Black Spot Gets His Posse On

Bush to Create New Unit in F.B.I. for Intelligence

President Bush on Wednesday ordered changes intended to break down old walls between foreign and domestic intelligence activities by creating a new national security division within the Federal Bureau of Investigation that will fall under the overall direction of John D. Negroponte, the new director of national intelligence...

The White House announced the step as it accepted nearly all of the dozens of recommendations made three months ago by a nine-member presidential commission, headed by Laurence Silberman and Charles Robb, that reviewed the law that created Mr. Negroponte's post.

The law left Mr. Negroponte with clear control over the Central Intelligence Agency and other agencies that operate abroad, but the commission warned in a report in March that the legislation left his influence over the F.B.I. "troublingly vague," hampering effective oversight of the nation's intelligence operations.

Frances Fragos Townsend, the White House homeland security adviser, said the changes would allow Mr. Negroponte to wield influence and seek information down to the level of each of the F.B.I.'s field offices...

...the changes would "ensure that the F.B.I.'s intelligence elements are responsive" to Mr. Negroponte. It said that the new security division, the National Security Service, to be headed by a senior F.B.I. official, would include the bureau's counterterrorism and counterintelligence divisions, as well as its intelligence directorate, and that all would be "subject to the coordination and budget powers" of the new intelligence chief.

The change ordered by Mr. Bush will create a new, semi-autonomous service within a service, headed by a chief who will report both to Mr. Negroponte and the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller...

One wonders where he's going to find his staff; possibly the same places he found help in the Honduras or Iraq..

Keep an eye out for Homeland Security outsourcing to these corporations:

* Aegis Defence Services
* AirScan Inc.
* AKE Limited
* Anteon International Corp.
* ArmorGroup
* Blackwater USA
* CACI International
* Cochise Consultancy Inc.
* Control Risks Group
* Cubic Corporation
* Custer Battles
* Defence Systems Limited
* Defense Security Training Service Corporation
* Diligence, LLC
* DynCorp
* Erinys International Ltd.
* Executive Outcomes
* Genric, Ltd.
* Global Marine Security Systems Company
* Global Options, Inc.
* Global Risk Strategies
* Golan Group
* Group 4 Securicor
* Hart Group
* Hill and Associates
* International Charter Incorporated of Oregon
* ISEC Corporate Security, Ltd.
* Janusian Security Risk Management Ltd.
* Keenie Meenie Services
* Kellogg Brown and Root
* Kroll, Inc.
* Levdan, Ltd.
* Management and Training Corporation
* Meteoric Tactical Solutions
* Meyer and Associates
* Military Professional Resources Inc.
* MVM
* Northbridge Services Group, Ltd.
* Pistris, Inc.
* Olive Security
* Pacific Architects and Engineers, Inc.
* Rubicon International Services, Ltd.
* Saladin Security
* Sandline International
* Science Applications International Corporation
* Silver Shadow
* Southern Cross Security
* Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group
* Special Ops Associates
* Steele Foundation
* THULE Global Security International
* Titan Corporation
* Triple Canopy Inc.
* Vinnell Corporation
* Vinnell Brown and Root (VBR)
* WVC3 Group, Inc.

These are all corporations who've worked to make a business of what used to be against international law.