Why Does Obama’s State Department Need It’s Own Drone Fleet?

Obama is creating a private military force in nearly every Cabinet branch, answerable only to Obama himself.

I love it when John Galt FL notes the subtle and hidden truths that most of us miss in the events swirling around us on a daily basis.  Here he finds an overlooked innocuous-sounding requisition order that most Americans would never even hear of, and it prompts an alarm that asks the question: why does Obama need to militarize the Executive Branch and Cabinet?  From the IRS, DHS and DOJ to the EPA and now the State Department (a supposedly DIPLOMATIC agency) – Obama is arming them with military hardware and forces that are immune from any oversight of the Pentagon or the American people.  Here Obama made a request for a private drone fleet for the State Department, and it’s hilarious that this was made BEFORE the September 11 Jihad attack on our Mission in Benghazi as we learned Obama’s regime would never have used them against the Jihadists anyway. (recall they told the two Seal members defending the mission to stand down before they were killed).

So if armed military men are told to stand down from Islamic terrorists, why does Obama need armed drones for the State Department?

Perhaps Obama does not intend them for use overseas.

In short – I believe as John does, that Obama is creating his own private Praetorian Military force, right in front of our faces.

Thanks for catching this one John.

Why Does the U.S. State Department need its own Drone Fleet? 

by John Galt
June 2, 2013 13:00 ET

This morning I noticed a Bloomberg.com story from yesterday afternoon which made its way to the front page of their website:

Drone Surveillance Contract Called Off by U.S. State Department

This contract was cancelled based on the original program placed out for bid on September 8, 2011 by FBO.gov:

Synopsis: 

Added: Sep 08, 2011 12:06 pm

This notice is made in accordance with FAR Part 5.203 and will account for the 15 day pre-solicitation issuance requirement. The anticipated release date for the solicitation is October 1, 2011.

The Department of State (DOS), Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), Office of Security Technology (ST), has a requirement for a qualified contractor to provide worldwide Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) support services. The mission of the UAV program is to provide real-time air surveillance of fixed installations, proposed movement routes and movement operations, and special events thereby improving security in high threat or potentially high threat environments. The UAV program shall provide the capability to:

•Achieve and maintain situational awareness.
•Automatically generate and disseminate high quality video imaging.
•Respond to a security incident at locations remote from the core of operations.
•Disseminate threat information for use in route planning.
•Receive, view, and analyze in route activity.

The contractor shall provide Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for Tier I and Tier II/Tier II+ as classified by the United States Air Force appropriate for the missions and flight services specified. The contractor shall also provide a logistics service package to include but not limited to systems management, staffing, operation, maintenance, repair, tools, parts, supply and reporting activities at levels adequate to meet or exceed the requirements of the solicitation.

The big question is why does the United States diplomatic arm need a military program within its realm of operational capacity as the Department of Defense (DoD) was originally tasked with this duty by the Constitution? A quick look into the expansion of the undeclared wars started under Truman and expanded by every President since is the basic answer to that question. Yet this current administration has taken the idea one step further by practically creating a military arm for each cabinet department within the U.S. government. If that is not alarming enough, take a moment to recall this bid via the same FedBizOps website put out by the State Department on November 30, 2012:

The Department of State (DoS) Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), Office of Aviation (INL/A) is initiating these market research activities associated with the continuing requirement for global aviation services. Chief among the myriad requirements to be contracted is the operation and maintenance of fixed wing and rotary aircraft at multiple sites in 8 or more countries in permissive and non-permissive environments and in direct support of US Government activities. Such sanctioned activities include, but are not limited to: personnel and cargo transport, aerial reconnaissance, medical and casualty evacuations, aerial herbicide application, aerial support to narcotics interdiction operations, aircraft ferrying, and emergent surge type operations. At some locations requirements include working with, and training host nation personnel in key disciplines, as defined by USG nationalization plans.

Excuse me? The State Department not only wanted drones but contractor services for their own air force? That’s right, 412 aircraft currently per the bid package above. The key portion from the bid are the following from the section titled “Requirements” for the services requested:

Provide inter and intra-theater transportation at all sites, as directed. 
Provide life support services such as food, housing, laundry and MWR for personnel in permissive and non-permissive environments. 
Provide defensive security for air fields and housing when required.

US STATE DEPT. INL GUNSHIP

For those of you not familiar with the term, a “non-permissive” environment is a combat zone or at a minimum area under hostile threat. The INL Air Wing was started long before Obama became President but the disturbing trend he has accelerated is the outsourcing of the military and paramilitary activities of the various cabinet departments to avoid oversight by the Pentagon and by extension the House and Senate committees with oversight over the various military branches. By shifting emphasis to the PSC’s (Private Security Contractors aka “mercenaries”) the oversight of the bureaucracy is muddled by Executive Privilege actions by the President to protect documentation and orders given along with the ability for a civilian military arm to act as the President wishes, not the nation as a whole.

This dangerous precedent set by then President George W. Bush and now expanded beyond any practical regime of oversight currently available on Capitol Hill should alarm the American public but that would require a non-compliant media and fewer discussions of frivolous scandals when much larger ones shall hopefully be exposed in the weeks and months to come. As it sits now, I remind everyone of Obama’s words and the real question:

Just as powerful.
Just as strong.
Just as well funded.

Think about it folks, the real question is do we want a civilian national security force with no legal accountability to international or American Constitutional law roaming free around the world and within our borders executing the whims of international financial cartels and a corrupt administration?

I think not.

Obama’s Civilian Army Taking Shape?

One thing that I have noticed that Dear Leader in the White House has been consistent about – is that stern statements he made to avid supporters like Unions and other Leftist groups during the campaign, he has been unflinchingly stalwart about.  From Healthcare, the Stimulus, pushing for a “world without nukes”, canceling new military weapons systems and spending to affording Jihadists Constitutional Rights – Obama has been delivering on those promises.

One last promise he has made was to “create a civilian security force that is just as strong, just as well funded as our military” is something being done via stealth, and these folks have been good enough to chronicle the development of what may become America’s Gestapo and Stasi.

White House Organizing High School Kids For Civilian Service

Organizing for America is recruiting Children in our high schools in order to “build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda” …………of national socialism.

Organizing Kids for Obama

Something Wicked This Way Comes

A Socialist Agenda of Saul Alinsky Is Being Waged by Obama and the Democrats

“We are the hungry ones. Your torments call us like dogs in the night, and we’re to feed and feed well.  We stuff ourselves on other people’s nightmares and butter our plain bread with delicious pain…We suck that misery and find it sweet.  We search for more, always” – Mr. Dark,   Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes

 

We are moving so fast towards a Marxist tyranny, we cannot keep up with everything that is happening and being proposed and imposed.

Just today, during the signing of Porkulus in Denver – Obama stated that we will have “smart meters” put on all our homes – to ‘monitor’ our energy use, in which he lied boldfaced about the intent of such a device.  It is NOT to cut our energy costs or cut down on power outages – but it is a device to meter and document WHEN and HOW you use that energy, and to report it to the government for taxation.

Obama said that he will be launching “other” aspects of an ambitious plan to ‘change’ the country.

Roger King from the Canada Free Press documents the Marxist agenda of the first few weeks of this regime we will suffer under.

 

Something Wicked This Way Comes

By Roger King  Tuesday, February 17, 2009 

Barack Obama’s has been in power for about a month but his promise of “change” appears to be more than just a liberal agenda. Not only is it becoming apparent that the economic crisis is being used to push a socialist agenda that would make Sol Alinsky proud but there are some very disturbing signs how the Democratic plan to win subsequent elections.

Bailout Bill

Obama campaigned on a message of “hope over fear” but his current rhetoric talks about a crisis of catastrophic scope if the bailout bill isn’t passed immediately. What makes this suspicious is the fact CBO states most of the bill will only take effect at the end of 2010 and will actually hurt our gross national product over the following 10 years. Its apparent president Obama used this bill to accomplish things that would have been much harder to pass on their own merit.

 

Religious discrimination: Buried in the bill is a section that bans religious activities in many public education buildings. Further, there are upgrades to the national school systems but they are prohibited where religious activates may occur. Democrats voted 43-54 against an amendment to strike from the economic stimulus bill language that discriminates against people of faith.

Universal Health Care: The outline for Universal Health care will be put in place through this bill. In mandating a computer system for all medical records, every person will be mandated to have their records recorded in Federal DB. 
A National Coordinator of Health Information Technology is going to be created to monitor this system. This outline will likely be used to track treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties.

ACORN: Potentially up to $4 billion for radical groups like ACORN will be dispersed. ACORN is a radical socialist group that helped the housing bust by pushing banks into making bad loans and is accused of voter fraud in over 6 states. This group openly supports the Democrats and their tactics were learned through Sol Alinsky teachings. Obama even taught these classes to ACORN in his Chicago days.

Open Ended Welfare Returns: The bill sets in motion another $523 billion in new welfare spending that is hidden by budgetary gimmicks. Although this bill pretends that most of its welfare benefit increases will lapse after two years, the intend for most of these increases to become permanent. Instead of Welfare ending for recipients in 5 years that was done during the Clinton administration, now welfare entitlements will be open ended.

 

TARP Funds to Control Business

TARP funds have been used to buy stock in banks and financial institutions which essentially is the government buying ownership stakes in these companies. The question is will the government keep this ownership and for how long. President Obama has also decided to limit the executive pay to no more than $500, 000 per year for those companies that receive the bailouts. Of course they say these are only temporary measures but no end date has been given. To top it off Barney Frank is proposing that the government regulate the pay for all executives but for some reason not for lawyers or the Hollywood elite.

Gun Control

In the first session of Congress the liberals introduced H.R. 45 (Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009). This bill targets anyone who owns a gun by requiring them to register all guns within 2 years. Every 5 years the gun owners much go through a renewal process for each gun they own. Failure to comply with these rules carry heavy penalties jail time and loosing your guns. Probably the worst provision authorizes government searches without warrants. A new federal bureaucracy will be created to monitor this process. Do you really expect the liberal elites to allow automatic gun renewal?

Silencing The Media

To anyone but the most ardent liberal, its quite apparent that the majority of the media is blatantly supporting Obama’s ever action. The revelation that for 17 years Rahm Emmanuel (Obama’s Chief of Staff), George Stephanopoulos (ABC News), James Carville and Paul Begala (CNN) have had daily hour long calls that have continued into the Obama administration is but one example. Even though CNN is selling Obama shirts they will tell you they are not bias. Actions by the Obama administration have made it quite apparent to the media you are either with Obama or you will systematically be silenced.

For those that don’t follow “the program”, you will be punished. For example, during the election the Washington Times, Fox News, N.Y. Post and Dallas Morning News got kicked off the Obama’s plane. It wasn’t lost on the press that all these groups were McCain supporters. During press conferences Obama preselects who will be called to ask questions. Ask the wrong questions and you won’t get picked again. Again this isn’t lost on the adoring press.

Using one of Sol Alinsky’s sayings “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”, President Obama told Republican’s “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” Although so far President Obama has claimed he doesn’t want a fairness doctrine, there is a growing push to bring back some form of the “Fairness Doctrine”.

Obama has already talked about wanting more minority ownership and requiring broadcasters to operate “in the public interest” which will be over see by government or community groups. To add to the pressure shortening licensing terms will make it more likely owner will just abandon talk radio. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is also looking into policies that would allow it greater internet oversight.

Census

The census taking is supposed to be ruled in a bipartisan manner. However, the Obama administration is attempting to move the execution of the U.S. Census from the Department of Commerce to the White House under Rob Emanuel’s control. This is totally unprecedented and against federal law. Sen. Judd Gregg withdrew his name from consideration as Sec. of Commerce in large part because of this action.

So what is the problem with having the White House running the Census? The census results drive how welfare and aid to states is distributed. Further congressional seats per state and the electoral college changes with these results.

Instead of having the normal direct count, Robe Emanuel wants to estimate numbers instead of an actual count for minority groups. To make matters even more interesting, under the White House direction there would be less requirements for openness as to the process that was used to arrive at the census results. Talk about the potential for major gerrymandering that could bring a windfall of new Democrat votes.

Illegal Immigrates Getting Amnesty

Once again there is an immigration bill working its way through Congress. It would give Illegal Aliens 24 hour to get access with their lawyers paid with tax payer dollars. Temporary Visa can be renewed indefinitely. Tax payer money would also go to Mexico to have their . Illegal Aliens won’t have to pay back taxes but will get tax credits. North American Union will be fast tracked. In state tuition to college will always apply.

When our country is in such a bad recession, why would you want new citizens that inherently use over twice tax money than they play? Why would we want more workers in our country when unemployment is over 7%? Again they overwhelmingly vote Democratic.

District of Columbia to have Congressional Votes

Democrats want to give full representative to District of Columbia thereby giving them two senators and a representative for the House of Representatives. Since only states have this ability, Congress will pass a law giving the District of Columbia “the functional equivalent of a state”. On February 11, 2009 a senate committee passed this very bill and will be voted on by all members in the coming weeks. You would be right if you guessed that the District of Columbia would vote Democratic?

Civilian Expeditionary Workforce

While on the campaign trail Barack Obama said “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” You Tube Link

Now, the Defense Department has established just such a “Civilian Expeditionary Workforce” (Defense Department Directive 1404.10) that will see American civilians trained and equipped to deploy overseas in support of worldwide military missions.Link According to a Defense Department report the intent of this program “is to maximize the use of the civilian workforce to allow military personnel to be fully utilized for operational requirements,”

Is this an initial step towards fulfilling president Obama’s promise to form a civilian national security force as powerful as the U.S. military? Will this “Civilian Expeditionary Workforce” ever be used in the US? Will we see “youth brigades” roaming the streets to protect us? We will have to keep a close eye on this.

 

 

ABC: Obama White House To Create Online Army of 10 Million

President-elect Barack Obama will take office in January to employ a weapon no president has ever had at his disposal: An online army of more than 10 million supporters who can now be put to use to help carry out a sweeping Marxist agenda. 

70 years ago, Hitler did the very same thing by employing fanatical volunteers to the Schutzstaffel (SS) as an outgrowth of the Sicherheitsdienst to carry out his agenda for Germany and Europe.

The Soviet Union had a similar version under Stalin called the NKVD, or People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs that came from the Cheka – or people empowered state political directors to “protect the revolution”. As ABC notes: “In the six days since Election Day, Obama’s transition team has taken a series of initial steps intended to turn Obama’s online networks of supporters into governing tools.”

Make no mistake, this “Army” will most likely become Obama’s NKVD/Gestapo – digital komissars for an online brigade to report “subversive activities” and “falsehoods” about Obama’s agenda.  Conservative forums, and blogs are already experiencing the first onslaughts of this Obama Jugen.  In time, if history repeats, this “army” will easily be turned into a secret police arm of a new Sicherheitsdienst that Obama eluded to in his description of a Civilian Security Force “as powerful” as our current military.

Obama White House to Marshal Online Army

Online Supporters Represent a Powerful Tool for Incoming President

President-elect Barack Obama will take office in January with a weapon no president has ever had at his disposal: An online army of more than 10 million supporters who can now be put to use to help carry out a sweeping agenda.

The vast lists of e-mail addresses and cell phone numbers compiled by the Obama campaign represent an opportunity for the incoming administration to establish a digital presidency that takes advantage of both new technologies and the wide enthusiasm that greeted Obama’s candidacy.

In the six days since Election Day, Obama’s transition team has taken a series of initial steps intended to turn Obama’s online networks of supporters into governing tools. Obama aides set up a new Web site, www.change.gov, to keep backers engaged through Inauguration Day and beyond, and have made contact with key local volunteers to keep them in the fold.

…”We’re in completely uncharted territory,” said Micah Sifry, a co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum, which tracks the uses of new technologies in politics. “You’ve got all these people connected. Maybe they go to the White House Web site not just to tour the China Room, but to be guided to where the pressure points are in politics. That’s huge.”

But any effort to turn a political operation into a governing one raises legal issues. Privacy concerns may limit the White House’s access to the lists built by the campaign, and overtly political communications will need to be kept separate from official administration activities.

Rush Limbaugh told his listeners shortly after the election that he fears that the Obama administration will use its lists to conduct a permanent campaign — with Obama trying to assert near-total control of Washington.

 

 

Limbaugh Warns of Internet Onslaught

“The Obama presidency will continue in campaign mode just as Clinton’s did,” Limbaugh said. “Here comes the Internet onslaught.”

With no real precedent from previous administrations, Obama aides and Democratic Party leaders are weighing several options for turning the voter contact information and social networking communities maintained by the campaign into vehicles for enhanced governance.

Among the possibilities being discussed, according to party officials: a new White House communications team focused on using new technologies; the creation of a new entity outside the White House to advocate the Obama agenda — a move that would answer concerns about using government resources for political gains; or having the Democratic National Committee — led by an Obama-selected team — administer the voter-contact lists and connectivity tools.

…”Barack Obama supporters will continue to use the tools to collaborate and interact. Our victory on Tuesday night has opened the door to change, but it’s up to all of us to seize this opportunity to bring it about.”

Obama organizers appear to have considered future possibilities for its contact lists from the start. The privacy policy at BarackObama.com includes this sentence: “We may also make personal information available to organizations with similar political viewpoints and objectives, in furtherance of our own political objectives.”

No other president has had an engaged online army participate in his campaign the way Obama has. His supporters — who communicated with the campaign via e-mail, text-messaging, and social networking sites such as Facebook — provided Obama with an enormous organizing boost, a way to donate money, register voters, set up rallies and run get-out-the-vote operations.

…Obama has to be careful about how he enlists his supporters, Sifry said. Push them too far, or in directions they don’t want to go, and the forces he’s harnessed could turn on him, he said.

“He has immense power right now. They’re ready to do whatever he asks,” Sifry said. “But only up to a point. At a certain point, what he asks has to be what they want. … Armies get commanded, but this is a network, you can’t command them. You can try. It won’t work for very long.”

…The 4.3 million-member MoveOn.org has committed its resources to helping advance Obama’s agenda, in efforts organizers said they hope will work in concert with an Obama political operation.

More at link above.