Snowden Leaks To Reveal NSA's 'Central Role In The US Assassination Program'

[Yeahbaby]

The Snowden gift that just keeps on giving...

Over the weekend, investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill told an audience in Brazil that he and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald are working on a project involving "how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the U.S. assassination program."

The information apparently comes from classified NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden to Greenwald (and others).

"You go in and you get some intelligence ... and [Special Ops forces] kill 27, 30, 40 people, whatever, and they capture seven or eight," U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.), who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff (2002-05) , told Scahill. "Then you find out that the intelligence was bad and you killed a bunch of innocent people and you have a bunch of innocent people on your hands, so you stuff 'em in Guantanamo. No one ever knows anything about that."

[ouwen]

Interesting. When can we expect news of the project results?

When can we expect declassification of the US assassination program?

When can we expect prosecution of these US govt bureaucrats who believe themselves to be judge, jury, executioner and demi gods?

[Yeahbaby]

The answer is probably, never.

Worthy and unworthy victims.

All those assassinated and put in tribunal prisons are unworthy, and thus easily forgotten. They have no voice. And this will not change. The US can keep doing this for hundreds years, and most Americans would silently look the other way. It's a big collective yawn for the most part.

As long as the living standards and way of life continues and prospers. It will only change if America internally implodes from its own weight in debt or civil inconsistency.

[ouwen]

The answer is probably, never.

Worthy and unworthy victims.

All those assassinated and put in tribunal prisons are unworthy, and thus easily forgotten. They have no voice. And this will not change. The US can keep doing this for hundreds years, and most Americans would silently look the other way. It's a big collective yawn for the most part.

As long as the living standards and way of life continues and prospers. It will only change if America internally implodes from its own weight in debt or civil inconsistency.

The US government oligarchy was born out of war. It thrives on war, and much like the Nazism it replaced, it indoctrinates the people to believe that war is noble and good. Edward Bernays and Joseph Goebbels can be very proud of the success and evolution of their vile inventions.

But historically, all military empires decline and fall. The internal implosion will come.

Many men of proven wisdom predict the certainty of that implosion, but they cannot predict when it will happen. It may be tomorrow or decades in the future. Every rape and pillage of the world economy, whether by war or by finacial fraud, is corrected by Keynesian economic policies of incredible stupidity. The world keeps faith in the US dollar and the belief that it is backed by American ingenuity and free market capitalism. That ingenuity has now given us "fracking", which will make the US energy independent, and provide diesel fuel for the machines of future wars.

[chris_yang22]

The answer is probably, never.

Worthy and unworthy victims.

All those assassinated and put in tribunal prisons are unworthy, and thus easily forgotten. They have no voice. And this will not change. The US can keep doing this for hundreds years, and most Americans would silently look the other way. It's a big collective yawn for the most part.

As long as the living standards and way of life continues and prospers. It will only change if America internally implodes from its own weight in debt or civil inconsistency.

Out of sight, out of mind. 🙈🙉🙊

[cheepo]

"You go in and you get some intelligence ... and [Special Ops forces] kill 27, 30, 40 people, whatever, and they capture seven or eight," U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.), who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff (2002-05) , told Scahill. "Then you find out that the intelligence was bad and you killed a bunch of innocent people and you have a bunch of innocent people on your hands, so you stuff 'em in Guantanamo. No one ever knows anything about that."

This is no news to anybody who has been following the news over the last 50 years or so. That's what the US has been doing for decades in South America, Asia and Africa. That, and overthrowing democracies and supporting dictatorships and terrorism. Ever heard of the School of the Americas?

[ouwen]

This is no news to anybody who has been following the news over the last 50 years or so. That's what the US has been doing for decades in South America, Asia and Africa. That, and overthrowing democracies and supporting dictatorships and terrorism. Ever heard of the School of the Americas?

The US government needs more Kennedys and more Pauls, a lot more of them, like 51% of congress.

[USA40-40]

The US government needs more Kennedys and more Pauls, a lot more of them, like 51% of congress.

I would not be shocked to find out the US government got rid of Kennedy
There were a number of people and departments that strongly disagreed with the changes he was making.

[Yeahbaby]

Every rape and pillage of the world economy, whether by war or by finacial fraud, is corrected by Keynesian economic policies of incredible stupidity. The world keeps faith in the US dollar and the belief that it is backed by American ingenuity and free market capitalism.

A lot of people forget the plunder part of "rape, pillage and plunder." It's a little bit of nuanced history of the term, but something the US has mastered.

[ouwen]

I would not be shocked to find out the US government got rid of Kennedy
There were a number of people and departments that strongly disagreed with the changes he was making.

I know from first hand experience that clandestine factions of the US govt will sacrifice American lives to meet their objectives, such as breaking up the peace talks between Kennedy and Khrushchev. From sacrificing soldiers and sailors to sacrificing their commander in chief is not that much of a stretch.