CSIS – About CSIS (Part of Planning for Homeland Security before 9/11?) (Updated)
Posted by bg on July 8, 2007
Update 7/8/07
Brzezinski, Kissinger, et al, Shill Global Slave Plantation
As it turns out, these “few grains of truth” soon transmutated into a virtual silo of evidence, not that we should expect the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to publish a follow-up. A few days later, on May 24, WorldNetDaily reported: “A powerful think tank [the Center for Strategic & International Studies] chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc.”
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Update 5/27/07
Link: DEFENDING THE AMERICAN HOMELAND
Update 5/24/07
North American Union Plan Will Go to Congress In Fall
WASHINGTON – A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc. The final report, published in English, Spanish and French, is scheduled for submission to all three governments by Sept. 30, according to the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
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1/27/07
Homeland Security Department: Another Production of the Real Shadow Government
John Stanton is a Virginia-based writer specializing in national security matters
back in December of 2000, CSIS was one of the first out of the starting gate to propose the creation of a Department of Homeland Security in its Homeland Defense: A Strategic Approach. The 2002 Homeland Security Department proposal sent to the US Congress by the current regime is based almost entirely on CSIS’s proposals. Why so much influence from this particular 501 c (3) that has a paltry operating budget of US $17.5 million? CSIS boasts on its Board and Advisory Board former US Defense Secretaries William Cohen and Harold Brown, former Senator Sam Nunn, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, retired USAF General Brent Scowcroft, and former DCI James Woolsey, among other US military and civilian “retirees”. Also on the CSIS staff are six Military Fellows representing
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http://www.csis.org/about/trustees/
Chairman
Sam Nunn* ** — Cochairman & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Vice Chairman & Co-Founder
David M. Abshire — President, Center for the Study of the Presidency
Chairman of the Executive Committee
William A. Schreyer* — Chairman Emeritus, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee
Anne Armstrong* — Former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain
President & CEO
John J. Hamre* — President & CEO, CSIS
Trustees
- George L. Argyros — Chairman & CEO, Arnel & Affiliates
- Richard Armitage — President, Armitage International
- Betty Beene — Former President & CEO, United Way of America
- Reginald K. Brack — Former Chairman & CEO, Time, Incorporated
- William E. Brock** — Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
- Harold Brown** — Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
- Zbigniew Brzezinski** — Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
- William S. Cohen — Chairman & CEO, The Cohen Group
- Ralph Cossa — President, Pacific Forum/CSIS
- Richard Fairbanks** — Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
- Michael P. Galvin* — President, Harrison Street Capital, LLC
- Linda W. Hart — Vice Chairman & CEO, The Hart Group, Inc.
- Ben W. Heineman, Jr. — CSIS Trustee and Senior Adviser
- Thomas O. Hicks — Chairman, Hicks Holdings LLC
- Carla A. Hills** — Chairman & CEO, Hills & Company
- Ray L. Hunt — Chairman & CEO, Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
- E. Neville Isdell — Chairman & CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
- Henry A. Kissinger** — Chairman & CEO, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
- Kenneth G. Langone — President & CEO, Invemed Associates, LLC
- Donald B. Marron — Chairman & CEO, Lightyear Capital
- Joseph Nye — Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
- E. Stanley O’Neal — Chairman and CEO, Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc.
- Felix G. Rohatyn — President, Rohatyn Associates, LLC
- David M. Rubenstein — Cofounder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
- Charles A. Sanders — Former Chairman & CEO, Glaxo Inc.
- James R. Schlesinger** — Senior Adviser, Lehman Brothers, Inc.
- Brent Scowcroft** — President, Forum for International Policy
- Rex Tillerson — Chairman & CEO, Exxon Mobil Corporation
- Murray Weidenbaum — Hon. Chair, Weidenbaum Center, Washington University
- Dolores D. Wharton — Retired Chairman & CEO, The Fund For Corporate Initiatives, Inc.
- Frederick B. Whittemore — Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley
COUNSELORS
- William E. Brock — Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
- Harold Brown — Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
- Zbigniew Brzezinski — Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
- Frank C. Carlucci — Counselor, CSIS
- Richard Fairbanks — Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
- Carla A. Hills — Chairman & CEO, Hills & Company
- Henry A. Kissinger — Chairman & CEO, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
- Sam Nunn — Cochairman & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative
- James R. Schlesinger — Senior Advisor, Lehman Brothers, Inc.
- Brent Scowcroft — President, Forum for International Policy
