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02/20/2006
The contracting out of various covert operations to private contractors
By Wayne Madsen
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
February 20, 2006 -- The editor is posting some documents from the older archives. The first is on the contracting out of covert aviation operations by the federal government.
The contracting out of various covert operations to private contractors helped create the current U.S.-government sanctioned aviation-narcotics complex that has found new business in the "global war on terror."
Contracts like Dyncorp's ( http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/Dyncorp.htm ), issued in 1996 for counter-narcotics "services" in Latin America, kept the global network of aircraft contractors, expatriates, and foreign contractor ne'er do-wells, which fully began operations during the Vietnam War and continued through Iran-Contra, intact. The Bush administration has given these contractors a free ride to engage in their old tradecraft unchallenged by the DEA or FBI.
The second is an excerpt from an unpublished monograph written just after the 9-11 attacks. It predicted the assault on the independent media by the Pentagon, citing its own doctrine at the time. Since November 2001, the censorship, information embargoes, wiretapping, and surveillance have all reached monumental proportions.
Washington whispers have it that this web site has gone from "annoyance" to "threat" as far as Porter Goss's minions at Langley are concerned. In any event, this "annoyance and/or threat" will continue to expose the machinations of the neo-con dictatorship that has taken over the United States and its organs of government.
The third is on the Bush administration's initial diplomatic and economic relationship with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the very same regime that was said to be harboring Al Qaeda, which was putting the finishing touches on the 9-11 attacks. Note that President Bush even took possession of a gift carpet from an emissary of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. The disposition of the carpet has been held a closely guarded secret by White House Gift Office. Note how when the Democrats controlled the Senate during a short window of opportunity in 2002, they failed to investigate the Bush-Enron-UNOCAL ties to the Taliban. The number one culprit was Joe Lieberman.
With Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez recently telling Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "don't mess with me girl," it is interesting to revisit the Bush administration's involvement in the attempted coup against Chavez in April 2002.

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