Tuesday, December 15, 2009

TARNISHED GLORY: THE MYTH OF "SPECIAL OPERATIONS"

http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9762

Can America afford to continue with our current special operations command, be it CIA or JSOC or whatever the flavor of the day, if even a single of the seemingly endless charges made are true?

Is blocking investigations meant to protect America or to facilitate our own "evil doers?"



WHEN DID "SPECIAL OPS" BECOME KIDNAPPING, DRUG DEALING, TORTURE and POLITICAL DIRTY TRICKS

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

What does "Special Ops' mean? Why would a special operations command, JSOC, be answerable to our Vice President, a mentally unstable draft dodging hack from the oil industry? Why would the CIA outsource its most secret projects to Blackwater, a GOP mercenary group with the worst reputation of any firm the US has ever done business with?

Years of kidnapping and torturing people based on mistaken identity, intelligence that is ALWAYS WRONG, chasing dead men, invading wrong countries and picking out allies that are gangsters, con men and drug dealers isn't an accident, its policy. Now we are told Blackwater, the CIA, MI-6, the Mossad and RAW work together, not only against Iran but in friendly nations also. The stories we are told are that some of what is done is contracting for commercial clients and foreign governments and not anything involving fighting terrorism or protecting anyone, in fact, much the opposite. When is a mercenary a gangster? Are these missions or are they capers or hits?

Blackwater has become the punching bag for the press of late. With accusations of close ties to the CIA and charges of murder and gangsterism floating around after years of more than empty accusations of massive incompetence, their name is abused most.

Are they the only ones? When "private contractors" are involved in terrorism against US allies, the real scandal few are talking about in the US, and Blackwater's name is brought up, is it really them or someone else? There are dozens of companies involved, not just "Blackwater."

We now know that Blackwater alone has an endless web of secret fronts making it impossible to trace what is done and for whom. Other companies are doing the same, all unaccountable to the United States or her allies.