The Central Intelligence Agency’s secret assassination squad was allowed to operate anywhere in the world, including the United States, according to a Thursday report in The Washington Post.
“The plan to deploy small teams of assassins grew out of the CIA’s early efforts to battle al-Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,” the paper reported. “A secret document known as a ‘presidential finding’ was signed by President George W. Bush that same month, granting the agency broad authority to use deadly force against bin Laden as well as other senior members of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.”
Reporter Joby Warrick added: “The finding imposed no geographical limitations on the agency’s actions, and intelligence officials have said that they were not obliged to notify Congress of each operation envisaged under the directive.”
This revelation, buried in paragraph 12 of the Post’s report, was highlighted by Talking Points Memo’s Zachary Roth later in the afternoon.
“‘No geographical limitations’ presumably means that operations could potentially be carried out in countries, friendly or unfriendly, that are far from any war zone — including even the US itself,” he opined. “And it seems likely that they would be carried out without notifying the foreign country in question.”
Roth continued: “Of course, we’ve frequently, and quite openly, used the military to carry out attacks on spe... >>>
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Shah Gholam = Al Qaeda Supporter!
by Farhad Kashani on Sun Jul 19, 2009 02:19 PM PDTShah Gholam,
Congratulation, you went from being an IRI supporter to Al Qaeda supporter, which means you’re officially now supporting two sides of Islamic Fundamentalism!
You are so pathetic and desperate for anti American news, it had actually made you become an Al Qaeda supporter. Against an enemy which operates in 60 countries (or more) with no uniforms, and threatened the destruction of America and the West and all Moderate Muslims countries, CIA and America and anyone else has the undeniable right, according to common sense and international law, to track down these killers, whom you now officially support, and kill or capture them.
You have no shame, no common sense, and no love for humanity. Congratulations.