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Date: June 27, 2007 10:33:22 AM PDT
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Subject: Domestic Special Ops -- Closing the Barn Door
William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security
Special Operations Prepared for Domestic Missions
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/06/
special_operations_prepared_fo.html#more
The U.S. Northern Command, the military command responsible for
"homeland defense," has asked the Pentagon if it can establish its
own special operations command for domestic missions. The request,
reported in the Washington Examiner, would establish a permanent
sub-command for responses to incidents of domestic terrorism as
well as other occasions where special operators may be necessary on
American soil.
The establishment of a domestic special operations mission, and the
preparation of contingency plans to employ commandos in the United
States, would upend decades of tradition. Military actions within
the United States are the responsibility of state militias (the
National Guard), and federal law enforcement is a function of the FBI.
Employing special operations for domestic missions sounds very
ominous, and NORTHCOM's request earlier this year should receive
the closest possible Pentagon and congressional scrutiny.
There's only one problem: NORTHCOM is already doing what it has
requested permission to do.
When NORTHCOM was established after 9/11 to be the military
counterpart to the Department of Homeland Security, within its
headquarters staff it established a Compartmented Planning and
Operations Cell (CPOC) responsible for planning and directing a set
of "compartmented" and "sensitive" operations on U.S., Canadian and
Mexican soil.
In other words, these are the [same, formerly secret] special
operations that NORTHCOM is now formally asking the Pentagon to
beef up into a public and acknowledged sub-command.
NORTHCOM's compartmented and sensitive operations fall under the
Joint Chiefs of Staff "Focal Point" program, a separate
communications and planning network used to hide special operations
undertaken by the Joint Special Operations Command, headquartered
in North Carolina, and by CIA and other domestic compartmented
activities.
Since 2003, the CPOC has had a small core of permanent members
drawn from the operations, intelligence and planning directorates.
In an emergency, the staff can be expanded. According to NORTHCOM
documents, CPOC is involved in planning for a number of domestic
missions, including:
-- Non-conventional assisted recovery
-- Integrated survey programs
-- Information operations/"special technical operations"
-- "Special activities"
What are all of these programs? CPOC's basic missions include
responding to incidents of weapons of mass destruction, support for
Continuity of Government (COG), protection of the President,
response to domestic terrorism and insurrection and (presumably)
domestic intelligence collection. ("Special activities" is a
euphemism for covert operations.)
A number of operations plans have been associated with these
domestic operations:
-- CONPLAN 0300 is the basic contingency plan for combating
domestic terrorism (and may have been folded into newer such plans
now under the control of U.S. Special Operations Command).
-- "Power Geyser" is the contingency plan for incidents of weapons
of mass destruction in the Washington area. This includes both
recovery of a stolen nuclear weapon or disabling of an improvised
weapon or dirty bomb.
-- USNORTHCOM Antiterrorism Operations Order 05-01 deals with
domestic counterterrorism and domestic intelligence against groups
intent on attacking military interests.
With all this going on, for NORTHCOM to ask permission now seems
beside the point. Still, it's always better to ask. Isn't it?
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