Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (65 page)

“defense transformation” program,
143
–45,
148
–51,
195

DeLay, Tom,
261
–63

Delta Force,
40

democracy

      imperialism and,
55
–56,
62
,
70
,
77
,
88
–89

      threats to, in U.S.,
9
–14,
17
–19,
21
–22,
60
,
249
,
278
–79

Democratic Party,
92
,
255
,
262

Denmark,
131

depleted-uranium ammunition,
197

deportation hearings, secret,
249

Depression,
271
,
273
–74

Der Monat
(German newspaper),
106

desk murderers,
21
–23,
45

detainees,
38
,
249
,
251
,
266
–67.
See also
prisoners of war

Detainee Treatment Act (2005),
258
–59

Diamond, Larry,
158
–59

dictatorship,
19
,
152

possibility of, in U.S.,
14
,
267
–69,
278

Diego Garcia (military base),
36
,
124
,
147

Diem, Ngo Dinh,
250

DINA.
See
Chilean Army Directorate of National Intelligence

Dinges, John,
108

Directorate of Intelligence (DI),
93
–94,
101

Directorate of Operations (DO),
93
,
96
,
101
,
114

Director of National Intelligence, CIA replaced by,
135

Disney World,
6

Djibouti (military base),
147
,
166

Dobbs, Michael,
214

dollar, value of,
271

Dolman, Everett,
215
–16

Domenici, Pete,
265

domestic surveillance,
94
,
250
–51,
254
–57,
266

Dominican Republic,
94
,
163

Donnelly, Thomas,
148

Doolittle, John,
261

Dora Farms compound bombing,
33

Dower, John,
76

Dratel, Joshua,
39

driving accidents, military bases and,
6
,
174
–75,
182
,
190

drugs,
5
,
77
,
83
,
110
–11,
117
,
126
,
165
,
167
,
182

Duarte Frutos, Nicanor,
168

Duelfer, Charles,
99

dugong,
195

Dulles, Allen,
95
,
136

Dulles, John Foster,
136

Dutch Empire,
279

Dyer, Reginald “Rex,”
79

DynCorp,
165

earmarks,
115
,
229
,
260
,
262
,
264
–65

Earth Institute,
33

East Asia,
78
,
81
,
143
,
178
–79,
182
,
199
,
201
,
207

Eastern Europe,
36
,
157
,
174

East Germany,
172

economy

      defense spending and,
5
,
8
,
17
,
138
,
269
–79

      imperialism and,
77
–78,
80
–85

Ecuador,
94
,
164
–66,
169
–70,
176

Ecuadoran Congress,
166

Eddie Bauer company,
263

Education Department,
263

Efron, Sonni,
15

Egypt,
9
,
36
,
74
,
78
,
87
,
94
,
112
,
116
,
122
–125,
128
–35

Ehmann, Amy,
155

Eichmann, Adolf,
21
–22,
34

Eichmann in Jerusalem
(Arendt),
21

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
18
,
95
,
103
,
136
,
216

elections

      campaign contributions and,
242
,
259
,
261
,
269

      Founding Fathers and,
15
–17

      imperialism and,
88

      of 2000,
143

      of 2004,
8
,
33
,
101
,
144
,
199
,
255
,
261

Elkins, Caroline,
86

Ellsberg, Daniel,
246

EloyAlfaro Air Base (Ecuador),
165

El Salvador,
3
,
112
,
164
–65

Encounter
(British newspaper),
106

Endangered Species Act,
149

Energy Department,
7
,
263
,
276

Entebbe International Airport (military base),
148

environmental pollution,
6
,
145
,
149
,
172
–74,
194
–95,
204

Equatorial Guinea,
148

Erato (mythic figure),
10

Essex
, USS (amphibious assault ship),
198

Eucom,
61

eugenics,
76

euphemisms,
120
–21

Euripides,
68

European Convention on Human Rights,
123

European Parliament,
123

European police authority,
131

European Space Agency,
235
–37

European Union,
235

Everitt, Anthony,
56
,
61
–63,
65
–67

Executive Orders

      11905 (on assassinations),
250

      13233 (on Presidential Records Act),
248

      secret (on FISA),
255
–57,
266

exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV),
222
–28

“Exterminate All the Brutes”
(Lindqvist),
76

extraconstitutional centers of power,
20
–21

extraordinary renditions,
36
,
38
,
102
,
104
,
119
–35,
152
,
268

extraterritoriality,
172

Faisal II, king of Iraq,
46

Fallujah,
15
,
29
,
32
,
33
,
46

“false flag” agents,
106

Falwell, Jerry,
4

Farber, Dan,
252

Fast, Barbara,
40

Federal Aviation Administration,
125

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
37
,
42
–43,
104
,
109
,
121
–23,
168
,
246
–47,
254

federal courts (judiciary branch),
15
–16,
20
,
60
,
186
,
246
–47,
266
–69

Federal Election Commission,
261

federalism,
16

Federalist Papers,
59

Federation of American Scientists,
18

Fein, Bruce,
250
–51

Feinstein, Dianne,
149
,
150

Feith, Douglas,
99
–100,
144
,
149

Feldman, Noah,
249
,
259

Ferguson, Niall,
71
,
74
–75,
77
,
79
–87

Fifth Corps,
44

Fifth Air Force,
202

Financial Times
,
71

First Armored Division,
141
,
153

First Infantry Division,
141
,
153

First Corps,
202

first-strike capability,
97
–98

FISA court,
254
–56

Fisk, Robert,
31
,
49

Flanigan, Timothy,
38

Flynn, Michael,
165

Foley, Brian,
266
,
267

Foner, Eric,
75
,
76

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), U.N.,
28

“force projection,”
6

Ford, Gerald,
246
,
249
–50

Foreign Affairs
,
167

Foreign Assistance Act (1974),
102

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, 1978),
254
–56,
266

Foreign Operations bill (2004),
263
–64

Forell.Paul,
128
,
129

Forster, E. M.,
80

Fort Benning (Georgia),
163

Fort Bragg (North Carolina),
128

Fort Carson (Colorado),
142

Fort Greely (Alaska),
210
,
222

Fort Lewis (Washington State),
202

Forward Operation Sites (FOSs),
146
–48,
153
,
155
,
159
–60,
164

Founding Fathers,
15
–16,
55
,
59
,
88
–89,
267
–68

Fourth Amendment,
254

Fourth Infantry Division,
162

Fox, Vicente,
164

Fox News
,
23

Foz do Iguacu, Brazil,
167

France,
48
,
54
–55,
63
,
73
,
85
,
148
,
236
,
279

Frankfurter, Felix,
253

Frankfurt International Airport,
156

Franklin, Benjamin,
15
–16,
89

Franks, Tommy,
14
–15,
30

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA, 1966, 1974),
42
,
44
,
245
–48,
250

freedom.
See also
democracy

      free market and,
82
,
84
–85

      of religion,
152

“Free Major Brown” Web site,
187
–88

free market,
82
–85,
164

FreeRepublic.com Web site,
125
–26

free trade,
77
,
81
–85

Frei, Eduardo,
105
–6

French Foreign Legion,
147

Fried, Daniel,
153

Friedman, Thomas,
3
,
80
–84

From the Shadows
(Gates),
90

Fukuchi Dam,
173

Fukuda.Yasuo,
183

Fukuoka High Court,
188

FuldaGap,
142

“full spectrum dominance,”
138

Furukawa, Teijiro,
193

Futenma Marine Corps Air Station, (Japan),
193
–98,
204
–6

Future of Freedom Foundation,
27

Gabe, Masaaki,
191
,
205

Gabon,
148

Gaffney, Frank, Jr.,
211
–13

Galaxy IV satellite,
238
–39

Galileo navigation system,
235
–36

Gap, the,
263

Garfield, Richard,
28
,
29

Garlasco, Marc,
33

Garmisch facility (Germany),
6
,
155

Gamer, Jay,
50

Gates, Robert M.,
90
,
96
,
110

Gaul,
63
,
66
,
74

General Dynamics,
262
,
264

General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, The (Keynes)
,
271
–72

Geneva Accords of 1988,
117

Geneva Conventions,
4
–5,
8
–9,
23
,
25
,
27
,
36
–37,
43
–44

genocide,
29
,
86

George III, king of Great Britain,
16

George Washington, USS (aircraft carrier),
202

Georgia (former Soviet state),
20
,
152

geosynchronous or geostationary orbit (GEO) satellites,
237
–39

German Social Democratic Party,
154

Germany,
14
,
73
,
85
,
123
,
141
–43,
145
,
149
–50,
153
–57,
174
,
176
,
178
,
201
,
269
,
274

      Nazi,
21
–22,
121
,
273

      unification of,
157

Ghana,
148

“ghost detainees,”
124
–25

Ghost Wars
(Coll),
112

Gibbon, Edward,
55
,
57
,
67

Gibson, McGuire,
49

Gilman, Benjamin,
262

Gingrich, Newt,
212

Ginowan, Japan,
193
–98

Girard, William S.,
175
–76,
181

Glina, Marsela,
132

global communications,
141

global Echelon eavesdropping system,
156

Global Hawk UAV,
233

globalization,
77
,
80
–85