If the FBI and its institutional siblings in the counterintelligence community are singling out Jews for investigation maybe it’s time to investigate the ethnicity and loyalties of the investigators.
Over a century ago, in a world less politically correct, a newly appointed New York police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt made no bones about the fact that the New York police force was too Irish and too Catholic. Hence, inevitably, corrupt.
Roosevelt came to be appointed after the Lexow hearings into Police corruption in 1895. The results of the hearings were shocking even to the most cynical and callous New Yorkers. Every policeman on the force from the commissioner to the lowest foot patrolman was implicated. There was not a criminal activity the police were not directly involved in. Gambling, drugs and prostitution were police-run enterprises. So rich were the pickings that candidates for the force paid multiples of their annual salaries to be hired and larger multiples still to be promoted.
Tammany was swept out in the next election and the Dutch and English Protestant elites retook control of the city. Roosevelt was appointed commissioner with a mandate to clean up the police force. He immediately began recruiting Jewish cops. “Strong young Jews of the Macabee type” is what TR said he was looking for.
Papism and Popery are forgotten expressions today but they were common in TR’s time. The Draft Riots of the Civil War, when treasonous Irish Catholics, 70,000 strong, raised Confederate flags over New York and beat, raped, tortured, lynched, burned and mutilated black people in the single worst racial outrage in the nation’s history were still fresh. TR’s prejudices were well founded.
In WWI German Americans, especially German Catholics, sided with the Kaiser, fulminated against the British and did everything they could to keep America out of the war. In WWII, German Americans, almost exclusively Catholic, formed Bunds and wrapped themselves patriotically in the American flag while supporting Hitler and the Nazis. After Pearl Harbor, their leaders were arrested and charged with treason. But the rank and file, alas, weren’t rounded up and put into internment camps like the Japanese. That’s racism.
Search American history and you will not find any record of organized Jewish treason against the United States. Jews don’t belong to secret societies with foreign allegiances like Opus Dai as Robert Hanssen did. They don’t hold Church-based knighthoods like Pat Lang.
I have two suggestions for the counterintelligence community: First, open a dictionary and look up the word “intelligence.” Michael Scheuer doesn’t have any. You don’t have to hear or read Scheuer to know he’s stupid. His crew-cut head, bovine expression and tweedy jacket should be enough. I’ve only seen him on television so I haven’t seen his pipe but I’m sure he smokes one. He’s a textbook behema. A beeve on the hoof.
When someone makes as many mistakes and damages American security as much as David Szady, fire him. The Robert Hanssen mess clearly demonstrated that intelligence isn’t Szady’s strong suit. The Leung mess confirmed it. Give him a medal and show him the door.
Does anybody at the CIA imagine that Americans sleep better at night knowing that the Plames are manning the ramparts? I can see these two fashion plates riding to hounds in the Virginia hunt country. But intelligence? Station chief and ambassador? Ya gotta be kidding.
Hence, my second suggestion: Borrow a page from Teddy Roosevelt’s book. Clean up your ranks. Medieval Knights and members of secret orders beholden to foreign powers can’t be trusted with national secrets.
There is no shortage of American Jews among the CIA’s intelligence analysts. The NSA is the largest employer of mathematicians in the nation, a significant number of them Hebrews. Switch some of these folks into counterintelligence.
Give the American taxpayer some bang for his defense intelligence dollar for a change.
