looks like the cia is willing to destroy itself in it's quest to destroy president Bush...
Posted on 12/02/2005 9:11:52 AM PST by SueRae
PARIS — Two flights chartered by the CIA made stopovers in France in 2002 and 2005, the French newspaper Le Figaro said Friday, adding to likely questions facing U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when she visits Europe next week.
French officials said they had no knowledge of the clandestine flights via France, which were first mentioned Thursday in The New York Times and Britain's Guardian newspaper.
Le Figaro said the first flight identified took place on March 31, 2002. The Learjet private plane stopped in the northwestern town of Brest on its way from Iceland to Turkey, with a planned stop in Rome, the newspaper said.
Authorities at the airport told the Figaro that the crew had indicated it was alone on board the aircraft, it added.
The second flight stopped over near Paris on July 20, 2005, arriving from Norway, Le Figaro said, quoting as its source the Norwegian newspaper Ny Tid. This airplane, a Gulfstream III jet, had landed six times at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it added.
Several European governments have launched investigations into whether covert CIA flights were used in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, to transfer Islamist suspects to third countries where they could be interrogated beyond the reach of international law.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
So what if they flights went to GitMo? We already knew there was a prison for terrorists there.
France's jet fuel is probably watered down like their whine.
Seriously, the CIA needs to be taken down for anti-American leaks.
He didn't have the job then, so how could he?
Exactly! And this could get even uglier since if it is true, there is the potential that someone might have misled the French about the nature of these flights. The media is working full-time to find any reason to discredit this administration...even if it means jeorpardizing the war effort.
Just listening to the two blow-hard journalist professors on OReilly's show last night indicated how desperate these people are to cripple Bush at any cost. They found nothing wrong with idea of releasing intel to the American people under the premise that it was our right to know so we could form an educated opinion...regardless of its reprecussions.
Of course, when it comes to Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, they don't hold to that same standard...even though her position in that affair was extremely relevant so that the American people could make an informed opinion on the issue. These people are the biggest hypocrites around.
Democrats crow about the days of FDR, well FDR would have tried these fools for treason.
There is very, very good men at the CIA, their victories are never reported and in 99.99% of the time no one alive in their life times will ever know what they accomplished. The problem is that when Carter took office, the RATz were all high from Watergate and Nam. They were all tinfoil moonbats who believed the CIA was secretly trying to take over the world. Carter appointed Turner to take down the CIA. The first thing they did was to make it illegal to deal with "questionable people" to gather intel so they never risked the media finding out that the CIA did business with drug dealers (Clinton did the same thing)as if the CIA was going to find good, honest people to betray their countries to the United States. The next thing they did was to hire more tinfoil moonbats to keep an eye on the CIA and give every moonbat's brother-in-law a government job. Reagan was able to get rid of a lot of them and then bring down the Soviet Union (make no mistake, the CIA is the unsung hero of winning the cold war). However, it only took a few years for Clinton to screw up everything Reagan had fixed. Now they got Carter hold overs and Clinton moonbats making sure that for every victory the CIA has they leak out the failures. If they can't find a failure to leak, then anything they can find to stir up the tin foil crowd will do.
If the CIA had spent half of the energy they've spent on undercutting and trying to embarrass President Bush in protecting our national security, 911 would have never happened.
looks like the cia is willing to destroy itself in it's quest to destroy president Bush...
That's a good idea.
"Exactly! And this could get even uglier since if it is true, there is the potential that someone might have misled the French about the nature of these flights."
No one misled anyone and this leak shouldn't suprise anyone when the leak of a supposed "secret" joint French/USA anti-terror base in Paris was made some months ago.
The French AND the CIA knew exactly what those flights were doing since the French have some of the harshes anti-terror laws, put in place by one of the toughest anti-terror judges around, Jean Louis Bruguiere, which gives them(the French) loopways to get away with things like this, even if they don't admit it in public. What goes on behind close doors is a different matter.
Plus there is that Paris-based "secretive" alliance task force called "Alliance Base" which is multinational and based out of France - don't know how "secretive" it still is since it made the news - but France was the only country after 9/11 that such a facility could be put in place because of their anti-terror laws. I wouldn't be suprised if this whole incident was related to the Alliance Base.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050703/news_1n3cia.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR2005070201361_pf.html
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.