Fighting Ghosts & Shadow Governments

 Fighting Ghosts & Shadow Governments  Jim Kirwan

Back in the beginning of the First obvious Dictatorship of the Twenty-
first Century; when the Shadow Government of Dick Cheney became the
new rulers of this nation and the greatest threat to actual world
order: A massive new shadow government was created to foster an
international and perpetual war upon both the world and the citizens
of the United States. This was done under the guise of a 'New World
Order.' Dick Cheney was the founder and CEO of this criminal-
enterprise that was created to live in the shadow of the actual
departments of Intelligence, the Pentagon, the Executive, the Office
of Management & Budget, as well as outside the purview of Congress,
the Courts and the public-and was answerable to no one except Cheney
and to his unofficial Criminal-Agent-In-Charge; Donald Rumsfeld.

At the time America was very much consumed by the trauma associated
with the attacks upon the US of 911. As time passed pieces of Cheney's
Shadow-Government began to be discovered on the fringes of actual
governmental policies, such as, the totally flawed "intel" surrounding
the bogus War on Iraq that ended up becoming the pack-of lies told by
Colin Powell in defense of the administrations pre-emptive military
plan to strike Iran, under cover of false and misleading security
intelligence that was created by Dick Cheney's Shadow Government and
then passed off as US government intelligence that did not pass the
test of time or of international investigation. Today an article was
released by the Nation, written by Jeremy Scahill that documents new
evidence directly from the tracks left in Pakistan by Cheney's Secret
Government that clearly gives away the whole game that is still being
played against Americans.

"At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special
Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi,
members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a
secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected
Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value
targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an
investigation by The Nation has found. The Blackwater operatives also
assist in gathering intelligence and help direct a secret US military
drone bombing campaign that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA
predator strikes, according to a well-placed source within the US
military intelligence apparatus.

The source, who has worked on covert US military programs for years,
including in Afghanistan and Pakistan, has direct knowledge of
Blackwater's involvement. He spoke to The Nation on condition of
anonymity because the program is classified. The source said that the
program is so "compartmentalized" that senior figures within the Obama
administration and the US military chain of command may not be aware
of its existence.  The White House did not return calls or email
messages seeking comment for this story. Capt. John Kirby, the
spokesperson for Adm. Michael Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, told The Nation, "We do not discuss current operations one way
or the other, regardless of their nature." A defense official, on
background, specifically denied that Blackwater performs work on drone
strikes or intelligence for JSOC in Pakistan. "We don't have any
contracts to do that work for us. We don't contract that kind of work
out, period," the official said. "There has not been, and is not now,
contracts between JSOC and that organization for these types of
services."

"Wilkerson said the JSOC teams caused diplomatic problems for the
United States across the globe. "When these teams started hitting
capital cities and other places all around the world, [Rumsfeld]
didn't tell the State Department either. The only way we found out
about it is our ambassadors started to call us and say, 'Who the hell
are these six-foot-four white males with eighteen-inch biceps walking
around our capital cities?' So we discovered this, we discovered one
in South America, for example, because he actually murdered a taxi
driver, and we had to get him out of there real quick. We rendered
him--we rendered him home."

As part of their strategy, Rumsfeld and Cheney also created the
Strategic Support Branch (SSB), which pulled intelligence resources
from the Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA for use in sensitive
JSOC operations. The SSB was created using "reprogrammed" funds
"without explicit congressional authority or appropriation," according
to the WashingtonPost. The SSB operated outside the military chain of
command and circumvented the CIA's authority on clandestine
operations. Rumsfeld created it as part of his war to end "near total
dependence on CIA." Under US law, the Defense Department is required
to report all deployment orders to Congress. But guidelines issued in
January 2005 by former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Stephen Cambone stated that Special Operations forces may "conduct
clandestine HUMINT operations...before publication" of a deployment
order. This effectively gave Rumsfeld unilateral control over
clandestine operations.

The military intelligence source said that when Rumsfeld was defense
secretary, JSOC was deployed to commit some of the "darkest acts" in
part to keep them concealed from Congress. "Everything can be
justified as a military operation versus a clandestine intelligence
performed by the CIA, which has to be informed to Congress," said the
source. "They were aware of that and they knew that, and they would
exploit it at every turn and they took full advantage of it. They knew
they could act extra-legally and nothing would happen because A, it
was sanctioned by DoD at the highest levels, and B, who was going to
stop them? They were preparing the battlefield, which was on all of
the Power Points: 'Preparing the Battlefield.'"" (1)

Recently Obama has been creating a public-paralysis with his prolonged
and supposedly difficult dilemma about sending more troops into
Pakistan; despite demands that the troops be withdrawn, not increased.
The release of this new information could not have come at a more
appropriate time, because it proves the lies that both Bush & Obama
have been telling about the true nature of operations within and
around both Afghanistan and Pakistan, since Bush restarted this war;
supposedly in search of Osama bin Laden: A person who is still not
listed as even being wanted by the FBI for anything-yet the US
military is willing to move heaven and earth to find the ghost of this
long dead individual.

The "troops" Obama wants to send into the Afghanistan-Pakistan War,
will cost the taxpayer's a million dollars a piece; due to the high
costs of sending at least one if not two mercenaries for every GI that
is sent. This is caused by having privately-contracted for all other
services to be done by private-contractors, aside from and in addition
to, the actual fighting. (2)

" Blackwater charges the government $1,222 per day per guard,
"equivalent to $445,000 per year, or six times more than the cost of
an equivalent U.S. soldier," the report said." (3)

So: "According to the source, Blackwater has effectively marketed
itself as a company whose operatives have "conducted lethal direct
action missions and now, for a price, you can have your own planning
cell. JSOC just ate that up," he said, adding, "They have a sizable
force in Pakistan--not for any nefarious purpose if you really want to
look at it that way--but to support a legitimate contract that's
classified for JSOC." Blackwater's Pakistan JSOC contracts are secret
and are therefore shielded from public oversight, he said. The source
is not sure when the arrangement with JSOC began, but he says that a
spin-off of Blackwater SELECT "was issued a no-bid contract for
support to shooters for a JSOC Task Force and they kept extending it."
Some of the Blackwater personnel, he said, work undercover as aid
workers. "Nobody even gives them a second thought." (1)

The line between the legal-forces of this country (operating
illegally) and the actions taken by Cheney's secret government forces
while apparently compatible, according to the built-in deniability;
are in fact a criminally-liable private army that is being used to
conduct outrageously-criminal-operations against civilians in war
zones that have not been declared as war zones by anyone from the
Pentagon to the congress? Despite the fact that these 'wars' were
never declared-they are apparently being fought by shadowy mercenaries
that answer to no one but Dick Cheney & Donald Rumsfeld? This is a
crime not only against those they are killing but against the public
in America that is paying for every part of this!

JSOC: Rumsfeld and Cheney's Extra Special Force  -- Colonel Wilkerson
said that he is concerned that with General McChrystal's elevation as
the military commander of the Afghan war--which is increasingly
seeping into Pakistan--there is a concomitant rise in JSOC's power and
influence within the military structure. "I don't see how you can
escape that; it's just a matter of the way the authority flows and the
power flows, and it's inevitable, I think," Wilkerson told The Nation.
He added, "I'm alarmed when I see execute orders and combat orders
that go out saying that the supporting force is Central Command and
the supported force is Special Operations Command," under which JSOC
operates. "That's backward. But that's essentially what we have
today."

From 2003 to 2008 McChrystal headed JSOC, which is headquartered at
Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where
Blackwater's 7,000-acre operating base is also situated. JSOC controls
the Army's Delta Force, the Navy's SEAL Team 6, as well as the Army's
75th Ranger Regiment and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment,
and the Air Force's 24th Special Tactics Squadron. JSOC performs
strike operations, reconnaissance in denied areas and special
intelligence missions. Blackwater, which was founded by former Navy
SEALs, employs scores of veteran Special Forces operators--which
several former military officials pointed to as the basis for
Blackwater's alleged contracts with JSOC.

Since 9/11, many top-level Special Forces veterans have taken up
employment with private firms, where they can make more money doing
the highly specialized work they did in uniform. "The Blackwater
individuals have the experience. A lot of these individuals are
retired military, and they've been around twenty to thirty years and
have experience that the younger Green Beret guys don't," said retired
Army Lieut. Col. Jeffrey Addicott, a well-connected military lawyer
who served as senior legal counsel for US Army Special Forces.
"They're known entities. Everybody knows who they are, what their
capabilities are, and they've got the experience. They're very
valuable."

"They make much more money being the smarts of these operations,
planning hits in various countries and basing it off their experience
in Chechnya, Bosnia, Somalia, Ethiopia," said the military
intelligence source. "They were there for all of these things, they
know what the hell they're talking about. And JSOC has unfortunately
lost the institutional capability to plan within, so they hire back
people that used to work for them and had already planned and executed
these [types of] operations. They hired back people that jumped over
to Blackwater SELECT and then pay them exorbitant amounts of money to
plan future operations. It's a ridiculous revolving door." (1)

But the most dangerous and least explored use for Cheney's mercenaries
is the part they have been targeted to play in the coming lockdown of
this nation. All of these actions overseas have just been practice for
what this government has planned, when it comes to how to manage a
hostile American public, once the Full Metal Jacket is revealed-which
is planned for those who shall resist the Shadow Government on
American soil!  Think about it � These privatized-armies are not
'ghosts'. Cheney & Rumsfeld, along with those that were suppose to
have controlled them, should be arrested and tried for treason.  Then
demand that this criminal and obscure practice be terminated
immediately. After this is accomplished, then maybe Americans can move
on into this new Millennium?
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