DoD Official Tied to Private Spy Effort

DoD Official Tied to Private Spy Effort

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March 15, 2010
Associated Press
WASHINGTON --- A Defense Department official is under investigation for hiring private contractors to gather intelligence on suspected insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, The New York Times reported Sunday.

That information was then supplied to military units and intelligence officials, the Times said, citing anonymous military and business sources in the United States and Afghanistan. The scheme violated U.S. policy against using contractors as spies.

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Our business is killing and business is good! So good in fact it appears we are using more and more innovative methods to determine who to kill next.

But why even bother with private military contactors to liberally interpret who and who isn’t an insurgent when ACORN sure could use the business.

Yes armed with clipboards and questionnaires at 10.00 a complete survey we might as well just let them fill in the blanks and make it all up as to who is an insurgent and potential terrorist and who isn’t.

With profit as a motive we are bound to determine just about everyone on the planet is a potential insurgent and terrorists and the killing business can get even better.

I guess the CIA is too busy counting their drug profits in Afghanistan to be bothered with doing their taxpayer paid jobs!

So now more than ever remember, if you have a gun and a clipboard and are prepared to travel, the economy will be picking up for you soon!

The government is so out of control its not even funny.

For those of you who think this is no big deal, let me remind you more and more unmanned drones are flying over U.S. Skies too, and do you really want a private company reporting to the government on your activities on places like ATS and the like?


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Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
I guess the CIA is too busy counting their drug profits in Afghanistan to be bothered with doing their taxpayer paid jobs!

Actually, the CIA has nothing to do with the Department of Defense. They are a separate executive branch agency, with their own oversight. This article is most likely referring to DIA or military branch intelligence activities. You should get your facts straight.

The article also clearly states that the official is under criminal investigation for his activities, so there apparently is a system of oversight that works. It appears to me that some official used an unauthorized slush fund to hire locals to snitch on possible insurgents. One dude - that's all.

There really is no need for such a sarcastic and condescending tone, when the system of oversight is working.

A friend of mine has a son over there doing just this sort of thing. He sits at a computer watching imagery and relaying instructions to the intelligence officers who either use predators or humans on the ground to take out subjects. He tells her about operations that occur over there all the time, leacing out the vitals such as time, date, and who they were targetting. Sounds like a spy novel sometimes.

He was Air Force. When he retired, he was drafted into this organization out of Georgia.

Only one person is charged as of yet but actually two companies are involved run by several former CIA and US Forces personnel

At times, his operation featured a mysterious American company run by retired Special Operations officers and an iconic C.I.A. figure who had a role in some of the agency’s most famous episodes, including the Iran-Contra affair.

Among the contractors Mr. Furlong appears to have used to conduct intelligence gathering was International Media Ventures, a private “strategic communication” firm run by several former Special Operations officers. Another was American International Security Corporation, a Boston-based company run by Mike Taylor, a former Green Beret. In a phone interview, Mr. Taylor said that at one point he had employed Duane Clarridge, known as Dewey, a former top C.I.A. official who has been linked to a generation of C.I.A. adventures, including the Iran-Contra scandal.

Seems many top Commanders are in this whole scam of minting money

The Web site also shows that several of its senior executives are former members of the military’s Special Operations forces, including former commandos from Delta Force, which has been used extensively since the Sept. 11 attacks to track and kill suspected terrorists.

Until recently, one of the members of International Media’s board of directors was Gen. Dell L. Dailey, former head of Joint Special Operations Command, which oversees the military’s covert units.

In an e-mail message, General Dailey said that he had resigned his post on the company’s board, but he did not say when. He did not give details about the company’s work with the American military, and other company executives declined to comment.

Source:www.nytimes.com...

Yep, people running their OP's...diverting funds, commanders and other people involved including "former" CIA. Sure looks like a pretty neat "rob the taxpayers" fraud going on by the so called heros.

[edit on 15-3-2010 by December_Rain]

reply to post by Pyros

Actually, the CIA has nothing to do with the Department of Defense. They are a separate executive branch agency, with their own oversight. This article is most likely referring to DIA or military branch intelligence activities. You should get your facts straight.

So in other words you haven’t read the article and have no idea that it is referring to PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS BEING USED. Which is not a most likely hypothetical and in reality the Military has it’s own MILITARY intelligence branch just as the STATE DEPARTMENT has its own intelligence branch, but they are all GOVERNMENT employees and NOT PRIVATE CONTRACTORS.

The article didn’t make headlines because something is MOST LIKELY occurring but because SOMETHING IS DEFINITELY occurring.

Thanks for posting.