{"id":314078,"date":"2017-06-23T01:49:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T00:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-criminal-laws-of-counterinsurgency\/"},"modified":"2017-06-23T01:49:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T00:49:40","slug":"the-criminal-laws-of-counterinsurgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-criminal-laws-of-counterinsurgency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criminal \u2018Laws\u2019 of Counterinsurgency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A new book traces how the CIA and U.S. counterinsurgency warfare operatives adopted lessons from the Nazis\u2019 fight against the partisans and evolved into a dangerous law onto themselves, writes retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce.<\/p>\n<p>By Todd E. Pierce<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Valentine has once again added to the store of knowledge necessary for American citizens to understand how the U.S. government actually works today, in his most recent book entitled\u00a0<em>The CIA As Organized Crime<\/em>. (Valentine previously wrote\u00a0<em>The Phoenix Program<\/em>, which should be read\u00a0with the current book.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9220\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guantanamo-prisoners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/guantanamo-prisoners-300x300.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9220\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/guantanamo-prisoners-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guantanamo-prisoners-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guantanamo-prisoners.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9220\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/guantanamo-prisoners-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/guantanamo-prisoners-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guantanamo-prisoners-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guantanamo-prisoners.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the original detainees jailed at the Guantanamo Bay prison, as put on display by the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The U.S. \u201cdeep state\u201d \u2013 of which the CIA is an integral part \u2013 is an open secret now and the Phoenix Program (assassinations, death squads, torture, mass detentions, exploitation of information) has been its means of controlling populations. Consequently, knowing the deep state\u2019s methods is the\u00a0only hope of building a democratic opposition to the deep state and to restore as much as possible the Constitutional system we had in previous centuries, as imperfect as it was.<\/p>\n<p>Princeton University political theorist Sheldon Wolin described the U.S. political system in place by 2003 as \u201cinverted totalitarianism.\u201d He reaffirmed that in 2009 after seeing a year of the Obama administration. Correctly identifying the threat against constitutional governance is the first step to\u00a0restore it, and as Wolin understood, substantive constitutional government ended long before Donald Trump campaigned. He\u2019s just taking unconstitutional governance to the next level in following the same path as his recent predecessors. However, even as some elements of the \u201cdeep state\u201d seek\u00a0to remove Trump, the President now has many \u201cdeep state\u201d instruments in his own hands to be used at his unreviewable discretion.<\/p>\n<p>Many \u201cnever-Trumpers\u201d of both parties see the deep state\u2019s national security bureaucracy as their best hope to destroy Trump and thus defend constitutional government, but those hopes are misguided. After all, the deep state\u2019s bureaucratic leadership has worked arduously for decades&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/06\/22\/the-criminal-laws-of-counterinsurgency\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book traces how the CIA and U.S. counterinsurgency warfare operatives adopted lessons from the Nazis\u2019 fight against the partisans and evolved into a dangerous law onto themselves, writes retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce. By Todd E. Pierce Douglas Valentine has once again added to the store of knowledge necessary for American citizens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-314078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}