Tuesday - July 14, 2009

CIA drew up plans to assassinate al-Qaeda leaders, Cheney kept mum, and the F~!!#n libs are PO’d

Well screw the bastards.  God how I HATE some of the dems mentioned in this article. Woo-freeken- hoo.  Someone kept a secret.

Let the Dems know and so does the enemy.

Hey you Trotsky loving ,tree hugging, traitorous swine Liberal left libtard gas bags in power.  I really want you ALL to stop breathing right this minute!

I see NOTHING wrong with what the CIA planned or what Cheney kept from Congress.  Those asswipes might be as great a danger to the USA as the Taliban.

The CIA drew up secret plans for an undercover team to assassinate key al-Qaeda figures around the world, it has been claimed.

By Alex Spillius in Washington
Source is The Telegraph

The agency is said to have spent time planning and possibly training operatives for the mission in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
A small unit examined the potential for killing al-Qaeda members, despite the fact Gerald Ford banned assassinations following CIA abuses in Latin America in the 1970s, according to former intelligence officials.

Advocates of the plan wanted to create co-ordinated teams of CIA agents and special forces troops to hunt down terrorist leaders.
Details of the scheme are said to have been withheld from Congress on the orders of former vice president Dick Cheney.
“It was straight out of the movies,” one ex-official told the Wall Street Journal. “It was like: Let’s kill them all.”

The CIA is said to have been acting on a 2001 presidential legal finding, which authorised the agency to pursue such efforts. The initiative never became fully operational and according to one former official met with scepticism from George W Bush.

But it was not ruled out completely until Leon Panetta, the new CIA director appointed by President Barack Obama, learned of it last month.
“We are not commenting on the substance of the effort,” said George Little, a spokesman for the CIA, adding that “a candid dialogue with Congress is very important to the director… and the agency”.
But Democrats in Congress have expressed fury that the intended programme was never revealed.

Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the senate intelligence committee, said: “We were kept in the dark. That’s something that should never, ever happen again.”
She said that Mr Panetta had informed her committee of the programme at a closed hearing in late June when he also disclosed that Mr Cheney had ordered officials not to brief Congress.
Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, said: “I think it’s impossible to just leave it lay when you have something like this.”

Oh right. Feinstein and that total phony bastard Leahy. Two absolute paragons of virtue.

But with many Democrats and human right groups maintaining pressure, the controversy has refused to go away.

Eliminate both groups and the controversy will go away.

Charles Schumer, Democratic senator for New York, said: “Where there are egregious violations, you can’t just brush them under the rug.”

Oh YES you can! 

Having trouble making a link to that article above but it comes from The Telegraph.

Now then ....  All that and another article on the CIA brought me to this cartoon. And it’s a good one.

Toon and article are from The Independent.

The Big Question: What’s gone wrong at the CIA, and should it be abolished?

By Rupert Cornwell

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Almost from its inception in 1947, at the start of the Cold War, the CIA has made news

Why are we asking this now?

The CIA is currently embroiled in two controversies that go to the heart of the problems surrounding the world’s largest intelligence agency. It is accused of keeping Congress in the dark about a secret post-9/11 project, on the orders of the former vice-president Dick Cheney and probably in violation of the law. Meanwhile the Justice Department is moving towards a criminal investigation of whether CIA operatives illegally tortured captured terrorist suspects. A rule of thumb about an intelligence service might be: the less you hear about it, the better it’s probably doing its job. Instead, the CIA seems to be eternally in the headlines.

But hasn’t that always been the case?

Indeed. Almost from its inception in 1947, at the start of the Cold War, the agency has made news. In 1953, it staged the Operation Ajax coup that overthrew the democratically-elected government of Iran (with repercussions that continue to this day). In 1961 came the humiliating failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, the most spectacular of many unavailing efforts by the CIA to get rid of Fidel Castro.

After other abuses were revealed, including the agency’s tangential involvement in Watergate, the agency’s sins were subjected to an unprecedented public investigation by the Church Committee, under Senator Frank Church of Idaho, in the mid-1970s. But that did not prevent further scandals, notably the 1985/86 Iran-Contra affair, in which the CIA had an important role.

Oh right. Frank Church. That silly looking pile of shit. I was sooooo happy when he croaked his last. I hope it was painful. Him and that fat loud mouthed Bela fat face Abzug.  She was even worse looking then Church. Mealy mouthed bastards both.

So why doesn’t the CIA work better?

One reason is the historic fragmentation of US intelligence operations. At the last count, 16 separate government agencies were involved in intelligence. Of them, the CIA has always been the most important, but formally only primus inter pares. The consequence was bureaucratic infighting that severely strained relations with the Pentagon and with the FBI in particular. The inability of the CIA and the FBI to share information was one reason why 9/11 went undetected, and although the Intelligence Reform Act, passed by Congress in 2004, was supposed to address that, it only did so up to a point.

SEE THE REST HERE

See the link for the rest of the article. It really isn’t bad.

Posted by peiper     on 07/14/2009 at 11:13 AM   
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