Obama Administration Spawns New ‘Bureau of Counterterrorism’
Press Conference Leaves Open Question of What Exactly They'll Do
In one of those moves that officials like to trumpet but don’t really like to provide concrete details about, the Obama Administration has announced the creation of the “Bureau of Counterterrorism,” to be headed by Ambassador Daniel Benjamin.
The bureau is new only in nominal terms, and has essentially been operating as the Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism for awhile now, with Benjamin at the head. Moving from an office to a bureau is generally seen as an upgrade.
As part of the State Department the bureau’s specific purview would seem to be diplomatic, but when pressed over exactly what the bureau will do Benjamin provided a long but largely content-free description.
“The establishment of the bureau in many ways is a confirmation or ratification of the things that we have been doing increasingly in recent years,” Benjamin insisted, adding that the bureau would “fund other agencies of the US government to send their experts out to countries around the world.”
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skulz fontaine
January 6th, 2012 at 9:33 pm
Oh goody, another meaningless bureaucracy. Your American tax dollars at work. Play?
David Grayling
January 7th, 2012 at 12:12 am
The spooks proliferate like weeds in Spring! Big Brother has many faces and none of them bode well for the U.S. or the world.
With each new creation, the freedom of the masses is lessened. Totalitarian control increases.
Get it?
jgmoebus
January 7th, 2012 at 3:00 am
At what point will we realize that we are, once again, where Germany was in the mid-1930s?
At what point will we realize that time is running out before it is, once again, September 1, 1939?
At what point will we begin to take seriously the Question: HOW is The Fourth Reich to be Confronted, Combated, Defeated, and Destroyed? HOW is it to be done? WHO is to do it? WHEN will it happen?
How much time is left before the Question is no longer, in reality, rhetorical?
T.J.
January 7th, 2012 at 10:57 am
This State Department? http://tinyurl.com/7y7gum5
MoT
January 7th, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Oh please dear lord…. let me get the hell out of Dodge before it's too late.
tiozapata
January 7th, 2012 at 6:10 pm
The continuing fear mongering by the fascist amerikan empire gets darker and more stupid…as the empire slides into the abyss………….
RickR30
January 7th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
Next, in order to get money, HUD will have its own counterterrorism unit, and Energy, and Labor, etc. Just fool the government that you need money against them scary terrorists and you'll get a blank check. We'll go broke but the bureaucrats will go out in style and their pockets lined.