[RummyChick]

short video . some people think this is really important. i have no idea

[PMAS]

for later

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING!

[PIF]

short video . some people think this is really important. i have no idea
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Apparently neither does anyone else.

[ZOOKER]

...some people think this is really important. i have no idea...

Depends who gives the orders, and what orders are given. What are their objectives? What limits or controls on activity? Where is it deployed, inside or outside the US?

Praetorian Guard? Brownshirts? Any of these ring a bell?

[Chainmail]

OK, here's a dissenting voice. This move formalizes the role of SpecOps into its own branch of service under a civilian service chief.

SpecOps has been in vogue lately, making the magazine covers and Hollywood movies - far in excess of their actual tactical value - and mixed historic success.

They have a humungous budget, a nearly free hand when it comes to tactics, training, equipment and operational employment but they are still an auxiliary force to supplement and assist the ground-gaining forces in a real war.

Despite the gritty, unshaven Soldier of Fortune image, they can only be used when the enemy is weak, decentralized, and unaware. In the past, they got their butts handed to them when they went beyond their core strengths. See "Panama" and "Grenada" and the "Iran Rescue op", some parts of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Making them bigger, independent and even more heavily funded only takes away from the real combat forces who are already being short-changed and who will be needed in any kind of full-on war.

Dumb idea.

[brownsfan]

Won’t this be undone in January?

[M. Thatcher]

Ezra Cohen-Watnick has long been Trump's inside-inside-inside guy, watching and spying on the Deep State spies inside his Administration.

Trump has moved in into various positions; the establishment has done EVERYTHING in its power to ice him out. Watching this guy and Trump's positioning of him over four years has been fascinating.

He's assumed to be a spook's spook - at one time there were no photos of him on the internet. I first became aware of him by following Thomas Wictor, who was on to ECW from the early days of the Trump Administration

The fact that ECW is the one announcing this particular policy change, and specifically citing JFK's vision, is highly significant to the 17th letter people. But those aren't the only people who find this big.

[voicereason]

bump for later

[jeffers]

If I found necessity to arrest the governor of the great state of, oh, I don’t know, Pennsylconsinichiganzona...

I’d spend at least a minute co-opting his state police and NG units, and another coupla minutes making SURE my assets were... reliable. You might see... you know... purges.

Sun Tzu stuff.

;-)

[SuperLuminal]

Is this just fancy commo for obunghole's civilian defense corps...
That's what all those billions in arms & ammo were for...

Not to worry... Harris-Pelousy will take care of us...

[MNDude]

He says “1000 pieces”. Is he channeling JFK?

[\/\/ayne]

This is from 2007, little has changed:



In Sabotage, you'll learn:

* How CIA analysts repeatedly leak details about classified intelligence programs with the dual intent of ending them and damaging the president

* How, on at least eight occasions, intelligence officials have made serious allegations of wrongdoing against the president's men--which turned out to be false

* Why, contrary to popular belief, the CIA has become predominantly liberal

* How a CIA turf battle prevented special operators from pursuing and capturing a notorious Taliban leader

* How current and former CIA officers fueled conspiracy theories that President Bush orchestrated the 9/11 attacks on America

* How a CIA leak to the New York Times deprived the U.S. of critical information in the War on Terror

* How press leaks by the CIA have damaged relations with our foreign allies in the War on Terror

* How a CIA analyst worked with Democrats to sabotage the nomination of John Bolton to the UN

* How Clinton's downsizing of the CIA led to the closing of stations in scores of jihadist breeding grounds--including Hamburg, Germany, where the 9/11 plot was hatched

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Sounds like Trump is still listening to Mike Flynn.

[piasa]

Cohen-Watnick, a protégé of ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn, was reportedly almost fired himself amid an internal struggle for control over national security policy in Trump’s White House. Once Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster replaced Flynn, he allegedly tried to fire the young intelligence official but was overruled after Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon and senior adviser Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, intervened.
Cohen-Watnick was later reported to be one of the sources who played a role in getting Nunes to the White House to view classified intelligence reports that Nunes claimed show the identities of members of Trump’s campaign staff were inappropriately unmasked. ———From April 2017
Report: CIA’s Liaison To The NSC Fired After Clash With Controversial Aide
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ezra-cohen-watnick-reportedly-behind-firing-cia-liaison-nsc

[Salvavida]

ANSWER: There is a significant leadership in special operations that are intelligence. And the funny thing about the special operations community, is they do things within the “advanced special operations activities” bucket that would be “intelligence operations” in a more conventional sense.

Why is that important? OVERSIGHT. They call it something different so that their operators are not subjected to the metric shit-ton of regulations normal intelligence operations are regulated by. You see it in policy documents that do the mental gymnastics to get around it.

This is a policy issue that starts with USD(P) and USD(I), the latter just got fired by the way, along with his COS.

[Steven Tyler]

Federal version of Texas Rangers????

[Chgogal]

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[indthkr]

SpecOps developments

[bitt]

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[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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