Black Ops - Black Operations

Black Operations(Black Ops) are operations concerning activities which are extremely reserved and can be linked with political, military, intelligence, scientific, medical or business agendas.

This special operation comprises of any unit that falls under the Special Operations Command while the black operation is a government covert operation which is concealed.

They're used to manipulate sensitive or controversial issues. It is sometimes helpful to hide behind a smoke-screen to hide the real intention of the action. Black op missions are commonly denied if or when a leak does occur and public knowledge of the coup is made known, as most times the actions of the group are questionable and draw attention to illegal government or corporate activities.

Typically in black operations, a decoy operation is used to present the appearance that responsibility lies with a certain individual or group when a completely different entity is responsible for the carnage.

In looking back and seeing that 9/11 was the catalyst for Bush to declare a state of emergency, which allowed him to establish a constitutional dictatorship, it is obviously black op that paved the way for America's entry into the war on Iraq.

It is also the black op that is used to disguise the restriction of civil rights, and it is the justification for the development of the Department of Homeland Security, which has endangered more of the people's rights than any single act of legislation in the history of American government.

A covert operation is traditionally associated with such activities as assassinations, sabotage, spying, military coups, extortion, fraud, supporting resistance movements, weapons testing, torture, trafficking in contraband and other such illegal and questionable government and corporate activities.

Technically, any government operation that is considered classified and to which access to the information is denied is considered a black op, and we all know that our American government has plenty of operations they do not disclose to the voting public.

Covert operations go on all the time in government as demonstrated by the assassination of President Kennedy, the Iran-Contra Affair and Watergate, as well as all the spying that has gone on in the two world wars, Korea, Vietnam and the two gulf wars.

Many times government intelligence agencies are involved in a black op and if that information were made public, it would endanger lives and possibly national security which can be either a good thing or a bad thing.

Special-operations teams like SEALs - including the super-secret Naval Special Warfare Development Group (formerly seal Team Six) - the Army's special-operations forces (from Rangers to Green Berets to Delta), Air Force special-tactics teams, and the Marine Corps' Force Recon and the brand-new Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) teams, are responsible for conducting special missions, including counter-terrorism, hostage rescues, prisoner snatches, foreign military training, special reconnaissance, sabotage, direct action, and the targeting of enemy leaders, among other highly sensitive operations.

And many of those operations - though unknown thus never reported - have tremendous strategic relevance. "In the context of Iraq, SEALs, who comprise a fraction of the Navy's total force, are trained to handle those kinds of missions," Divine tells National Review Online. "Every man is a critical asset in the war on terror. So to squander a life in support of a general cordon and search operation is just wrong."

Therefore the covertness of the operations can be justified by a need for safety or national security, it leaves a margin of error for those who would seek to defraud the system by using secrecy as a tool for deception rather than a device for protection.

Many times one covert operation is linked closely with another covert operation and involves many persons or agencies; so it is very difficult to get to discover the whole truth, even if the operation itself is exposed.

To determine who is involved, establish a motive for the crime and prosecute and punish the guilty parties is extremely difficult, as the smokescreen of secrecy is rarely penetrated, and the entire truth is rarely told and therefore making black ops more important.