With a tip of the hat to Robert Waters (Watersblog), we’ve learned that “Anonymous,” author of Imperial Hubris, is a CIA veteran named Michael Scheuer.

Google revealed nothing on the fellow, but a look at this article from the Boston Phoenix web site reveals that his name was not kept secret because he wanted it that way or to protect his safety; rather, it’s a strange set of CIA rules and procedures: “[H]is forced anonymity is both unprecedented and telling in the context of CIA history and modern politics.”

And the Boston Phoenix site that this:

[I]f liberals seem ecstatic that yet another career national-security official is blasting the Bush administration for unnecessarily invading Iraq and bungling the so-called war on terror, they’re also horrified by Anonymous’s apparent advocacy (largely rhetorical, actually) of a military campaign that includes “killing in large numbers” and “a Sherman-like razing of infrastructure” as part of “relentless, brutal and blood-soaked defensive military action until we have annihilated the Islamists who threaten us.”

And as I described Sunday [HERE and HERE], he also favors the doctrine of preemption.