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Cheney’s Super Secret Plan: Kill or Capture the Enemy?
Commentary Magazine ^ | 07/13/09 | Jonathan Tobin

Posted on 07/13/2009 7:17:59 AM PDT by Jbny

On Sunday, the New York Times struck another blow against the Bush administration’s counter-terrorism measures with a front-page story alleging that a CIA program was kept secret from Congress for eight years. The orders to keep Congress out of the loop — which sound flagrantly illegal — came, according to the story, straight from then Vice President Dick Cheney.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bushlegacy; cheney; counterterrorism; gwot; tobin
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To: pizamoto

Smokescreen, for sure - we need to put this in perspective. Listen to the reports - program was started in the wake of 9/11 and “not yet, fully operational”. Other references indicate that “efforts mostly died out, within 6 months”.

This is simply the Democrats continuing to position the Bush Administration in the cross-hairs for prosecution. There is nothing here, except a desire to demonize the previous administration and deflect public focus away from their own misdeeds.


41 posted on 07/13/2009 10:11:22 AM PDT by Tandem (Support our troops - Nephew in the Army)
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To: Jbny

Kill the enemy; those who are trying to kill you. Isn’t that what is done, in war?


42 posted on 07/13/2009 11:14:04 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Cooter

BINGO


43 posted on 07/13/2009 1:27:34 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Jbny

ABC News: The secret CIA program that was withheld from Congress was designed to find and capture or kill senior Al Qaeda leadership at close range rather than through air strikes, government officials said.


44 posted on 07/13/2009 2:18:06 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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