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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 01:46 PM
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Ultra-secret troops poised at inaugural - code named Power Geyser
Ultra-secret troops poised at inaugural

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These commandos, operating under a secret counterterrorism program code-named Power Geyser, were mentioned publicly for the first time last week on a Web site for a new book, "Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operation in the 9/11 World," by William Arkin, a former Army intelligence analyst.

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The special-missions units belong to the Joint Special Operations Command, a highly secretive command based at Fort Bragg, N.C., whose elements include the Army's Delta Force. In the past, the command has also provided support to domestic law-enforcement agencies during high-risk events like the Olympics and political party conventions, according to the Web site of GlobalSecurity.org, a research organization in Alexandria, Va.

The role of the armed forces in the United States has been a contentious issue for more than a century. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which restricts military forces from performing domestic law enforcement duties, like policing, was enacted after the Civil War in response to the perceived misuse of federal troops who were charged with policing in the South.

Over the years, the law has been amended to allow the military to lend equipment to federal, state and local authorities, assist federal agencies in drug-interdiction work, protect national parks and execute quarantine and certain health laws. About 5,000 federal troops supported civilian agencies at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City three years ago.

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The commandos in Washington last week were the same type of special-ops forces that are hunting top insurgents in Iraq and Osama bin Laden in the wilds of the Afghan-Pakistan border. But under the top-secret military plan, they are also conducting counter-terrorism missions in support of civilian agencies on U.S. soil.
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5200163.html

"The Gestapo was established on April 26, 1933 in Prussia. With members recruited from professional police departments, its role as a political police force was quickly established by Hermann Göring after Adolf Hitler gained power in March 1933. Rudolf Diels was the first head of the organization, initially called "Department 1A of the Prussian State Police".

The role of the Gestapo was to investigate and combat "all tendencies dangerous to the State." It had the authority to investigate treason, espionage and sabotage cases, and cases of criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and on Germany.

The law had been changed in such a way that the Gestapo's actions were not subject to judicial review. The Nazi jurist, Dr. Werner Best, stated, "As long as the ... carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally." The Gestapo was specifically exempted from being responsible to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws.

The power of the Gestapo most open to misuse was Schutzhaft, or "protective custody" — a euphemism for the power to imprison people without judicial proceedings, typically in concentration camps. The person imprisoned even had to sign his or her own Schutzhaftbefehl, the document declaring that the person desired to be imprisoned. Normally this signature was forced by beatings and torture."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo


Spicer's group is supposed to coordinate them all?

Rumsfeld to review the Spicer deal.

Major Gary Tallman, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army, explained
that the contract was to create an "integrator" or coordination
hub for the security operation for every single reconstruction
contractor and sub-contractor.
"Their job is to disseminate information and provide guidance and
coordination.... http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11350


http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Tim_Spicer

Thanks sattahipdeep :hug:


Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operations in the 9/11 World

Introduction: Will explain to the American public, for the first time, just what the explosion in the creation of secret code names after 9/11 reveals about overall strategies in the war on terror.

Cast of Characters: A brief description of all relevant federal departments, agencies, commands, and organizations. For each there is a discussion of their missions, roles, and activities, their contingency plans and their secret bases of operations. The emphasis is on what is not readily known to the public.
http://www.codenames.org/
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Pachamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 01:50 PM
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1. This freaks me out...I have wondered if this wasn't happening already..
..now that its starting to "come out" (even in bits of data like this) tells me its been happening and probably on a much larger scale than we realize....

Your going to have to change your DU moniker to SEEMSLIKEANIGHTMARE

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