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posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the police,-judge-and-jury dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:12PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:12PM (#435525)

    Well, those crazies use homicidal losers driving rickety pickups through deserts and blowing themselves up for their insane cause.
    Our brave heroes direct their high-tech robots from half a world away, and dispense swift and true 500-pound-increments justice from far up in the sky, before going back to their loving family for breakfast.

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