Secret Government
source: http://electricbrave.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/calls-grow-for-probe-of-cia-al-qaida-program/
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Associated Press
updated 5:30 a.m. MT, Tues., July 14, 2009//
WASHINGTON – Congressional demands for an investigation grew on Monday over new disclosures that a secret CIA program to capture or kill al-Qaida leaders was concealed from Congress for eight years, perhaps at the behest of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The program, which never got off the ground and remains shrouded in mystery, was designed to target leaders of the terrorism network at close range, rather than with air strikes that risked civilian casualties, government officials with knowledge of the operation said Monday.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. The program was canceled last month by CIA Director Leon Panetta shortly after he himself first learned of it.
Some Democratic lawmakers suggested the failure to notify the congressional intelligence committees violated the oversight laws, which require the intelligence community to keep Congress informed of its activities.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that House and Senate intelligence committees should “take whatever actions they believe are necessary to get more information on the subject,” including whether Cheney played a direct role in proposing the secret program and withholding information from Congress.
updated 5:30 a.m. MT, Tues., July 14, 2009//
WASHINGTON – Congressional demands for an investigation grew on Monday over new disclosures that a secret CIA program to capture or kill al-Qaida leaders was concealed from Congress for eight years, perhaps at the behest of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The program, which never got off the ground and remains shrouded in mystery, was designed to target leaders of the terrorism network at close range, rather than with air strikes that risked civilian casualties, government officials with knowledge of the operation said Monday.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. The program was canceled last month by CIA Director Leon Panetta shortly after he himself first learned of it.
Some Democratic lawmakers suggested the failure to notify the congressional intelligence committees violated the oversight laws, which require the intelligence community to keep Congress informed of its activities.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that House and Senate intelligence committees should “take whatever actions they believe are necessary to get more information on the subject,” including whether Cheney played a direct role in proposing the secret program and withholding information from Congress.
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electricbrave
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I'm am glad we are closing in on the real story, our native elders once told me, don't fight the monster, feed it it's own tail and it will consume it's self. Now I am searching for the smoking gun that Carl Rove left somewhere. I know it's here in the US or Dubai.
One step for human kind, one giant step for all kind ;-)
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electricbrave
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metalcookiesxy70
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Hehehe...
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metalcookiesxy70
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pjacobs51
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I'm sure this isn't the only thing Cheney did without congressional approval. There's probably a very long list.
- 2 years ago
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pjacobs51
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electricbrave
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pjacobs51:
You know it, I am just glad to see were are uncovering the real plan of mass destruction. What a year we are going to have, :-)
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electricbrave
