Bush Has Widened Authority of C.I.A. to Kill Terrorists
By JAMES RISEN and DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: Sunday, December 15, 2002
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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.
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. "It's the worst of the worst," an official said.
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 "high-value target list." 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.
I guess Mike didn't know that these made the Headlines in 2002. Totally shoots this complete thread away. Do your home work mike. too much teevee and here it is newspaper headlines.
How are they going to get revenge on Bush secrets that made the headlines?
I guess the newspaper is a secret to those that are hooked on the sunday Morning talk shows.
It is a shame for Democrats when they think they have found a killer deep dark secret and it was old news from 7 years ago. Headlines on a liberal rag.
How ironic.
As per the usual you're posts doesn't even make sense. You're out in deep right field somewhere and don't know what you're even addressing.
The program being discussed now is a "still-unidentified program" if you'd read the article. Considering the fact that Cheney didn't even want Congress briefed on the CIA program that is now being discussed, do you really believe they leaked the details to the newspapers in 2002 ?
Coadie wake up and get in the game man, it's obviously two different CIA initiatives being discussed here. All your 2002 article discusses is Cowboy giving the CIA authority to kill terrorists withouth seeking approval from the White House.
Two totally different subjects here. If you'd turn Limbaugh and Hannity down long enough you could concentrate on the subjects at hand.
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