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For the length of the article it is actually very uninformed. Not any new information. OMEAGA program has been around for years it is known for years. SEAL te

• fredgrott 11y ago
  I disagree as they provided details about how the Seal 6 Team Management was purged at least once ..
• danso 11y ago
  > TLDR : Seal team 6 rescued many hostages, lost members, has the coolest toys in town. A great example of a poor use of TLDR. That was not even remotely the point of the article. And instead of implying that only uninformed idiots have never heard of the "OMEAGA program" and how it's been around for years, why don't you point to mainstream sources that have previously made the point about Omega that the NYT does? > The missions, part of the Omega Program, allowed the SEALs to conduct “deniable operations” against the Taliban and other militants in Pakistan. Omega was modeled after the Vietnam-era Phoenix Program, when C.I.A. officers and Special Operations troops conducted interrogations and assassinations to try to dismantle the Vietcong’s guerrilla networks in South Vietnam. > Another former Team 6 member, an officer, was even more dismissive of some of the operations. “By 2010, guys were going after street thugs,” he said. “The most highly trained force in the world, chasing after street thugs.”