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Obama administration expands elite military
unit’s powers to hunt foreign fighters globally
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=174198#174198
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Dan Lamothe November 25
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U.S. Special Operations forces travel through the
village of Fatisah in the northern Syrian
province of Raqqa on May 25, 2016. (Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images)
The Obama administration is giving the elite
Joint Special Operations Command the
organization that helped kill Osama bin Laden in
a 2011 raid by Navy SEALs expanded power to
track, plan and potentially launch attacks on
terrorist cells around the globe, a move driven
by concerns of a dispersed terrorist threat as
Islamic State militants are driven from
strongholds in Iraq and Syria, U.S. officials said.
The missions could occur well beyond the
battlefields of places like Iraq, Syria and Libya
where Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) has
carried out clandestine operations in the past.
When finalized, it will elevate JSOC from being a
highly-valued strike tool used by regional
military commands to leading a new multiagency
intelligence and action force. Known as the
“Counter-External Operations Task Force,” the
group will be designed to take JSOC’s targeting
model honed over the last 15 years of conflict
and export it globally to go after terrorist
networks plotting attacks against the West.
The creation of a new JSOC entity this late in
the Obama’s tenure is the “codification” of best
practices in targeting terrorists outside of
conventional conflict zones, according to the
officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity
to discuss administration deliberations. It is
unclear, however, if the administration of
President-elect Donald Trump will keep this and
other structures set up by Obama. They include
guidelines for counterterrorism operations such
as approval by several agencies before a drone
strike and “near certainty” that no civilians
will be killed. This series of presidential orders is known as the “playbook.”
[CIA drone strikes will get pass in counterterrorism ‘playbook’]
The new JSOC task force could also offer
intelligence, strike recommendations and advice
to the militaries and security forces of
traditional Western allies, or conduct joint
operations, officials said. In other parts of the
world, with weak or no governments, JSOC could act unilaterally.
The global focus is reminiscent of when U.S.
forces first went after al-Qaeda in the months
after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. As approaching
U.S. troops forced militants to flee their safe
havens in Afghanistan and scatter across the
globe, the United States followed in pursuit,
using CIA assets to grab suspected al-Qaeda
operatives in dozens of countries, sometimes
capturing and imprisoning them under murky legal
authorities and using interrogation techniques widely seen as torture.
Some in the Pentagon hope to see the new task
force working in tandem with the CIA, elevating a
sometimes distant relationship to one of constant
coordination to track and go after suspected
terrorists outside of traditional war zones.
[A breakdown of some of the gear U.S. Special
Operations forces are using in Syria]
In recent years the agency’s involvement in
global paramilitary operations has waned with
fewer strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, and its
armed drones in Syria transferred to the
Pentagon. It’s still unclear how much the CIA may
be willing to cooperate with JSOC and more
broadly with the Pentagon following the White House’s decision.
The agency, with its broad contacts overseas,
espionage networks and long experience in covert
operations still has much greater reach than JSOC.
The CIA declined to comment.
The new JSOC task force will report to the
Pentagon through the U.S. Special Operations
Command, or SOCOM, according to U.S. military
officials, creating a hybrid command system that
can sidestep regional commanders–with their
coordination–for the sake of speed.
In the past, units such as the Army’s Delta Force
which is part of SOCOM and its subordinate
command JSOC were usually deployed under those
regional commanders, known as geographic
combatant commands. The new task force, however,
will alter that process by turning SOCOM’s chief,
Army Gen. Raymond “Tony” Thomas, into a
decision-maker when it comes to going after
threats under the task force’s purview. While
Thomas will help guide certain decisions, the
operations will ultimately have to be approved by
the White House and the Pentagon.
The task force will essentially turn Thomas into
the leading authority when it comes to sending
Special Operations units after threats.
“Now [Thomas] can request whatever he wants and …
unless there’s some other higher competing
priority, the combatant commanders have to cough
it up,” said a former senior defense official.
Turning SOCOM into a command with a global reach
has been on the table for the last 15 years. In
2001, Air Force Gen. Charles Holland, then
SOCOM’s commander, was hesitant to create a
command structure that would effectively put
SOCOM on the same level as the geographic
combatant commanders. He believed it would cause
too much friction with regional commanders.
Instead, he decided that only in rare instances
would SOCOM actually direct Special Operations forces.
[Obama outlines plans to expand U.S. Special Operations forces in Syria]
It remains to be seen if the new organization
will generate tensions between Special Operations
Command and the generals in charge of U.S. forces
in places such as the Middle East or Europe. In
his March congressional confirmation testimony,
Thomas suggested that assigning more authorities
to SOCOM would allow for “synchronized
operations” against nonstate threats that span
geographic boundaries. But regional commanders,
all four star generals, guard their turf carefully.
Officials hope the task force, known throughout
the Pentagon as “Ex-Ops,” will be a clearinghouse
for intelligence coordinating and targeting
against groups or individuals attempting to plot
attacks in places like the United States and Europe.
According to officials familiar with plans for
the task force, it will initially draw on an
existing multinational intelligence operation in
the Middle East that tracks foreign fighters,
called Gallant Phoenix, and one of JSOC’s
intelligence centers in Northern Virginia.
While in the past the smaller task forces, such
as Gallant Phoenix, were staffed by
representatives from different intelligence
agencies, the new task force aims to have
decision-makers present, ensuring that the
targeting process happens in one place and quickly.
“Layers have been stripped away for the purposes
of stopping external networks,” said a defense
official. “There has never been an ex-ops command
team that works trans-regionally to stop attacks.”
The defense official said U.S. intelligence and
law enforcement agencies will support JSOC
personnel as they synthesize information and
offer recommendations on how to handle specific threats.
Over the past decade JSOC has also built strong
relations with police agencies in Germany,
Britain, France and Turkey, as they have moved to
combat the flow of foreign fighters returning to their home countries.
The number of participating intelligence
agencies, both internationally and U.S.-based
within the task force is in flux, the official
added, as intelligence-sharing laws and internal
friction have kept some on the periphery of the organization.
[U.S. Special Operations forces begin new role
alongside Turkish troops in Syria]
JSOC rarely mentioned by name by U.S. officials
due to the clandestine nature of its work was
cited specifically by Defense Secretary Ashton B.
Carter last month in Paris after he and Thomas
met with defense ministers involved in the fight
against the Islamic State. The command “has been
put in the lead” of countering the Islamic
State’s external operations outside conflict
zones, Carter said, surprising some defense officials in Washington.
A senior administration official, asked to
comment on the plan, issued a statement that did
not use JSOC’s name, but acknowledged the role
Special Operations forces play in tracking
foreign fighters away from the battlefield.
“These forces on the ground, operating in close
concert with our partners, have gathered critical
intelligence off the battlefield, and have shared
that information with our coalition partners and
allies,” the statement said. “This information is
helping us ramp up actions against [Islamic
State] leaders and operatives planning attacks,
track foreign fighters returning to their home
countries and improve law enforcement actions
aimed at interdicting potential plotters.”
Adam Entous, Greg Miller, Dana Priest and Wesley
Morgan contributed to this report.
Peter Dale Scott wrote:
VoltaireNet: In this context, why doesn’t the
U.S. Congress fulfill its legal obligations in
overseeing the limitation of the secret powers of
the Deep state – a limitation implemented after
the Watergate scandal? What were the consequences
of Nixon’s impeachment and the subsequent
strengthening of Congress oversight on the secret
operations of the United States intelligence agencies?
Peter Dale Scott: Nixon’s Vietnam strategy
consisted of attempting to gain the other hand by
making strategic deals with both the Soviet Union
and China. This produced violent opposition from
both hawks and doves in a deeply divided nation;
and I believe that hawks from both the CIA and
Pentagon were part of the engineered Watergate
crisis that led to his resignation. In the
aftermath, doves in the 1974 “McGovernite
Congress” achieved a number of reforms in the
name of more public politics, abolishing a state
of emergency that had survived since the Korean
War, and establishing Congressional and legal
restraints on the CIA and other aspects of secret
government. These reforms in turn immediately
produced a concerted mobilization to overturn
them, and restore the status quo ante. Underlying
this political debate was a disagreement in the
nation’s leadership between so-called “traders”
and “Prussians,” as to whether America, in the
wake of the Vietnam fiasco, should strive to
return to its former role as a preeminent trading
nation, or whether it should respond to the
Vietnam defeat by a further buildup of its armed forces.
This struggle was simultaneously a struggle
between moderates and militarists for control of
the Republican Party. This culminated in the
demise of Nixon and the gradual redirection of
United States foreign policy in the Ford
presidency from peaceful coexistence with the
Soviet Union towards plans for the weakening and
destruction under Ronald Reagan of what Reagan
called “the evil empire.” Thus in October 1975,
the highly probable involvement of Dick Cheney
and Donald Rumsfeld in the palace revolution
known by historians as “The Halloween Massacre”
meant the defeat of Nelson Rockefeller’s moderate
Republicanism, and its gradual replacement by the
hard-edged anti-communism of Ronald Reagan.
Essentially, it meant the reorganization of
Ford’s team toward the demise of détente, along
with America’s huge defense budgets in the 1980’s and again today.
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, then heading the
White House staff of President Gerald Ford and
controlling the Department of Defense, played a
key part in securing the ultimate triumph of the
Prussians, by demoting Henry Kissinger and
appointing George H.W. Bush as head of the CIA,
where he arranged for a new, more alarmist
estimate of the Soviet threat (which explains the
correlated skyrocketing of defense budgets, and
the demise of détente). Since then, we have
observed an increasing influence of what Dwight
D. Eisenhower called the military-industrial
complex (in his farewell address of January 17th,
1961) on the United States’ political economy.
Today we have a new extended state of emergency,
and Congressional oversight has become almost
defunct. For example, legally mandated
congressional oversight of the CIA’s covert
operations has been successfully evaded by the
creation in 1981 of the Joint Special Operations
Command (JSOC) in the Pentagon, which simply
incorporates CIA personnel into its operations.
JSOC, now known as the Special Operations
Command, has become the locus of covert Pentagon
operations, of the sort conducted under General
Stanley McChrystal, before he was appointed the
US commander in Afghanistan......
LS: Are Wall Street interests at the very heart of the deep state?
PDS: Yes. In my book I … the initial notion of
the deep state is the public institutions and
then overshadowed by NSA, CIA, JSOC and the
Pentagon – all these new secret institutions –
and that is your first level of the deep state.
But these agencies are powerful because they have
connections outside the government; they don’t
just report up to the President, but they are
also – particularly the CIA, it is easy to
document – is very rooted in Wall Street and was
actually designed by Allen Dulles, when he was
still a Wall Street lawyer, before he actually entered the CIA.
So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish
participation in Bormann companies that when
Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv
to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the
Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires.
Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities
in no uncertain terms that this must never happen
again because a repetition would permanently
rupture relations with the Germans of Latin
America, as well as with the Bormann
organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish
money to Israel. It never happened again, and the
pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of
these Jewish leaders. He is residing in an
Argentinian safe haven, protected by the most
efficient German infrastructure in history as
well as by all those whose prosperity depends on his well-being.
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Please consider seriously the reason why these elite institutions are not discussed in the mainstream press despite the immense financial and political power they wield?
There are sick and evil occultists running the Western World. They are power mad lunatics like something from a kids cartoon with their fingers on the nuclear button! Armageddon is closer than you thought. Only God can save our souls from their clutches, at least that's my considered opinion - Tony
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