At 4:31 PM -0500 2/10/05, OpinionJournal wrote: >Ex-CIA Man Uncovers Jewish Conspiracy! > >Remember Michael Scheuer? He's the former CIA analyst who penned an >anonymous book called "Imperial Hubris" attacking the Bush >administration's approach to terrorism. When we last saw him >http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110005930 , in November, he was >explaining to Tim Russert that American support for Israel is to blame for >anti-American terrorism, and that Osama bin Laden is "in many ways . . . >an admirable man." > >Last week Scheuer turned up as a speaker at the Council on Foreign >Relations in New York, with Nick Lemann, dean of the Columbia University >journalism school, acting as master of ceremonies. Scheuer elaborated on >his theory about Israel's role on fomenting terror: > >*** QUOTE *** > >Questioner: I am Richard Whalen. I'm a writer, and I'm working on a book >that's looking at the preliminaries to World War II, when we last had a >debate about whether we should go to war before we were thrust into war. I >want to congratulate you on reintroducing some of the fundamental issues >and questions that have to be addressed before you go to war in a >democratic society. > >And you have particularly focused on the forbidden subject of whether the >United States has any limits with the spoiled child of Western >civilization, the state of Israel, which insists upon having its own way, >to the extent we must read the Israeli press on the Internet and read [the >Israeli newspaper] Haaretz so that we see real criticism of a policy that >has gone too far. Now, you have taken some criticism for your approach. >I'd like to hear what you feel about this subject. > >Scheuer: I always have thought that there's nothing too dangerous to talk >about in America, that there shouldn't be anything. And it happens that >Israel is the one thing that seems to be too dangerous to talk about. And >I wrote in my book that I congratulate them. It's probably the most >successful covert action program in the history of man to control--the >important political debate in a country of 270 million people is an >extraordinary accomplishment. I wish our clandestine service could do as >well. > >The point I would make--the point I try to make basically in the book is >we just cannot--we can no longer afford to be seen as the dog that's led >by the tail. I've tried to be very clear in saying we have an alliance >with the Israelis. We have a moral obligation to try to work through this >issue, if we can. But I don't think we can afford to be led around, or at >least appear to be led around by them. And I certainly, as an American, >find it unbearable to think there's something in this country you can't >talk about. That's really my spiel I guess on that, sir. > >Lemann: Gary? > >Scheuer: It was interesting to see the sheet suggested ways to review >"Imperial Hubris" that came out from AIPAC [the American Israeli Public >Affairs Committee]. [Laughter] > >Questioner: I'm curious--Gary Rosen from Commentary magazine. If you could >just elaborate a little bit on the clandestine ways in which Israel and >presumably Jews have managed to so control debate over this fundamental >foreign policy question. > >Unknown: All you have to do is look at this landscape of American politics >and see how many people who have raised this issue of the Israeli >relationship. > >Scheuer: Well, the clandestine aspect is that, clearly, the ability to >influence the Congress--that's a clandestine activity, a covert activity. >You know to some extent, the idea that the Holocaust Museum here in our >country is another great ability to somehow make people feel guilty about >being the people who did the most to try to end the Holocaust. I find--I >just find the whole debate in the United States unbearably restricted with >the inability to factually discuss what goes on between our two countries. > >*** END QUOTE *** > >So let's see if we have this straight: The Council on Foreign Relations >gives a public forum, hosted by a dean from an Ivy League university, to a >guy who expounds crackpot theories about "clandestine" Jewish efforts to >control America--including the Holocaust Museum!--and the "debate" is >"unbearably restricted"? > >And let's remember that Scheuer isn't just any old nutcase. He is, as >Lemann said in his introduction, "the former head of the CIA's Bin Laden >Unit." The quality of intelligence over at Langley would appear to have >been even lower than anyone suspected.
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