and Barry Goldwater paid a lot of "visits" to the WH before he resigned. General Haig had allegedly taken some steps in the removal from office with Pentagon backing-the "black bag" with the codes and authorizations to launch a nuclear strike was supposedly neutralized from Nixon.
What we have today is much worse imo. The politization of our military was mentioned in the coup paper.
The politization may be discerned from some of the titles of theses authored by military intelligence members from 1973-2002, which are available and were collected under FOIA.
It helps to know the acronyms and jargon-especially OOTW (Operations Other Than War).
Here is a link from The Memory Hole "Titles of Master's Theses From the Joint Military Intelligence College, 1973-2002" by Michael Ravnitzky
http://www.thememoryhole.com/spy/jmic-theses.htmSpeaking of acronymns, the fact is that a lot of the high-technology directed energy weapons (DEW's) and nonlethal weapons (NLW's) confirm some of what is available since patents and contracts have been awarded.
"Nonlethal Weapons: Terms and References" from 1996
http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/nonlethal.htmlDEW Acronymns from US Navy
http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/bibs/dewacro.htmNLDEW
http://www.defense-update.com/features/du-1-05/NLW-DEW.htmThese systems are real-it is critical that those who posess the authority to use them do so within the framework of our Constitution-not some BFEE extreme ideology where everyone is a terrorist, terrorist supporter or potential terrorist on a "list". Btw, a lot of this tech is available commercially!