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| Asymmetric Solutions provides support for client in Ferguson. |
| 2014-08-22 |
| [Daily Caller] The private security contractor Asymmetric Solutions deployed its military-level “High Threat Team” to provide security for a client in Ferguson this week. The Missouri-based company is headed by former Navy SEAL Jared Ogden and is staffed by other SEALs, as well as Green Berets and former SWAT and FBI officers, according to its website, which states, “Asymmetric Solutions additionally employs adjunct staff from a variety of military special operations units, government agencies, and law-enforcement tactical units.” The company also provides military-level security and combat training to private and government clients. With the FBI busy going house to house looking for Civil Rights violations, and the FBI HRT on possible stand-by for the Vineyards, one can just about guess who the client was. These guys don't come cheap and would have had to have had Fed/local law enforcement coordination. Sorry, I don't see this as a positive development. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 BTW, I don't have a problem with Asymmetric Solutions for private, non-governmental, or overseas gov't and security work. Augmenting domestic Law Enforcement however, [if this is what it is] is a horse of a different colour. We really don't need any gov't contracted Kapos in this country. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-22 08:44 |
| #3 Roger TW, no prob. This HP Px special wouldn't permit me to post the Asymmetric link yesterday. Appears it's residential DS episode is over this morning. Here it is. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-22 08:29 |
| #2 You did post it as Land of the Free, Besoeker, and that was a legitimate framing of the story. But because the situation in Ferguson is ongoing, we decided to cluster all the news articles under Non-WoT: Home Front: Culture Wars for the ease of the reader. We're also clustering Ebola stories under Signs, Portents and the Weather, and antisemitism stories under Short Attention Span Theater, rather than by geographical location. I quite agree with your assessment that this is a disturbing development. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-08-22 05:40 |
| #1 Sorry, appears I posted incorrectly. I believe this one should be listed under 'Land of the Free.' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-22 02:40 |