Click here to access article by Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research.
The professor has collected a lot of information on US death squads as a means of creating chaos and divisions within any targeted population, and thereby defeat a population's ability to organize an effective effort to fight back. This policy which has become known as the "Salvador Option" has been successfully used in a number of countries whose ruling classes serve the Empire's interests at the expense of their own populations.
The chief way that Empire directors deal with leaks about such activities is to deny everything and launch a huge propaganda campaign backed by government policies to simulate actions against the very thing the leaks have revealed. Hence, we have the "War on Terror" and the "War on Drugs", both of which (terror and drugs) Empire directors and their operatives have frequently promoted throughout the world.
Given the current uproar about government/corporate collusion in spying on Americans, it logically follows that the government is waging a war on spies (although not formally announced)...you know, like Assange, Manning, and Snowden who are portrayed in corporate media as traitors.
If you are a naïve American who values comfort above all else, you probably don't want to read this. Actually, you probably should get out of this website as soon as possible.