US ARMY/BLACKWATER GONE ROGUE !

Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret Raids by the C.I.A.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/us/politics/11blackwater.html?_r=1&th&...

The raids against suspects occurred on an almost nightly basis during the height of the Iraqi insurgency from 2004 to 2006, with Blackwater personnel playing central roles in what company insiders called “snatch and grab” operations, the former employees and current and former intelligence officers said.

Several former Blackwater guards said that their involvement in the operations became so routine that the lines supposedly dividing the Central Intelligence Agency, the military and Blackwater became blurred. Instead of simply providing security for C.I.A. officers, they say, Blackwater personnel at times became partners in missions to capture or kill militants in Iraq and Afghanistan, a practice that raises questions about the use of guns for hire on the battlefield.

Separately, former Blackwater employees said they helped provide security on some C.I.A. flights transporting detainees in the years after the 2001 terror attacks in the United States.

The secret missions illuminate a far deeper relationship between the spy agency and the private security company than government officials had acknowledged. Blackwater’s partnership with the C.I.A. has been enormously profitable for the North Carolina-based company, and became even closer after several top agency officials joined Blackwater.

“It became a very brotherly relationship,” said one former top C.I.A. officer. “There was a feeling that Blackwater eventually became an extension of the agency.”

Why Is the State Department Speaking for JSOC?
http://rebelreports.com/post/257191691/why-is-the-state-department-speaking-for-...

Interesting chain of command issues seem to be emerging in the official “denials” being offered about my story in The Nation magazine on Blackwater and the Joint Special Operations Command operations in Pakistan. A few hours before the piece was published, I received a call—unprompted—from the office of Admiral Mike Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I had not called them. The representative that called would not officially—named and on-the-record—deny the story. Instead, I was offered a comprehensive denial from a “defense official” on “background.” The DoD spokesman Geoff Morell was asked about it on Tuesday. He said the appropriate agency to address this was the State Department, but he did characterize the story as “conspiratorial.

The way in which the US military and the Administration have chosen to “deny” this story raises several issues, but chief among them is this: Why is the US embassy in Islamabad now the appropriate source to confirm or deny clandestine military operations that are coordinated out of a task force in Afghanistan? Moreover, as Col. Lawrence Wilkerson stated clearly in The Nation story, going back years, these JSOC missions were done without the knowledge of the US ambassadors in the countries where they operate and were done outside the traditional military chain of command.

"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin." - James Monroe

YEP !
& we had it coming for a while now & all to an amazing generalized stupor from all involved decision makers...which goes a long way to prove that this is not random but a well planed & articulated campaign... Enjoy the Empire !

"We have become a monster in the eyes of the whole world – a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us… No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you." – Hunter S. Thompson

"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle

@ MOAB

Are you sure you can understand plain English ?

A ratio of 1 Taliban kill for 35 civilians is... unfortunate !!!???

As long as people believe that our so-called leaders are well-intentioned, they can, and do, get away with murder. Literally.

So please join humanity & before spewing out your gun-ho cassette have the intellectual decency to get acquainted with the dossier at hand.

Executive Resume

The US tax payer spends millions to train these guys so the private sector recoup our investment for their own twisted agenda & profit ... Bravo !

Once again...

PRIVATIZE THE PROFITS
SOCIALIZE THE COST

Spot on comments from Alter Net...

Blackwaters allegience is to the Highest bidder

Profit driven 'Ethics' is what collapsed the Economy. And it will collapse our national defense as well. Blackwater falls under neither the clause of a Gov't controlled National defense nor citizens Militia. They are the hired mercenaries.
Blackwater is the Antithesis of what our Founders envisioned for our Democracy.

Private Army Without Restrictions

Kings have always preferred an elite army of secret police to control dissidents and other enemies of the state. Conventional police forces were limited to matters of low security. The use of Backwater as a private army works on the same principle. They do what has to be done with no legal restrictions.

Terrorism?
The USA state has farmed out murder to private enterprise. So let me get the self-righteous western position right: mass murder by the agency of our boys in uniform is good; murder committed via a video game being played by our boys in uniform is good; rendition by the CIA with the collusion of other western states is good; murder by western-paid private enterprise is good. Any retaliation by the enemies we have created by means of the above is bad, cowardly and must be terrorism.

What a shame large parts of the world find western logic somewhat shaky.

BACK TO WHERE WE NEVER LEFT...

Masters Of War

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

Copyright ©1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music

http://current.com/items/91517169_blackwater-protects-obama-and-hillary-in-afgha...

Why can't the government do this without contractors?