Who is John Hannah? Another cog in the PNAC/AIPAC link, that's who!

[Roland99]

http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=9713&fcategory_desc=Project%20for%20a%20New%20American%20Century

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (IPS) - An influential foreign-policy neo-conservative with longstanding ties to top hawks in the administration of President George W Bush has laid out what he calls ''a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term.''

The list, which begins with the destruction of Fallujah in Iraq and ends with the development of ''appropriate strategies'' for dealing with threats posed by China, Russia and ''the emergence of a number of aggressively anti-American regimes in Latin America,'' also calls for ''regime change'' in Iran and North Korea.

The list's author, Frank Gaffney, the founder and president of the Centre for Security Policy (CSP), also warns that Bush should resist any pressure arising from the anticipated demise of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to resume peace talks that could result in Israel's giving up ''defensible boundaries.''

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In addition to Cheney and Rumsfeld, he cited the most clearly identified -- and controversial -- neo-conservatives serving in the administration: Cheney's chief of staff, I Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby; his top Middle East advisors, John Hannah and David Wurmser; weapons proliferation specialist Robert Joseph and top Mideast aide Elliott Abrams, on the National Security Council (NSC).

http://www.juancole.com/2004_02_01_juancole_archive.html

Saturday, February 07, 2004

John Hannah Allegedly Focus of Plame Probe

Richard Sale, respected intelligence reporter for UPI, has given credibility to a story that had been rumored for several weeks . It is that the FBI investigation into the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame is increasingly focusing on two officials in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, Lewis "Scooter" Libby and John Hannah. Sale assures me that the information is solid.

Last summer, former ambassador Joseph Wilson went public about his 2002 report refuting the allegation that Saddam tried to buy Niger uranium. Someone in the Bush administration attempted to punish him by identifying his wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA operative involved in trying to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The information was given to the press, but only one reporter, CNN commentator Robert Novak, was sleazy enough to publish it. (Outraged readers should please email CNN demanding that they fire Novak for having wilfully damaged US national security). Novak did not commit a crime. But whatever Bush administration official leaked the information to him did.

Libby and Hannah form part of a 13-man vice presidential advisory team, sort of a veep NSC, which helps underpin Cheney's dominance in the US foreign policy area. Hannah is a neoconservative and old cold warrior who is really more of a Soviet expert than a Middle East expert. But in the 90s he for a while headed up the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a think tank that represents the interests of the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC). Hannah is said to have been behind Cheney's and consequently Bush's support for refusing to deal with Yasser Arafat. But he was also deeply involved in getting up the Iraq war.

If Hannah and Libby initiated the outing of Valerie Plame, why? Of course, both their involvement and their motives can only be speculated about at this point. But on December 9, Newsweek reported that:

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Hmm...another PNAC/AIPAC link.

[Faygo Kid]

1. So long as he turns. He needed this background.

To be the one who brings at least Cheney down. Maybe more. The rats are going to run. I can feel it.

[Roland99]

2. I wonder if the Franklin case scared him?

[Burried News]

3. Every visit Ariel Sharon has had with George Bush he inquires

about a release for Pollard. Must be hard to recruit when these types of stories surface - that's a shame.

[Coastie for Truth]

4. Do you want the truth about AIPAC - you can't handle the truth about AIPAC

The truth about AIPAC - is that the real threat is from APIPAC - not AIPAC.

If you haven't read all of the drivel or pompous prose that is "PNAC" - real through all of that mind numbing cap. Here's a link-- .

What is "PNAC"? When you get past William Kristol's mental masturbation and wet dreams - it is a collection of well over a hundred boring, pompous, turgid "analyses" from the "Project For the New American Century" think tank. Disregarding the Kristol contributions it is about projecting American power in a monopolar world to protect American hegemony over "resources" (i.e., oil).

Like Jack Nicholson said to Tom Cruse in A Few Good Men:

(Jack Nicholson) Jessep: You want answers?

(Tom Cruse) Kaffee: I think I'm entitled to them.

Jessep: You want answers?

Kaffee: I want the truth!

Jessep: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...

You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!

Follow these Links:

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You don't want the truth because deep down in your heart of hearts you know what the truth is:

* America's gluttony for SUV's driven by big butt suburban soccer moms taking spoiled kiddos to soccer games.

* The fear ever since 1980 with Ronald "It's Morning In America" Reagan's roll back of Jimmy Carter's Energy Program that Corporate Average Fuel Economy is the sancrosanct Third Rail of American Politics.

- The folk wisdom that SUV's are necessary to keep GM and Ford out of "Junk Bond" Status.

- The folk wisdom that SUV's are necessary to enable GM and Ford and Chrysler to pay pensions, retiree health benefits, and active employee health benefits.

- The folk wisdom that SUV's are necessary to keep Delphi out of Chapter XI.


* The "folk knowledge" that "we" will never run out of oil.

To paraphrase Jack Nicholson "You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that demands more oil then we " control"-- and we are running out of oil -- and the PNAC idea is to "protect our oil" by using American kids with guns."

Oh? AIPAC - its

And, I may not be marching lock step to some drummers - but I have had 30+ years in the energy industry -- and I am blogging about it at http://thinkersunderground.blogspot.com>

[Roland99]

5. I'm sorry but while I'm sure APIPAC is a strong lobby...

the AIPAC is tightly linked to the PNAC.

Just take a gander:

Analyst Charged With Passing Secret Info
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050504/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/pentagon_spy_probe_3&printer=1

The FBI arrested a Pentagon analyst Wednesday on charges that he illegally passed classified information about potential attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq to employees of a pro-Israel group.

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However, Franklin's top secret security clearance was suspended in June 2004, the Justice Department said. He formerly worked in the office of policy undersecretary Douglas Feith.

Remember, Feith is a PNACer.



Ashcroft Nixes Arrests in Israeli Spy Probe
by Matthew Barganier
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=3489

The neoconservative New York Sun is reporting that Attorney General John Ashcroft halted arrests in the Israeli spy case last Friday. From the Sun:

"According to sources familiar with the investigation, the U.S. district attorney in charge of the probe, Paul McNulty, has ordered the FBI not to move forward with arrests that they were prepared to make last Friday when the story broke on CNN and CBS. 'He put the brakes on it in order to look at it,' a source familiar with the investigation told the Sun. 'To see what was there. Basically the FBI wanted to start making arrests and McNulty said "Woa, based on what? Let's look at this before you do anything."' . . .

"Mr. McNulty was only assigned the case by Attorney General Ashcroft last Friday when federal agents came to AIPAC's offices in Washington to request files and hard drives. 'Ashcroft wanted to make sure this case was being handled properly,' the source familiar with the probe said. 'I would not expect any action on this for at least three weeks.' This source added that a grand jury is now being selected, but it was likely the charges, initially reported as espionage, would be scaled back to the mishandling of classified information."

The Sun's owners, who include Conrad Black, described the paper's outlook as "certainly neoconservative" when they launched it in early 2002.

Serving Two Flags
Neo-Cons, Israel and the Bush Administration
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5788.htm

(long article but details PNACer links to espionage on behalf of Israel.)

[Coastie for Truth]

7. Politics of Oil (APIPAC)

I have seen the seamy underside of Big Oil, see and I have been in adjudicatory proceedings against Big Oil, see . I have regulated "Big Oil" -- see my first "opus magnus"-->

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I was Project Officer for the original, red loose leaf version) -

and I have whipped their butts when they have sued me on their vaporware paper patents which they claimed all manner of renewable and alternative and clean energy (electric cars, fuels cells, solar energy).

And, I know enough to know that Halliburton is THE BIG PLAYER in oil field services, and pipeline construction construction, and petroleum refinery construction.

And I also know enough to know that The Carlyle Group is a big player in energy.

And, I know that when it comes to influence in Washington, AIPAC wouldn't make a pimple on the left butt cheek of an oil company CEO.

You can't take the truth of Kunstler or Deffeyes or Simmons or Goodstein or Engdahl - so you cite antiwar.com and innuendoes.

Hey -- gasoline is at $3.04 point 9 a gallon, oil profits are at record highs, the Big Three are talking more layoffs, more pension plan trimming, more health care trimming.

I've been there - talked the talk and walkedthe walk, bought t t-shirt.

I also know the difference between a beryl saddle and a raschig ring, and between a Sunni and a Shiite.

[Roland99]

8. It's more than just oil. Look at the rush to secure water rights now.

This admin and its key players are not a one-trick pony.

It's about spreading capitalism and needing to continue to feed the military-industrial beast. But, also, Israel is not going to stop seeking ways to secure its own future in the face of what it perceives to be threats from the Middle East.

This is a multi-pronged by people with enormous amounts of wealth and power.

[Coastie for Truth]

9. Have you ACTUALLY read

The PNAC documents?

William Engdahl's "A Century Of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order" or Matthew Simmons' "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy"?

Anything on "Peak Oil" - be it Kunstler's "The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century" or either of Deffeye's books, "Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak" or "Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage"?

Are you familiar with Craig Unger's "House of Bush, House of Saud : The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties"

Are you familiar with the "Sykes-Picot Agreement" between France and the UK to divide up the old Ottoman Empire?

Israel is about an n-th order, tertiary level effect - well behind oil and Saudi Arabia.

[Roland99]

10. Well, you can stick to your one-trick pony.

I believe that the oil industry is a very powerful force but I don't think you're seeing this from all angles. One of which being that securing the oil for capitalistic interests is one way to help protect Israel. Why does the U.S. give billions and billions in military aid to Israel but not to other countries in the region?

And, yes, I've read many documents from the PNAC (and Unger's book...I have that one.)

[KoKo]

6. kick...for those Serious DU'ers who actually READ LINKED POSTS!

and thanks for the "refresher." :-)'s