The division has several hundred personnel, almost all of them former members of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) units. These units include the U.S. Army's Delta Force, the Navy SEALs, DEVGRU, Army Rangers, Army Special Forces and USMC Force Recon teams. The CIA's formal position for these individuals is as "Paramilitary Operations Officers". These officers are then fully trained as clandestine intelligence officers, otherwise known as spies.
The implication by the wording is that all the JSOC units are now spy units. I am guessing from the writing that personnel have been recruited from traditional military special forces, but the writing implies that the JSOC has been absorbed into the SAD, and that JOSC troops are now paramilitary fighters, and that "paramilitary" is equivalent to "spy." Since the US is focusing now on Afghanistan (probably) to finally bring justice for the 9/11/2001 terror attack on New York City, Pakistan will also very likely be invaded by US forces in pursuit of bin Laden.
Pakistan seems to be realigning itself to support the US, despite previous conflicts. But notable from articles on the Wikipedia is that Pakistan was for a time the sole nation to recognize the Taliban, and presently recognizes a Taliban faction in certain areas. Pakistan's ISS is mentioned throughout wp as having cooperated with the Taliban, and possibly also with the Al Qaeda. I am asking questions in anticipation of a strengthening of the present US/Pakistani alliance as Obama shifts the US military to Afghanistan. Will the CIA once again be "rubbing shoulders" with Sunni Wahhabi influenced extremists, or "spys" associated with them, while pursuing bin Laden and his Al Qaeda?
So what does "clandestine training" mean, and what is this newly important body of "spys"--who are probably not James Bond types? I am guessing from this material that the "new spy" is a nearly-robotic weapons operator probably incapable of complex conceptualization: the primary skill of the traditional spy. If these "paramilitaries" pass for intelligence (or as intelligent), then their influence will see America will dig itself into an even deeper hole than it has already done with the invasion of Iraq.
