On his excellent site, Robert Steele has a PORTAL: Collective Intelligence

Here is his COMMENT of 3 Nov 05.

Two forces have come together in our mind in the past week, and today we acknowledge both. On the one hand, as we further our strategy of Googlizing intelligence (Google still cannot data mine, visualize, game, translate, or connect people quickly with one another and with relevant information, but that is coming), we have realized this week that the pathologies of the secret intelligence community are what enabled the pathologies of the neo-conservatives, aided by the dishonest vapidity of most Members of the Senate and the House–the Republicans cravenly took orders from the White House (Dick Cheney specifically, as President Pro Tem of the Senate), and the Democrats cravenly let themselves get steam-rolled and sold out their constituencies as the extremeist Republicans sold out their country.

Secret intelligence is for all practical purposes dead as a force for good. At this time, with the $9 billiion satellite as the poster child of classified idiocy, the US Intelligence Community is a sucking chest wound in the Executive Branch, and unlikely to be operated on in a meanigful way anytime soon. However, and we are moved with admiration for Ambassador Joseph Wilson, this week we also saw the power of truth and openness.

In our 53 years on this planet, we have never seen a more balanced, elegant, articulate, exposition of relevant truth and honor as we witnessed when Ambassador Wilson spoke to the National Press Club this week, as covered by C-SPAN. It became crystal clear that it is Dick Cheney that has betrayed all Americans, and the Republic, many many times.

While we opposed the war and spoke truth to power in the run up to the war, and we have an adequate record of intregrity and honor, Ambassador Wilson caused us to realize that we had not done enough. Today we have released the final in a series of press releases relevant to America’s difficulties in the world. Today’s press release is somewhat unique in that it went to US1 (all outlets everywhere), to the paid lists of senior journalists that cover the White House, the Pentagon, and Foreign Affairs, to every publisher in America, and by fax, to every Member of Congress.

This release itemizes the crimes that Cheney has committed, and calls for his resignation before Christmas. Karl Rove, while he may be a maggot, is not the real deal. It will not be enough for Congress to pretend to go after Rove, all the while protecting Cheney. Cheney has been “outed” (in more ways than one, but we won’t go there). Now we get to see if the American people, and the rather lazy unimaginative “Fourth Estate” called the media, will do the job of making Cheney untenable as a sitting Vice President. If Cheney does not resign before Christmas, ideally to be replaced by John McCain, whom we would eagerly support for President in 2008, then this country can kiss good-bye to whatever hopes it might have had of suriving the multiple debacles that have enriched Cheney while gouging flesh and blood from the Republic.

It is time for all men and women of good will who care for this wonderful country called America, to stand and be counted. IOP ‘06 is not a money-making event, but if you want to be subtle, sign up for it, and we promise a grand surprise. It is hard, we know, to do the right thing in the face of enormous bureaucratic and professional pressure. What Ambassador Wilson did at the National Press Club was nothing short of releasing the pressure valve. It’s over–Dick Cheney is history. The only question is: will America rise to the occasion? God Bless America, which is no longer represented by the likes of Dick Cheney. St.

Press Release [MS Word format].

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