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12-30-2005, 09:32 AM
Covert CIA Program Withstands New Furor (http://www.washingtonpost.c om/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/29/AR2005122901585.html ?sub=AR)
Dana Priest
The Washington Post
December 30, 2005
Not to be outdone by the New York Times, The Washington Post has decided to go one better and blow the lid off of another secret intelligence operation that has been working to keep America safe from terrorist attack.
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The effort President Bush authorized shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, to fight al Qaeda has grown into the largest CIA covert action program since the height of the Cold War, expanding in size and ambition despite a growing outcry at home and abroad over its clandestine tactics, according to former and current intelligence officials and congressional and administration sources.
The broad-based effort, known within the agency by the initials GST, is compartmentalized into dozens of highly classified individual programs, details of which are known mainly to those directly involved.
GST includes programs allowing the CIA to capture al Qaeda suspects with help from foreign intelligence services, to maintain secret prisons abroad, to use interrogation techniques that some lawyers say violate international treaties, and to maintain a fleet of aircraft to move detainees around the globe. Other compartments within GST give the CIA enhanced ability to mine international financial records and eavesdrop on suspects anywhere in the world.
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Priest goes on and tries to make it look like President Bush had gone out of bounds with his efforts to keep America safe.
The truth is that it is Old Media that is out of control. This makes a second blown cover in the last month. The WaPo and NYT seem to be going out of their way to help the terrorists plan and execute more attacks against the U.S.
They certainly are not helping in the efforts to fight terrorism.
Dana Priest
The Washington Post
December 30, 2005
Not to be outdone by the New York Times, The Washington Post has decided to go one better and blow the lid off of another secret intelligence operation that has been working to keep America safe from terrorist attack.
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">
The effort President Bush authorized shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, to fight al Qaeda has grown into the largest CIA covert action program since the height of the Cold War, expanding in size and ambition despite a growing outcry at home and abroad over its clandestine tactics, according to former and current intelligence officials and congressional and administration sources.
The broad-based effort, known within the agency by the initials GST, is compartmentalized into dozens of highly classified individual programs, details of which are known mainly to those directly involved.
GST includes programs allowing the CIA to capture al Qaeda suspects with help from foreign intelligence services, to maintain secret prisons abroad, to use interrogation techniques that some lawyers say violate international treaties, and to maintain a fleet of aircraft to move detainees around the globe. Other compartments within GST give the CIA enhanced ability to mine international financial records and eavesdrop on suspects anywhere in the world.
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Priest goes on and tries to make it look like President Bush had gone out of bounds with his efforts to keep America safe.
The truth is that it is Old Media that is out of control. This makes a second blown cover in the last month. The WaPo and NYT seem to be going out of their way to help the terrorists plan and execute more attacks against the U.S.
They certainly are not helping in the efforts to fight terrorism.