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Related: About this forumWho's Next on the Kill List? The Disposition Matrix
&feature=plcp"Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the "disposition matrix."
The matrix contains the names of terrorism suspects arrayed against an accounting of the resources being marshaled to track them down, including sealed indictments and clandestine operations. U.S. officials said the database is designed to go beyond existing kill lists, mapping plans for the "disposition" of suspects beyond the reach of American drones.
Although the matrix is a work in progress, the effort to create it reflects a reality setting in among the nation's counterterrorism ranks: The United States' conventional wars are winding down, but the government expects to continue adding names to kill or capture lists for years.
Among senior Obama administration officials, there is a broad consensus that such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade. Given the way al-Qaeda continues to metastasize, some officials said no clear end is in sight.
"We can't possibly kill everyone who wants to harm us," a senior administration official said. "It's a necessary part of what we do. . . . We're not going to wind up in 10 years in a world of everybody holding hands and saying, 'We love America.' "
That timeline suggests that the United States has reached only the midpoint of what was once known as the global war on terrorism. Targeting lists that were regarded as finite emergency measures after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are now fixtures of the national security apparatus. The rosters expand and contract with the pace of drone strikes but never go to zero."* Cenk Uygur breaks down the realities of the "disposition matrix" and a kill list that won't be ending anytime soon.
*Read more from Greg Miller/ Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/plan-for-hunting-terrorists-signals-us-intends-to-keep-adding-names-to-kill-lists/2012/10/23/4789b2ae-18b3-11e2-a55c-39408fbe6a4b_print.html
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Who's Next on the Kill List? The Disposition Matrix (Original Post)
rachel1
Oct 2012
OP
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)1. One man can kill anyone he wants to without consequences
Today, that's Obama and I hate it.
Tomorrow? Hate won't cover it.
Americans don't deserve the democracy they're so happy to give away.
This should have been utterly unthinkable.