Posted on 07/24/2009 6:42:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
When the CIA's alleged assassination program surfaced this month, the first reports focused on what hadn't been done: Congress hadn't been briefed, supposedly on orders from Vice President Dick Cheney, and the program hadn't actually resulted in any "hit team" attacks on al-Qaeda operatives.
The first failing upset House Democrats, and they demanded an investigation. But the second issue is in some ways more interesting for what it reveals about the bureaucratic and legal culture in which the CIA operates.
The program began soon after Sept. 11, 2001, as part of a broader anti-terrorism effort that had the vivid code name "Cannonball." The initial idea at the agency's Counter-Terrorism Center, according to one former top-level official, was to go after al-Qaeda operatives around the world and "compromise them, disrupt them, snatch them" and, if necessary, kill them.
The goal was that "every al-Qaeda man on the planet should worry that someone is screwing with them, full time," recalls a second former agency official. The CIA wanted to send the message: "If you work for Osama bin Laden, we will find you and come after you."
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
To me it makes perfect sense to sent out assassination teams to kill any AQ types we can find. Why would we NOT do it?
Democrats Mottos:
1. “Any enemy of Dick Cheney’s is a Friend of Mine”
2. “Allah Akbar”.
You’ll note, of course, that from the time Panetta briefed congress to the time the phones rang at the New York Times about half an hour elapsed. If.
And now the enemy knows about everything there is to know about our “assassination program”. And the boobs running it.
excellent point
That sounds about right
Whenever I see the words “CIA” and “assassination” in proximity, I have to fight the urge to giggle like a little girl.
Two Israeli girl scouts with a potato gun could ruinate the whole lot of those shiny-loafered, chair-warming, traitorous, liberal, effeminate fops.
What goes unsaid in this editorial and through his own admission that George Tenet with orders from Bill Clinton took 7 billion dollars out of the CIA budget from 1992 to ‘98, decimated its ranks and did not recruit an agent for 5 years! We had absolutely no intelligence, even with the Khobar Towers, the embassy bombings and the Cole attack and Janet Reno maintaining a high wall of non-cooperation. We were no where thanks to the Democratic Party that left us unprotected for the horrific events of 9/11. Let them blame Bush and Cheney, but the truth of the matter is it takes years to develop intelligence sources and the Democrats trashed it.
Tenet was not proud and it turns out to be the greatest dereliction of duty in protecting the homeland in the history of America.
the drive by media has continued down the road since it figured out that real Americans are actually in favor of this idea and that acting outraged only hurt the Democrats.
I don’t think I’d care to rely on their cooking skills, either. They’re the kind of people who pee in the soup.
Wild Bill Donovan would have fired them all, and personally kicked their butts as they filed out the door.
And, for all of his (Tenet) "exemplary" service, G.W. Bush awards him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Various committees in the seventies behaved as so many dancing elephants.
Gorelick's Wall left them flatfooted on 9-11.
Now comes the best friend the ChiCom Navy ever had to add his two cents worth.
Why would CIA tell Congress anything at all--so Leahy and Levin and Rockefeller et al could call the NYT?
Gooks in the wire.
Gooks and pukes making work harder for our spooks.
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