This program was first reported by that great Democratic party bastion the WSJ, the cheif apologist for Cheney.

Wouldn’t be great if, for just a week, all of you former CIA guys could be on the MSM “news” and knock those propagandists back to wherever they came from. If it became a permanent feature, I might even be willing to pay for cable again.

Just how many gallons of OZero’s kool-aide do you have to drink to be so delusional?

Your ending is ridiculous:

You may eat your words and Pelosi might actually be right.

Pelosi reached the apex of both her competence and integrity when she was folding napkins and writing placecards for the CA DNC luncheons. She has been a snake and lying sack of crap from the time she hit congress.

Some have expressed skepticism about this explanation, suggesting that it doesn’t add up, that targeted assassinations aren’t all that different–at least from a legal/political perspective–from the drone attacks that we’ve been carrying out since the Clinton administration. David Kurtz at TPM writes:

So regardless of how you might feel about targeted assassinations, it’s not at all clear why this particular program would be so radioactive — compared to what the U.S. was, and still is, doing more or less openly — that (1) Cheney would demand the CIA not brief Congress about it for eight years; (2) Panetta would cancel it immediately upon learning of it; and (3) Democrats would howl quite so loudly when finally informed….If the New York Times is correct, this program was intended to take out people all over the world, presumably including places like Hamburg, Paris, and Jakarta. There’s quite a big difference, both legally and diplomatically, between sending a missile into a training camp in Afghanistan and sending an assassination team into an apartment complex in Hamburg. Imagine how we would react if we learned that secret German military teams were assassinating people within the United States. Everyone would pretty much flip the hell out. Well, Europeans would have the exact same reaction. That is no doubt why Cheney was so secretive. Even he had sense enough to understand what a colossal diplomatic clusterf*ck would result from disclosure of such a program (though apparently not enough sense to conclude that the program was an incredibly bad idea).

And it makes sense why we need him as a boogieman to keep the illusion of terror alive. Terror=
fear=policy to ramp up military intervention.

So it goes…

He listed groups among whom “the pain of discrimination is still felt in America. By African-American women paid less for doing the same work as colleagues of a different color and gender. By Latinos made to feel unwelcome in their own country. By Muslim Americans viewed with suspicion for simply kneeling down to pray. By our gay brothers and sisters, still taunted, still attacked, still denied their rights.”

No, I’m pretty sure it was when they flew some airplanes bringing down the Twin Towers and killing 5000 people. Or strapping bombs to themselves and killing innocent people, or their governments stoning and killing people for infidelity, being gay, or just disobeying their husbands.

What an asshat. Kneeling down and praying is the least of my worries about fanatical Muslims. But then again, the Sunday after 9/11 Obama was snickering at Trinity watching his beloved spirtiual father saying “America’s chickens….are coming home….to roost!”

M.F. Scheuer,
As you have said you were ” in charge of the Bin Laden group” in the CIA, if it was so doable, why did you not get it done?

Certainly the EO granted you that ability.
Oh I get it. 1998-99… You were not part of the OBL group and bear no responsibility for your failure to find and kill OBL?

Respectfully, what is to be your legacy? YOU failed to get OBL as well.

Does anyone actually believe that Penetta and Obama would be outraged at a plan to kill Bin Laden? Next time the MSM force feeds you, don’t be so slackjawed.

Penetta speaks out claiming he knew nothing. This was a day before he terminated the program.

What do you wanna bet the DAY BEFORE THAT the CIA was caught committing a crime that we’d all be disgusted by.

Both officials say they were never told what was in the program, and that they’re only making calculated guesses.

Get it? (I sincerely doubt you do) They have no idea what the program in question is. Yet you condemn Larry for not knowing what he is talking about in your first paragraph.

In the real world this is called not knowing what YOU are talking about. In other words, you are a complete fucking idiot. CFI for short. Perhaps you and the rest of the Obama worshiping loons could start your own network weekly television show. Promote it as an Unreality Show with a cast of millions. Pitch it to Fox.

Next you collaborate this unfounded speculation with an additional 2 again anonymous ex-CIA ranking officials. Interesting choice of the words rank and officials because what they state sounds like official bullshit to me.

…there’s another equally plausible possibility: The program could have required the Agency to spy on Americans.

An equally plausible explanation (which is much more likely) is that the head of the CIA is providing political cover for Speaker of the Socialists Pelowesme.

I’d tell you to get your head out of your ass but I see you have already inserted it elsewhere.

This was a program “that never got much past the drawing board” and in his effort to show coorperation and transparancy Panetta went to the Hill to tell them about it. A program that never was should have ended there.

But Nancy Pelosi had to tell the world that we had a secret program to assasinate Al Qaeda operatives through the CIA and that she was going to investigate this.

Larry is right about the Democrats.