In and of itself, the U.S. Armed Forces has become a self-perpetuating and autonomous system within a republic and under the total command of one executive official, the President. This is basically why the President, Secretary of Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff totally resent constitutionally mandated congressional oversight. This condition has resulted not from the application of law, but, rather, from the indulgent allowances offered by the Congress to the chief executive ever since George Washington issued the first presidential decree without congressional consent. Though strange, unchallenged traditions can eventually be claimed to possess the effect of settled law, even if they clearly violates the letter of the U.S. Constitution. I personally believe that what is clearly unconstitutional cannot be made constitutional by capricious declarations of the U.S. Supreme Court. If this be so, a higher law should appropriately intervene to reverse such a ruling. And such a higher law should only be a vocally dissenting majority of the U.S voting age population, which unites to oppose and abolish such an illegality.

It may be presumed that George W. Bush’s recent nomination of Michael Hayden, an Army general and former head of the NSA, to head the CIA as Director of Central Intelligence, is a major step toward a fascist military approach to intelligence gathering and covert unsanctioned operations. It is a matter of record that our sitting president has already, under a banner of national security, secretly ordered the establishment of secret foreign CIA prisons and an extensive program of spying on the American public. In an effort much more technologically sinister than J. Edgar Hoover’s covert tape recording of public figures around the world, which the deranged man found sexually arousing, the NSA has spied on and recorded millions of American telephone conversations. Dubya has used clandestine executive orders since early 2001 to authorize the CIA and Department of Defense to engage in highly unscrupulous, if not illegal, activities. Case-in-point, a high-level CIA officer’s secret meeting with Osama Bin Laden at a French hospital where Bin Laden was undergoing renal surgery. This meeting was in August 2001, immediately prior to 9/11, while an existing order for Bin Laden’s arrest had been in effect since late 2000, signed by President Clinton. This particular CIA officer left Bin Laden resting comfortably after a suspicious two hour dialogue and immediately returned to Washington to report to his superiors at Langley. Why wasn’t Bin Laden surveiled at the hospital and subsequently taken into custody? Was the CIA somehow involved in the subsequent 9/11 WTC and Pentagon bombings? These questions were not posed by the 9/11 Commission for investigation. Why do you suppose this was so?