Millions were spent on program, which did not capture or kill any suspects
WASHINGTON - The Central Intelligence Agency 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 C.I.A. spent several million dollars on the program, which did not capture or kill any terrorist suspects.
The fact that the C.I.A. used an outside company for the program was a major reason that Leon E. Panetta, the new C.I.A. director, became alarmed and called an emergency meeting to tell Congress that the agency had withheld details of the program for seven years, the officials said.
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Blackwater is retired military personnel.
ReplyDeleteIt is mercenaries. Professional killers. Trained and equipped by your truly. It is the face of our Empire.
Good I'm glad .
ReplyDeleteIf this really happend, and if the N.Y. Times is reporting it it may well be false, what is the problem. Our stated goal was to capture or Kill Obama Binn Laden, so who gives a crap how it happens.
ReplyDeletewhy not let the liberals scold those guys to death. sounds like something they would do. sjd
ReplyDeleteIsn't this what we WANT the CIA to do - whack bad guys?
ReplyDeleteWhere's Jim Phelps when you need him?
Never happened it was discussed never implemented this is a state run media tactic to change the subject away from Obama's failing health scare crisis .
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