Yeah right! They didn't know ??!! See link:
www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/international/15INTE.html?pagrwanted=2
They knew in DECEMBER 2002. Demorons !
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On Jul 16, 3:12 pm, jgg1000a <[email protected]> wrote:
> will harm the US
>
> http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/16/cia_as_political...
>
> >> As other countries watch the United States lacerate its intelligence
> >> service -- for activities already investigated or never undertaken --
> >> perhaps they admire America's commitment to democracy and the rule of law.
> >> More likely, I fear, they conclude that we are just plain nuts.
>
> The latest "scandals" involving the Central Intelligence Agency are
> genuinely hard to understand, other than in terms of political
> payback. Attorney General Eric Holder is considering appointing a
> prosecutor to investigate criminal actions by CIA officers involved in
> the harsh interrogation of al-Qaeda prisoners. But the internal CIA
> report on which he's said to be basing this decision was referred five
> years ago to the Justice Department, where attorneys concluded that no
> prosecution was warranted.
>
> Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress are indignant that they were never
> briefed about a program to assassinate al-Qaeda operatives in friendly
> countries. Never mind that the program wasn't implemented, or that the
> United States is routinely assassinating al-Qaeda operatives using
> unmanned drones. And never mind, either, that Leon Panetta, the new
> CIA director -- fearing a potential flap -- briefed Congress about the
> program soon after he became aware of it. There was a flap anyway --
> with a new hemorrhage of secrets and a new shudder from America's
> intelligence partners around the world.
>
> Oversight of these secret activities is necessary. But turning the CIA
> into a political football, as both Republicans and Democrats have done
> in recent years, defeats the purpose of oversight. That was true when
> Republicans were bashing the agency for supposedly obstructing the
> Bush administration's policies, and it's true now when Democrats are
> scrounging for evidence to prove that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was
> right when she accused the agency of lying about its activities.
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