Sunday, September 4, 2011

Joint Special Operations Command channels Gene Autry and heads down Mexico way.



From Pravda on the Potomac, an excerpt from an upcoming book.

The Defense Department has given JSOC a bigger role in nonmilitary assignments as well, including tracing the flow of money from international banks to finance terrorist networks. It also has become deeply involved in “psychological operations,” which it renamed “military information operations” to sound less intimidating. JSOC routinely sends small teams in civilian clothes to U.S. embassies to help with what it calls media and messaging campaigns.

When Obama came into office, he cottoned to the organization immediately. (It didn’t hurt that his CIA director, Leon E. Panetta, has a son who, as a naval reservist, had deployed with JSOC.) Soon Obama was using JSOC even more than his predecessor. In 2010, for example, he secretly directed JSOC troops to Yemen to kill the leaders of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

The Arab Spring forced the White House to delay some JSOC missions. In the meantime, the organization is busy with its new 30,000-square-foot office building turned command center. Unlike previous offices, it is not in some obscure part of the world. It sits across the highway from the Pentagon in pristine suburban splendor, just a five-minute drive from McChrystal’s civilian office and the former general’s favorite beer-call restaurants.

As its name implies, the focus of Joint Special Operations Task Force-National Capital Region is not the next terrorist network but another of its lifelong enemies: the Washington bureaucracy. Some 50 battle-hardened JSOC warriors and a handful of other federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies work there.

Mexico is at the top of its wish list. (Emphasis supplied, MBV.) So far the Mexican government, whose constitution limits contact with the U.S. military, is relying on the other federal agencies — the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — for intelligence collection and other help.

But JSOC’s National Capital task force is not just sitting idly by, waiting to be useful to its southern neighbors. It is creating targeting packages for U.S. domestic agencies that have sought its help, including the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the second-largest federal law enforcement agency and the latest to make a big play for a larger U.S. counterterrorism role.

1 comment:

Mt Top Patriot said...

Ya well no doubt in this American's mind, the ultimate target is American's who will or have the potential to go forth with patriotic redress for abuses against their sovereign will.
If these federal organizations have the capability and force of operatives to abuse the sovereign sanctity of foreign nations, while at the same time being fully based and invested of operating on sovereign American soil, which I'd say is a clear violation of Posse Comitatus, the ruling class is gonna sic em on our persons right quick.
Gonna make the Gibson Guitar raid look like a fart in a mitten.
Can you say dress rehearsal with full pre-positioned cadre and material for crushing grass roots redress of the tyranny breathing down our throats?
Best read and bone up on the Declaration of Independence my fellow American's.
It is a great refresher course on understanding the long train of abuses and tyranny on our persons.