Title: 9/11 Truth: How Think Tanks Took Control of U.S. Government Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFeZi7Gjdis URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFeZi7Gjdis Published:Feb 20, 2007 Author:BBC documentary "Why We Fight" Post Date:2007-02-20 00:52:38 by robin Ping List:*9-11*Subscribe to *9-11* Keywords:None Views:71 Comments:1
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A new and important component of the mil A new and important component of the military industrial complex is the private right-wing think tank. These are paid policymakers who work in secret to create the Bush Administration's propanda, disseminate talking points to corporate media, and set U.S. foriegn policy -- all without being known by or held accountable by the American people. This clip features interviews with William Kristol of the Project for a New American Centrury (PNAC), Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, Dan Rather, and a man who lost his son in the WTC on 9/11. It tells the story of how PNAC created falsehoods and fantasies in the wake of 9/11 to justify their pre-9/11 plans to invade Iraq and Afghanistan.
This clip is from the BBC documentary "Why We Fight".
The Wall Street Journal in 2004 named the most important pro-corporate think tank opposing regulation to be the Mercatus Center, which has offices at George Mason University.
Wendy Gramm started Mercatus's regulatory review group in 1998.
Mercatus pushed for more logging in national forests, against stricter auto fuel-efficiency standards, against stricter mercury regulation, and against enforcement of clean air rules at power plants, among other things.
Its power was such that the Journal characterized it as "a kind of shadow regulatory authority. The White House's top regulator, John Graham, was briefly a member of Mercatus's board of advisers before taking the government post."