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Experts like former Deputy Defense secretary John Hamre are also concerned that Special Ops now has generic authority to deploy where it wants without case-by-case orders.

Why is it not surprising that a Deputy Defense Secretary in the Clinton Administration would be critical of Special Ops? If Special Ops would have been supported by Clinton, we might not be in the situation we're in now.

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Experts like former Deputy Defense secretary John Hamre are also concerned that Special Ops now has generic authority to deploy where it wants without case-by-case orders.

Here's a National Review from back in 1998 article by Bill Gertz on this Hamre character. Typical Clintonoid social activist who found the military "distasteful" at best.