Over the last few years I have had many discussions with friends and co-workers regarding what happened to Obama: Why did his foreign and terrorism policy morph from candidate Obama’s anti-war / Nobel peace prize vision to the continuation of the Bush foreign policy? My question has been was Obama a liar, did he change, or is he not in control?
The Boston Globe just recently published an interview with the author of a book that I think best explains this. The book, National Security and the Double Government, claims this shadow goveernment rose during the Truman Administration’s attempt to deal with the growing national security infrastructure.
If this author is correct, I suppose the good news is this has been going on for over 60 years, and the internet is allowing this to finally shedding some light on this. Perhaps this proves Charles Bukowski was right – “The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.”
Looking at the (very few) Amazon comments one struck me as conspiracy theory at it’s best.
Be very careful about this book. Mr. Glennon blames a “Trumanite network”–the several hundred managers of the military, intelligence, diplomatic, and law enforcement agencies who are responsible for protecting the nation and who have come to operate largely immune from constitutional and electoral restraints, for the creation of a “double government” of the U.S.
This is pure disinformation; an effort to put us off the scent.
The true Invisible Government of the U.S. resides at the Harold Pratt House in Manhattan, headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Council on Foreign relations has infiltrated the United States government to the point that currently for all purposes the American government has become a branch of the CFR. In the past forty years, most American presidents, vice-presidents, Secretaries of State, Undersecretaries of State, CIA Directors, Supreme Court judges, high rank Pentagon officers, NATO commanders, not to mention Federal Reserve Bank and IRS directors, belong to this group of globalist conspirators who have openly expressed their opinion that we need to get rid of the US Constitution and eliminate the country’s sovereignty.
Now, would you be surprised to discover that Michael J. Glennon is a proud member of the Council on Foreign Relations? Don’t trust me, ask him.