CIA to become a paramilitary force. (As if that hasn't happened already?)

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U.S. redesigns terrorist target list

ublished: Oct. 24, 2012 at 2:30 AM

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- The Obama administration is planning a next-generation terrorist targeting list that transforms the CIA into a paramilitary force, The Washington Post reported.

The secret list, called the "disposition matrix," contains terrorism suspect names laid out against resources available to track them down, the Post said in a report published Tuesday.

The report, the first of three on changing U.S. counterterrorism policies, is based on interviews with current and former White House, Pentagon, intelligence and counterterrorism officials, the Post said.

The White House, National Counter-terrorism Center, CIA and other agencies declined to comment on the matrix or other counterterrorism programs.

The National Counterterrorism Center is part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which integrates intelligence information, and draws on CIA, FBI, Pentagon and other experts who seek to ensure all potential terrorist-attack clues are detected and acted on when necessary.

The matrix -- designed to go beyond existing kill lists -- is a continually evolving database cataloging terror suspects' biographies, locations, acquaintances and alliances, the Post said. Strategies for taking targets down are also spelled out, including extradition requests, capture operations and drone patrols, the newspaper said.

The database, which officials said was not in operation, is designed to map out contingencies, creating a ready menu for multiple agencies' roles in case a suspect surfaces in an unexpected spot, the Post said.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/10/24/US-redesigns-terrorist-target-list/UPI-37411351060200/#ixzz2ACEiC3m1

Obama is the only Nobel Peace Prize winner with his own kill list.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice-2012/#

In related news, the CIA seeks to expand the drone fleet. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/cia-drone-program_n_1983930.html



Rule.Of.Law.

[Enthusiast]

1. Mission creep.

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2. Murder by drone is a mission?

[Leopolds Ghost]

3. They also had a list for

OW if it "turned violent". No joke.

It wasn't intelligence because that would be American soil and that would be wrong. :eyes: It was HS

They hired someone to make a list of all the supposed organizers (US activists) so they could be rounded up in one swell foop if need be.

So I learned from a fellow DUer who used to work in politics.

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4. I have no doubt. But rounding up and death by drone are not on a par.