"Covert action programs, a particularly secret category in which the role of the United States is hidden"
We call it FALSE FLAG TERRORISM around these parts!
Think "Al-CIA-Duh," readers!
What I have noticed from BOTH these LIMITED HANGOUTS (See: Slow Saturday Special: Covering Up Bush's Crimes) is the REPEATED ATTEMPTS to ALWAYS CIRCLE BACK to the ALREADY-IMMUNIZED WIRETAPPING PROGRAM while MINIMIZING TORTURE and TOTALLY IGNORING the IRAQ LIES and 9/11 WAR GAMES!
Oh, right, the ENABLING COLLABORATORS HELPED SELL those LIES!!!
That's why the MSM ARTICLE really TELLS YOU NOTHING!
"Cheney linked to concealment of CIA project; Antiterror plan was kept secret under his orders" by Scott Shane, New York Times | July 12, 2009
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former vice president Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said yesterday.
"Most online observers have concluded that the program in question is the assassination team that reported directly to Vice President Dick Cheney reported by Sy Hersch." -- Wake the Flock Up
The report that Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy....
Unidentified and a MYSTERY to THEM, not to US!
Efforts to reach Cheney through relatives and associates were unsuccessful....
Don't worry; if he wants to use you, he will CALL YOU, MSM!
And I'm sure you will give him PLENTY of AIR TIME!
For covert action programs, a particularly secret category in which the role of the United States is hidden, the law says briefings can be limited to the so-called Gang of Eight, consisting of the Republican and Democratic leaders of both houses of Congress and of their intelligence committees.
The disclosure about Cheney’s role in the unidentified CIA program was made a day after an inspector general’s report underscored the central role of the former vice president’s office in restricting to a small circle of officials knowledge of the National Security Agency’s program of eavesdropping without warrants, a degree of secrecy that the report concluded hurt the effectiveness of the counterterrorism surveillance effort.
And THERE THEY GO AGAIN!!!!
Democrats in Congress, who contend that the covert action provision was abused to cover up programs under Bush, are seeking to change the law to permit the full committees to be briefed on more matters. President Obama, however, has threatened to veto the intelligence authorization bill if the changes go too far, and the proposal is now being negotiated by the White House and the intelligence committees.
See: Obama's First Veto Threat
Notice how they DROPPED the ASSASSINATION PROGRAM and started TALKING ABOUT the SPYING?
A spokesman for the intelligence agency, Paul Gimigliano, declined yesterday to comment on the report of Cheney’s role. “It’s not agency practice to discuss what may or may not have been said in a classified briefing,’’ Gimigliano said. “When a CIA unit brought this matter to Director Panetta’s attention, it was with the recommendation that it be shared appropriately with Congress. That was also his view, and he took swift, decisive action to put it into effect.’’
Bill Harlow, a spokesman for George J. Tenet, who was director of central intelligence when the unidentified program began, declined to comment yesterday. Intelligence and congressional officials have said the program was started by the counterterrorism center at the CIA shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but never became fully operational.
WTF does THAT MEAN? Never "fully operational?"
So they DIDN'T KILL ALL the GUYS they wanted to?
As if they NEVER KILLED ANYONE AT ALL, right, New York Times?
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A little heads up, Globe and Times: the reason you are tanking is because of NOTHING, HALF-TRUTH, DISTORTING CRAP like this passing itself off as "news."!!!!
