CIA Weighs 'Targeted Killing' Missions (Flashback to 2001)

Washington Post ^ | October 28, 2001 | Barton Gellman

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Armed with new authority from President Bush for a global campaign against al Qaeda, the Central Intelligence Agency is contemplating clandestine missions expressly aimed at killing specified individuals for the first time since the assassination scandals and consequent legal restraints of the 1970s.

Drawing on two classified legal memoranda, one written for President Bill Clinton in 1998 and one since the attacks of Sept. 11, the Bush administration has concluded that executive orders banning assassination do not prevent the president from lawfully singling out a terrorist for death by covert action. The CIA is reluctant to accept a broad grant of authority to hunt and kill U.S. enemies at its discretion, knowledgeable sources said. But the agency is willing and believes itself able to take the lives of terrorists designated by the president.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

This ought to take the wind out of the Rats' sails...

[pissant]

It won’t. The dems entire existence relies on Bush lied, Cheney lied meme.

[TexasCajun]

Nice find!

[halo66]

Very nice!

[VeniVidiVici]

I knew this whole thing sounded familiar.

[VeniVidiVici]

I knew this whole thing sounded familiar.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Bump!

[kidd]

Excellant!!!

Now that we’re past this one, we can investigate Nancy Pelosi’s claims that she was lied to by the CIA.

[missnry]

Under customary international law and Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, according to those familiar with the memo, taking the life of a terrorist to preempt an imminent or continuing threat of attack is analogous to self-defense against conventional attack.

[Cindy]

The original url you posted in post no. 1 for the Washington Post article is:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63203-2001Oct27?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The post has scrubbed the article since I posted it this morning.

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.law.syr.edu/Pdfs/0predator-final.pdf

[Cindy]

Yes, I saw you said that, so I posted the original url for archival purposes.

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/cia-the-war-on-terrorism/index.html

[kidd]

I read the article from your link this morning.

Someone reported that the article wasn’t there anymore.

I confirm....the article is no longer accessable.

Is someone scrubbing the records or is this some computer issue?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

No, it’s been scrubbed. Funny that the Washington Post would suddenly get around to removing a story that’s been out there on the web for nearly eight years just when attention is drawn to it today as part of the assault on the CIA by Pelosi and Panetta.

[VeniVidiVici]

Frankly, the bigger story is now the Washington Post covering up the Democrats stupidity and ineptitude.

[dannyboy72a]

I’m incensed. How blatant can these news organizations be? This being scrubbed, the stories on Obama’s birthplace over the weekend, how many more? I’m sure there were thousands of files removed or scrubbed in reference to Obama prior to his bid for POTUS.

For the first time in my life, I am actually starting to think like one of the conspiracy nuts. Who the hell is pulling this many strings across so many organizations?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They have an excerpt up now...to read the whole thing they have a charge for you to buy the article....

Also posted this from the National Review :

'Killing Terrorists-Gate' and Phony Outrage ( Pelosi and the House Democrats )

No new facts but a nice treatment of the antics by the DemonicRats....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #19.