Review Of Covert Operations, May Be Moved From CIA To Department Of Defense

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President Bush has ordered an internal review into whether the Defense Department should run covert paramilitary operations traditionally mounted by the CIA, administration officials said on Tuesday.

The presidential directive, signed by Bush last week, asks the CIA and the Departments of State, Defense and Justice to report back to him in 90 days on "whether or not the paramilitary operations, currently under the control of the CIA, should be transferred to the Department of Defense," a senior administration official said.
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Personnel in U.S. military Special Operations forces, such as Delta Force and Navy SEALs, are elite and highly trained troops who perform special missions, in many cases covert and behind enemy lines.

"Since this is a complex issue, we want to study it closely with the intelligence community to better understand it," said a Pentagon spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We don't have any preordained or preferred solutions in mind. We are undertaking the study with open minds.

"We have been working formally and informally with the CIA already on this issue. We have a great deal of common ground and agreement with them," the spokesman added.

Officials said the interagency review, first reported by The New York Times, would look at whether paramilitary authorities should be transferred in their entirety to the Defense Department.

It could also advocate a more collaborative role between Special Operations forces and the paramilitary units of the intelligence agency. They already work together in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders.

I'll have to do some research on this, because it looks like an underdeveloped or premature story. However, it is quite important, and I hope the media at least mentions it. The Events in Ukraine, on the other hand, have been ignored by the US media (which I consider to be a huge error. The protests can be manipulated into a revolution if the media wants to get the highest possible ratings).