Works like a charm for the warmonger set.

C.I.A. Said to Use Outsiders to Put Bombs on Drones

By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI
The New York Times
August 21, 2009

WASHINGTON — From a secret division at its North Carolina headquarters, the company formerly known as Blackwater has assumed a role in Washington’s most important counterterrorism program: the use of remotely piloted drones to kill Al Qaeda’s leaders, according to government officials and current and former employees.

The division’s operations are carried out at hidden bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the company’s contractors assemble and load Hellfire missiles and 500-pound laser-guided bombs on remotely piloted Predator aircraft, work previously performed by employees of the Central Intelligence Agency. They also provide security at the covert bases, the officials said.

The role of the company in the Predator program highlights the degree to which the C.I.A. now depends on outside contractors to perform some of the agency’s most important assignments. And it illustrates the resilience of Blackwater, now known as Xe (pronounced Zee) Services, though most people in and outside the company still refer to it as Blackwater. It has grown through government work, even as it attracted criticism and allegations of brutality in Iraq.

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In interviews on Thursday, current and former government officials provided new details about Blackwater’s association with the assassination program, which began in 2004 not long after Porter J. Goss took over at the C.I.A. The officials said that the spy agency did not dispatch the Blackwater executives with a “license to kill.” Instead, it ordered the contractors to begin collecting information on the whereabouts of Al Qaeda’s leaders, carry out surveillance and train for possible missions.

“The actual pulling of a trigger in some ways is the easiest part, and the part that requires the least expertise,” said one government official familiar with the canceled C.I.A. program. “It’s everything that leads up to it that’s the meat of the issue.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/us/21intel.html

Reich-winger's pockets. How uniquely American.

Our "Defense" against terrorism is even worse terrorism than any terrorism they can do.
Why is our military even there in the first place, let alone destroying homes and families, killing people, mostly innocents, on somebody's say so?

How is this "Defending our Freedom"?

Because they are now dead and someone says so after the fact? Because Fox news and CNN reports on a press release put out by our "Defense Department"?

Those citizens were in their own country, trying to live their lives. We are ones violating their country's sovereignty with impunity and killing their people without proof, visiting terrorism on them wiht our drones from miles away and we call them terrorists? How does this cure the terrorist problem, anyway?
What are we doing in their country in the first place?

Don't you believe in investigations, arrests, trials? Or is that too much trouble?

We are currently breaking international laws killing who ever the president thinks is a terrorist without any process. We wont hold Bush/Cheney accountable because no one can make us.

You post boasting about how we would nuke anyone that dared take us on says one hell of a lot.

I have no love for terrorists and I believe that our country is using terrorism.

This is so depressing and so predictable.

Not going to defend this drone policy anymore.

for everyone to oppose this stupid fucking policy. IT DOESN'T WORK. It makes us less safe and more hated.