I like this. An article in a major metropolitan daily (Boston Globe) with a whole lot of the names of the neocon cabal identified as such in a specific sense. The word neocon is misused often these days. It doesn't mean 'Pat Buchanan but younger'. It doesn't refer to the holy rollin' gun nuts either. It's these people and they're dangerous if allowed to fester in secrecy. This article is a hopeful sign...

RIPPLE EFFECT
Indictments put focus on neoconservatives
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff October 29, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The indictment and resignation of I. Lewis ''Scooter" Libby yesterday deprives the White House of one of its most influential national security thinkers, a powerful advocate for some of the Bush administration's most far-reaching foreign policy decisions since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
His pending legal battle, however, could also bring new scrutiny to the actions of the close-knit group of officials, many of them his old friends and colleagues from previous Republican administrations, who had long agitated for overthrowing Saddam Hussein and who are accused of exaggerating the threat from Iraq to achieve their goal, according to current and former government officials and specialists.
As the point man in the seat of power for the so-called neoconservatives, Libby was perfectly suited to carry their message: In 1992, as a senior Pentagon official, he coauthored a secret military blueprint asserting that the United States must ''act independently when collective action cannot be orchestrated" to protect its interests by force. The draft document was never approved, but had a key word -- ''preempt" -- that became synonymous with a more aggressive, unilateral US foreign policy... http://tinyurl.com/94nqj
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