Posted on 12/28/2005 8:18:48 AM PST by Mike Bates
The CIA's controversial "rendition" program to have terror suspects captured and questioned on foreign soil was launched under US president Bill Clinton, a former US counterterrorism agent told a German newspaper.
Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA who resigned from the agency in 2004, told Thursday's issue of the newsweekly Die Zeit that the US administration had been looking in the mid-1990s for a way to combat the terrorist threat and circumvent the cumbersome US legal system.
"President Clinton, his national security advisor Sandy Berger and his terrorism advisor Richard Clark ordered the CIA in the autumn of 1995 to destroy Al-Qaeda," Scheuer said, in comments published in German.
"We asked the president what we should do with the people we capture. Clinton said 'That's up to you'."
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Only problem was that the let Bin Laden put 18,000 terrorists through his training camps. If we had renditioning back then why would he let Bin Laden go several times?
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"Only problem was that the let Bin Laden put 18,000 terrorists through his training camps"
Terrorist? Oh hell! That explains it. Clinton thought they said "Tourist". See just a little misunderstanding.
rendition? began under clinton? i doubt it. probably as old as war itself. (or did they just kill them on the spot??)
Is this the papers Sandy Berglar was trying to steal from the archives????
Gee, Clinton again.
Why am I NOT surprised?
The gift that keeps on giving.
Wow! Another "Bill Clinton did it so it must be OK" thread! I haven't seen one of these in, like, three hours!
Another way of looking at this is as a "Bill Clinton did it so why are they picking on W?" thread.
I don't believe that for a minute. Bin Laden didn't issue his first fatwa against the US until August 1996. Clinton didn't do anthing against AQ after WTC I in 1993. This sounds like some revisionist history.
"In 1998, in a sharply worded memorandum, Tenet declared “war” on Al-Qaeda and announced that he wanted no resources or people spared either in the CIA or in the intelligence community. Despite Tenet’s strongly worded proclamation, however, the Commission and the Joint Inquiry found that rest of the intelligence community had not closed ranks in support of Tenet’s declaration of war. The director of the National Security Agency—an agency under the purview of the Department of Defense—recalled receiving Tenet’s declaration of war memorandum, but thought that the memo only applied to the CIA and not to the intelligence community at large. The Joint Inquiry and the Commission both concluded that DCI Tenet’s inability to realign intelligence community resources to combat Al-Qaeda was a relatively direct consequence of his limited authority."
Either way, it's just justifying questionable behavior. If every president jumped off the Borrklyn Bridge, do you think George Bush Jr. should too?
That explains all the missing interns.
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