I\u2019m sure you are all aware of the bombshell announcement that CIA Director Leon Penetta recently made declaring that a super secret CIA program has been terminated. For days speculation gushed forward about the nature of the program and the possible involvement of then Vice President Cheney.<\/p>\n
The New York Times <\/a>(never missing an opportunity to expose a national secret and endanger our nation) described the program this way.<\/p>\n The Bush administration has prepared a list of terrorist leaders the Central Intelligence Agency is authorized to kill, if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized, senior military and intelligence officials said.<\/p>\n The previously undisclosed C.I.A. list includes key Qaeda leaders like Osama bin Laden and his chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, as well as other principal figures from Al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups, the officials said. The names of about two dozen terrorist leaders have recently been on the lethal-force list, officials said. \u201cIt\u2019s the worst of the worst,\u201d an official said.<\/p>\n President Bush has provided written legal authority to the C.I.A. to hunt down and kill the terrorists without seeking further approval each time the agency is about to stage an operation. Some officials said the terrorist list was known as the \u201chigh-value target list.\u201d A spokesman for the White House declined to discuss the list or issues involving the use of lethal force against terrorists. A spokesman for the C.I.A. also declined to comment on the list.<\/p>\n Despite the authority given to the agency, Mr. Bush has not waived the executive order banning assassinations, officials said. The presidential authority to kill terrorists defines operatives of Al Qaeda as enemy combatants and thus legitimate targets for lethal force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The above quote was published in the NYT on December 15, 2002!<\/p>\n This is a Congressional smoke screen to try to protect Nancy Pelosi\u2019s dumb ass. At least now we know that either Penetta is in on this bullshit or he is dumb as a sack of rocks.<\/p>\n Besides, we all know that Cheney\u2019s private assassin squad is called JSOC<\/a>.<\/p>\n Or at least that\u2019s what the retarded Seymour Hersh would have us believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"