The One Percent Doctrine
Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
by Ron Suskind · first published 2006
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What is the guiding principle of the world's most powerful nation as it searches for enemies at home and abroad? Who is actually running U.S. foreign policy? The story begins on September 12, 2001, as America began to gather itself for a response to the unimaginable. Journalist Suskind tells us what actually occurred over the next three years, from the inside out, by tracing the steps of the key actors who oversee the "war on terror" and report progress to an anxious nation; and the invisibles, the men and women just below the line of sight, left to improvise plans to defeat a new kind of enem
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…that, from the perspective of the instigators of the "War on Terror," is that you don't get to show off what a big dick you are when you pull off an effective intelligence operation. Suskind's book The One-Percent Doctrine is very revealing in this regard. There were effective intelligence operations against Al Qaeda, but the fruits of them were repeatedly squandered for egotistical reasons. In one case, the CIA decapitated…
on “Alleged Assassins Caught on Dubai Surveillance Tape” ↗…this case, the rot had spread from the top. There aren't really any formal organizational remedies for that, beyond changing the regime at the top. Check out the first two pages of the preface to The One-Percent Doctrine (http://books.google.com/books?id=gV3m6sYhnrsC&printsec=f...) ...at an eyeball-to-eyeball intelligence briefing during this urgent Summer, George W. Bush seems to have made the wrong choice.…
on “WikiLeaks and 9/11: What if?” ↗…maintain the stability and control presumably needed to resist hostile actions by the US empire that ironically professes freedom and democracy. There is a really interesting passage in Ron Suskind's book 'One Percent Doctrine' about the 2004 release of Bin Laden video, released four days before the US presidential election (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Osama_bin_Laden_video). The intelligence consensus was that this…
on “Noam Chomsky on the cruelty of American imperialism” ↗…it? I agree that you do not understand what I'm getting at. Maybe we should just table this. edited to add: "what exactly has been justified by the "ticking time bomb" experiment?" If you read The One Percent Doctrine, you will learn about the people the United States tortured to try to get intel about terrorist attacks, using the ticking time bomb justification. And hello, "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom…
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