Investigation – Secret America
ANGLO AMERICA, 19 Jan 2015
Alex Jordanov – TRANSCEND Media Service
Over 1 million people inhabit the parallel world created by the US Secret Services after September 11. How does this world and how much we are not able to understand, because access to this information is strictly prohibited.
On 26 September 2002 man testified before a congressional committee on Sept. 11. He turned to the senators with the following words: “I want all Americans to look me in the eyes as I looked them in the eyes and tell them: “My name is Cofar Black, I was head of the CIA covert operations (1974-2002). Everything you need to know is that there is before and after 11 September. After 11/9 rules and laws were no longer valid! “
The day after September 11, President Bush convened the Security Council in a secret bunker in the basement of the White House.
His adviser on terrorism Richard Clarke (1998-2001) recalls: “The president told me: “You have everything you need. And it was as such. Every time I went to Congress, everybody was saying, “What do you need? Here is a blank check!”
The same day in the bunker of the White House US government initiated such a secret and ambitious program that only today we can guess about its true scale.
Less than a week after the attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) Bush signed in the Oval Office document giving start of the operation “Greystone”, also called “Catch and kill”
“For 34 years I have not seen such a detailed document, without any financial constraints. In summary inside was saying, “Do whatever you see fit to do the job,” sayd John Rizzo (chief counsel of the CIA from 1975 to 2009 ).
Bush ordered the CIA to take command of the operation rather than military.
“For a microsecond of chained dog we were transformed into martial beast: you take off boxing gloves to hit and everything is allowed”, testified Kofar Black.
On September 26, 2001 Gary Shoen (CIA, 1974-2002) and seven CIA agents were parashuted in northern Afghanistan. “I was spreadingenvelopes with dozens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars among warlords and commanders of the Northern Alliance. For several weeks the Taliban swept and regained back Kabul,” sayd Shoen.
At the same time, John McLaughlin, number 2 in the CIA, received a phone call from his boss George Tenet. He went into the air operations room. Tenet turned to him: “Will you give an order, John?” McLaughlin looked at the screen, which showed a car traveling on a desert road in Yemen. A few seconds later, one of the leaders of “Al Qaeda”, Sheikh Ali and his companions in the car were blown up by drone operated remotely from a distance of 9000 km. “Done, George” reported McLaughlin and hung up the phone.
Journalists for the first time saw the weapons whose existence was not suspected.
This kicked of a frantic race in the war against terrorism. In the coming years snowball thrown by the intelligence world, will continue to swell with terrible force.
For two years with Dana Priest and her colleagues from the “Washington Post” we revealed the outlines of a secret parallel world so large and complex that it is impossible to understand fully the way it functions and is financed. We learned only that it exists. We called it CLASSIFIED AMERICA.
Today in the US this infernal machine uses the services of 900 000 people with access to the official level “Top Secret”.
All these are distributed to 17,000 addresses throughout the country!
1300 government agencies, and 3666 private companies are working under contract with the federal government.
Using as a pretext the fight against terrorism, George W. Bush administration created the Department of Homeland Security, under whose hat are the 17 major federal agencies (FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, NSA, DEA, ATF, Immigration Service… and even NASA). The building in which they all will be located and which is under construction for 2 years, will represent the largest building ever built in America, surpassing even the Pentagon. Every state has a fusion centers, which collect and distribute all information among federal agencies.
Nobody is able to tell how much CLASSIFIED AMERICA costs. The budget of the NSA is a state secret. Only the president and a handful of senators who approve it, know the numbers.
And the figures relating to this “Secret America” are beyond imagination.
Just a day carry 1.7 billion wiretaps
As in the “tapping” includes checking emails, phone calls, text messages, websites and all other forms of communication considered suspicious by … unknown by whom!
This parallel world has secret tentacles abroad as well.
Journalists investigating Guantanamo soon noticed that not all detained in Iraq or elsewhere in the Middle East as a “valuable hostages” (high value targets), arrived at Guantanamo. Some disappeared. No one knows where.
“We decided that these prisoners had to be isolated out and the decision was to build secret prisons abroad. Until then we had never done that” says John Rizzo (CIA Judicial Council).
Today we know of the existence of 24 “black holes” (black sites). This is a network of secret prisons in various countries such as Thailand, Poland, Egypt, Jordan and many others. They are all funded by the CIA and operations for “obtaining information” is conducted by host countries.
The advantage of the CIA to the military in the war against terrorism angered Donald Rumsfeld. With the claim to be the creator of empires, he decided to create his own secret world. There is some legal precedence over the CIA. Pentagon covert operations do not require systematic authorization of the president, nor a requirement to notify Congress. At the time, they were part of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pride of Rumsfeld called JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command). One of the branches of JSOC – “seals” (Navy Seals), will kill bin Laden on May 1, 2011
For several years, the Bush administration created parallel secret government that is not accountable to anyone.
But to function, this infernal machine needs specialized personnel, a huge staff. And fast.
“I took a step in NSA, George – in the CIA we all did that. Because of the scale of the order we turned to the private sector. It would be quicker than if such a huge number of civil servants had to be trained”, ensplaihed the scheme Gen. Michael Haydn.
“Lockheed-Grumman”, “General Dynamics” and other giants of the military industrial complex, a favorite expression of Eisenhower, were also included. Yesterday’s manufacturers of planes, tanks and submarines changed their production profile within a day.
In 2001 the army had 6 unmanned aircraft, today there are 6000! “General Atomics”, the creator of the unmanned aircraft, offers 21 different models, the smallest of which is the size of a large bee. For 10 years the company’s profits rose from 330 million Dollars to 4.2 billion Dollars. Only weeks ago a “General Atomics” drone exterminated spokesman “Al Qaeda” – Anwar Al-Awkali.
These cutting-edge technologies raising your hair pose real issues for individual freedoms. Today it is possible to take your fingerprints with a thermal gun 50 m away, without even you knowing it! Facial Expression Recognition technology can identify and scan your bone structure from space and identify your fears and moods.
This incredible technological and financial breakthrough, however, did not stop Umar Farouk Mutalab to board a flight to Detroit on Christmas 2009
“If you make a wrong spelling, Google automatically asks: “Are you looking for…?” It seems this feature has not been set in the immigrant authorities’ computer at the airport in London. They misspelled only one letter of his name and he calmly boarded as a regular passenger. What about the truck on “Times Square” (May 2010) – then a hotdog vendor warned police of the suspicious vehicle”, said Richard Clark.
To me and my colleagues journalists took us 10 years to realize that one million people live in a world that did not exist before We do not even know what they are doing because we were denied the right to know how that world works and how much it costs.
Is there a place in a true democracy for a secret parallel world of more than 1 million people? Nevertheless, Obama did nothing to slow CLASSIFIED AMERICA. On the contrary – he ordered to speed up the “Greystone” to seize and destroy the enemies of the United States abroad. On the domestic front, he increased budgets, and Congress was no longer able to oversee spending. Private companies and federal agencies already themselves identify their needs and their price.
“If something happens and we become the victim of attack Republicans will rush up us to point fingers and accuse us, because we cut budgets. Politically this is extremely risky”, justified himself Richard Clark.
Is it justified in the current economic environment to maintain this unimaginable financial and human waste? According to our calculations pharaonic annual budget of CLASSIFIED AMERICA exceeds gradually economic incentives of 300 billion that Obama imposed last month, defying Republicans to ratify it in the shortest time in Congress.
Parallel world of SECRET AMERICA will continue to exist among us.
General Michael Haydn himself, hleading the NSA (1999-2005) and CIA (2006-2009), is sincere: “Since 40 years I have been in these environments, but I do not dare to say that I am familiar with all the secret programs and operations conducted before and now.”
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Alex Jordanov – French investigative journalist. He is a participant in transnational investigation of Washington Post about the secret program “Greystone”, launched in the fight against terrorism after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Translated from Sega Daily (Google Translator) and submitted by TRANSCEND member Stephan Nikolov, Nov. 11 2011 http://www.segabg.com/article.php?issueid=10648§ionid=5&id=0001001
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