Here are some insightful and well-researched pieces on the Committee on the Present Danger, what it is, who they are, and the threats it poses to the future of an open and free democratic republic. For those who want to understand the history of the players involved in the current administration, and how the current threats to the future of America’s constitutional republic have historical antecedents that stretch back for decades, should definitely read these reports.

A good piece by Jim Lobe from Common Dreams on the neocons reviving the vehicle of this organization dedicated, even if only inadvertently, to perpetual war and its national security state apparatus.

An article from 2001 from In These Times contributing editor Jason Vest on the history of Donald Rumsfeld and almost predicting the course of events that would transpire through his reign at the Pentagon and in the Bush administration.

Conservative Patrick Buchanan weighs in as well on the hypocrisy that this cabal of power reveals in what their true motivations are and the threats they pose to the nation.

All of this brings to mind Paul Craig Roberts’ essay on the NeoCons being a modern form of Jacobin radicalism, what with their revolutionary dictatorship relying on their own ‘Committee of Public Safety’ as an organ of state repression.