If Obama Orders the CIA to Kill a US Citizen, Amazon Will Be a Partner in Assassination | Global Research

If Obama Orders the CIA to Kill a US Citizen, Amazon Will Be a Partner in Assassination | Global Research

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.”

The sinister implications of Amazon’s new CIA role have received scant public attention so far.

As the largest Web retailer in the world, Amazon has built its
business model on the secure accumulation and analysis of massive
personal data. The firm’s Amazon Web Services division gained the CIA
contract amid fervent hopes that the collaboration will open up vast new
vistas for the further melding of surveillance and warfare.

Photo: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.