>>3963481 Dig Request on McRaven
Partial Response to Dig Req on McRaven
>As a SoF fag, I've been warning people about this d-bag for a long time. He almost single handily destroyed the rep of NAVSPECWAR, especially Dev. His command marked some of the worst behavior for blue team in their history and was an overall embarrassment to the entire SoF community. Long before he publicly backed HRC, his name was trash among the true quiet professionals. I don't want to throw any kinks into the Q team's info war so I won't say much more.
>If you want a relatively easy dig, Libya and Somalia, 2013.
>Look beyond the headlines and see who was used for what.
>Who was in command (JSOC)? UBL raid?
>Who was in charge?
Operation Neptune Spear
McRaven is credited for organizing and overseeing the execution of Operation Neptune Spear, the special ops raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. CIA Director Leon Panetta delegated the raid to McRaven, who had worked almost exclusively on counter-terrorism operations and strategy since 2001.[16]
According to The New York Times, "In February, Mr. Panetta called then-Vice Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command, to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to give him details about the compound and to begin planning a military strike. Admiral McRaven, a veteran of the covert world who had written a book on American Special Operations, spent weeks working with the CIA on the operation, and came up with three options: a helicopter assault using U.S. Navy SEALs, a strike with B-2 bombers that would obliterate the compound, or a joint raid with Pakistani intelligence operatives who would be told about the mission hours before the launch."[17] The day before the assault, President Obama "took a break from rehearsing for the White House Correspondents Dinner that night to call Admiral McRaven, to wish him luck".[17] A June 2013 Freedom of Information request revealed that on May 13, 2011, McRaven sent email titled "OPSEC Guidance / Neptune Spear" that instructed redacted recipients that "all photos [of UBL's remains] should have been turned over to the CIA; if you still have them destroy them immediately" or "get them to" a recipient whose identity was redacted.[18][19] In December 2011, McRaven was runner-up for Time Person of the Year for his role in the operation.[20]
>During who's tenure did we have "quiet professionals" blabbing on MSM every other week?
>Go back a bit further.
>Who predated McRaven at JSOC?
>Look up Task Force Black.
Task Force Black's task organization drew on every unit of (JSOC) as well as on the CIA's Special Activities Division Special Operations Group (SAD/SOG) and British special operations forces.
Task Force Black/Knight
Based in the Baghdad, in the early months of 2004, the SAS used their capabilities in reconnaissance and surveillance to watch suspects and develop/gather intelligence for the coalition intelligence services. The SAS operational process in Baghdad was known as find-fix-finish, working backwards with the 'finish' part being a raid to take down a suspect, 'fix' involved pinpointing a time and place which a target can be taken and 'find' would be finding the insurgent/terrorist. Following the Basra prison incident in September 2005, in which the name of the unit 'Task force Black' was leaked to the press; the unit was renamed 'Task force Knight'
>Why did McChrystal keep TF Black out of JSOC initially?
Due to mistreatment of detainees and the conditions at Camp Nama and JSOC's TSF (Temporary Screening Facility) at Balad and the deportation of detainees to Bagram Airbase, US-UK relations were strained when they refused to turn over detainee's to US custody, McChrystal kept Task Force Black out of JSOC, but this would change in 2006, in the mean time Task Force Black targets were former Ba'athist party regime elements.
>How did the UK cabal hamstring TF Black?
On 11 April 2005, Task Force Blacks G squadron, SAS captured Fadhil Ibrahim al-Mashhadani, one of Saddam Hussein's former apparatchik after assaulting his house. At about the same time, in an attempt to find the kidnappers of a foreigner, the SAS also captured a former senior Ba'athist party official and another man, they didn't find the hostage but the men were definitely connected to the kidnappers; however they were later released when US intelligence revealed that they were CIA assets.
JSOC
Joint Special Operations Command Task Force in the Iraq War is an American special operations unit, of which little is publicly known. It is described as a "hunter-killer team" with its core made up of the United States Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Delta Force or Delta) and the 75th Ranger Regiment, as well as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six, 24 STS and elements from the UK's Special Forces, including SAS, SBS, SRR UKSF, 18 SR and SFSG.