{"id":1699,"date":"2011-05-02T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/02\/jsoc-the-black-ops-force-that-took-down-bin-laden\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:31:12","slug":"jsoc-the-black-ops-force-that-took-down-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/05\/02\/jsoc-the-black-ops-force-that-took-down-bin-laden\/","title":{"rendered":"JSOC: The Black Ops Force That Took Down Bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/160332\/jsoc-black-ops-force-took-down-bin-laden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremy Scahill writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Both President Bush and President Obama have reserved the right for US  forces to operate lethally and unilaterally in any country across the  globe in pursuit of alleged high value terrorists. The Obama  administration&rsquo;s expansion of US Special Operations activities globally  has been authorized under a classified order dating back to the Bush  administration. Originally signed in early 2004 by then-Secretary of  Defense Donald Rumsfeld, it is known as the \u201cAQN ExOrd,&ldquo; or Al Qaeda  Network Execute Order. The AQN ExOrd was intended to cut through  bureaucratic and legal processes, allowing US special forces to move  into denied areas or countries beyond the official battle zones of Iraq  and Afghanistan. Gen. David Petraeus, who is poised to become director  of the CIA, expanded and updated that order in late 2009. &quot;JSOC has been  more empowered more under this administration than any other in recent  history,&rdquo; a Special Ops source told The Nation. &ldquo;No question.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Several Special Ops sources say that President  Obama has taken concrete steps to once again integrate JSOC more fully  into the broader US military strategy globally. The bin Laden operation,  which was done in concert with the CIA, seems to be evidence of that.  The primacy of JSOC within the Obama administration&rsquo;s foreign  policy&ndash;from Yemen and Somalia to Afghanistan and Pakistan&ndash;indicates  that he has doubled down on the Bush-era policy of targeted  assassination as a staple of US foreign policy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/bit.ly\/k5QOWd'>JSOC: The Black Ops Force That Took Down Bin Laden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Scahill writes: Both President Bush and President Obama have reserved the right for US forces to operate lethally and unilaterally in any country across the globe in pursuit of alleged high value terrorists. The Obama administration&rsquo;s expansion of US &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/05\/02\/jsoc-the-black-ops-force-that-took-down-bin-laden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[202,253],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jsoc","tag-obama","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":964,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/07\/08\/adding-to-the-deficit-bush-vs-obama\/","url_meta":{"origin":1699,"position":0},"title":"Adding to the deficit: Bush vs. Obama","author":"aslam","date":"July 8, 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"Adding to the deficit: Bush vs. Obama","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":718,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/02\/03\/timeline-how-obama-compares-to-bush-on-torture\/","url_meta":{"origin":1699,"position":1},"title":"Timeline: How Obama Compares to Bush on Torture, Surveillance and Detention","author":"aslam","date":"February 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties As the terrain and debate around national security shifts, we took a look back at some of the most controversial elements of George W. 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