Posted on 07/13/2009 8:59:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Central Intelligence Agency had a secret plan to capture or kill Al-Qaeda operatives but it was terminated by new CIA Director Leon Panetta, The Wall Street Journal said late Sunday.
Citing unnamed former intelligence officials familiar with the matter, the newspaper said the precise nature of the highly classified effort remained unclear, and the CIA would not comment on its substance.
According to current and former government officials, the agency spent money on planning and possibly some training of its operatives for the mission, the report said.
It was acting on a 2001 presidential legal finding, which authorized the CIA to pursue such efforts. But the initiative had not become fully operational at the time Panetta ended it.
Citing three unnamed former intelligence officials, The Journal said that in 2001, the CIA also examined the subject of targeted assassinations of Al-Qaeda leaders. But those discussions tapered off within six months.
Neither Panetta nor members of Congress provided details, said the Journal, adding that he quashed the CIA effort after learning about it on June 23.
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US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Leon Panetta in Manila on July 12. The US Central Intelligence Agency had a secret plan to capture or kill Al-Qaeda operatives but it was terminated by Panetta, The Wall Street Journal reported. (AFP/Jay Directo)
The least that Osama could do for Obama is make up one of those cute thank you videos.
“CIA chief nixed plan to kill Al-Qaeda targets: report (Thanks, (D)Leon Panetta!)”
The Socialists would prefer arrests made and don’t forget the Miranda rights!
And what are our Predators doing in Pakistan? Photo ops?
Have we given up on finding Osama?
The Obama Apology for this program is due in 3...2...1...
So much for our “WAR ON TERROR!” I’m just glad there are no more bad guys in the world. They are all now our friends.
he looks like he is ready to sing the song “Chepopie” or wathever it was in the Music Man song by Buddy Hackett.
So much for our “WAR ON TERROR!” I’m just glad there are no more bad guys in the world. They are all now our friends.
Terror on the rebound. Another 0bama achievement.
After nearly 8 years my memory has faded, but didn’t President Bush or VP Cheney give a speech which stated that parts of this war will be fought by conventional forces on the battlefields but other parts will be fought secretly in back alleys (which I interpreted to mean covert, targeted killing of enemy operatives). On the other hand I might be misremembering some columnists article from 2001 as part of a Presidential speech.
Attaboy — way to go, Leon old buddy, that’s the way you dimmocraps like to end wars — lose, and let the enemy butchers live happily ever after.
Breaking News!
Obama and CIA have secret plan to not capture or kill
Al-Qaeda targets in Afganistan, and to let them resume their
Terrorism in peace.
> The Socialists would prefer arrests made and don’t forget the Miranda rights!
The socialists will read them they Kumbayyah rights.
Didn’t Panetta recently slander Cheney by saying Cheney was hoping for another terrorist attack? Wasn’t the uproar created by the smear responsible for Panetta changing his charge? So let’s see, hmmm, Panetta halts a program to eliminate the Al Quaeda chiefs. Is that so they wouldn’t want to attack us? Or is it because Panetta wants to see another terrorist attack, so the libs could respond to it? Didn’t Obama-lama-dingdong want all the troops home by a year ago March? Didn’t he do a 180 and send in more? What a bunch of hypocrites.
Terrorists all over the world can sleep comfortably now.
I guess Pannetta and the Donks have given up in the war against the Al Qaeda terrorists.
I guess Pannetta and the Donks have given up in the war against the Al Qaeda terrorists.
I don’t think it’s that simple. I really believe that the dims/obacrats are setting the table for another terrortist attack. The current crop running the dim party hate the Constitution and would need a chaotic situation like another attack to change our whole way of life. I think they are just waiting for the right opportunity. And with the repubs and the media doing nothing to stop them, this is a serious possiblilty. Possible yes, but also probable.
Disturbing on two levels. That it wasn't fully operational after all this time, and the Democrats have ended it.
But I actually don't believe it. Our Predators have been picking them off one by one; that tells me we've got a pretty good operation underway, or at least, we have had.
I suppose whats most disturbing is that we've been at war for 8 years now and the Democrats in congress have the nerve to swear that they didn't know we were trying to kill AQ leaders. Its bad enough that they swear they didn't know anything about CIA interrogations, although they were told again and again. Now they want us to believe that they didn't know we were trying to kill the enemy.
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