Tuesday, October 1, 2013

The Next Intelligence Leak News Story Will Be On The NSA's 'Central Role In The US Assassination Program'



Edward Snowden To Reveal NSA's 'Central Role In The US Assassination Program' -- Business Insider

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).

We know a bit about the NSA's connection to America's global capture/kill machine already.

In the 2010 report "Top secret America," Dana Priest and Will Arkin of The Washington Post reported that the NSA provided the capture/kill squads of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) with a huge advantage after the signals intelligence agency "learned to locate all electronic signals in Iraq."

“We just had a field day,” a senior JSOC commander told the Post.

Read more ....

Previous Post: Did The NSA Surveillance Program Also Assist A 'U.S. Assassination Program'?

My Comment: Two of the chief architects for this program in Iraq were General McChrystal and General Petraeus. There is a good discussion on this program with General McChrustal at the Brookings Institute here .... and a good summary article on the role that General McChrystal and General Petraeus in developing this program can be read here.

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