WorldNetDaily is publicizing today that Lawrence Kaplan, senior editor of The New Republic is publicizing a secret new team in the State Department. And now I'm publicizing it and should be ashamed of myself.
Kaplan says the administration last month formed a secretive body led by Vice President Cheney's daughter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Liz Cheney, called the Iran-Syria Operations Group.
Cheney has more than $80 million at her disposal to promote democracy in Iran and help craft official policy, according to Kaplan.
Kaplan said a spokesman for the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs won't comment on the existence of the group, which parallels State's understaffed Iran desk.
"Unsurprisingly," says Kaplan, "this has led to grumbling at NEA, with staffers complaining the Bush team has set up its own Iran shop and has been making end runs around the State Department's traditional bureaucracy."
Two points. First, how can our country keep secrets if we won't keep secrets? Somebody told Kaplan, and Kaplan told WorldNetDaily, and WND told me, and now I'm telling you. C'mon. If it's a secret, I don't want to know.
Second, let the State Department whine about this new group "making end runs around the State Department's traditional bureaucracy." Bureaucracy--especially State Department bureaucracy--deserves to have end runs made around it. The State Department's traditional purpose has been the preservation of the status quo in the world. And when the status quo changes, then the State Department tries to preserve the new status quo.
Q. What's the status quo in Iran?
A. Apocalypse-loving, Holocaust-denying, genocidal, oppressive, repressive mullah-crats on the fast track to nuclear weapons, with their true-believing President-Puppet making inflammatory speeches.
Q. Why would we want to preserve this?
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