August 20, 2009 06:19 AM UTC

At Least It's Not Your Intelligence Agency Contracting Out Assassinations

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• by: RedGreen

— er, wait, this time it is.

As the New York Times reports, when he learned the CIA had hired Blackwater (the artist currently known as Xe) to help with the secret assassination program, CIA Director Leon Panetta spilled the beans to Congress. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08…

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.

The fact that the C.I.A. used an outside company for the program was a major reason that Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A.’s director, became alarmed and called an emergency meeting in June to tell Congress that the agency had withheld details of the program for seven years, the officials said.

We are continually reminded what a depraved regime of outlaws and thugs was only recently in power in this country. Is it any wonder some of their supporters are miffed?