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News Source: The News Tribune
| 4 months ago
As CIA director in 2004, George Tenet terminated a secret program to develop hit teams to kill al-Qaida leaders, but his successors resurrected the plan, according to former intelligence officials. Tenet ended the program because the agency could not...
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News Source: Canadian Free Press
| 4 months ago
It turns out putting together a traveling hit squad and getting them in place isn’t as easy as it may seem. Under orders by Vice President Dick Cheney, Congress was never briefed on the program. Even though it never got beyond an early planning...
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News Source: The News Tribune
| 4 months ago
Six months after he was appointed to the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Smith finds himself in the middle of a national security dispute over the failure of the CIA to notify Congress about a mysterious program to reportedly deploy special...
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News Source: United Press International
| 4 months ago
Proposed CIA kill teams were to be modeled on teams fielded by Israel after the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, a former senior U.S. official told Newsweek. The proposal, which was never carried out, was designed to hunt down and kill al-Qaida...
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News Source: Fox News
| 4 months ago
Former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, Elizabeth "Liz" Cheney, once again rose to the defense of her dad embroiled in the CIA counterterrorism program controversy in a interview Tuesday with FOX News. She defended her father against...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 4 months ago
Vice President Dick Cheney 's daughter Liz said Tuesday she doesn't believe her father did anything wrong in connection with a secret CIA operation that officials have said was designed to capture and kill al-Qaida figures. At the same time, Liz...
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News Source: Gawker
| 4 months ago
Since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior Qaeda terrorists, according to current and former government officials. (CIA Director Leon) Panetta scuttled the program, which would have...
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News Source: Fox News
| 4 months ago
Former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, who has emerged as a fierce critic of President Obama's foreign and national security policies, said Monday that she is seriously considering a run for political office. "It's something I very well may do,...
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News Source: Courier & Press
| 4 months ago
The CIA would have been derelict in its duties if, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 when al-Qaeda had been identified as responsible for the deaths of over 3,000 Americans, if it had not drawn up a plan to capture or kill the terrorists...
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News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 4 months ago
Since 2001, the CIA has developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior al-Qaida terrorists, according to current and former government officials. The plans were never carried out, the officials said, and CIA Director Leon E...