{"id":803,"date":"2006-12-02T04:28:53","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T09:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/02\/stephen-cambone\/"},"modified":"2006-12-02T04:36:05","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T09:36:05","slug":"stephen-cambone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/02\/stephen-cambone\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Cambone"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newamericancentury.org\/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Project for the New American Century\"><strong>Rebuilding America&#8217;s Defenses<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"234\" height=\"142\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/procurement.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><em>The program we advocate &ndash; one that would provide America with forces to meet the strategic demands of the world&rsquo;s sole superpower &ndash; requires budget levels to be increased to 3.5 to 3.8 percent of the GDP.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">A couple of months before Bush was elected, the <strong>Project for the New American Century<\/strong> published a report <strong>Rebuilding America&#8217;s Defenses<\/strong>. The panel included a few familiar faces &#8211; Paul Wolfowitz, I. Lewis Libby, William Kristol. The panel lamented the decrease in&nbsp; Defense <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"98\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"74\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:g8M21WP7xgoTxM:http:\/\/www.conspiracyplanet.com\/images\/cambone2.jpg\" \/>spending during the Clinton Administration and recommended a hefty increase in spending &quot;to meet the strategic demands of the world&rsquo;s sole superpower.&quot; One member of that panel was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Cambone\"><strong>Stephen Cambone<\/strong><\/a> from the <strong>National Defense University<\/strong>. He was also on the panel in January 2001 at the <strong>National Institute for Public Policy<\/strong> [with Stephen Hadley] that recommended the use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons.<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">With Bush&#8217;s inauguration, Cambone became Rumsfeld&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/1066\" target=\"_blank\">Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation<\/a><\/strong> [known as Rumsfeld&#8217;s &quot;henchman&quot;]. He is the author of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomflocco.com\/Docs\/Dsn\/DodStaffNotes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">notes<\/a><\/strong> from a meeting with Rumsfeld on 9\/11 that said &quot;Hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] @ the same time &#8211; Not <u>only<\/u> UBL [Osama Bin Laden].&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"159\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oneutah.org\/oneutah-filez\/graphics\/cambone.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">When we invaded Iraq in 2003, Cambone became the <strong>Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence<\/strong>, spearheading and directing Rumsfeld&#8217;s takover of Intelligence from the C.I.A., working closely with Douglas Feith of the <strong>Office of Special Plans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Cambone came to public attention in the investigation of the <strong>Abu Ghraib<\/strong> prison torture scandal. In spite of his central role in the Intelligence Program, he was evasive and closed mouthed in the hearings [see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20040531\/vest\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Implausible Denial<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/stclair02072006.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rumsfeld&#8217;s Enforcer<\/strong><\/a>]. When this is all said and done, Stephen Cambone is going to join his boss and Douglas Feith as the real rogues in the coming Defense Department Intelligence gathering&nbsp; and torture scandal.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">In the wake of Rumsfeld&#8217;s firing, Stephen Cambone <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&#038;storyid=2006-12-02T013825Z_01_N01372370_RTRUKOC_0_US-PENTAGON-CAMBONE.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>resigned<\/strong><\/a> yesterday. Remember his name&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebuilding America&#8217;s Defenses &nbsp; The program we advocate &ndash; one that would provide America with forces to meet the strategic demands of the world&rsquo;s sole superpower &ndash; requires budget levels to be increased to 3.5 to 3.8 percent of the GDP. A couple of months before Bush was elected, the Project for the New American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}