From: Alternet
The online mega-retailer has a little-known $600-million contract with the CIA.
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February 12, 2014
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President Obama is now considering whether to order the Central
Intelligence Agency to kill a U.S. citizen in Pakistan. That’s big news
this week. But hidden in plain sight is the fact that Amazon would be an
accessory to the assassination.
Amazon has a $600 million
contract with the CIA to provide the agency with “cloud” computing
services. After final confirmation of the deal several months ago,
Amazon declared: “We look forward to a successful relationship with the
CIA.”
The relationship means that Amazon -- logoed with a
smiley-face arrow from A to Z, selling products to millions of people
every week -- is responsible for keeping the CIA’s secrets and
aggregating data to help the agency do its work. Including drone
strikes.
Drone attacks in Pakistan are “an entirely CIA operation,” New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti said Tuesday night in an interview on
the PBS NewsHour. He added that “the Pakistani government will not
allow the [U.S.] military to take over the mission because they want to
still have the sort of veneer of secrecy that the CIA provides.” MORE
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