“The Border Patrol Was Responsible For An Arrest In Portland.”, Levin son, Jonathan and Wilson, Conrad. The Marines moved into the city in force and a major battle broke out. “Acting Secretary Wolf Condemns The Rampant Long-Lasting Violence In Portland.” Lang, Marissa J., et. The same derailing of U.S. foreign policy has played out the last weeks in Iraq. The use of contractors in Iraq is unprecedented in both its size and scope. Put another way, the CBP disputed assertions that its officers were operating only as unidentified agents and said a person who was detained and seen in a video was suspected of assaulting federal officers or causing property damage.   RAWSTORY. “House Leaders ‘Alarmed’ Federal Officers Policing Protests.” It continued to not to take any press calls. “The Border Patrol Was Responsible For An Arrest In Portland.”

The incident was witnessed by co-workers preparing for election night coverage. “Trump Law Enforcement Officials Brush Off Pleas To Butt Out of Portland.” To put this into context, the amount paid to Halliburton-KBR is roughly three times what the U.S. government paid to fight the entire 1991 Persian Gulf War. First, the town had been restive since the invasion, but as former Marine Bing West describes in his masterful book “No True Glory: A Front Line Account of the Battle of Fallujah,” the Marine unit that deployed into the area in 2004 had a classic counterinsurgency plan to simultaneously build up local trust in the community and weed out insurgents. In at least one case, federal officials said they put someone in an unmarked van for questioning because they believed that person had committed a crime. The losses are also far more than any single U.S. Army division has experienced. They are honking their horns at the oncoming traffic and firing machine gun bursts into the road, in front of any vehicle that gets too close.

While one person said he was detained without officers identifying themselves — and another viral video was interpreted by viewers as a case of the same thing — we have no verifiable evidence to prove or disprove whether agents in those cases explained for what federal agency they worked during the arrests. al. Replies to this discussion thread. It proved a disaster for the effort to win hearts and minds. “As a law enforcement officer, you shouldn’t be blending in. As the newly revised foreword to the famous U.S. Marine Corps Small Wars manual notes, “Small wars are battles of ideas and battles for the perceptions and attitudes of target populations.” Within these wars, it is non-kinetic tools (as opposed to fielded weaponry) that make up “the fire and maneuvers of small wars. Such corruption doesn’t just represent lost funds; it represents lost opportunities for what those funds could have been used on to actually support the mission: everything from jobs programs to get would-be insurgents off the streets to flak vests and up-armored vehicles for our troops. 18 July 2020. The massive U.S. complex at Camp Doha in Kuwait, which served as the launch pad for the invasion, was not only built by a private military firm but also operated and guarded by one. The ultimate point is that counterinsurgencies and other contingency operations have no front lines and it is time to recognize this. Z is the number of convoys in Iraq that day. 16 July 2020. Flaccus, Gillian. “BORTAC and BORSTAR advance the missions of the Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection by handling uncommon and dangerous situations outside the normal scope of Border Patrol agent duties,” Border Patrol said in an SOG fact sheet. Another option would have been a full-scale call-up of the National Guard and Reserves, as originally envisioned for such major wars in the Abrams Doctrine. As it has been planned and conducted to date, the war in Iraq would not be possible without private military contractors.

There are two notable aspects about the Fallujah episode as it relates to counterinsurgency. The three units were identified as the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC), Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR), and Border Patrol Special Operations Group (SOG). They use their machine guns like car horns.”, As far back as 2005, U.S. officers in Iraq such as Col. Hammes were worried that while contractors may have been fulfilling their contract, they were also “making enemies each time they went out.” U.S. Army Col. Peter Mansoor, one of the leading experts on counterinsurgency, similarly noted in January 2007, that “if they push traffic off the roads or if they shoot up a car that looks suspicious, whatever it may be, they may be operating within their contract — to the detriment of the mission, which is to bring the people over to your side. Aiming to stop what she and other critics described as the unlawful detainment of American citizens, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum filed a federal lawsuit on July 17, and in the complaint obtained by Snopes, the attorney general said the state had reason to believe Pettibone was not the only person detained by or released from “anonymous agents” without any explanation during the protests. “Police Shoot Portland Protester In Head With Impact Weapon, Causing Severe Injuries.” Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. This investigation was completed just as Trump prepared to deploy federal agents working under similar protocols to Chicago and possibly other Democrat-run cities. For Portland to find peace, Trump needs to pull unwanted federal agents out of our city immediately.”.

Ann Exline Starr, a former Coalition Provisional Authority advisor, described the difference between when she traveled with a U.S. military escort and with guards from Blackwater and another State Department-contracted security firm, DynCorp. Much of this stems from the highly visible role it has played in escorting U.S. officials. The CBP agents identified themselves and were wearing CBP insignia during the encounter. The return of inherently military and government functions to U.S. military and government personnel will take time, reassignment of personnel, and amendments to existing contracts.

“Mayor Of Portland To Trump: Get Your Troops Out Of The City.” Every single media source led with the episode in the days that followed, focusing on how the U.S. could hire such “arrogant trigger-happy guns for hire, mercenaries by any other name,” as UAE-based Gulf News put it. Unfortunately, we may already have our answer.   The Nation. 19 July 2020.

The Blackwater mess has roiled Capitol Hill and shined light on the many questions surrounding the legal status, management, oversight and accountability of the private military force in Iraq, which numbers more than 160,000 — at least as many as the total number of uniformed American forces there. However, while the enlisted U.S. Army soldiers involved in the Abu Ghraib abuse were properly court-martialed for their crimes, three years later not one of the private contractors named in the U.S. Army investigation reports has been charged, prosecuted or punished. But it proved to be a perfect fact around which adversaries could wrap their wider propaganda. Flaccus, Gillian.

Will our leaders have the will to just say no? The Trump Administration continues to weaponize federal law enforcement for its own agenda. As an Interior Ministry official said of the Blackwater contractors hired by the U.S., “They consider Iraqis like animals, although actually I think they may have more respect for animals. “Federal Officials Dismiss Portland Leaders’ Calls To Leave City As Clashes With Protesters Continue.” We have seen what they do in the streets. Using tear gas and firing less-than-lethal rounds into crowds of people, the agents’ clashes with protesters escalated in mid-July, after an officer with the U.S. On Tuesday, among those testifying on Capitol Hill will be Erik Prince, the chairman and owner of Blackwater, as well as a series of State Department officials who were supposed to have overseen the firm’s activities. The problem is, some of the most critical questions may yet go unasked. U.S. President Donald Trump contrasted his own approach to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic to Biden's during a campaign rally in Nevada.     Reuters. If the gradual death toll among American troops threatened to slowly wear down public support, contractor casualties were not counted in official death tolls and had no impact on these ratings. Jack Holly is a retired Marine colonel who, as director of logistics for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has worked with several firms in Iraq. It read: On information and belief, federal law enforcement officers […] have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland, detain protesters, and place them into the officers’ unmarked vehicles, removing them from public without either arresting them or stating the basis for an arrest, since at least Tuesday, July 14. Cuccinelli has not said how many times federal agents have made similar detainments using unmarked vans, nor under what circumstances officers are authorized to use the vehicles under department policy. “There were rumors going around among the protesters that this was happening, and no one really understood who they were.”. That is, there was no outcry whenever contractors were called up and deployed, or even killed. They frequently are the main effort simply because of the criticality of the functions they perform.”.   The Washington Post. In sum, we rate this claim a “Mixture” of truth, falsehood and unproven information — yes, the president ordered federal officers to Portland during protests in summer 2020, and at least some of those agents used unmarked vehicles, though no verifiable evidence showed they “kidnapped” people under the legal definition of the term, nor that they did not identify themselves as law enforcement during the apprehensions. But versions of what caused the ensuing bloodshed diverge. As Maj. Gen. Mattis said, they would “demonstrate to the world there is ‘No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy’ than a U.S. Marine.” Unfortunately, on March 31, without any coordination with the local Marine unit, a Blackwater convoy drove through Fallujah, was ambushed, and the four contractors killed. That agency also took responsibility for the apprehension of “the person in the video” — suggesting that its officers were the ones seen in the viral footage, even though it did not explicitly make clear to what video, exactly, it was referring. When the history books are written about the Iraq war, they will point to several critical turning points in U.S. efforts to beat back the insurgency that flourished after the 2003 invasion and “Mission Accomplished” victory speeches were the order of the day. 17 July 2020. If that means pissing off the Iraqis, too bad. A traffic policeman at Al-Wathba square in central Baghdad concurred: “They are impolite and do not respect people, they bump other people’s cars to frighten them and shout at anyone who approaches them … Two weeks ago, guards of a convoy opened fire randomly that led to the killing of two policemen … I swear they are Mossad,” he said, referring to the Israeli spy service, which is a catch-all for anything perceived as evil in the Arab world.

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