Congressional demands for an investigation grew on Monday over new disclosures that a secret CIA program to capture or kill al-Qaida leaders was concealed from Congress for eight years, perhaps at the behest of former Vice President Dick Cheney.I'll bet this: There is no "perhaps" about it. If the program was concealed from Congress, that was done on Cheney's orders. That is illegal. There is an old axiom in politics that time and time again is proven to be true: They don't hang you for what you did. They hang you for attempting to cover it up.
I see little difference between killing a person with a bullet fired from a sniper's rifle or a silenced pistol and killing that person with a Hellfire missile. If anything, shooting is far more preferable. For one thing, if you kill a bad guy with a slug from a 7.62mm rifle, you are also not blowing up his house and killing a bunch of women and children. You can also gain some level of deniability, for if you use a Russian sniper rifle or a Makarov, the shooter could be from anywhere, but only one nation in South Asia uses Hellfire missiles fired from Predator drones.
There are laws about how secret operations are to be conducted and who has oversight. If those laws were broken, the guilty should swing. And for this, he might.
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What's also distressing about this is that at least some of the information we used to identify the people who were in Al Qaeda came from people who were tortured. We then assassinated some of the people we "knew" to be from AQ. It's possible that for all we know, all the people in some of those houses were innocent, even if we hit the right house and the people we wanted to be there were there.
I am cautiously giddy that fate has finally caught up with the evil Dick.
He needs to be in prison for his crimes against our nation, and it can't happen soon enough.
Cujo, it is also possible that the information from people who were tortured was used to kill people who were hostile to al Qaeda.
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