"Special Operations Prepared for Domestic Missions"

[shance]

What was that George Bush said about "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here".

Ike warned us.


Special Operations Prepared for Domestic Missions

William M. Arkin
Washington Post
Friday June 22, 2007

The U.S. Northern Command, the military command responsible for "homeland defense," has asked the Pentagon if it can establish its own special operations command for domestic missions. The request, reported in the Washington Examiner, would establish a permanent sub-command for responses to incidents of domestic terrorism as well as other occasions where special operators may be necessary on American soil.

The establishment of a domestic special operations mission, and the preparation of contingency plans to employ commandos in the United States, would upend decades of tradition. Military actions within the United States are the responsibility of state militias (the National Guard), and federal law enforcement is a function of the FBI.

Employing special operations for domestic missions sounds very ominous, and NORTHCOM's request earlier this year should receive the closest possible Pentagon and congressional scrutiny. There's only one problem: NORTHCOM is already doing what it has requested permission to do.

When NORTHCOM was established after 9/11 to be the military counterpart to the Department of Homeland Security, within its headquarters staff it established a Compartmented Planning and Operations Cell (CPOC) responsible for planning and directing a set of "compartmented" and "sensitive" operations on U.S., Canadian and Mexican soil. In other words, these are the very special operations that NORTHCOM is now formally asking the Pentagon to beef up into a public and acknowledged sub-command.

NORTHCOM's compartmented and sensitive operations fall under the Joint Chiefs of Staff "Focal Point" program, a separate communications and planning network used to hide special operations undertaken by the Joint Special Operations Command, headquartered in North Carolina, and by CIA and other domestic compartmented activities.

Since 2003, the CPOC has had a small core of permanent members drawn from the operations, intelligence and planning directorates. In an emergency, the staff can be expanded. According to NORTHCOM documents, CPOC is involved in planning for a number of domestic missions, including:

-- Non-conventional assisted recovery
-- Integrated survey programs
-- Information operations/"special technical operations"
-- "Special activities"

What are all of these programs? CPOC's basic missions include responding to incidents of weapons of mass destruction, support for continuity of government, protection of the president, response to domestic terrorism and insurrection and (presumably) domestic intelligence collection. ("Special activities" is a euphemism for covert operations.)

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/06/special_operations_prepared_fo.html?nav=rss_blog

[Raven]

1. I'm not a tin foil hat person, but

are they getting things in place to cancel the 2008 elections?

[Double T]

5. The elections in 2008 have already been cancelled............

they just haven't bothered to tell 'US' yet. The neocon dictatorship will continue at any expense including the cancellation of what is left of our ruination of a democracy.

[OneBlueSky]

22. that certainly seems to be the plan . . . Bush didn't sign that executive order for . . .

the benefit of some future Democratic president . . . he intends to invoke it at the first opportunity . . . and if there is no opportunity, BushCo will orchestrate one . . . just as they did on 9/11/01 . . .

[woodsprite]

6. Sounds like they're ready, and we all know they're willing. n/t

[Ezlivin]

2. Next step: Labeling things as terror-related so the dogs of war can be unleashed

Drive by shooting = Drive by Terrorism

Road rage = Self-Contained Vehicular Terrorism

Failure to maintain a mowed lawn = Eco Terrorism

Atheist = Religious Terrorist

Drug Dealer = Aiding and Abetting Terrorists

[bigtree]

3. lol

if it weren't so close to the truth

[Javaman]

11. Failure to clip toe nails - manicural terrorism.

picking nose in public - nasal terrorism

farting in public - poison gas terrorism

failure to brush teeth - dental terrorism

[Morgana LaFey]

19. You're missing the most important category --

leftist protesters and dissidents and administration critics of all stripes.

[Taverner]

4. Well, are we going to see a heck of a job like Katrina???

[Dhalgren]

7. This is the greatest threat to this nation that we have ever faced.

We can be good Germans or we can go to the camps, it will be our choice. Man, I never thought that they would actually do it, but here it is.

[atreides1]

9. I Don't like either option

How about a third option we fight!!!!!

[C_U_L8R]

8. Non-conventional assisted recovery???

oh they must mean "nab n grab".

Special technical operations = black bag ops ??

[blues90]

10. Why don't they just do it already ?

Get in over with so at least we know where we stand and what we will have to face rather than going through endless streams of lies and worry .

I am so sick of wondering and being on edge with things like are we going to bomb Iran or have bushs 51 power grab staring us in the face or have some planned terrorist attack sooner or later .

Just do it for crips sake .

[Javaman]

12. but remember, people who attempt to blowup planned parenthood clinics

aren't terrorists.

[mmonk]

13. Bookmarking for a project of mine.

[genie_weenie]

14. Well, I'm getting ready to do my Blackwater training at Mt Carroll IL

which is located approximately 100 miles west of Chicago. For when I have to lock down Chi-Town for the Glorious Leaders!

http://www.blackwaterusa.com/training/bwnorth.asp

Man, I can't wait for the day Glorious Leader Bush reveals that Jesus (aka Erik Prince) has decided to expose himself and we can get on with the bloodletting!

[warren pease]

15. Are you serious?

Can you divulge details? Can you PM me if you're not comfortable posting here? I've got a little project going for which I could really use exactly this type of information.

And if you can't talk, I understand.



Thanks in advance,

wp

[genie_weenie]

18. Sorry, that was a sarcastic post focusing on the

growth of the military Contractor business (e.g. the opening of a blackwater training facility in N. Illinois). I do have some info on agencies like Dyncorp and Triple Canopy having worked with them extensively during my deployments in the Glorious War to Not Control the Wealth of other Nations.

[warren pease]

21. Sarcasm is much better than actual deployment

I would, however, be grateful for info on Dynacorp and Triple Canopy (who I've heard almost nothing about). I'm doing a couple of articles on the rise of the private armies and their potential roles as the enforcement arm of the BushCo mafia -- who I'm convinced have no intention of vacating their offices in early 2009 just because the Constitution tells them they have to, their respect for the Constitution having been pretty well demonstrated by now.

When you combine the mercs with the recent directives ("National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51" and "Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20,") that let BushCo usurp the authority of all three branches of government in case of an "emergency" that HE GETS TO DEFINE, we addle-brained paranoids do tend to draw certain conclusions. I mean, does a right wing coup announce itself much more explicitly than that?

Anyway, any and all info appreciated. PM works fine, as does my yahoo account: [e-mail]


Best,

wp

[firefox_fan]

16. Will the release of SICKO be considered an "incident of domestic terrorism"?

Just wondering...

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

17. Well, OF COURSE IT SOUNDS *fucking* OMINOUS!!!

:scared:

[InternalDialogue]

20. Crossing the Rubicon.

Does our administration and military understand what led to Caesar's downfall?