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kate
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 Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:45 pm Post subject: Exempt Media Blows Cover On Another Key Program |
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December 30, 2005
| Quote: | Exempt Media Blows Cover On Another Key Counterterrorism Program
In another attempt to find something sinister to hang onto the Bush administration, another secret program constituting a major part of the war on terror has been exposed by another member of the Exempt Media. This time, the Washington Post uses its contacts in the CIA to expose an umbrella program called GST, the code for a loose affiliation of dozens of programs designed to locate and fight terrorists abroad rather than wait for them to show up here. Nothing about the article stands out as a smoking gun, it never alleges anything specifically illegal, but Dana Priest writes the front-pager as a warning that the President has gone out of control in defending the US from attack
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Powerline chimes in with comments by Bill Bennett
The Washington Post article they refer to
Covert CIA Program Withstands New Furor
Anti-Terror Effort Continues to Grow
By Dana Priest
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| Quote: | The top-secret presidential finding Bush signed six days after the Sept. 11 attacks empowered the intelligence agencies in a way not seen since World War II, and it ordered them to create what would become the GST program.
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The presidential finding also permitted the CIA to create paramilitary teams to hunt and kill designated individuals anywhere in the world, according to a dozen current and former intelligence officials and congressional and executive branch sources.
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Indeed, the CIA, working with foreign counterparts, has been responsible for virtually all of the success the United States has had in capturing or killing al Qaeda leaders since Sept. 11, 2001.
Bush delegated much of the day-to-day decision-making and the creation of individual components to then-CIA Director George J. Tenet, according to congressional and intelligence officials who were briefed on the finding at the time.
"George could decide, even on killings," one of these officials said, referring to Tenet. "That was pushed down to him. George had the authority on who was going to get it."
Tenet, according to half a dozen former intelligence officials, delegated most of the decision making on lethal action to the CIA's Counterterrorist Center. Killing an al Qaeda leader with a Hellfire missile fired from a remote-controlled drone might have been considered assassination in a prior era and therefore banned by law.
But after Sept. 11, four former government lawyers said, it was classified as an act of self-defense and therefore was not an assassination. "If it was an al Qaeda person, it wouldn't be an assassination," said one lawyer involved.
This month, Pakistani intelligence sources said, Hamza Rabia, a top operational planner for al Qaeda, was killed along with four others by a missile fired by U.S. operatives using an unmanned Predator drone, although there were conflicting reports on whether a missile was used. In May, another al Qaeda member, Haitham Yemeni, was reported killed by a Predator drone missile in northwest Pakistan. |
Dana Priest expects us to be alarmed that the CIA is eliminating terrorists. The alarming thing is all these unnamed Leakers
(This might answer why Tenet rec'd that Award from W)
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BuffaloJack
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If this were WW2, these leak blabbers would be dealt with by a military tribunal and a firing squad.
Why should this war be any different?
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MrJapan
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There MUST be a way to shut up these stupid morons (traitors) before they let loose more National Security....
The POTUS should release the 'hit' teams on them to shut them up :/ |
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