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Who Is Karen Kwiatkowski?
She's the author of an article Salon hypes as "The New Pentagon Papers." (Blogress Ana Marie Cox, who is witty even though left-wing, had the best take on this: Kwiatkowski's account "will undoubtedly surprise the three or four Salon readers who don't already believe that 'neoconservative agenda bearers . . . suppress[ed] and distort[ed] . . . intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods.' " Ted Kennedy has also cited Kwiatkowski, a retired Air Force intelligence officer, as an authority in a recent speech attacking the White House for liberating Iraq.
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Max Boot suggests Kwiatkowski is also something of a right-wing crank:
Since her retirement in March 2003, she has become a prolific contributor to isolationist publications like the American Conservative, Pat Buchanan's magazine, and lewrockwell.com, an ultra-libertarian website. Pretty much all her work is devoted to uncovering "neoconservative warmongers" who have supposedly taken over U.S. foreign policy.
She is not subtle in denouncing "Dickie Cheney, Richie Perle and Dougie Feith" (as well as, occasionally, "my pal, Max Boot"), whose "neoconservative philosophy is hateful to humanity, anti-American, statist and anti-free trade." (Anti-free trade?) She thinks the United States is a "maturing fascist state." And she predicts a dire fate for those who led us into the Iraq war: "Some folks on the Pentagon's E-ring may be sitting beside Hussein in the war crimes tribunals."
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