Posted on 11/23/2001 3:37:44 AM PST by snopercod
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:45:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- A year before the attacks of Sept. 11, Central Intelligence Agency officials sat at the Global Operations Center in Langley, Va., and watched live aerial video images of al Qaeda terrorist training camps 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan.
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The article also seems overly kind to clinton. Yeah, sure, we believe this:
"The Clinton White House was desperate to gain better intelligence on Mr. bin Laden and his group's activities in Afghanistan."
Of course he left it to the Bush Administration to actually do something about it.
Also, I find it curious that this article never mentioned the 1972 law which forbids the CIA from assassinating foreign leaders.
Does anyone else find it odd that the CIA and AF were haggling over a 2.5 million dollar plane? I mean, doesn't the military piss that much away during one week?
I had no idea the u.s. was using bases in uzbekistan a year ago. Was this public info at the time?
ISLAMIC INSURGENCY BACKDROP TO NATO, RUSSIA, CENTRAL ASIA EXERCISES
Come to find out, it was an Executive Order signed by Gerald Ford on February 18, 1976 that banned "political assassinations".
From EO 11905 SEC. 5:
(g) Prohibition of Assassination. No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination.
Last January, Rep. Bob Barr introduced H.R. 19 which would have rescinded that (and similar) Executive Orders. I wonder what he knew back then that the rest of us didn't?
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