US Special Ops Have Become Much, Much Scarier Since 9/11

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http://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-of-jsoc-in-dirty-wars-2013-4


80% of JSOC missions prior to 2000 remain classified.

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The command was "created in secrecy to perform operations that were kept hidden to virtually all other entities of military and governments," Scahill writes, and the White House took full advantage of that.

From "Dirty Wars":

It was the beginning of what would be a multiyear project by Rumsfeld and Cheney to separate this small, elite, surgical unit from the broader chain of command and transform it into a global killing machine.
What they developed looked like a paramilitary CIA, according to Scahill's reporting.

By late 2002 JSOC operators were discreetly based in Qatar and Kenya for potential missions in Yemen and Somalia. It developed an in-house signals intelligence unit, known as the Activity, and Rumsfeld created a JSOC human intelligence collection operation, called the Strategic Support Branch, that mirrored the capabilities of the CIA.


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***$$$ how much this very scary corps of fighters?


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