September 15, 2007 (LPAC)--Candace de Russy, a leader of the Lynne Cheney-founded American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) that works for a crackdown on campus resistance to the Bush-Cheney administration, has come out explicitly for increased secret-police surveillance of students and the denial of civil liberties. Writing in National Review Online of Sept. 11, De Russy raves that "in order to protect our lives in face of homegrown and foreign terror, we may have to limit our constitutional protections."

De Russy's new tirade -- written in response to a police report on Islamist influence on American students -- substantiates in her own words precisely what was said about her and her boss, Lynne Cheney, in the Executive Intelligence Review ("John Train's Press Sewer: Is Goebbels on Your Campus?," October 13, 2006) and in the widely-distributed pamphlet, "Is Joseph Geobbels On Your Campus? John Train and the Bankers' Secret Government" (LaRouche Political Action Committee, October, 2006).

When that EIR report came out last year, De Russy wrote in National Review, that EIR "accuses me (and [ACTA president] Anne Neal, and many other of our fellow higher-education reformers) of 'attempting to impose a Gestapo over American education that would wipe out resistance' and of being part of 'a political dirty-tricks cartel, centered on the Vice President's wife, Lynne Cheney, and Wall Street operative John Train.' This is yet another insane conspiracy theory, and I for one am proud to have made this Who's Who list of intrepid reformers." [ed-emphasis added]

De Russy's latest self-exposure comes in her article (National Review Online, Sept. 11, 2007) praising a report on the danger of students becoming terrorists, entitled "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat," published in August by the New York Police Department (NYPD) Intelligence Division.

De Russy says the NYPD report "zeros in on the Muslim Student Association ... which up until now law enforcement authorities have refrained from prominently singling out." She complains that "protests of 'government spying on campus'" have deterred the FBI and police from counterintelligence operations at U.S. schools. She cites arch neo-conservative Steven Emerson on "the need to disrupt militant clusters within such groups through intelligence-gathering, such as the use of informants and covert surveillance," and she suggests that security agencies should "recruit reliable informants who are in a position to know."

The Sister Cheney "Goebbels Corps" is still at it.