Posted on 07/14/2009 2:29:25 PM PDT by Shermy
WASHINGTON — Armed with new authority from President Bush for a global campaign against al-Qaida, the Central Intelligence Agency is contemplating clandestine missions expressly aimed at killing specified individuals for the first time since the assassination scandals and consequent legal restraints of the 1970s.
Drawing on two classified legal memoranda, one written for President Bill Clinton in 1998 and one since the attacks of Sept. 11, the Bush administration has concluded that executive orders banning assassination do not prevent the president from lawfully singling out a terrorist for death by covert action. The CIA is reluctant to accept a broad grant of authority to hunt and kill U.S. enemies at its discretion, knowledgeable sources said. But the agency is willing and believes itself able to take the lives of terrorists designated by the president.
Clinton authorized covert lethal force against al-Qaida beginning in 1998, and The Washington Post reported last Sunday that Bush has signed a more encompassing intelligence "finding" that calls for attacks on newly identified weaknesses in Osama bin Laden's communications, security apparatus and infrastructure.
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Bush and his national security Cabinet have been plain about their intention to find and kill bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader the administration blames for the Sept. 11 attacks.
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For your enjoyment.
Isn’t it a fundamental job of the CIA to assassinate people?
CIA Mulls assassinations...
Hmm I wonder if they are thinking what I’m thinking.
Coincidence?
Send that article to the Democratic Congress. They seem to have been in the dark since 2001.
Nancy didn’t get the paper that morning... and her dog ate her briefing papers...
“The Washington Post reported last Sunday that Bush has signed a more encompassing intelligence “finding” that calls for attacks on newly identified weaknesses in Osama bin Laden’s communications, security apparatus and infrastructure.”
There’s another article to find!
Ha,ha,ha, you know this was leaked to the Post by the Demorats in the first place to embarrass Bush.
Just checked...the October 21 Post article is scrubbed too!
I’m not sure which is more embarrassing. The Democrats not knowing CIA was going after AQ operators, or the Democrats pretending not to know. Exposing the operation to the press, or ordering it terminated when we still haven’t got them all yet.
Maybe the most embarrassing part of it is their belief that exposing it would make Cheney look bad somehow. Thats just silly.
Of course...what'd you expect? We gotta get screen shots of these articles and get them archived somewhere where they can't get to them.
Winston Smith, hard at work.
“or the Democrats pretending not to know.”
The whole point of the letter over the weekend was to insinuate the CIA “lied”, without saying what about, but hoping questions would not be asked because they invoked ChENEY!! All to help Pelosi’s obsession of proving she is not a liar.
Did not work. They did not think it through.
Check your url.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292355/posts?page=52#52
Mod, please delete my last post on this thread, as I got the link all wrong, based upon another post I did for a Palin thread. Thanx!
The law forbids us from killing heads of governments. Even Clinton said it was legal to kill OBL. However, Clinton ain’t in charge, is he.
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