Bush widens authority of CIA to kill terrorists

New York Times ^ | 15 December 2002

[Asmodeus]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Bush administration has prepared a list of about two dozen terrorist leaders whom the CIA is authorized to kill if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized, senior military and intelligence officials said.

The previously undisclosed CIA list of targets includes Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and other principal figures from Al-Qaida and affiliated terrorist groups, the officials said.

[Travis McGee]

We assassinated Admiral Yamamoto in WW2. We also assassinated Reichsmarshal Heydrich. That's what you do in a war.

We will also assassinate OBL and other Al Queda terrorists in this war.

Are you an Al Queda terrorist? Don't worry then.

[Bars4Bill]

kill if capture is impractical

Great slogan for a second term. Sure beats that "compassionate conservative" crap.

[jwalsh07]

Excellent! We're back to Wanted Dead or Alive(wink,wink)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I love it! Get 'em in the crosshairs and blast away, boys!!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Now there's a mission statement that I'll vote for!

[Wait4Truth]

LOL! Thank you for the inside info!

[wharfrat]

Incinerate everyone you find and don't bother to consult with a spineless,gutless, liberal, Weenie; GWB has signed their dispatch order! Turn all of them into RoadKill that a buzzard would turn away from!

[DWSUWF]

With regard to unambiguously guilty, non-citizen terrorists...

Kill them, freeze their corpses and ship them to dog food manufacturers.

They hate dogs so much... Have no taste for them... Let the dogs decide for themselves whether or not to return the favor.

Market it as a 'special blend', at a premium price...

I'd buy a bag just to have the story to tell.

[sneakers]

First of all - welcome newbie.

What would you have us do - sit back and let them hit us again just like they did several times during the Clinton years? It is because our intelligence agencies were greatly weakened during the clinton years that 9-11 happened in the first place. We were hit - what - four times before 9-11 and clinton did NOTHING. Our government is there, in part, to protect the American people and President Bush is seeing that it is done.

Again, welcome!

[Dog Gone]

Still, some national security lawyers said the practice of drawing up lists of people who are subject to lethal force might blur the lines drawn by the government's ban on assassinations. That prohibition was first ordered by President Gerald Ford, and in the view of some lawyers, it applies not only to foreign leaders but also to civilians.

It's time to rescind that stupid order.

[Pushi]

That's what we have the Declaration of Independence for:

--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security... That is why the Second Amendment is absolutely essential.

[hoosierskypilot]

"When will the "war on terrorism" be directed at us if we don't like the government.."

When you elect some slime like Al Gore or varicose veined Hillary to office.

[Dog Gone]

My question is: When will this kill by decree be directed at civilians who dissagree with Bush's policies?

He promised to kill only those who ask dumb questions.

[hoosierskypilot]

"We will also assassinate OBL ...."

Hate to break the news, but OBL is nothing but a patch of green mold, visited only by an occasional maggot. How do I know? Because OBL's ego is so big, that he could not resist boasting, on video, of his survival.

[hoosierskypilot]

And I would like to donate the pig skins to bury them it. Want to contribute?

[sneakers]

Much better answer than mine, Pushi! The words of the Declaration of Independence put the power squarely in the hands of the people. The power is in the vote - and in our right to protect ourselves from a corrupt government.

[Travis McGee]

I tend to agree, I was just going for the standard example.

[rwfromkansas]

It is now being revealed; I remember an article a long time on FR about something like this. I doubt he just recently did this.

[Spunky]

I'm a newbie

Profile page says; sablefish signed up 2001-08-13.

Thats over a year ago, you must be a sloooow learner.

Don't do anything stupid and you should be alright.

[barker]

That works for me!

Same here.