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Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” according to department reports.Das ist ja mal krass!
Some U.S. intelligence officials recognized before the invasion that the U.S. occupation of Iraq would present opportunities for new kinds of intelligence collection inside Iraq. In practice, however, many of those opportunities were squandered because of the lack of planning for the postinvasion period. American sources say, for example, that the National Security Agency had a plan to create a front company that would have managed cellular telephone service in postwar Iraq. That would have given the NSA the ability fo eavesdrop on every cell phone call in the country and would have made it extremely difficult for insurgents to use electronic communications without being detected by American intelligence. But sources say that the NSA delayed its plans for so long that the CPA under Paul Bremer finally opened cell-phone franchises to bidding by private companies.Daran sind mehrere Dinge interessant.