savages” and shown the revolt to have been in response particularly to settler land seizures. See Carl G. Rosberg Jr. and John Nottingham, The Myth of Mau Mau: Nationalism in Kenya (New York: Praeger, 1966).
97. Elkins, Imperial Reckoning, pp. xv-xvi.
98. Ferguson, Empire, p. xv.
99. Quoted by Andrew Gilmour, “How to Create Insurgents,” Spectator, January 24, 2004.
100. Ferguson, Colossus, p. 221.
101. Eric Margolis, “George Bush’s New Imperialism,” Toronto Sun, August 4, 2002. The major work on this subject is Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace. See also Karl E. Meyer, “Forty Years in the Sand: What Happened the Last Time Freedom Marched on Iraq,” Harper’s Magazine, June 2005, pp. 69-74.
102. The classic treatment is Khushwant Singh, Mano Majra (New York: Grove Press, 1956). Mano Majra is the name of a Punjabi village where Hindus and Muslims had lived in peace for hundreds of years until partition. Singh’s novel has since been reissued under the title Last Train to Pakistan.
103. Raychaudhuri, “British Rule in India,” pp. 366-67.
104. Ferguson, Empire, p. 297.
105. Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism, pp. 503-4.
3: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: THE PRESIDENT’S PRIVATE ARMY
1. Douglas Jehl, “Chief of CIA Tells His Staff to Back Bush,” New York Times, November 17, 2004; David Wise, “Sycophant Spies,” Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2004; Alexander Cockburn, “Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding,” Nation, December 20, 2004, p. 8.
2. Thomas Powers, “The Failure,” New York Review of Books, April 29, 2004, p. 4.
3. Melvin A. Goodman, “Righting the CIA,” Baltimore Sun, November 19, 2004.
4. See, among several references, the recollections of a CIA officer who actually heard Schlesinger’s remark: Ray McGovern, “Cheney’s Cat’s Paw: Porter Goss as CIA Director,” Counterpunch, July 6, 2004, http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern07062004.html.
5. See James Moore and Wayne Slater, Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential (New York: Wiley, 2004).
6. Scott Ritter, “A Silver Lining in Bush’s New CIA Pick?” AlterNet, May 16, 2006, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/articlel3063.htm.
7. Loch K. Johnson, America’s Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 21.
8. See Willard C. Matthias, “An Assault upon the National Intelligence Process,” in America’s Strategic Blunders: Intelligence Analysis and National Security Policy, 1936-1991 (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001), pp. 293-314.
9. Among the recommended books on the agency’s past activities are William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995); Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (New York: Penguin, 2004); Frederick H. Gareau, State Terrorism and the United States (Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2003); Greg Grandin, Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (New York: Metropolitan, 2006); Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (New York: Henry Holt, 2006); John Kenneth Knaus, Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival (New York: Public Affairs, 1999); James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (New York: Free Press, 2006); Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (New York: New Press, 1999); Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, expanded ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999); Richard H. Schultz Jr., The Secret War Against Hanoi (New York: HarperCollins, 1999); and Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch, Global Intelligence: The World’s Secret Services Today (London: Zed Books, 2003).
10. Quoted by Johnson, America’s Secret Power, p. 36.
11. William M. Arkin, “Secrecy Is the CIAs Stock in Trade, and the Agency’s Hidden Weakness,” Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2004; Nick Schwellenbach, “Government Secrecy Grows Out of Control,” Common Dreams News Center, September 24, 2004, http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0923- 05.htm; Dorothy Samuels, “President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy,” New York Times, November 1, 2004; Kevin Freking, Associated Press, “Feds Increasingly Classify Documents,” ABC News, July 2, 2005.
12. See, for example, Admiral Stansfield Turner [DCI, 1977-81 ], Terrorism and Democracy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), pp. 27 ff.; Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Secrecy: The American Experience (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), pp. 8- 9,168-69; Mark Riebling, Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11, How the Secret War Between the FBI and CIA Has Endangered National Security (New York: Simon & Schuster Touchstone Books, 2002); Hersh, “Why the Government Didn’t Know What It Knew,” in Chain of Command, pp. 87- 103.
13. For details, see Seymour M. Hersh, “Getting Out the Vote,” New Yorker, July 25, 2005. Also see Hannah Allam and Warren P. Strobel, Knight Ridder News Service, “CIA Keeps Hold of Iraq’s Intelligence Service in Turf War,” San Diego Union Tribune, May 9, 2005; Gareth Porter, “The Coming Shi’ite Showdown,” Antiwar.com, May 13, 2005; Patrick Cockburn, “Americans Accused of Interfering in Iraq Election,” Independent, July 18, 2005.
14. Johnson, America’s Secret Power, p. 43.
