Posted on 12/30/2005 4:10:31 AM PST by Laverne
The effort President Bush authorized shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, to fight al Qaeda has grown into the largest CIA covert action program since the height of the Cold War, expanding in size and ambition despite a growing outcry at home and abroad over its clandestine tactics, according to former and current intelligence officials and congressional and administration sources.
The broad-based effort, known within the agency by the initials GST, is compartmentalized into dozens of highly classified individual programs, details of which are known mainly to those directly involved.
GST includes programs allowing the CIA to capture al Qaeda suspects with help from foreign intelligence services, to maintain secret prisons abroad, to use interrogation techniques that some lawyers say violate international treaties, and to maintain a fleet of aircraft to move detainees around the globe. Other compartments within GST give the CIA enhanced ability to mine international financial records and eavesdrop on suspects anywhere in the world.
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I think that it is high time that NSA monitor the conversations of the reporters. These leaks have got to be stopped.
Dana Priest should give up her sources.
The "furor" is not coming from average Americans.
These people vastly over value themselves. Keep talking Morons, every time the Wash Po speaks another Bush Democract 2006 Republican Voter is created.
A Lincolnisk approach to the Washington Post seems appropriate at this time – America is at War and the WaPo is giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
How did the Wapo find the name of the secret CIA program GST and how do they know what it allows or how strong it is and why would they publish such information? Good Grief they seem to know what the CIA is doing before its done, Why dont we fire the CIA and hire the Wapo obviously they have a better spying program and a more covert operation than the CIA does.
This is BS. Something has to be done, / For National Security the Wapo and the NY Slimes should be closed down.
These leaks have gotten completely out of hand...I don't understand why there isn't an investigation going on. Dana released the cia prison story -- after that, I figured she would be compelled to testify who here sources were, and here she is again, releasing more classified information. The NYTimes and WAPO are openly supporting the enemy and they should be shunned by all advertisers and fully investigated for participating in leaking and publishing classified information.
Bingo. I hope the Dems keep up the whine on this right through the first Tuesday in November.
What "growing outcry" is Priest talking about?
The only "outcry" I hear about in my part of the country is from anti-war liberal Democrats. The average person I talk to just wants to be safe from terrorists.
Aside from giving more information about our war efforts to our enemies, and preaching to the liberal choir, what value does Priest's story have for the men and women fighting this war and the families waiting for their return?
There now we can shut them down.
Why are we reading up this in a newspaper?
"The "furor" is not coming from average Americans."
Don't you think it an 'odd' choice of words? (Der Furor).....Once again the WP reveals it's 'Bash Bush' agenda.
Rehash of old stories. The WaPo, NYT and MSM is general are pissed that their leaks of national security secrets in an effort to undermine the President in a time of war is backfiring on them. The MSM and Libs find it hard to believe that the American public is not to keen on undermining the war on terror and pushing for "terrorist rights". Keep it up MSM, you will get Bush's approval rating to 60%+ in no time.
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Interview: Dana Priest on secret gulags, CIA and war (She's a Hillary fan too)
Now that's a tinfoil hat I can share with you! I had not even thought of it that way.
Pulse: Has there been European reaction to the story?
Priest: “There's been a firestorm of reaction among the media in Europe..."
Oh so typical of "journalists"....media to media, to hell with the real people and what they think. The Newsweek bubble story comes to mind right now -- Dana and her pals are in the bubble, not the President or the people. These "journalists" make me ill.
But the pubbie leak of a CIA secretary's name must be resolved first, even if it take 10 years.
Sorry Miss, but I disagree, unless the reporters are in phone conversations with overseas AlQaeda scum, we need to let them be. THAT would be a violation of the program, or at least a real piece of meat for the Constitutional lawyers to chew over.
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