Por Brizola Neto
“Não vi em nenhum jornal menção à grave matéria publicada na última sexta-feira (2) pelo “The Washington Post” afirmando que, desde o 11 de setembro, a CIA mudou sua prioridade: de espionagem para simples assassinato.
A matéria mostra que a força contraterrorismo da agência passou, nestes dez anos, de 300 para 2 mil agentes espalhados pelo mundo e contando, agora, com uma força de aviões não tripulados que já matou cerca de 2 mil pessoas no mundo árabe. Neste momento, as execuções estão concentradas no Iemen, onde –dizem eles– há “grupos simpatizantes da Al Qaeda”.
Segundo o jornal, a CIA não reconhece oficialmente o programa drone –zangão, nome dos aviões não-tribulados- “e muito menos dá explicação pública sobre o que atira e quem morre, e por que regras.”
“Estamos vendo a volta da CIA em mais de uma organização paramilitar, sem a supervisão e responsabilidade que tradicionalmente esperam dos militares”, disse Hina Shamsi, o diretor do “Projeto Nacional de Segurança da União Americana pelas Liberdades Civis”.
Sobre isso, a ONU afirmou que… Ah, a ONU não afirmou nada, ignora.
A matéria está aqui:.
“CIA SHIFTS FOCUS TO KILLING TARGETS
By Greg Miller and Julie Tate, Published: September 1
“Behind a nondescript door at CIA headquarters, the agency has assembled a new counterterrorism unit whose job is to find al-Qaeda targets in Yemen. A corresponding commotion has been underway in the Arabian Peninsula, where construction workers have been laying out a secret new runway for CIA drones.
When the missiles start falling, it will mark another expansion of the paramilitary mission of the CIA.
In the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the agency has undergone a fundamental transformation. Although the CIA continues to gather intelligence and furnish analysis on a vast array of subjects, its focus and resources are increasingly centered on the cold counterterrorism objective of finding targets to capture or kill.
The shift has been gradual enough that its magnitude can be difficult to grasp. Drone strikes that once seemed impossibly futuristic are so routine that they rarely attract public attention unless a high-ranking al-Qaeda figure is killed.
But framed against the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 2001 attacks —as well as the arrival next week of retired Gen. David H. Petraeus as the CIA’s director— the extent of the agency’s reorientation comes into sharper view:
The drone program has killed more than 2,000 militants and civilians since 2001, a staggering figure for an agency that has a long history of supporting proxy forces in bloody conflicts but rarely pulled the trigger on its own.
The CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, which had 300 employees on the day of the attacks [11/9/01], now exceeds al-Qaeda’s core membership around the globe. With about 2,000 on its staff, the CTC accounts for 10 percent of the agency’s workforce, has designated officers in almost every significant overseas post and controls the CIA’s expanding fleet of drones.
Even the agency’s analytic branch, which traditionally existed to provide insights to policymakers, has been enlisted in the hunt. About 20 percent of CIA analysts are now “targeters” scanning data for individuals to recruit, arrest or place in the cross¬hairs of a drone. The skill is in such demand that the CIA made targeting a designated career track five years ago, meaning analysts can collect raises and promotions without having to leave the targeting field.
Critics, including some in the U.S. intelligence community, contend that the CIA’s embrace of “kinetic” operations, as they are known, has diverted the agency from its traditional espionage mission and undermined its ability to make sense of global developments such as the Arab Spring.
Human rights groups go further, saying the CIA now functions as a military force beyond the accountability that the United States has historically demanded of its armed services. The CIA doesn’t officially acknowledge the drone program, let alone provide public explanation about who shoots and who dies, and by what rules.
“We’re seeing the CIA turn into more of a paramilitary organization without the oversight and accountability that we traditionally expect of the military,” said Hina Shamsi, the director of the National Security Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.”
FONTE: blog “Tijolaço”, de Brizola Neto (http://20.0.0.4/CliAuthMain?url=http://www.tijolaco.com/washington-post-cia-virou-maquina-de-assassinar/) e “Washington Post” (http://20.0.0.4/CliAuthMain?url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-shifts-focus-to-killing-targets/2011/08/30/gIQA7MZGvJ_story.html?tid=wp_ipad).
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