Just like a criminal that goes my many aliases...

...so are the neocons who were associated with or supported the Project for a New American Century. They're back, with a spanking new name: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Yes, democracies...like, say, Qatar, which is controlled by an unelected emir. And it's got an associated organization, Defense of Democracies, which is devoted entirely to advocacy of the U.S. government spying on its own citizens in the name of "keeping America safe." The group's mission:

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) is the only nonpartisan policy institute dedicated exclusively to promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that drive terrorism.
FDD was founded shortly after 9/11 by a group of visionary philanthropists and policymakers to engage in the worldwide war of ideas and to support the defense of democratic societies under assault by terrorism and Militant Islamism.

FDD uniquely combines policy research, democracy training, strategic communications, and investigative journalism. We focus our efforts where opinions are formed and, ultimately, where the war of ideas will be won or lost: in the media, on college campuses, and in the policy community, at home and abroad.

I wonder how they reconcile "democratic values" with authoritarian government spying on its own people.

Its Board of Directors is a who's who of neocon crazies:

Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick (founders)
Louis Freeh, Newt Gingrich, Max Kampelman, Holy Joe Lieberman, and R. James Woolsey, "Distinguished (sic) Advisors."

Check out the rest of them.

Why don't these guys don uniforms, pick up guns, and go defend democracies in a REAL way?