No wonder the Globe thinks wees heres out wests is so stoo-pid.
If you DON'T TELL US THINGS then hows wees supposed to knows?
I THINK I'VE MADE my point, no, readers?
"CIA hired outsiders for planned Al Qaeda assassinations; Blackwater had key role in ’04 secret mission" by Mark Mazzetti, New York Times | August 20, 2009
WASHINGTON - The CIA in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.
Executives from Blackwater, which has generated controversy because of its aggressive tactics in Iraq, helped the spy agency with planning, training, and surveillance.
The CIA spent several million dollars on the program, which did not capture or kill any terrorist suspects.
So they say!
And I WOULDN'T BE a bit surprised they didn't kill any "Al-CIA-Duh!"
The fact that the CIA used an outside security company for the program was one major reason that Leon E. Panetta, the new CIA director, became alarmed and called an emergency meeting to tell Congress that the agency had withheld details of the program for years, the officials said.
It is unclear whether the CIA had planned to use the contractors to capture or kill Al Qaeda operatives or just to help with training and surveillance. American spy agencies have in recent years outsourced some highly controversial work, including the interrogation of prisoners....
Officials said that the CIA did not have a formal contract with Blackwater USA for this program but instead had individual agreements with top company officials, including the company’s founder, Erik D. Prince, a politically connected former member of the Navy Seals and the heir to a large family fortune....
Blackwater USA, which has changed its name, most recently to Xe Services, and is based in North Carolina, has in recent years received millions of dollars in government contracts, growing so large that the Bush administration said it was a necessary part of its war operation in Iraq.
It has also drawn controversy. Blackwater employees hired to guard American diplomats in Iraq were accused of using excessive force on several occasions, including shootings in downtown Baghdad in 2007 in which 17 civilians were killed....
Several current and former government officials interviewed for this report spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they were discussing details of a still classified program....
So the "program" could VERY WELL BE CONTINUING NOW!
Think the PAPER is going to TELL the TRUTH or FULLY DISCLOSE?
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
The officials said that the review asserted that Panetta’s predecessors did not believe that they needed to tell Congress because the program was not far enough developed. The House Intelligence Committee is investigating why lawmakers were never told about the program.
According to current and former government officials, former Vice President Dick Cheney told CIA officers in 2002 that the spy agency did not need to tell lawmakers because the agency already had legal authority to kill Al Qaeda leaders.--more--"
Related: Breaking News: Bush Spying Program Massive
Slow Saturday Special: Covering Up Bush's Crimes
Slow Saturday Special: Cheney's CIA Assassination Teams
Boston Sunday Globe Censorship: Covering Up Cheney's Crimes
And what can you say, readers.
On the website version of the paper, nowhere near my printed version for the second straight day.
Call it a COVER UP or CENSORSHIP, it makes no difference.
"Disclosure of Blackwater’s Al Qaeda efforts adds to CIA worries; Portions of 2004 report will be released Monday" by R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick, Washington Post | August 21, 2009
I guess that's why this Western Mass. s***-eater ain't worth the time for a printed article. Why am I even bothering to buy a paper anymore?
And, I'll tell you, once I stop reading an actual printed copy, the visit to the site go down, the links go down, and eventually, I stop visiting altogether.
WASHINGTON - The disclosure Wednesday of the CIA’s decision five years ago to let a private security contractor help manage its sensitive effort to kill senior Al Qaeda members drew congressional criticism yesterday on the eve of key decisions by the Obama administration that current and former intelligence officials fear could compound the spy agency’s political troubles.
Those decisions include the expected release Monday of newly declassified portions of a 2004 CIA report that questions the legality and effectiveness of the agency’s harsh interrogations at secret prisons. Additionally, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. may order a probe of possible criminal actions by CIA officers and contractors during those interrogations.
“In September, you are going to have a hurricane coming through Washington that is aimed right at the intelligence community,’’ warned Porter J. Goss, the CIA’s director from September 2004 to May 2006. He added that a Justice Department inquiry is also pending into whether laws were broken when CIA officers destroyed videotapes of the harsh interrogations....
So WHEN is the FALSE FLAG TERROR EVENT?
In an interview, Goss said he had not been fully briefed on the details of the CIA activities in question, many of which are classified, so he could not confirm the reported involvement of Blackwater, now known as Xe Services LLC.... hit squads.
He was a DIRECTOR and HE DIDN'T KNOW?!!!!!!
Two former intelligence officers familiar with the effort said the company had received millions of dollars to help train and equip teams to undertake the killings.
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The next time I see the term GUNMEN or other such term I will INSTANTLY THINK BLACKWATER and its HIRED GUNS!!!!
The fact that the GLOBE NEEDED to HIDE THIS from its PRINT READERS says a WHOLE PILE, folks.
And THAT is what the GLOBE IS NOW -- a HUGE, STEAMING, STINKING, SOUR RANCID, FETID, FERMENTED pile of S*** on my desk.
Related: AmeriKan Breakfast
I think I'll stick with just a coffee from now on; sorry, Apu.
