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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 04:45 PM Nov 2017

Trump is mulling hiring a Whitefish, MT company for a private rendition & spy network

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 who’ve 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. Amyntor’s officials and employees include veterans of a variety of US covert operations, ranging from the Reagan-era Iran–Contra 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 president’s 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 Amyntor’s 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.

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Trump is mulling hiring a Whitefish, MT company for a private rendition & spy network (Original Post) octoberlib Nov 2017 OP
What could possibly go wrong. safeinOhio Nov 2017 #1
My reaction exactly. dchill Nov 2017 #16
Why would I get the feeling this is Trump's back door communication with Russia. Frustratedlady Nov 2017 #2
I'm not sure this has anything to do with Russia. They will be using it to rendition and torture octoberlib Nov 2017 #3
K/R Solly Mack Nov 2017 #4
Is it true the company has three employees? Sneederbunk Nov 2017 #5
That was the energy company from Whitefish. This company has a lot of ex- Iran Contra spooks. octoberlib Nov 2017 #9
They have the other three people in Whitefish. Thor_MN Nov 2017 #13
FFS barbtries Nov 2017 #6
Trump's private army to deal with political adversaries spanone Nov 2017 #7
Whitefish: Home of the new Brownshirts. . .n/t annabanana Nov 2017 #8
A privatised CIA. This is dystopian scifi. muriel_volestrangler Nov 2017 #10
For the CIA not fooled Nov 2017 #11
come on Mueller bluestarone Nov 2017 #12
Whitefish Montana again! gratuitous Nov 2017 #14
there's a movie waiting to be made about this 0rganism Nov 2017 #15
Internal Ops? jalan48 Nov 2017 #17
Privatize the CIA CanonRay Nov 2017 #18
spy on the spies? mopinko Nov 2017 #19

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
2. Why would I get the feeling this is Trump's back door communication with Russia.
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 04:53 PM
Nov 2017

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)
3. I'm not sure this has anything to do with Russia. They will be using it to rendition and torture
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 04:57 PM
Nov 2017

Muslims, though. You can count on it.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
9. That was the energy company from Whitefish. This company has a lot of ex- Iran Contra spooks.
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 05:27 PM
Nov 2017

Trump wants to torture. That's what this is all about.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
13. They have the other three people in Whitefish.
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 07:23 PM
Nov 2017

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)
6. FFS
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 05:23 PM
Nov 2017

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.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)
10. A privatised CIA. This is dystopian scifi.
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 06:47 PM
Nov 2017

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)
11. For the CIA
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 07:19 PM
Nov 2017

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.




0rganism

(23,955 posts)
15. there's a movie waiting to be made about this
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 07:27 PM
Nov 2017

i mean fucking Whitefish again? really?
ok then, the movie stars Johnny Depp

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