Therefore we must ask whether sophisticated financiers with ties to jihadist organizations or hostile foreign governments are among those who have “undermined markets,” thereby inspiring the president to declare a “National Emergency.” It is not often that a president issues a formal declaration of a “National Emergency,” and it is even less often that a president suggests that he is doing so because transnational organized crime syndicates (and perhaps others in the nexus, including terrorist organizations and hostile foreign governments) have “penetrated” the “legitimate” financial sector (i.e. parts of Wall Street) and are now posing a “threat to the stability of the global financial system.” One would think that this would be front page news. But, amazingly, the president’s declaration of a “National Emergency” received almost no coverage at all from the major media outlets. One rare exception was the highly respected Economist magazine (based in Britain), which noted the “National Emergency” (and also noted the dearth of U.S. media coverage of the emergency) in a December 2011 article (titled, “Financial Terrorism”) that noted the possibility that the financial system might already have been attacked by hostile entities. While America’s media and financial regulators seem largely uninterested in this issue, some in the national security community are devoting a lot of attention to it. A 110 page report commissioned by the Department of Defense Irregular Warfare Support Program even goes so far as to state that there is high likelihood that the economic cataclysm of 2008 was significantly worsened by politically motivated “financial terrorists intent on wiping out the American financial system. ”The report (a copy of which can be found at DeepCapture) makes reference to the massive volumes of short selling that went through the previously obscure brokerage that I discussed at the outset of this story. While the report for the Department of Defense does not identify the brokerage by name, I will do so in later chapters of this series, and I will also name its client brokerages (i.e. the network that I briefly described above). However, to understand the significance of these brokerages, we must first cover some other ground....
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