- How many Americans have "suspected ties to terrorist
groups" and thus deserve "eavesdropping" as deemed appropriate
by the Bushcons? It depends how you define "terrorist group."
In Bushzarro world, "insider threats" emanate from the American
populace, not al-CIA-duh terrorists, or rather a small number of Americans
who are vocally opposed to the Iraq invasion and occupation. As we now
know, the Pentagon is in the business of collating "raw, unverified
information picked up by the military services on suspicious activities
that could involve terrorist threats," called "Talon reports,"
according to Walter Pincus of the Washington Post. "The Pentagon acknowledged
last week that the Talon database contained reports on peaceful civilian
protests and demonstrations that should have been purged long ago under
Defense Department regulations." In short, to protest against the
"war" is to engage in terrorism and we know what the Bushcons
do to people who are considered terrorists.
-
- "CIFA's [Counterintelligence Field Activity] authority
is still growing. In a new move to centralize all counterterrorism intelligence
collection inside the United States, the Defense Department this month
gave CIFA authority to task domestic investigations and operations by the
counterintelligence units of the military services," Pincus continues.
"CIFA's new authority will give the agency the ability to propose
missions to Army, Navy and Air Force units, which combined have about 4,000
trained active, reserve and civilian investigators in the United States
and abroad. For example, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations
(AFOSI) has 1,935 'federally credentialed special agents,' according to
its Web site. The military service agents investigate crime and terrorism."
-
- Crime? Once upon a time, "investigating" crime
was the responsibility of local law enforcement and the FBI, but now the
cops are soldiers. So much for Posse Comitatus and the belief that the
military should be used to protect the nation from foreign threat and invasion
and the cops used to catch bank robbers and arrest wife beaters and other
violent criminals and never shall the twains meet. Of course, CIFA is not
tasked with catching thieves, but preventing "terrorism," defined
above as using "counterintelligence units of the military services"
against law-abiding Americans who disagree with the neocon master plan
of bombing Muslims into submission so they can be more effectively ruled
by the sadistic lords of Greater Israel and fleeced by neolib free traders
and various other carpetbaggers.
-
- Keep in mind that Bush-or more accurately, the Straussian-Machiavellians
ensconced in the White House and the Pentagon-have offered up a "proposal"
to "transform CIFA from an office that coordinates Pentagon security
efforts-including protecting military facilities from attack-to one that
also has authority to investigate crimes within the United States such
as treason, foreign or terrorist sabotage or even economic espionage."
Of course, it is "treason" and "sabotage" to oppose
the occupation of Iraq and the neocon master plan to invade Syria and Iran
(or rather bomb the hell out of them) and preventing this "terrorism"
is now a military task to be conducted by the folks who are trained to
kill people and blow things up, as the exigencies of war demand. The CIFA's
busy work will undoubtedly make COINTELPRO and even Operation CHAOS look
like the dabbling of grade schoolers by way of comparison.
-
- "The president's emphatic defense Saturday of warrantless
eavesdropping on U.S. citizens and residents marked the third time in as
many months that the White House has been obliged to defend a departure
from previous restraints on domestic surveillance. In each case, the Bush
administration concealed the program's dimensions or existence from the
public and from most members of Congress," the Washington Post reported
at the weekend. "Since October, news accounts have disclosed a burgeoning
Pentagon campaign for 'detecting, identifying and engaging' internal enemies
that included a database with information on peace protesters. A debate
has roiled over the FBI's use of national security letters to obtain secret
access to the personal records of tens of thousands of Americans. And now
come revelations of the National Security Agency's interception of telephone
calls and e-mails from the United States-without notice to the federal
court that has held jurisdiction over domestic spying since 1978."
-
- COINTELPRO and Operation CHAOS went beyond wiretapping,
bugging, and burglarizing the offices and homes of those opposed to Johnson
and Nixon and the Vietnam War. "In 1968, the CIA's various domestic
programs were consolidated and expanded under the name Operation CHAOS.
When Richard Nixon became president the following year, his administration
drafted the Huston Plan, which called for even greater operations against
'subversives,' including wiretapping, break-ins, mail-opening, no-knock
searches and 'selective assassinations,'" writes Mark Zepezauer. In
regard to the American Indian Movement and the Black Panthers, the FBI
and CIA (and DIA) "conducted a full-fledged counterinsurgency war,
complete with death squads, disappearances and assassinations, recalling
Guatemala in more recent years," writes Paul Wolf. As it turns out,
the FBI employed reactionary fascists (not much different than those used
in Guatemala or El Salvador) to liquidate the opposition. "Despite
tens of thousands of pages of documentary evidence, the idea that the Bureau
would utilize private right-wing operatives and terrorists is a chilling,
alien concept to most Americans. Nevertheless, the FBI has financed, organized,
and supplied arms to right-wing groups that carried out fire-bombings,
burglaries, and shootings."
-
- Again, the military's primary role-killing people (100,000
or more so far in Iraq) and destroying things-should be taken into consideration
when examining the emergence of CIFA, under the purview of murderous and
amoral Straussians in the Pentagon. If the FBI found it necessary to hire
fanatical thugs to assassinate oppositional leaders 30 or more years ago,
it can be assumed with a fair degree of accuracy the same or worse will
occur in the current climate. Of course, the military will enjoy "plausible
deniability" as it now does in Iraq and elsewhere as operations are
increasingly farmed out to private corporations, as the unconstitutional
gun-grabbing was in New Orleans attests, conducted by Blackwater and other
"security" corporations staffed with knuckle-dragging former
special forces and Israeli, South African, and British mercenaries.
-
- Is it possible Blackwater death squads will be lurking
in your neighborhood, assassinating "internal threats" as they
confiscate legal firearms?
-
- No doubt we are one "terrorist event" away
from finding out.
|
