Can't wait for PNAC to come back into the talking points.
PNAC - Project for a new american century. Our usual cast of characters (Bush Cheney Bolton Rumsfeld BillKristol) who used their 'policy vision' to usher in the Patriot Act.
Anon's who haven't looked into this can look at this article from the wayback machine https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20151202222604/http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_04.htm
Short summary
In the summer of 2000, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neo-conservative think tank riddled with soon to be Bush administration officials and advisors, issued a document calling for the radical restructuring of U.S. government and military policies. It advocated the massive expansion of defense spending, the re-invasion of Iraq, the military and economic securing of Afghanistan and Central Asia, increased centralized power and funds for the CIA, FBI, and NSA, among a slew of other policies that would, in the near future, be enacted upon their ascension to power. In the same document, they cite a potential problem with their plan. Referring to the goals of transforming the U.S. and global power structure, the paper states that because of the American Public's slant toward ideas of democracy and freedom, "this process of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor." (ibid.)