What next?

If you'd had time to think about it, you would have figured it out.

The White House and CIA have been considering a package of secret proposals to allow former US intelligence officers to run privatized covert actions, intelligence gathering, and propaganda missions, according to three sources who’ve been briefed on or have direct knowledge of the proposals.

  Buzzfeed

Because the CIA isn't already unaccountable enough?  I very much doubt if it's the White House and "the CIA."  It may be the head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, who was appointed by Trump.

One of the proposals would involve hiring a private company, Amyntor Group, for millions of dollars to set up a large intelligence network and run counter terrorist propaganda efforts, according to the sources.

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Amyntor declined to discuss the proposals, but a lawyer for the company said in a statement to BuzzFeed News that the type of contract being contemplated would be legal “with direction and control by the proper government authority.”

Also to be appointed by Trump.

Another proposal presented to US officials would allow individuals affiliated with the company to help capture wanted terrorists on behalf of the United States. In keeping with that proposal, people close to the company are tracking two specific suspects in a Middle Eastern country, the sources said, for possible “rendition” to the United States.

A source speaking on behalf of the company stressed that while Amyntor officials are aware of and involved in the rendition plan, the company itself would not be involved.

WTF?

The CIA declined to comment, but a US government official downplayed the proposals' significance. “The idea they are pitching is absurd on its face,” he said, “and it is not going anywhere.”

Don't bet your house on it, dude.

A spokesperson for the National Security Council said that Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump's national security adviser, and other officials were not aware of the proposals.

Fucking amazing.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo has publicly promised that the agency would become “much more vicious” and aggressive. He said in one speech that the administration “is prepared to engage in activities that are different from what America has been doing these past few years.”

Jesus christ.  How much more vicious can you get than what the CIA has been?  Perhaps we are about to find out.

Amyntor Group is a reclusive company headquartered in Whitefish, Montana, ...

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Whitefish?

...a town of 6,500 residents that recently gained notoriety after a company based there won, then lost, a $300 million contract to rebuild Puerto Rico’s electrical grid. There is no known relationship between the two companies.

Bullshit. It's a town of 6,500 people, ffs. You know what the relationship is. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, hometown: Whitefish, Montana.

But wait! It gets better. (It always does with this pack of hyenas.)

Among the management of Amyntor is John Maguire, a former CIA case officer who reportedly led a US effort to provoke Saddam Hussein into war before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Amyntor appears to be an offshoot of a one-time DoD funded private operation called "The Eclipse Group" which was run by a former Iran-Contra figure, Duane Clarridge, who organized the Contras to overthrow the Sandanista government in Nicaragua and was indicted in that scandal, along with his associates Caspar Weinberger and Elliott Abrams, but all were pardoned by George Bush, Sr. before their trial could begin.  Clarridge died last year.

One source saw the plan presented in a PowerPoint. He says it appeared that the pitches coincided with a widely publicized effort by Erik Prince — the private security official, founder of Blackwater, and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — to privatize the war in Afghanistan.

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Asked about Amyntor’s proposal and the rendition plan, one former senior intelligence official said, “All the institutional structures exist to prevent things from going off the rails. Is this an attempt to circumvent oversight?”

You think?

We were already off the rails. We have gone so far off the rails we'll never find our way out.

And I thought the plan to move Tom Cotton to CIA and Pompeo to State was bad, which it was.

Speaking of Whitefish, Montana...I didn't realize it was a hotbed of white supremacists.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.