http://www.alternet.org/books/greed-power-and-endless-war-james-risen-tears-lid-americas-dirty-wars
Throughout the war on terror, greed and power have flourished just as
readily back home in the United States, where the government’s surging
counterterrorism spending created a new national security gold rush. The
post-9/11 panic led Congress to throw cash at the FBI, CIA, and
Pentagon faster than they were able to spend it. Soon, a
counterterrorism bubble, like a financial bubble, grew in Washington,
and a new breed of entrepreneur learned that one of the surest and
easiest paths to riches could be found not in Silicon Valley building
computers or New York designing clothes but rather in Tysons Corner,
Virginia, coming up with new ways to predict, analyze, and prevent
terrorist attacks —or, short of that, at least in convincing a few
government bureaucrats that you had some magic formula for doing so.
Consider the example of Dennis Montgomery. He provides the perfect
case study to explain how during the war on terror greed and ambition
have been married to unlimited rivers of cash to create a climate in
which someone who has been accused of being a con artist was able to
create a rogue intelligence operation with little or no adult
supervision. Crazy became the new normal in the war on terror, and the
original objectives of the war got lost in the process.
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