Posted on 03/30/2011 1:08:20 PM PDT by cll
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He’s a Muslim sympathizer?
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
Obama signed the order, known as a presidential “finding”, within the last two or three weeks, according to four U.S. government sources familiar with the matter.
Such findings are a principal form of presidential directive used to authorize secret operations by the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA and the White House declined immediate comment.
MORE:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/30/us-libya-usa-order-idUSTRE72T6H220110330
And the “rebels” we are to be arming and supporting are Al Quaeda and Muslim Brotherhood types. What could go wrong?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/30/us-libya-usa-order-idUSTRE72T6H220110330?pageNumber=2
SPECIFIC OPERATIONS
People familiar with U.S. intelligence procedures said that Presidential covert action “findings” are normally crafted to provide broad authorization for a range of potential U.S. government actions to support a particular covert objective.
In order for specific operations to be carried out under the provisions of such a broad authorization — for example the delivery of cash or weapons to anti-Gaddafi forces — the White House also would have to give additional “permission” allowing such activities to proceed.
Former officials say these follow-up authorizations are known in the intelligence world as “’Mother may I’ findings.”
In 2009 Obama gave a similar authorization for the expansion of covert U.S. counter-terrorism actions by the CIA in Yemen. The White House does not normally confirm such orders have been issued.
Because U.S. and allied intelligence agencies still have many questions about the identities and leadership of anti-Gaddafi forces, any covert U.S. activities are likely to proceed cautiously until more information about the rebels can be collected and analyzed, officials said.
FLASHBACK - JOHNSON ESCALATES VIETNAM WAR ON SECRET ORDERS:
“Some experts, such as Peter Dale Scott, have long argued that subtle policy changes in the immediate aftermath of Kennedy’s death laid the groundwork for later escalation in Vietnam. In particular, the first National Security Action Memorandum on Vietnam under Johnson, NSAM 273, authorized open-ended covert operations against North Vietnam. These in turn led to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which President Johnson used to obtain Congressional authorization for a drastic escalation of the war”
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Kennedy-Johnson_Transition_in_Vietnam_Policy
As the news out of Libya gets worse for Oblunder, watch for the media to sweep it all under the carpet, what war in Libya???? Bush is bad mmmkay and if you liked Bush you were bad mmmkay, and Bush’s wars were bad mmmkay....
Calling Oliver North! (Don’t know his nom de freepe.)
awwww come on....we cannot have these brothers just out standin w/ a stick in their hand can we......
..we now know if we had armed our brotherhood in 2008 that white cracker bitch woulda never opened her mouth
we play we learn we arm......./s
Boots on the Ground
Boots on the Ground
Lookin’ like a fool
With your Boots on the Ground
With the gold in your mouth
Hat turned sideways
Boots hit the ground
Call yourself a cool cat
With your Boots on the ground
Walkin’ downtown with your Boots on the ground!
Giddy-up
Hey! Get your Boots off the ground!
Lookin like a fool!
Loose lips sinks ships applies, no matter who is CIC. Why are “secret” orders being revealed?
Either that or he's reaganesque! Tough call ;)
Article III, Section 3.
"Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."
We are now supporting the Al Quaeda!!!
“Why are “secret” orders being revealed?”
Maybe because people with skin on the line know that we’re assisting Al-Qaeda, unwittingly or not.
See post 52.
I didn’t hear that, but there are 2200 Marines on the Kearsarge offshore. Another 2200 on the way.(Should be at Gibralta by now). And 2-3000 Paratroopers in Vincenza Italy. Those A-10s and AC-130s aren’t being sent to fire blindly in support of a bunch of untrained guys in ‘technicals’.
Check out the link on post 15.
Well, that’s true...On the bright side, if we ship the Al Quaeda “rebels” the million Garands from Korea, Obama won’t be able to supply them to Acorn and SEIU for the 2012 election.
They’ll have to use sticks and rebar. ‘Course we’ll only have ten round mags or less...
Thanks — I just spewed coffee all over my monitor.
LOL!
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