Who Are We At War With? Sorry, That’s ‘Classified’

Who Are We at War With? Sorry, That’s “Classified” (Liberty Blitzkrieg, July 26, 2013):

You’d think that a nation that has allowed the shredding of the civil liberties enshrined in its founding document might deserve to know who the dastardly enemy is to justify such a dramatic transgression, right? Wrong. Amazingly, Carl Levin (D-Michigan) asked the Pentagon to define who exactly the “Al-Qaeda affiliates” we are at war with are. While Mr. Levin received and answer, guess what he told the public? Yep, you guessed it. It’s classified.

From ProPublica:

In a major national security speech this spring, President Obama said again and again that the U.S. is at war with “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces.”

So who exactly are those associated forces? It’s a secret.

At a hearing in May, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., asked the Defense Department to provide him with a current list of Al Qaeda affiliates.

The Pentagon responded – but Levin’s office told ProPublica they aren’t allowed to share it. Kathleen Long, a spokeswoman for Levin, would say only that the department’s “answer included the information requested.”

A Pentagon spokesman told ProPublica that revealing such a list could cause “serious damage to national security.”

There’s that “national security” line again.

“Because elements that might be considered ‘associated forces’ can build credibility by being listed as such by the United States, we have classified the list,” said the spokesman, Lt. Col. Jim Gregory. “We cannot afford to inflate these organizations that rely on violent extremist ideology to strengthen their ranks.”

During the May hearing, Michael Sheehan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, said he was “not sure there is a list per se.” Describing terrorist groups as “murky” and “shifting,” he said, “it would be difficult for the Congress to get involved in trying to track the designation of which are the affiliate forces” of Al Qaeda.

Let me fill in the blanks for you:  Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, the ACLU, Oath Keepers, We are Change, P.A.N.D.A., the EFF, short sellers, gold buyers and critical thinkers.

Thanks for playing America.

Full article here.

 

2 thoughts on “Who Are We At War With? Sorry, That’s ‘Classified’”

  1. Can’t expose all the corporations getting rich at taxpayer expense……..might even awaken people to the fact they are the butt of a sucker’s game.
    Good old “transparency”, isn’t that what Obama ran on in 2008?

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