CIA claims of cancelled campaign are hogwash

[HeresyLives]

Assassinations anyone?
CIA claims of cancelled campaign are hogwash

By Eric Margolis, Sun Media

Last Updated: 19th July 2009, 12:04am


'CIA director Leon Panetta just told Congress he cancelled a secret operation to assassinate al-Qaida leaders. The CIA campaign, authorized in 2001, had not yet become operational, claimed Panetta.

I respect Panetta, but his claim is humbug. The U.S. has been trying to kill al-Qaida personnel (real and imagined) since the Clinton administration. These efforts continue under President Barack Obama. Claims by Congress it was never informed are hogwash.

The CIA and Pentagon have been in the assassination business since the early 1950s, using American hit teams or third parties. For example, a CIA-organized attempt to assassinate Lebanon's leading Shia cleric, Muhammad Fadlallah, using a truck bomb, failed, but killed 83 civilians and wounded 240.'

http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2009/07/19/10183171.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. I wonder if the CIA has more than one program for finding bad guys.

Nah. It's easier to simply call them liars.

[sam sarrha]

2. yea when their Farsight program got exposed.. they just created a Corporation an outsourced it

..hell no we dint spend tax money on Psychics.. thats stupid stuff

[FarCenter]

3. I don't recall Panetta saying that he canceled an assassination program

CIA director Leon Panetta just told Congress he cancelled a secret operation to assassinate al-Qaida leaders.

The allegation that it was an assassination program that was canceled is a story started by the Washington Post and picked up by other media.

It is most likely disinformation intended to mislead the public away from whatever the real canceled program was.

[shraby]

4. You're right FarCenter.

Only the media has pushed the "assassination" program. Panetta has said nothing about what the program entailed.

[timeforpeace]

5. Makes more sense to assassinate the leaders than to bomb entire villages.