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WASHINGTON The White House and CIA have been considering a package of secret proposals to allow former US intelligence officers to run privatized covert actions, intelligence gathering, and propaganda missions, according to three sources whove been briefed on or have direct knowledge of the proposals.
One of the proposals would involve hiring a private company, Amyntor Group, for millions of dollars to set up a large intelligence network and run counter terrorist propaganda efforts, according to the sources. Amyntors officials and employees include veterans of a variety of US covert operations, ranging from the Reagan-era IranContra affair to more recent actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Those familiar with the proposals say one of the driving impulses for privatizing some missions is a fear by some supporters of President Donald Trump, outside government, that the CIA bureaucracy has an anti-Trump bias that would thwart efforts to fulfill the presidents objectives. The system does not work, one source who is sympathetic to the Amyntor efforts told BuzzFeed News. The people leaking this to you just want to destroy the president.
Privatizing intelligence operations and covert actions is highly controversial. Asked about Amyntors proposal and the rendition plan, one former senior intelligence official said, All the institutional structures exist to prevent things from going off the rails. Is this an attempt to circumvent oversight?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/aramroston/trump-administration-mulls-private-rendition?utm_term=.aqJ3eKknBE#.akLAXLOwYq
Whitefish, MT pop. 6,500 is the home of Ryan Zinke and Nazi Richard Spencer.
safeinOhio
(32,686 posts)They will only hire the most experienced Russian spies.
dchill
(38,502 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I know it doesn't sound like it, but they tried so hard to get a direct connection and this would be good cover if it sounded like it was to be used to protect us...get information covertly.
See how my mind is becoming warped?
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Muslims, though. You can count on it.
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Trump wants to torture. That's what this is all about.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)What company with international experience is going to be headquartered in a remote area?
The last company I worked for had far more employees than the population of Whitefish, MT
barbtries
(28,798 posts)this must end.
rendition? that's bullshit.
i want my country. for my kids, for my grandkids. i feel such despair whenever i look at what's going on. trump is a madman the republicans are sociopathic, soulless slaves to greed. where is hope now.
spanone
(135,841 posts)just what we need
annabanana
(52,791 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,320 posts)it's like taking all the worst episodes of recent US policy - Iran-Contra, the CIA in Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib - and saying "we've got to do it again, but this time, we need more profit and less accountability in it".
not fooled
(5,801 posts)which, we can reliably assume, is by nature pretty conservative, to not want to back a leader--that's rather telling. Namely, that in this case said leader is a Nazi-Hitler wannabe.
bluestarone
(16,959 posts)Your our only hope!!!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Who knew so many lights were hiding under that bushel basket?
0rganism
(23,955 posts)i mean fucking Whitefish again? really?
ok then, the movie stars Johnny Depp
jalan48
(13,869 posts)CanonRay
(14,103 posts)Now there is a really terrible idea. Gestapo anyone?
mopinko
(70,112 posts)will they watch the cia and fuck up their surveillance on the pres?