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The Secret Program CAN’T Be Foreign Assassinations, Because Congress Was Briefed on that in 2001 and the New York Times Wrote About it in 2002
George Washington Blog
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Government officials have claimed that the “secret program” CIA director Panetta recently disclosed to Congress involved foreign assassinations.
But on December 15, 2002, the New York Times published a story entitled “Bush Has Widened Authority of C.I.A. to Kill Terrorists”.
As the Times pointed out:
The Bush administration has prepared a list of terrorist leaders the Central Intelligence Agency is authorized to kill, if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized, senior military and intelligence officials said…
President Bush has provided written legal authority to the C.I.A. to hunt down and kill the terrorists without seeking further approval each time the agency is about to stage an operation…
Mr. Bush issued a presidential finding last year, after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, providing the basic executive and legal authority for the C.I.A. to either kill or capture terrorist leaders…
The president has given broad authority to the C.I.A. to kill or capture operatives of Al Qaeda around the world, the officials said…
The administration must notify Congressional leaders of any covert action finding signed by the president. In the case of the presidential finding authorizing the use of lethal force against members of Al Qaeda, Congressional leaders have been notified as required, the officials said.
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The Times article makes clear that Congress was notified about the program sometime between September 11th and the date the article was published in December 2002.
And as Citizens for Legitimate Government writes:
This can’t be the ’secret program,’ since the NYT published the ’secrets’ in 2002.
Therefore, the secret program must have involved something more than foreign assassinations, or something else entirely.
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26 Responses to “The Secret Program CAN’T Be Foreign Assassinations, Because Congress Was Briefed on that in 2001 and the New York Times Wrote About it in 2002”
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July 15th, 2009 at 5:29 am
I for one would like to see “references” (publication, date, volume, issue, page, and title) to ALL pertinent facts presented in Alex’s news briefs. It lends a sense of creditability to those skeptical souls who blindly believe that governments are fair, just, or moral.
WM COOPER Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Well something big did happen in 2001, in September if I remember correctly. And yes, the CIA hid it from everybody they could.
Jim Lunsford Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
He gave the date of the article. If people who are skeptical, but want to know, it is almost as easy to find it by knowing the date as with a hyper-link. If they are skeptical but too lazy to look it up, fuck them. They are too lazy to matter.
CeSo Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Do you not see the link to the NY times article?
July 15th, 2009 at 5:37 am
If it ain’t assassinations, then what secret program do you suppose it is – that was so important – that someone broke ranks and leaked it to Nancy Pelosi ? Or did she make the whole thing up ? Nasty business, politics.
andrew Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
waterboarding
directives for death squards
etc….
all of these are bullsh*t topics to legitamize the bogus Al-Quaida/ terrorist story. it’s just relentless psychological warfare on the american public.
Jim Lunsford Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Well, since coke smuggling, arms dealing, torturing, kidnapping, assassinations, and more ad naseum are not shocking enough to keep hidden, it does make one wonder what could be so shocking they dare not release the info to the public. I really don’t like the CIA. While the majority of the people who work there are just analysts, computer programmers, and the like, the section that deals with the field really sucks. Their field agents were laughed at by the Special Forces soldiers I knew in the late 80s. Once they get past the desk, they don’t seem to do too well.
July 15th, 2009 at 6:41 am
” I didn’t have sexual relations with that woman”.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:39 am
1) Who gives a fuck if they authorized the CIA to kill terrorists?
2) Just because it gets leaked to the media doesn’t mean it is no longer classified
As stupid as it sounds, Ive been on deployments in the 90’s where we were not allowed to tell people where we were going yet it was in the paper. (East Timor)
Congress was also briefed on the 3 dipshits that were water boarded and Nancy Pelosi still says she wasn’t. Even though her signature shows her at the meetings….
Truthteller Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 7:51 am
I totally trust the word of the CIA too. I dont care how many times they have been caught lying. Its all on the up and up. BLind trust. And dont you just HATE Pelosi? Shes a demon! Uncle Hannity and the rightwing media I love always smears her, she MUST be evil!!! I can tell you love Fox News too. You rule man.
I'm So Bored With The U-S-A Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 8:07 am
The CIA ADMITTED they have NO record of what was discussed at the meetings you mention, and can’t provide the dates of any briefings where they supposedly informed Pelosi about waterboarding.
Not only that, but the CIA has been lying to congress since its inception: Bay Of Pigs, MK Ultra, Iran, etc.
Jim Lunsford Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
All I’ve ever heard from the CIA was that “you didn’t see that”. Don’t care for the agency at all. I think they should be disbanded completely along with the NSA, FBI, DEA, and whatever agencies they have which we don’t even know about. It would cut down on crime and save a lot of money. I have become convinced over the years there is no such thing as national security issues on state secrets, just evidence of wrongdoing on our government’s part. Transparency is something we can handle if we are not doing wrong in the world. Oh, I forgot, we are doing wrong all over the world!
July 15th, 2009 at 7:44 am
SHUT UP AND DRINK UR FLUORIDE
July 15th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Let’s just speculate for a moment. What if this CIA operation involved domestic assassinations? That would be considered just plain murder, and that would be the one thing that would explain why Panetta was so freaked out.
A Patriot Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I think this is a distinct possibility.
Didn’t one of the prosecuting lawyers in the whole Plame case take an unexpected leap off his own office building?
July 15th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Probably about how to deal with American dissenters once mass surveillance has identified a security risk ( i.e. 9/11truthers, Ron Paul supporters, etc.)
Non-lethal technologies: an overview
http://66.102.1.104/scholar?q=.....&hl=en
“Existing non-lethal weapons include rubber and plastic bullets, entangling nets, irritantsprays such as pepper or tear gas, and electrical stunning devices such as the “Taser” gun.
New non-lethal weapons are on the way, which will include acoustic and microwave weapons, non-lethal landmines, and malodorants (see Table 1). Many analysts would agree that there is a “legitimate” role for non-lethal weapons, both for civil and military applications. However there is considerable disagreement as to the operational effectiveness of non-lethal weapons, and the threat such weaponspose to arms conventions and international law. As usual, a balance has to be achieved where the benign advantages of developing and deploying non-lethal weapons are not outweighed by their more malign effects. In particular, emerging non-lethal technologies offer an increasing opportunity for the suppression of civil dissent and control of populations—these are sometimes referred to as the“technologies of political control”. “
July 15th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Forgot to add, based on recent articles / comments by Kurt Nimmo, Seymour Hurst, Naomi Klein, etc. (that the War on Terror paridigm was adopted from Isreal, that Isreal is training our CIA, military, and police), that this type of domestic counter-terrorism operation involving “non-lethal” technologies (translation: pain-inducing technologies , i.e.-torture that is less than lethal unless they want otherwise, wink, wink) will usually follow the Israeli model of attacking targets in their home while they are isolated and vulnerable ( lots of YouTube clips of Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in their homes )…with the exception that some of the “non-lethals” give the attackers to attack invisibly, for example, using some of the DEW weapons (directed energy weapons) that the paper talks about-refer to link posted above in first entry…
July 15th, 2009 at 11:58 am
http://themagicpristinebullet......-murdered/
July 15th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
http://themagicpristinebullet......o-9112001/
July 15th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Kosherizing the US Military strategic paradigm
http://www.infowars.com/cia-as.....r-the-sun/
More recently, ace journalist Seymour Hersh revealed the existence of a CIA assassination program in Iraq, a fact lightly reported by the corporate media. “Hersh mentions that Israel is guiding the CIA’s Phoenix Program in Iraq, and as everyone knows, the Israelis are the world’s masters of assassination and terrorizing an entire people into submission. What Hersh doesn’t mention is that the blanket of censorship that prevents the American media from criticizing Israel for its war crimes has now been cast over Bush and the CIA, and all the people they use to conquer foreigns nations and assassinate people who never did any American any harm–until the Americans invaded their country,” explains Douglas Valentine, who authored a definitive book on the CIA’s Phoenix Program.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Fugitive KKK leader found, arrested in Tel Aviv
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.a.....id=3510203
July 15th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Heres an interesting story about Government operations within our western free societies that virtually lead to marshall Law and troops on the streets in Australian capital cities.
This is a bit of history from the 70,s , but it shows what they want and how to bring it about by terrorism red flags
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2.....-f13.shtml
July 16th, 2009 at 5:19 am
I finally see the light ! You guys have won me over. Lets get rid of the CIA and special forces. Who needs all this manpower?
Because we have the likes of Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi to defend us.
Wither now you terrorist as Barney sharp tongue and razor wit reduces you to halal hamburger.
Caution would be attackers of America. Our children are protected ,standing behind the ample bosom and botox of Nancy Pelosi as she sends her platoon of gay aides into P.R. battle.
The Real reconmarine Reply:
July 17th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Fox News rules right? And democrats are the biggest problem right partisan dupe like me?and AGAIN you ring up gays．．．．．．．．
July 16th, 2009 at 9:15 am
All those doctors and bioengineers dying left and right (accidents, suicides, disappearances, etc.).
The hell, they really want to destroy this world. These people were working on cures, on new technologies for better exploitations of energy.
It also was a way to get rid of potential whistle blowers, who’d point out the glitches of the whole international health system.
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