n From May 2002 until February 2003, I observed firsthand the formation So she wrote about it in Salon.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Probably more detail than you want to know about the exact coercive mechanisms and petty deceptions used by the American Empire clique (empiristas?) running the government these days to get control of power centers in the Pentagon and push America … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/storry.jpg\")
Probably
\n more detail <\/a>than you want to know about the exact coercive mechanisms
\n and petty deceptions used by the American Empire clique (empiristas?)
\n running the government these days to get control of power centers in
\n the Pentagon and push America into the war in Iraq. These are the guys
\n who think Colin Powell is a wimp.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n of phrase or punchy prose, so that we lost interest on page 3 (of 5).
\n But then again, we
\n didn’t
\n make it through the original Pentagon Papers, either.<\/em>..<\/p>\n
\n suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country
\n to war.<\/p>\n
\n as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. I had served as a communications
\n officer in the field and in acquisition programs, as a speechwriter
\n for the National Security Agency director, and on the Headquarters Air
\n Force
\n and the office of the secretary of defense staffs covering African
\n affairs. I had completed Air Command and Staff College and Navy War College
\n seminar
\n programs, two master’s degrees, and everything but my Ph.D. dissertation
\n in world politics at Catholic University.<\/p>\n
\n of the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans and watched the latter stages
\n of the neoconservative capture of the policy-intelligence nexus in the
\n run-up to the invasion of Iraq. This seizure of the reins of U.S. Middle
\n East policy was directly visible to many of us working in the Near East
\n South Asia policy office, and yet there seemed to be little any of us
\n could do about it.<\/p>\n