by Ron Paul
Earlier this month we learned that the Obama Administration is significantly expanding the number of covert Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) agents overseas. From just a few hundred DIA agents overseas today, the administration intends to eventually deploy some 1,600 covert agents. The nature of their work will also shift, away from intelligence collection and more toward covert actions. This move signals a major change in how the administration intends to conduct military and paramilitary operations overseas. Unfortunately it is not a shift toward peace, but rather to an even more deadly and disturbing phase in the “war on terror.”
Surely attacks on foreign countries will increase as a result of this move, but more and more the strikes will take place under cover of darkness and outside the knowledge of Congress or the American people. The move also represents a further blurring of the lines between the military and intelligence services, with the CIA becoming more like a secret military unto itself. This is a very troubling development.
In 2010, I said in a speech that there had been a CIA coup in this country. The CIA runs the military, the drone program, and they are in drug trafficking. The CIA is a secretive government all on its own. With this new expanded Defense Intelligence Agency presence overseas it will be even worse. Because the DIA is operationally under control of the Pentagon, direct Congressional oversight of the program will be more difficult. Perhaps this is as intended. The CIA will be training the DIA in its facilities to conduct operations overseas. Much of this will include developing targeting data for the president’s expanding drone warfare program.
Already the president has demonstrated his preference for ever more drone attacks overseas. In Pakistan, for example, President Obama has in his first four years authorized six times more drone strikes than under all eight years of the Bush Administration. Nearly three thousand individuals have been killed by these drones, many of those non-combatants.
President Obama said recently of Israel’s strikes against the Palestinians in Gaza, “No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.” This announcement by the administration amounts to precisely that: the US intends to rain down ever more missiles on citizens overseas. I believe what the president says about Israel is true everywhere, so what about those overseas who live in fear of our raining missiles? How will they feel about the United States? Is it not possible that we may be inviting more blowback by expanding the covert war overseas? Does that make us safer?
An exhaustive study earlier this year by Stanford and New YorkUniversity law schools found that US drone strikes on Pakistan are “damaging and counterproductive,” potentially creating more terrorists than they kill. Its recommendations of a radical re-appraisal of the program obviously fell on deaf ears in the administration.
Thousands of new DIA spies are to be hired and placed undercover alongside their CIA counterparts to help foment ever more covert wars and coups in foreign lands. Congress is silent. Where will it all end?
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HEADS UP EVERYONE . “At this time back in 1913 when most of congress was home for Christmas is when they got together to pass the Federal Reserve act” So if they want to pass either gun laws or some debt limit increase without Congress this is when they will do it. What can we do?
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Thanks for your contribution to man kind, especially to the hearts and minds of our young people. I trust God to protect you for many years to come. I no longer choose to be associated with the actions of my country and am voting with my feet. If the dust settles before I die I will return with a healing hand.
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america is heading into a cave of darkness..
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What hypocrisy we have in this country? Where is the outcry and outpouring of prayers for the innocent victims of our drone strikes and Black Op operations from our intelligence community? Are we so ethnocentric that we can’t see that we condone these acts of violence everyday with our tax dollars and by sitting in silence, allow innocent children and adults to be killed. Then we have Obama turning on the tears while he continues his drone strikes in so many countries. Oh, that’s right they are simply “collateral damage”. It just makes me sick.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/killing-civilians-obamas-drone-war-in-pakistan/5315661
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14 stone 73?…..and you voted in the US presidential election? Please explain how a Limey poofter like you gets to vote in an American election.
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listen buddy, i didn’t vote for Ron Paul. i voted third party but you don’t see me trolling obama and romney videos do you? my lifetime resume’ probably exceeds yours in spades. be careful who you call a whackjob yo-yo. i’m over 14 stone, 73″, war vet, martial arts competitor, and business major. who did you vote for? not only am i stronger than you (most likely) i’m also WAY smarter than you. do yourself a favor and stop trolling.
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I know this is out of topic, but the Newtown school shooting has once again people scrambling left and right about the 2nd Amendment. Seriously, what’s happening to the USA, such a thing would be unimaginable just 25-30 years ago. Wonder what Dr. Paul has to say about the LATEST mass killing USA?
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Oh, my life is full and serene. I have no need of a phony guru, unlike you. You paultards are just a run of the mill freakshow! You tell me to get a life? You sir, need to have a psychiatric intervention, you fuckin’ whackjob yo-yo.
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Pastor James David Manning is calling for a boycott of Obama inauguration in January.
We Can Not Endure Four More Years of Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGLvXBuXt6U&feature=youtu.be
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Glad to hear Dr. Paul openly acknowledge that the CIA runs the drug supply!
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you’re the dork, moron. he isn’t even in office anymore so why do you give a shit? holy fuck, you’re batshit crazy. when you point your finger there are 3 pointing back. get a life!
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It’s all going to end in a bloody showdown Dr. Paul. Mark my words
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My point is, wRONg Paul and his batshit crazy ideas and convictions are IRRELEVANT, you weird-ass fuckin’ dork!
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Barack Hussein Obama is our president…?
How low has our Nation sunk to have someone, that can’t even put two words together without a teleprompter, usurp the White House residency?!
This clown is not fit to run the night-shift at a 7-11 store….
Spread this 1 minute video like Wildfire!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_AAMa_X2dM
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You are a great
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I just hope the elite is not tracking down every opponent to the current system, to target them for depopulation, which of course would be every Ron Paul supporter, of which I am his no 1 fan. The new world order ect. Truth is never tolerated.
I love Ron Paul!!!!!
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Ron Paul, don’t go away, the country needs you. Does Rand share the same belief’s? I sure hope he does. You need to get Presidential, you already are saying the right things, now you need to put on the polish! Don’t be to radical, American’s can’t handle the Truth, pick your fight and drive it home, stay focused, you can’t change the world in one election, but you sure can give it a damn good try.
You are so right about the Fed. I don’t think it will ever go away, to powerful and corrupt. What the bankers did to this country is unforgivable, worst ripoff in history, and NO ONE in jail, NO ONE, now we know how connected they really are!
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lol yea because he is crazy? WTF
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LOL people still follow this crazy loser?! Wtf?
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Rand Paul voted for the Indefinite Detention of American Citizens without trial as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013!: ipetitions . com/petition/recall-rand-paulrecallrandpaul
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run for president i will vote for you
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run for president i will vote for you
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It’s time people stood up and just say “Paul is the Real President. We are not
listening anymore to this administration. Stop sending in taxes. Do what Iceland
has done NOW!”
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dear ron paul,i am 75 years old and i have seen a lot of bad things happening just like you have also,so why dont we have the real RON PAUL REVOLUTION,has there been any more thoughts about taking texas out of the union and you becoming president or whatever,because america is really going to pot,it has more than a thousand military bases and that alone is an act of war against the rest of the world.i think the time has come to get off our arses and do something stop talking and do something really positive,as things stand we will never have world peace,all the war mongering that is being done in the world today is being done by three rogue nations,and they are AMERICA,BRITAIN and ISRAEL so lets just call them the ABI NETWORK,and its plain to see that netenyahu does not want peace, it really is long past time for america to break away,so all it needs is someone to start the ball rolling now today and not tomorrow for tomorrow never comes.
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CIA RUNS DRUGS? A CONGRESSMAN OPENLY STATING THIS?
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CIA that brought us the bay of pigs, CIA messed up then, they still messed up big time
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of course he’s a cranky old man. he put up with a lot of shit from people like you probably longer than you’ve been alive. what’s your point, toll?
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wRONg Paul is a cranky old geezer, no more,no less. He’s just a fuckin’ jackass!
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It will end when a sufficiency of people world wide have decided that it shall…
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Dr. Paul has been wandering through the wilderness for a long time now. It is time for us to take up the mantle. This revolutionary movement cuts through the many boundaries that were put in place to keep us separated. This revolutionary movement transcends the cult of personality that would further separate us. When money trumps the Constitution and common sense, it is time to take a stand.Thank you, Dr. Paul, for keeping hope alive.The torch is being handed off to the next generation.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/07/military-faces-though-questions-about-targeting-hostile-children-in-afghanistan/
Now our military wants to openly target children. In response to the killing in October of 3 Afghani children who were simply collecting dung so their mother could cook dinner, Lt. Col Marion Carrinton said in the Military Times that in addition to targeting military age males, he wants to “open the aperture” to also target “children with potential hostile intent”.
Children.
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This article about Covert War is shocking! But, that’s what we need, to be shocked into the reality that our freedom is slipping away. One of the most important things Ron Paul has done, is to tell us the truth. Most importantly, he has opened the eyes of young people, who are not willing to accept what is happening in our country. Time will tell, but I believe we are quickly reaching the breaking point and big changes in our current government are inevitable.
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I want 4 more years of freedom and less taxes.
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Everyone please just ignore ju88ff hes just a troll to ron paul.
Beside I like ron paul, hes the new George Washington in America. I know he lost
2012 campaign race. No need to worry he still has liberty. RON PAUL 2013
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It is always interesting to me how many folks look to the ignorance of others when it comes to the issue of covert wars. Folks. Please. What is the meaning of covert? It is not just someone else that is kept ignorant, the other guy, it is all of us IRRESPECTIVE of what side of the political polarization you are on! Until we see what Ron tried hard to show us, that both sides are covertly funded and the goal of the elite is to kill indiscriminately … they could really care less who they are killing and what side has the preferred moral boundary. The reason? The elite are amoral. They want for nothing, fear is outside of them as they have the levers to the currency system.
So given this as the starting point think about how sickening it is that we let these folks – through their CD puppets – pump up the fear in us to give them what in essence is world sovereignty.
War in years past was something that was fought over moral distinctions. Today?
Today not only do we not own such distinctions anymore, we have handed off the government to people it is obvious have been bought and paid for by the fiat elite money to do the bidding of those who could care less about life or death and right or wrong.
Freedom of conscience was what gave this country a freedom that lasted longer than any other freedom in history. But freedom of conscience has become freedom FROM a conscience and thus there is none of us that should as much as throw a stone until we can collectively see that freedom is not a right, it is a result and earn it back.
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