Posted on 07/11/2009 6:01:50 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi
AP sources: Cheney told CIA not to discuss program By PAMELA HESS 23 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) Former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA eight years ago not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June, officials with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
Subsequent CIA directors did not inform Congress because the intelligence-gathering effort had not developed to the point that they believed merited a congressional briefing, said a former intelligence official and another government official familiar with Panetta's June 24 briefing to the House and Senate Intelligence committees.
Panetta did not agree.
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I do recall reading a couple of National Security Directives by Bush giving Cheney some special national security authority.
This would be a BIG legal issue since the President does not have the authority to delegate national security stuff (assassinations) to anyone other than his personal National Security Advisor. This is something everyone in the intel community knows; the rules are clear - only the President or the National Security Advisor to the President can whack people.
The President can delegate to anyone he wants to. All it takes is an executive order. Some of these orders are secret. Somehow I doubt you’ve read them.
And let us not... forget these from other reliable sources:
BTW the reports of my demise are false... I am recovering, slowly but surely~
But everything I drink or eat... has a really strange taste with a wang to it!
God Bless America, and God Bless Bender2!!
We thought you were long lost my friend...thanks for updating my collection of NYS front pages! Those are still some of the funniest images that ever appeared at FR, and I really hope you decide to revive the Slimes and start publishing again soon...
Cheers!!
BC
I’d stay away from the wang if I were you.
Look how much trouble Obumble is in just for
looking at it.
Just wait.
If this was about assassinations, we would have heard that already.
I bet this is about nothing at all, hence the blackout on the details.
As long as you don't turn into a wanker...
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