[Cicero]

I was going to say we should at least wait until we saw if the Times is actually running this story. But they are. Drudge has linked it:

http://nytimes.com/2006/03/08/international/americas/08forces.html?ei=5094&en=095a9094816d0dd5&hp=&ex=1141794000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

[El Gato]

In Paraguay a year and a half ago, members of one of the first of these "Military Liaison Elements" to be deployed were pulled out of the country after killing a robber armed with a pistol and a club who attacked them as they stepped out of a taxi, officials said.

Oooh, bad choice of robbery targets.

The very thought just makes you all gooey inside, doesn't it.

[El Gato]

Lee H. Hamilton, who served as vice chairman of the national commission on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said that conflict between the C.I.A. and the Defense Department over paramilitary operations has occurred periodically for decades, and that the 9/11 commission had recommended that the Defense Department be given the lead responsibility for such activity.

One of the few sensible things that the commission came up with. Let the military break things and kill people. Let the spooks do the spying. Seems like the proper assignments to me.