{"id":1358,"date":"2003-03-10T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2003-03-10T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-10T17:53:00","slug":"star-chamber-insider-richard-perle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/03\/10\/13\/53\/star-chamber-insider-richard-perle\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Chamber Insider Richard Perle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/?030317fa_fact\">Hersh piece here about Richard Perle<\/a>, one of the scariest pro-war unelected weasels driving the US to war in the Middle East. It&#8217;s also a good eye opener about shadowy groups that make policy, such as the Defense Policy Group, a &#8220;Defense Department advisory group composed primarily of highly respected former government officials, retired military officers, and academics&#8221;. It&#8217;s like Risk, for real. What are their meetings like?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/?030317fa_fact\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hillman, a former McKinsey consultant, stunned at least one board member at the February meeting when he raised questions about the validity of Iraq&#8217;s existing oil contracts. &#8220;Hillman said the old contracts are bad news; he said we should kick out the Russians and the French,&#8221; the board member told me. &#8220;This was a serious conversation. We&#8217;d become the brokers. Then we&#8217;d be selling futures in the Iraqi oil company. I said to myself, &#8216;Oh, man. Don&#8217;t go down that road.'&#8221; Hillman denies making such statements at the meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/daily.nysun.com\/Repository\/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&#038;Type=text\/html&#038;Path=NYS\/2003\/03\/12&#038;ID=Ar00200\">Perle is suing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/mariner03222003.html\">in the UK<\/a>, even while he lays out his vision for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,918812,00.html\">Thousand Year American-Israeli Empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent Hersh piece here about Richard Perle, one of the scariest pro-war unelected weasels driving the US to war in the Middle East. It&#8217;s also a good eye opener about shadowy groups that make&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}