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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on July 13, 2009, 06:46:49 AM
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WASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter.
The precise nature of the highly classified effort isn't clear, and the CIA won't comment on its substance.
According to current and former government officials, the agency spent money on planning and possibly some training. It was acting on a 2001 presidential legal pronouncement, known as a finding, which authorized the CIA to pursue such efforts. The initiative hadn't become fully operational at the time Mr. Panetta ended it.
In 2001, the CIA also examined the subject of targeted assassinations of al Qaeda leaders, according to three former intelligence officials. It appears that those discussions tapered off within six months. It isn't clear whether they were an early part of the CIA initiative that Mr. Panetta stopped.
The revelations about the CIA and its post-9/11 activities have emerged amid a renewed fight between the agency and congressional Democrats. Last week, seven Democratic lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee released a letter that talked about the CIA effort, which they said Mr. Panetta acknowledged hadn't been properly vetted with Congress. CIA officials had brought the matter to Mr. Panetta's attention and had recommended he inform Congress.
Neither Mr. Panetta nor the lawmakers provided details. Mr. Panetta quashed the CIA effort after learning about it June 23.
The battle is part of a long-running tug of war between the executive branch and the legislature about how to oversee the activities of the country's intelligence services and how extensively the CIA should brief Congress. In recent years, in the light of revelations over CIA secret prisons and harsh interrogation techniques, Congress has pushed for greater oversight. The Obama administration, much like its predecessor, is resisting any moves in that direction.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124736381913627661.html
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This is the horrible horrible thing that needs to be investigated???
We were trying to kill terrorists...how dare we. :o
Go to ****ing hell O and all your minions who are trying to get this country attacked. :censored:
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This is the horrible horrible thing that needs to be investigated???
We were trying to kill terrorists...how dare we. :o
Go to ****ing hell O and all your minions who are trying to get this country attacked. :censored:
Killing terrorists is wrong, unless they are right wing fundamentalist types here in the US. You know, the ones that might disagree with Lord Zero.
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Tracking down and offing al Q'aeda, I'm not seeing the problem here....
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Lets not forget that clinton killed more Americans on U.S. soil than he did terrorists on foreign soil during his 8-year reign of terror.
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"Oh, shit--Obama's numbers are tanking! Quick--find something we can try to blame on Bush!"
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What's wrong with this? I like the idea.
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Tracking down and offing al Q'aeda, I'm not seeing the problem here....
This administration must want to be the stars of "The Path To 9/11 Part II"
Something tells me this sequel doesn't have a happy ending.
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Tracking down and offing al Q'aeda, I'm not seeing the problem here....
That's because you are not a liberal Democrat. It amazes me still, and I know, I know it is nothing new, but I am amazed at the rage and hate liberals have for their own country that they even side with radical terrorists. Beyond belief.