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Those are just the “comfortable” ones. There was the Business Plot in the ’30s — a coup planned by a group of right-wing moneyed folks who didn’t care for FDR and were perfectly happy to sweep aside our Constitution. And, as I pointed out in the article, there’s a very strong case to made that the series of apartment bombings in Moscow in 1999 that brought Putin into power and led him to relaunch the war in Chechnya were planned and perpetrated by the FSB. (David Satter, former Moscow bureau chief for the FT wrote a very persuasive book on the matter called Darkness at Dawn (Yale Press).)
The trick is both to be intellectually honest enough to recognize the uncomfortable ones and intellectually sober enough not to start seeing them where they don’t exist…
