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The Private Outsourcing of US Intelligence Services
mrbluze writes "It appears that more and more of the data collection sanctioned by the US government is passed through the hands of private enterprise, Salon reports. 'Because of the cloak of secrecy thrown over the intelligence budgets, there is no way for the American public, or even much of Congress, to know how those contractors are getting the money, what they are doing with it, or how effectively they are using it. The explosion in outsourcing has taken place against a backdrop of intelligence failures for which the Bush administration has been hammered by critics, from Saddam Hussein's fictional weapons of mass destruction to abusive interrogations that have involved employees of private contractors operating in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Aftergood and other experts also warn that the lack of transparency creates conditions ripe for corruption.'"
Dont forget the entire UN agreed with what was going on, and since you all simply want to bash Bush, dont forget that this ( apparently wrong ) intelligence was around long before Bush was around. And Saddam was refusing to let people in to inpect, which to any logical person would indicate someting wrong was going on. Plus it was a violation of his agreements which automaticaly authorized action, regardless of existance of any WMD type technology.
You people make me sick. Get over your loss and move on. Or better yet, get the hell out.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Latest Bush News.
"People like you should have your vote taken away. genocide is a minor thing to you isn't it?"
When its necessary, yes it is a minor thing.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
So if George W creates a scam on his part to make people believe, and taunts the world community, he deserves to have his country leveled? This is the logic of the NeoCons.
It was here:
Both Cheney [futurepower.org] and Junior [futurepower.org] are alcoholics, with typical alcoholic personalities. (Even though alcoholics may not be drinking, the personality persists.)
Alcoholics always or almost always have anger problems. Angry people who are powerful enough may act out their anger by killing people.
That I realized you were either a troll, or mentally retarded. Just FYI, should you want to improve your trolling in the future, or possibly look into treatment options.
> They were all hell-bent on starting a quick war, perhaps in the hopes of cleaning up in the polls
Have you no grasp of the basic petrol realities?
The US needs over 20 million barrels a day. Saudi Arabia is exporting on the order of 8 a day,
and noone else is close to them. The Cheney plan (the US national energy plan from 2001) is
devoted to increasing the US reliance on foreign oil, especially middle eastern oil. It requires
seizing control of the middle east oil supplies (this excludes Saudi Arabia, because that
dictatorship is already a virtual US puppet, and receives far more weapons and money from
the US than anywhere else on earth, to ensure it can continue to suppress any democratic
ideas that occur). It requires increasing outputs from Iraq (well, this has failed
terribly, as theirs have obviously dropped, but the US plans to keep control of Iraq and
increase the oil ouput), increasing outputs from Iran, and vastly increasing outputs
from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE.
It requires keepig US occupation of the Middle East to fight off the growing oil
needs of Russia, China, and Europe.
It requires continuous occupation and war by the US military, because in the Cheney plan
(which goes hand in glove with the ideas of the New American Century, and which all makes
some sense if you have a basic grasp of petrol realities), the US is the partner of the
major oil companies. The US government provides soldiers and marines as cannon fodder,
and aircraft carries for remote fighting, and the oil companies supply investment and
money for capital improvement to increase production.
The US military also secures the wells, pipelines, refineries, and pipe-to-ship
transhipments against attacks -- this is the heart of the "war on terror". It is
really a "war to secure oil".
It all makes sense once you realize the basic economics and strategy; the Cheney plan
is all about securing foreign oil for the US, and increasing the US use of foreign oil,
and fighting to own as much of the oil pipeline as possible.