Friday, July 05, 2013

Point of pride for the USA

Today in "Business Insider." 

You just have to wait long enough for Wall Street to make fools of themselves. 

The United States Has The Most Potent Capture And Kill Operation In The History Of The World (click here) 
Michael Kelly

....JSOC even ran an interrogation program, parallel to the CIA’s black sites, that would provide the administration with even more flexibility and less oversight.

Rumsfeld worked to make sure that the unit was “unrestrained and unaccountable to anyone except him, Cheney, and the president” while Cheney began going to JSOC headquarters at Fort Bragg in North Carolina to give direct action orders.

That is my favorite picture of Dick. It has an authenticity no other picture portrays. This is before his heart transplant.

“It grew and went out of control under the vice president. It kinda went wild,” Vincent Cannistraro, a career CIA counterterrorism officer, told Scahill. “There were a couple of places where, because they weren’t coordinated, they weren’t informed, they killed people that were not real targets. They were wrong. It happened, frequently.”

In September 2003 JSOC, led by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, was running the show in Iraq, including training Iraqi Special Ops units that became unaccountable death squads.

It was also making its presence known in Afghanistan.
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (Ret.), a career military intelligence officer who wrote the book “Operation Dark Heart,” wrote that JSOC’s force in Afghanistan “had the best technology, the best weapons, the best people — and plenty of money to burn.... 

Rumsfeld always dreamed of the robotic military. Getting close. By the time the USA gets the robotic military ready the Chinese hackers will be able to control it if Snowden doesn't beat them to it.