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CIA hired Blackwater to help assassinate terrorists

Washington : DC : USA | 3 months ago  
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The CIA hired Blackwater in 2004 to assassinate and kidnap terrorist leaders. The CIA did not have a formal contract with the company but rather with high-ranking members and it is unknown whether the hiring was to actually carry out the acts themselves or to provide training so the agency could do it instead. Either way, the fact that the CIA was using an outside company seemed to scare Leon Panetta enough to drop the program and tell congress in June. Source: New York Times

Congress was obviosely in a firestorm over this and perhaps they should have been kept in the loop about the matter. However, Nathan A. Sales at National Reviewdisagrees saying that the policy makes good sense and is on firm legal ground.

For the sense part, Sales argues that the policy lessons strain on soldiers and is more humane to innocent bystanders. On legal grounds, he points out that the laws forbidding assassination are incredibly slim and even slimmer in times of war.

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  • Posted By bwinwright bwinwright | 3 months ago
    The CIA runs the world's biggest cocaine and heroin business, using hundreds of billions in illegal profits to fund many nefarious activities. The CIA was heavily involved in JFK's assassination and the crimes of 9/11.

    The CIA is, without question, along with it's Middle East division, the Mossad, the most corrupt criminal organization in world history. Since they are controlled by the folks who also own the media, most people remain clueless.
  • Posted By jdangjenn jdangjenn | 3 months ago
    The sad thing is that this makes a lot more sense than turning the US military into the world's policeman and Uncle Sam into the world's jailor. Interestingly enough Ron Paul proposed that Congress do something similar right after Sept. 11 and nobody listened. So what are we supposed to do when the CIA finds out where a terrorist is. Call Moscow and hope Vladimir Putin feels like having his boys do our dirty work for us. Or just bomb the hell of the place the terrorist might be hiding, hope we get him and kill a lot of innocent civilians? That's our current policy, it's humane and legal because the bombs are dropped by the US Air Force. An assassin on the ground who might be able to tell the difference between children and the bad guys well that's just wrong.
  • Reply By RossErdmann RossErdmann | 3 months ago
    I think that is what Sales meant when he said that the policy made sense and was more humane to noncombatents.
  • Posted By jdangjenn jdangjenn | 3 months ago
    What scares me is that the Democrats who are so critical of the Bush war on terror have no real alternative to it. Close Gitmo then open Gitmo II here on US soil is a typical example of their thinking. Private assassination squads are morally heinous but I can't see how they're worse than bombing women and children.
  • Posted By OMega3_2yew OMega3_2yew | 3 months ago
    Thankfully, our stars are our stars and our moon is our moon. The new moon reminds us that espionage is meant to uplift our society and maintain safety in our communities and in our country. How can we be more attuned to the efforts that our government is putting out in respect to our overall health and well being? Who is responsible for the community commitments to resolve conflict maturely? Though we are looking constantly for some kind of gratification, we find it at home with friends and family. Thanks to the people who risk their lives every day making sure that our people are safe from dangerous threats and safe from harm's way. We are responsible. We are courageous. We have the potential to overcome that which keeps us from thriving in a respectful manner. People in the subburbs of our populated cities deserve happiness and peace. May we see that through cultural arts and music.

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  • Posted By thinkingallowed thinkingallowed | 3 months ago
    Th CIA is very respectable organization, with good, upstanding citizens. My first neighbor, Mr. Rogers was a CIA agent himself. Uhm, I can't get in trouble for saying that, can I?
  • Reply By RossErdmann RossErdmann | 3 months ago
    I'm pretty sure you can't unless he's actively undercover. However, in this case I'd say "err on the side of caution" Unless you know its alright to say something regarding CIA personel; don't
  • Posted By Changez Changez | 3 months ago
    Does anyone remember how in movies, when the 'good guys' want to do something, they are blocked by bureaucrats, and bad things happen, but the good guys win in the end because they don't do the same things as the bad guys; the things that make people bad. Someone said above that if the US found a terrorist base in Russia, what choice would it have. Well, if the Russians say they will deal with it and do not allow US forces or intelligence into Russia, then not much, aside from violating Russian sovereignty and international law. The US has no right to walk into another country and conduct covert operations there, simply put. So the good guys wait, and they wait for their chance to do the right thing, and though there is hardship and loss along the way, they win at the end precisely because they were unwilling to become like their enemies in order to defeat them. It seems that spirit is lost, and the rare form of police-officer, who knows someone else is breaking the law, but will not break it himself (to quote Nicholas Cage), becomes just like all the other corrupt officers. That is the tragedy of modern US foreign policy. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad then.
  • Reply By RossErdmann RossErdmann | 3 months ago
    I believe in objective ethics (intentionally killing children is wrong, period) so I do believe some things are black and white although there is a substantial area where it's hard to tell one from the other. As I've said before, you could easily defend this policy. That said, you could easily defend the position that this policy is wrong.
  • Posted By bwinwright bwinwright | 3 months ago
    Between the Tavistock Institute, Operation Mockingbird, and the totally controlled mainstream media,they have done a fantastic job of brainwashing the vast majority of Americans, at least everyone contributing to this particular thread.

    The internet is still relatively free. Outside of the disinformation and misinformation, some profound truth can be uncovered through research.

    Virtually all of us start out in politics or government service with a pure heart and good intentions only to come face to face with corruption, most likely sooner than later. At that time we must make a choice. Do we go along with the corruption or do we blow the whistle, lose our job, and maybe our life?

    No, the simple reality of it is that leading political and government officials "MUST" be corrupt. There is no other alternative.

    For those of you who believe the CIA is an honorable institution, it just may be exactly that to a deep cover operative who loves having access to the most modern forms of assassination, deception, and crime.

    If you will simply do some homework you will learn that Adolfo Nicolas is the most powerful person on Earth with control over the World Bank, the IMF, and the Central Banks of close to 200 countries.

    Some of his top assistants include the likes of the Rothschild Banking Dynasty, the Windsor Family, the Rockefeller Family, and several other super wealthy families.

    They control the governments of the USA,Great Britain, Israel, Canada, and numerous other countries. This includes all of the military forces and intelligence operations like the CIA, Mossad, and MI6.

    This Ruling Plutocracy has orchestrated all of the terrorism, not Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, or Al-Qaeda. They love to read forums like this one to see just how effective their sophisticated propaganda machinery is working. It is working beautifully because so few of you even have a hint of a clue about who the real bad guys are.

    These folks also control Wall Street, TOTALLY. They control our Securities and Exchange Commission too. How else do you suppose they managed to literally steal so many trillions of dollars from Americans.

    Their plan has been to bankrupt America and put us in such a terrible position we can never recover. They have succeeded. They have virtually destroyed our manufacturing base by sending it all to China, Mexico, and elsewhere.

    The American economy has been trashed and is only getting worse. There is no recovery from this. The Ruling Rats have done this to us, intentionally, as part of their agenda to establish a one world government, one world military, one world currency,etc.

    Ladies and Gentlemen, while you have been watching American Idol and sports on TV, these Trillionaires, who honestly believe about 5 billion of us need to be eliminated, are responsible for virtually everything UGLY in our world for the past 2 centuries.

    Wake up and tell as many as you can.
  • Reply By RossErdmann RossErdmann | 3 months ago
    The only response I have to that is the response Niccolo Machiavelli gave in his "Discourses on Livy" over six hundred years ago that conspiracy theories don't make sense.
  • Posted By mona37 mona37 | 3 months ago
    today's movies the Americans are the good guys and the North Koreans are the bad guys :P
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