Wall Street Journal:
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.
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"A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an at.tempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or ki// al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter."
I'm sorry but this does NOT pass the smell test.
Officially speaking - ignoring "inside-job" and "false-flag" evidence - al Qaeda was our en.emy - an en.emy which is not a state but a "ter.roris
known and a long-standing public policy to seek out and do these two things. And, "duh!"
Further, Pres. Bill Clinton is well known - and has publicly spoken about - how he tried to do this very thing and made many at.tempts on OBL's life, but failed.
Sorry folks, this is a red-herring. I don't believe this for a moment.
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I agree.
The United States had a plan to get Osama bin Laden? This was a secret?
What happened?.
additional target.
McCain's plan is still secret.
Not as secret as Clinton missing him three times...
Wait. Are demicrats really opposed to this program? This is manna from heaven for Republicans to hammer Dems as weak on national defense.
We want to know the TRUE program. This isn't it.
but it was never implemented --according to mary matalin -and it never existed.--
Is this what you see out of all this? Please leave the adult stuff to the adults.
thank you..
He'll see anything that RushL and his talking points tell him to see.
Its his pride as a Professional Parrot.
You trolls aren't playing outraged liberals today?
I know, you must protect the spawn when under attack.
I can't understand why any American would get upset over learning that the CIA was trying to kill the enemies of our nation.
It's the nefarious nature of the thing. We could have finished this in a stand up fight back in 2001 but instead you conservatives let OBL go
OBL is buried under a gazillion tons of rock at Tora Bora, IMO.
well, lots of these lefty b*tchers are anti-american themselves
Says the cowardly computer warrior.
A right-winger?? PROJECTING??
Naw, that NEVER happens.
Neither can any American..
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yep, Murdoch has accomplished what the rest of the MSM seems unable to do - produce fair and balanced news coverage without any tingly-legged 'reporters'
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You know nothing of journalism, absolutely nothing, and absolutely nothing of its importance in countering tyranny. Rupert Murdoch is in the business of making himself very rich at YOUR expense. Your post is so flawed on so many levels one has difficulty deciding where first to respond. Suffice to say you are terribly mistaken.
countering tyranny is why I'm a fan of Murdoch's - look at all the MSM folk fawning over bammer in the campaign to such an extent that if anyone tried to ask legit questions, they were shouted down by these 'fellow reporters' who were going tingly-legged over this candidate - even Hillary said that Fox was the only network providing balanced coverage - and she ain't no GOP. As a former journalist, I would like to know where I am mistaken.
They fawned over him because he was the shill figurehead they could depend upon to do things like promote McChrystal and to hand over a trillion dollars worth of American real estate to the nation's richest investors for 7 cents on the dollar while using your tax dollars to guarantee them a profit on the other 93 cents, and the guy who would sign a do-nothing credit card bill that accomplished getting guns in the national parks but failed to stop the formerly illegal practice of USURY, the guy who would continue the Bush WOT policies such as detention without trial, spying on Americans in excess of what Bush tried to do (see Glenn Greenwald's Salon piece about that) etc. etc. In February the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (the most left wing legal mainstream legal entity in the nation) said of OPbama that he was "more of the same".
But the biggest reason I think the corporate media fawned over him was so that they could depend upon him to bring HMO mandates to the country, something I consider absoiutley to be fascism.
Nothwithstanding all the above, Murdoch runs a yellow journalism outfit that misleads and misinforms and the end result of his "journalism" is little different from the end result of CNN's or ABCs or CBS's which did away with responsible journalism when it's Chairman declared he was for the Republicans. The Neo-cons still run the show. And the American mainstream media are right there behind them Fox is the extreme. They are all moving us in the same direction, fascism (the Mussolini definition
[Committing tyranny is why I'm a fan of Murdoch's]
Fixed it for truth. Murdoch is a partisan Rushpublican and always has been. That's the real reason you fawn over his sorry carcass.
So now you have trotted out the liberals are anti-American theme, and the media has liberal bias theme, Please come up with some new material. The media is owned by big business and Republicans want the President to fail, but if you think fox has balanced coverage, you are already too far gone.
All you have to do is research the history of the CIA back to the 1940's and you will find plenty of times we had a hand in the assassination of those deemed to be our enemies or whose absence would be in our interest. Only the clueless would find this revelation to be surprising
And only those who support tyranny would advocate it. Patrice Lamumba, Salvador Allendede.
Can anyone add to this partial list of democratically destoryed leaders deemed by our leaders to be the "Al Qaeda" of their times...?
I believe the estimates are that about 2% of the violence in Iraq could be attributed to the nefarious and mysterious "Al Qaeda" and the other 98% were simple old patriots fighting an illegal invasion of their land. Yet practically ALL the media coverage Stateside told us that everything that happened there was linked to Al Qaeda. So extra-judicial killings of freedom fighters labelled Al Qaeda is OK? You who support this have reached the depths of tyranny and oppression and are no different (to the subjected people of the world who have to endure your tyranny) than a certain Teutomic dictator 70 years ago.
I don;t care what they call them. The epic betrayal of the afghans after the aid we gave them when the soviets were exterminating them and then they allow OBL in to train and plan his attacks against us, is unforgivable.
We trained OBL. That's probably why he remains living. That and his connections to one of the prominent families allied with our industrial military and energy complex. OBL's actions have benefitted the Western world's wealthiest families. They managed to do away with the Bill of Rights and take control of the worlds largest proven oil resources because of OBL. Qui buono?
"Freedom fighters"
Good grief.
Lotta fuss over what is commonly known as "contingency planning," in effect, "what can be done IF." IF being the operative word. So there's without doubt around 2-3 hundred other contingency plans (IF) hanging about the CIA.......
that's the point we want transparen
Government needs some secrets in order to function. The world doesn't need to know everything we are trying to do.
i approve big time to the program but there is a process that protects all Americans and Cheny decided to run this one himself and the hell with everyone. Our forfathers fought for our freeedom people like Cheny are very dangerous to our freedom.
Lets send the teams out ato destroy AL Qeda and give them the best support but please let the oversight know otherwise dictatorship will happen and that is what the EXTREME RIGHT wants in America.
If you tell Congress about the program the world will read about the program in the NYTimes within a week.
"A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or ki// al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter."
I'm sorry but this does NOT pass the smell test.
Officially speaking - ignoring "inside-job" and "false-flag" evidence - al Qaeda was our enemy - an enemy which is not a state but a "terrorist" organization organized specifically to attack us. It is well known and a long-standing public policy to seek out and do these two things. And, "duh!"
Sorry folks, this is a red-herring. I don't believe this for a moment.
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Capture or kill Al Qaeda? That's an outrage. We should be inviting them over for tea so they can tell us why they want to kill us.
and Bammer could apologize!
Who told the Bush administration about possible Al-Qaeda plans? A DEMOCRAT, Richard Clarke, the anti-terrorism expert who was most trusted to tell them what they needed to hear.
Why did they choose to ignore him?
maybe they were too busy blowing up Iraq.
hahaha that's funny,will the tea be poisoned?
And we know they are "Al Qaeda" because someone told us they were?
First you have to convince us that that was what the program was. Which you have not.
Leon Penetta just found out about it and put a stop to it, Bull, I read about Cheney's executive assasination ring six month ago on Huff post. Actully its not a bad idea, we all read about the unmanned drones chasing a car load of Al Queda down the road and blowing up the car and nobody complained than.
Was Congress informed about the unmanned drone program? Yes it was. So your point is moot.
Actually you just made my point, thanks.
Then, perhaps, we have not been told the whole story. What if they used this CIA operation to take out people who knew things the Bush people wanted kept secret because it implicated them in wrong-doing? Just a possibility.
LOL
You must be a Vince Foster conspiracy theorist. Here is a simple fact: we don't have a right to know everything the executive branch does to protect our nation.
Isn't that what we pay the CIA to do? I would be upset if they weren't targeting al Qaeda.
I know the left hate this nation with every fiber of their being but why be so plain about it.
well, wright, ayers & mrs. bammer were all very plain about their hate for america - and they lead the radical left
LOL, please show us where they "lead" anything at all.......
[they lead the radical left]
A caveman child led the Bush Adminstration? Ok, THAT I believe!
Funny, I have been hearing nothing but hate for America from the right for the past 6 months...
Guess you guys only claim to be patriotic when your team wins...
So if another country decided that America was a great threat to them and they placed assi.insat
This whole meme about Liberals "ha.ting" America is so 1950's. Grow up.
That already happened, on 9/1/01, and there paying for that mistake.
It happens anyway.
PS....Your avatar looks like a pe//n//is. Perfect for you.
then why were they trying to keep it form the press if it was the right thing to do for the country,people need to know the measures being taken to protect them.
these weren't measures, these were possibilities being discussed - do you want the NYT and WP to attend the secret briefings so they could publish them?
i want the congress that are apponited to have oversight. If they are not told of activietes we will begin on a very dangerous path for Americans.
I have no problem with the program they wanted to do i do have a BIG problem that they did not go to the oversight process. We as Americans have the right to be protected from any Pres or V.P running seceret operations . I would begin to prosecute after a investagation if the facts are true.
I want to plave Barak Obama on notice and any other potential pres America is a free country because of of our brave soldiers who fought ofr our freedom. We will not loose it to secret programs that Cheny, Bush or anyone else thought they had a right to pursue without the oversight that protects all of us.
WE THE PEOPLE and please never forget it because Cheny did in my opinion.
You see this the disease ifesting the mind of too many americans. Why does demanding that the rule of law be followed translate into hating the country in your mind?
the rule of law was followed - hate for the country shows when lefty fruitcakes try to twist nothing into something simply because the personnel involved are not of their political persuasion
A secret plan to get Osama bin laden? I think I heard about.
Some one has to take account.. and surely that person is not Obama,Bush and cheyen must reap what they sawed.
...or rap what they said?
as he picked up his hammer and sawed....
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First Posted: 07-12-09 10:20 PM | Updated: 07-12-09 11:05 PM