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Thursday, September 25th, 2014

Who Profits From our new War? Inside NSA and Private Contractors’ Secret Plans

Author:     TIM SHORROCK
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Wednesday, Sep 24, 2014 03:58 AM PDT
 Link: Who Profits From our new War? Inside NSA and Private Contractors’ Secret Plans
Stephan:   We have now had constant war well into a second decade, through two presidencies. It has destroyed the lives of millions, Americans, and others in even greater numbers. We are creating this monster by our policies and, for a small group of people in the military, intelligence, corporate triad it has all been extraordinarily profitable. Eisenhower warned us, but no one paid him any heed. Think: a child born on 9/11 is now a teenager, and has never known a time when the U.S. was not at war. People say we never seem to learn. To which I would reply, to the people who profit from war, they have learned a formula that works year after year, decade after decade.
Northrop Grumman test pilots prepare to taxi the Navy X-47B drone, to be launched off the USS George H. W. Bush. (Credit: AP/Steve Helber)

Northrop Grumman test pilots prepare to taxi the Navy X-47B drone, to be launched off the USS George H. W. Bush. (Credit: AP/Steve Helber)

A massive, $7.2 billion Army intelligence contract signed just 10 days ago underscores the central role to be played by the National Security Agency and its army of private contractors in the unfolding air war being carried out by the United States and its Gulf States allies against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

That war was greatly expanded Monday night when U.S. forces launched a ‘mix of fighter, bomber, remotely-piloted aircraft and Tomahawk” cruise missiles against ISIS targets in Syria. The Central Command said the strikes were led by the United States with support from Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

INSCOM’s ‘global intelligence support” contract will place the contractors at the center of this fight. It was unveiled on Sept. 12 by the U.S. […]

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