The idea for this group, was to fight the Terorists on the same level... ie, playing by the same rules. in other words, there are no rules. the Stonycreek Operations Group has access to pretty much anything they need due to the Out Circle network that goes throughout the Executive Branch.
They need a helicopter, they can get it with dummied up papers that look official. They need assault team, they can get access to a Delta or SEAL team. The Stonycreek Operations Group are hiding in plain sight, they all have the security clearences that allows them to move about the burecracy without it slowing them down.
This is what makes Stonycreek so effective. They aren't restrained by the same kind of red tape that the CIA is.. There are books about how the CIA has become less effective thanks to the burecrats who spend all their time covering their own asses and not concentrating on the problems that could get Americans killed by the bad guys.
Stonycreek recruits heavily from the special ops and intelligence communities, but that's not the only places they get their people. they get Computer Hackers and other unsavory types as well.
The original write up for Stonycreek had them absorbing the network of a former mafia family... whose materiarch was killed in 9-11. the head of the network had been in the process of getting the family to go legit, and when his wife and children were killed when their flight had been hijacked and flown into the World Trade Centre... well, let's just say he used his connections to offer his services DIRECTLY to the President when he visited Ground Zero.
I'm thinking of the Giovanni Crime Family and its network being part of the cover for Stonycreek... with the head of the crime family being one of the members of the Triumverant. and the fact that the new administration was not as willing to work with an organization that had it's start in organized crime. Even after they had done everything they promised (namely having gone completely legit, and works almost entirely for the government providing cover for counter-terrorism ops all over the country and europe).
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