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a follow-up interview with us, Victor further noted: ‘Animosity from government had been present for some time [before the fatal crash]. It was not only Walter’s stand on Vietnam and Cambodia that angered Nixon, but also I had exposed some CIA elements inside labor, and this was also associated with Walter. . . . There is a fine line between the mob and the CIA. There is a lot of crossover. Throughout the entire history of labor relations there is a sordid history of industry in league with Hoover and the mafia. . . . You need to check into right-wing corporate groups and their links to the national security system.’ Checking into such things is no easy task. The FBI still refuses to turn over nearly 200 pages of documents regarding Reuther’s death, including the copious correspondence between field offices and Hoover. And many of the released documents—some of them forty years old—are totally inked out. It is hard to fathom what national security concern is involved or why the FBI and CIA still keep so many secrets about Walter Reuther’s life and death.”

64. See discussion in Jack N. Rakove, “Taking the Prerogative Out of the Presidency: An Originalist Perspective,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 37, no. 1 (March 1, 2007): 85–100; Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (New York: Rodale, 2007), 153–58.

65. Interview with David Frost, aired May 11, 1977, in Schwarz and Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced, 159; Robert D. Sloane, “The Scope of Executive Power in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction,” Boston University Law Review 88 (2000): 341,

http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/bulr/documents/SLOANE

.pdf, 346.

66. Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment inside the Bush Administration (New York: Norton, 2007), 82.

67. Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency, 183.

68. Minority Report, Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, 100th Congress, 1st sess., House Report No. 100-433, Senate Report No. 100-216, 465.

69. Schwarz and Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced, 174.

70. Schwarz and Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced, 72; cf. Sloane, “The Scope of Executive Power in the Twenty-First Century,” 347.

71. Cf. the investigative journalist and media critic Philip Weiss, “When Black Becomes White,” in Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press, ed. Kristina Borjesson (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002), 186: “The mainstream media’s response [to theories of the Kennedy assassination] has been a dull one—to solemnly and stoically report the government’s assertions, over and over.”

72. Scott, The War Conspiracy, 10, 383, 395.

73. Gabriel Kolko, The Roots of American Foreign Policy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), xii–xiii.

74. James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, “Spying Program Snared U.S. Calls,” New York Times, December 21, 2005.

75. Gareth Porter, “Attack Iran? Cheney’s Already Tried,” AlterNet, June 10, 2008, http://www.alternet.org/audits/87488: “Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Vice President Dick Cheney last summer [2007] for air strikes against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps bases by insisting that the administration would have to make clear decisions about how far the United States would go in escalating the conflict with Iran, according to a former George W. Bush administration official. J Scott Carpenter, who was then deputy assistant secretary of state in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, recalled in an interview that senior Defense Department officials and the JCS used the escalation issue as the main argument against the Cheney proposal. McClatchy newspapers reported last August that Cheney had proposal several weeks earlier ‘launching airstrikes at suspected training camps in Iran,’ citing two officials involved in Iran policy.”

76. Borjesson, Into the Buzzsaw, 13. Even former George W. Bush spokesman Scott McClellan has referred to the media in his book as “complicit enablers” of Bush administration war propaganda (Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception [New York: Public Affairs, 2008], 70, 125).

77. Washington Post, September 8, 2006. Cf. BBC, “Paranoia Paradise,” April 4, 2002, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1909378.stm. The common tactic of such essays is to focus on absurdly eccentric beliefs and try to pass them off as representative of all those criticizing received anticonspiratorial opinion.

78. E.g., Paul L. Atwood, “War and Empire Are and Always Have Been the American Way of Life,” Global Policy Forum, February 2006, http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/2006/022006history.htm.

79. Alexander Cockburn, “The Age of Irrationality: The 9/11 Conspiracists and the Decline of the American Left,” CounterPunch, November 28, 2006, http://www

.counterpunch.org/cockburn11282006.html.

80. Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War, 123, cf. 13–14; Herbert Franz Schurmann, The Logic of World Power: An Inquiry into the Origins, Currents, and Contradictions of World Politics (New York: Random House, 1974).

81. Michael Klare, Beyond the “Vietnam Syndrome” (Washington, DC: Institute for Policy Studies, 1981).

82. E.g., Robert Wright, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Slate, October 11, 2001 http://www.slate.com/id/117170.

83. Scott, The Road to 9/11, 57–61. Cf. Jerry Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment (Boston: South End Press, 1983).

84. L. Fletcher Prouty, The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World (1997), http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ST.

85. Prouty, The Secret Team, chap. 2.

86. G. William Domhoff, quoted in Conspiracies, Cover-Ups, and Crimes: Political Manipulation and Mind Control in America, by Jonathan Vankin (New York: Paragon House, 1991), 125–26.

87. Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, 11.

88. Parenti, Dirty Truths, 188.

89. This has been doubted in the case of the JFK assassination, notably by Noam Chomsky. For my latest contribution to this old argument, see Scott, The War Conspiracy, 285–340.

90. Scott, The War Conspiracy, 14; Michael Standaert, Skipping towards Armageddon: The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire (Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2006), 112–14.

91. Charlie Savage, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (New York: Little, Brown, 2007), 51. Strangely, Savage does not mention COG by name, but he refers to the decade