THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

ELIZABETH | 2005-12-27

Elizabeth says,

:I used to wonder why the CIA has such a terrible track record

at analyzing intelligence. Then I found out that almost all

CIA analysts are recruited from the Ivy League colleges.

Later, I found out that you can't be hired by the CIA to

analyze intelligence if you're over 37. "

"Okay, so that's two good reasons for their lousy track

record. "

"Supposedly, they're working on the Ivy League fixation.

(I don't know how to italicize "Supposedly" here.)"

"Another intelligence agency supposedly doesn't have an

age ceiling for civilian analysts. "

MY REPLY:

Let me concentrate onthe Ivy League fixation first.

If you cut all the crap, we know htat the Ivy League is dedicated to putting out Marxists and other who believe that the "intellectuals" - meaning htose who hop through all the hoops in the educational establishment-- should rule the rule.

We know that all debate allowed inthe Ivy League is between the left and the far left.

Then we take the resulting people on to run the intelligence estalishment.

If one resides on the planet earth, it is clear that the Ivy-League-dominated CIA cannot tell whether someone is an actual traitor or not.

To quote one editorain, "I am not loyal to a particular people or a particular cnountry --- that is nationalism. I am loyal only to ideals of hte United States."

Traitors ALWAYS -- pace Joe -- claim to have been loyal to a set of Ideals that are higher than patriotism, which is considered nationalism by Political Correctness, our estabished faith. A Marxist genuinely believes he is loyal to Ideals, and that is the opposite of treason.

So how does one CIA Ivy Leaguer tell whether another is committing whatever is currently in favor at the Harvard faculty as "lotalty." The Supreme Court regularly changes whatever the meaning of America is.

Which brings us full circle. A Wordist society has no fixed loyalty of any kind. That is in a state of flux, depending on what the "living Constitution" means right now. Like all forms of Wordism, loyalty depends on what set of priests is in power at the moment.

This makes the whole idea of intelligence incomprehensible. You need some rednecks and Irish Micks, who not even a PhD can get off a fixation with Us Versus Them, to do the Real Work while the budget goes to the Ivy Leaguers.

The Torricelli amendment destroyed intelligence on the ground. It said that no informer could be hired unless he were cleared with the head men at the CIA. The head men at the CIA are a bunch of Ivy Leaguers. NOT ONE SINGLE head of station even sent one of their reliable informers names in for clearance.

"Head of station" is a British term but it is simpler and more familiar to everybody because of the Bond novels. In the various American intelligence outfits, it's a little hard to tell exactly who the head of station is, so I use the term for simplicity.

That last sentence was for Joe. I've used the term before and nobody had any difficulty understanding what I meant.

Why wouldn't people on the ground submit the names of their informers to what Brits once called home station or HQ?

Obviously they trust the Ivy League machine to keep any secrets. The names could easily go to Senator Kennedy's staff and anyone else who might find them profitable.

As one diplaomatic official of the USSR said after the Cold War ended, "Contacts, contacts. That was always the real job of EVERYBODY (pace Joe) sent to the West, the UN, embassies, or anywhere else."

Those contacts, Americans recruited to get infomration, knew how to get the names out of Kennedy staff or their fellow Idealists in the CIA. If you give the names of your informants to CIA headquarters, it would be a lot kinder just to shoot them first.

And I repeat, the reaction to the Torricelli Amendment demonstrated that everybody KNEW that.

In fact, even the media agreed that the Torricelli Amendment destroyed on-the-ground intelligence. Nobody discussed why, because it was assumed everybody knew why.

In fact, thought the Torricelli Amendment was talked about a lot for a few months after 9/11, I haven't seen a word about it since.

Everybody knows about the informers, but if you can concentrate on other things and forget this incident, they can continue to hide in plain sight.

WORDISM: EXPERTS ARE PAID GUESSERS | nationalsalvation.net

The point is that Expert Advice, the stuff I got paid for, is always just a GUESS. But my guess could be wrong.

The way it should work is that real leaders pay me to hear my guesses and then make serious decisions.

But some people take the guesses of people like me and turn them into Eternal Truths. That is Wordism. People who followed Marxist Wordism killed at least a hundred million people in the last century.

Which puts you front and center. "Hey Bob, that doesn't ring true to me."

Screw the Experts. Your job is NOT to listen obediently to US EXPERTS. You provide US EXPERTS with a LIVING. Thanks for the money.

But when the direction of our world is decided, it is YOUR job to make the call.

MINUTEMEN, THE MEDIA AND THE BORDER: A SENSE OF HUMOR IS A SENSE OF PROPORTION | 2005-04-16

Let us say that you are in Britain in 1916. Across the English Channel, men are being killed in numbers never even imagined in history before. On the front in France a whole generation is dying in poison gas, on barbed wire, by charging into machine guns, by being bitten by huge rats in the trenches.

This has been going on for two years.

Then someone goes from Britain across the Channel for a soccer game, and the press suddenly announces, "There is trouble in France." All the media go down to see, besides this routine World War I, what might happen in this soccer game to cause REAL trouble in Europe.

Wouldn't that be sad? Wouldn't that be insane?

Wouldn't that be so nuts it would be hard to comment on?

What do you do when everybody loses all sense of proportion?

Our prisons in the two largest states, Texas and California, are burgeoning with murderers and rapists who have crossed the border illegally. Mexico routinely protects Mexican rapists and murderers who go back to their homeland after child molesting, murder and more against American citizens.

But the Minutemen went down to the border and the media were suddenly galvanized. Suddenly, without the slightest awareness of how ridiculous they were being, they all announced that there might be real trouble on the Mexican border.

After decades of massive slaughter by those crossing the border, we are suddenly faced with "real" trouble.

And what is this "real" trouble? Some Americans, the Minutemen, are going down to the border and reporting illegals to the border patrol.

Like a soccer team crossing the Channel in 1916, these Minutemen are about to cause "real" trouble on the Rio Grande.

And nobody cracks a smile.

NATIONS: THE FOURTEEN WORDS ARE ALREADY AMERICA'S PURPOSE | nationalsalvation.net

The Declaration of Independence was a propaganda document.

It was Declaration written in a period of full scale war.

No one takes the bulk of it seriously, where everything is blamed on the King. Everyone at the Convention had lived under English law their whole lives, and they knew very well that the King could not do the things he was accused of without Parliament.

But there is only one short sentence of criticism for the Parliament. That's where our sympathizers were, a minority, thought a strong one.

Not one delegate, including Jefferson who wrote it, took the phrase to French liberals, "All men are created equal," seriously.

Most people don't know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

America had only adopted one statement which summarizes what America exists for: "To secure the blessings of Liberty for ourselves and our Posterity."

If you trying to write the most total rejection of "a nation of immigrants" you possibly could, that is what you say.

The Gettysburg Address was delivered by a President who declared martial law during his reelection campaign. There was no question in Lincoln's mind that he was declaring a Revolution" "dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal."

How many men would have fought for the Union if they were informed that they were not fighting for the unity of their homeland, not even for the good of their own children, but for one single proposition?

In 1857 the Supreme Court wrote a book-length decision, Missouri versus Dred Scot, which went into detail about how America was founded and dedicated to white people: "A black man has no rights under the Constitution that a white man need respect."

The Gettysburg Address was a war measure.

Just as the Declaration of Independence was a war measure.

Literate grown men in 1776 did not declare something as absurd as "all men are created equal" without a really good excuse.

Literate grown men in 1776 did not say "I want to kill Englishmen" at just any time.

So, until the Gettysburg Address, America was officially established to ensure a future for our white children.

The revolution to a propositional state is only valid if you accept the military dictatorship that enforced it.

This nation IS dedicated to a proposition, and it is fourteen words long.