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The Joint Special Operations Command, the U.S. military's premier counterterrorist strike force, is expanding its existing targeting nerve center in the region to make space for more American terror hunting personnel from three-letter agencies like the CIA, NSA, and FBI to foreign partners like Britain, France, Iraq and Jordan.
The Obama administration is enshrining the strike force's role of gathering multiple points of view on who to kill and capture, as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan into a permanent information sharing platform, two U.S. officials tell The Daily Beast, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the secret task force publicly.
"This has been going on," said a senior U.S. official briefed on the expanded mission. "We're just putting it on steroids."
[...] The official explained that when JSOC does carry out a strike, it still answers to the regional military commander—for instance, Gen. Joseph Votel in the Central Command area—and still only carries out missions with the permission of the U.S. ambassador in the affected country.
"It's a streamlining of communications," not an expansion of JSOC authority, a second senior U.S. official said of the new center. "The normal chain of having to get approval still occurs. They are still having to seek the same permissions to do things."
"But they can look at things transregionally—and give advice...more efficiently and more effectively by eliminating some unnecessary steps so you can get at this problem quicker," the official said, shortening the amount of time to get approval an intelligence gathering operation or a drone strike.
Source: The Daily Beast
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday November 30 2016, @09:51PM
Are you serious, or is that a parody? I ask that because Obama actively defended unconstitutional mass surveillance and other horrendous policies; it wasn't as if he tried desperately to completely end our awful policies and Republicans stopped him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @10:22PM
Gitmo was the bread while he continued with the regular circus. Republicans blocked it because a) they seem to mostly agree with torturing people they don't like and b) they wanted to make Obama as unpopular as possible. I might have those switched, I don't know what is higher on the R's priority list.
Obama was just another presidential shill, fuck him for expanding the drone program, fuck him for making a joke about droning a kid dating his daughter, fuck him in general for a lot of shit. Oh yeah, thanks for the minor pieces of good he managed to do...
They can only play the people for so long before the resentment builds up beyond the engineered tolerance levels. Fuck the system, it needs to start fixing itself up in a serious way, but since its so distributed there is no way the corrupt assholes will come together on it. Instead we get stories like this showing us that they will only crack the whip harder. Idiots the lot of them.