New Defense Clandestine Service Blends Civilian and Military Operations

From The New American

 ...To successfully carry out this new covert program, the Pentagon has provided the DCS with plenty of staff. As noted by the Washington Post in December, "When the expansion is complete, the DIA is expected to have as many as 1,600 “collectors” in positions around the world, an unprecedented total for an agency whose presence abroad numbered in the triple digits in recent years."

 The DCS declares that it is “mission focused” and that mission is to accelerate the convergence of the military and the civilian authorities and obliterate constitutional boundaries around privacy and civil liberties.
Finally, there is no denying that the surveillance state is expanding and that Americans at home and abroad are nearly constantly under the watchful and never-blinking eye of intelligence officers. From phone taps to traffic cameras connected to the National Security Agency, the federal government is not only violating statutory law, but is circumventing the Constitution. On several fronts, the United States is being treated as a theater of the “War on Terror” and citizens are being treated as suspects.

Secret services 'must be made more transparent' (eh...what they really mean is infiltrate anyone who questions them)

From The Independent and Prison Planet.

A Demos report published today, The Power of Unreason, argues that secrecy surrounding the investigation of events such as the 9/11 New York attacks and the 7/7 bombings in London merely adds weight to unsubstantiated claims that they were "inside jobs".

It warns of the dangers posed by conspiracy theories – from hindering counter-terrorism work by reducing public trust in the Government, to encouraging new alliances between extremists based on such theories – and recommends the Government fight back by infiltrating internet sites to dispute these theories...

Senate Intelligence/CNN Mirage Of "Lack Of Intelligence Sharing" When In Reality "Intelligence Sharing" Caused Christmas Bomber Failure

Reading a CNN article discussing the resignation of Dennis C. Blair and a Senate Intelligence Commitee report, you probably would believe a lack of intelligence sharing caused the Christmas Bomber intelligence failure. However, in reality, beyond the smokescreen of manipulation, it was the intelligence sharing itself which caused the incident. The State Department was on course to revoke the visa of Abdulmutallab until an unnamed intelligence agency requested that the State Department NOT do so. This goes unmentioned by CNN and other near useless media organizations.

It was originally reported in The Detroit News and elsewhere, but still survives here and here.

Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber
By Alex Lantier
3 February 2010
A January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security established that US intelligence agencies stopped the State Department from revoking the US visa of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The Nigerian student, whom US officials suspected of being affiliated with the Yemeni terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, attempted to set off a bomb on Northwest Flight 253 into Detroit on Christmas Day. Revocation of Abdulmutallab’s visa would have prevented him from boarding the airplane.

The hearing was reported in a brief article posted January 27 on the web site of the Detroit News, headlined, “Terror Suspect Kept Visa to Avoid Tipping Off Larger Investigation.”

The revelation that US intelligence agencies made a deliberate decision to allow Abdulmutallab to board the commercial flight, without any special airport screening, has been buried in the media. As of this writing, nearly a week after the hearing, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have published no articles on the subject. Nor have the broadcast or cable media reported on it...

This is not just negligence of course. This mirage has a purpose. Corrupt elements within the establishment want, like any good mafia, more centralization and more "sharing" since it allows for more central control and thus more corruption.