BILL CHRISTISON
9/11 Commission is Bush's New Lapdog
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April 8, 2004
9/11 Commission is Bush's New Lapdog
It Refuses to Even Question US Policies that Encourage Terrorism

By BILL CHRISTISON
Former CIA analyst
http://www.counterpunch.org/christison04092004.html

President Bush's options appear extremely limited, and there is little doubt that the United States will continue to decline as a decisive force in world affairs over the next decade. The real question is not whether U.S. hegemony is waning but whether the United States can devise a way to descend gracefully, with minimum damage to the world, and to itself.

Immanuel Wallerstein
The Decline of American Power
The New Press, New York, NY, 2003
Page 27

George W. Bush should be well satisfied with Condoleezza Rice's three hours of speechifying and testimony on April 8. Rice made no major errors, and she made a quite detailed case that the Bush administration had not dragged its heels on counterterrorism before September 11.

While not perfect, her case was certainly good enough to prevent any serious loss of voting support for Bush. In fact, the entire hearing was probably a draw. What weaknesses there were in Rice's presentation gave the Democratic Commission members an opportunity to repeat their own earlier arguments on the foot-dragging issue, but the issue itself is now so muddied that it is unlikely to live on much longer, at least among average voters.

At the hearings, all that the opposition really accomplished was to make it possible for some of the Democratic members to claim that they were not simply Bush-lite when it comes to foreign and military policy.

But in fact every one of the Democratic members of the 9/11 Commission looks just like a Bush-lite type. In the hearings to date, not one of them has given even a hint of willingness to consider in the Commission's final report what changes in U.S. foreign and military policies might be necessary to reduce the likelihood of future terrorism against the United States.

It seems pretty certain that all ten commissioners have agreed in advance NOT to consider any changes in U.S. policies. Since Commission Chairman Thomas Kean has announced that he intends to issue his final report by the end of July (and then presumably disband the Commission), all the pressures on the commissioners between now and July will be to avoid complications and continue to interpret their mandate as narrowly as possible. The odds are nil that they will take on additional tasks such as considering needed foreign policy changes.

Let's face it. Nothing else that this 9/11 Commission does really matters, and the Commission was designed from the start to do nothing that mattered. It can recommend all the reorganizing of the FBI and the CIA it wants. But no organizational changes will accomplish much if they are not accompanied by changes in present U.S. policies that generate legitimate hatred against America and thereby perpetuate terrorism against us.

The quotation at the beginning of this article says it all: "The real question is not whether U.S. hegemony is waning but whether the U.S. can devise a way to descend gracefully, with minimum damage to the world, and to itself."

Bill Christison joined the CIA in 1950 and worked on the analysis side of the Agency for over 28 years. In the 1970s he served as a National Intelligence Officer (principal adviser of the Director of Central Intelligence) for Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa. Before his retirement in 1979, he was Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis, a 250-person unit. He can be reached at: christison@counterpunch.org.
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From May 2, 1936, to October 10, 1939, I was a dues-paying member of the Communist Party, operating under my own name, Kenneth Goff, and also the alias John Keats. In 1939, I voluntarily appeared before the Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C., which was chairmanned at that time by Martin Dies, and my testimony can be found in Volume 9 of that year's Congressional Report.

During the period that I was a member of the Communist Party, I attended their school which was located at 113 E. Wells St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and operated under the name Eugene Debs Labor School. Here we were trained in all phases of warfare, both psychological and physical, for the destruction of the Capitalistic society and Christian civilization. In one portion of our studies we went thoroughly into the matter of psychopolitics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health -- the subjecting of whole nations of people to the rule of the Kremlin by capturing their minds. We were taught that the degradation of the populace is less inhuman than their destruction by bombs, for to an animal lives only once, any life is sweeter than death. The end of a war is the control of a conquered people. If a people can be conquered in the absence of war, the end of war will have been achieved without the destructions of war.

During the past few years, I have noted with horror the increase of psychopolitical warfare upon the American public. First, in the brainwashing of our boys in Korea, and then in the well financed drive of mental health propaganda by left-wing pressure groups, wherein many of our states have passed Bills which can well be used by the enemies of America to subject to torture and imprisonment, those who preach the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and who oppose the menace of Communism. A clear example of this can be seen in the Lucille Miller case. In this warfare the Communists have definitely stated: "You must recruit every agency of the nation marked for slaughter into a foaming hatred of religious healing."

Another example of the warfare that is being waged can be seen in the attempt to establish a mental Siberia in Alaska, which wa called for in the Alaskan Mental Health Bill. A careful study of this Bill will make you see at once that the land set aside under the allotment could not be for that small territory, and the Bill within itself establishes such authority that it could be turned into a prison camp under the guise of mental health for everyone who raises their voice against Communism and the hidden government operating in our own nation.

This book was used in underground schools, and contains the address of Beria to the American students in the Lenin University prior to 1936. The text in the book in general is from the Communist Manual of Instructions of Psychopolitical Warfare, and was used in America for the training of Communist cadre. The only revision in this book is the summary, which was added by the Communists after the atomic bomb came into being. In its contents you can see the diabolical plot of the enemies of Christ and America, as they seek to conquer our nation by subjecting the minds of our people to their will by various sinister means.

This manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the fact that it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered.

Kenneth Goff
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