The article agrees with those who want the previous administration pay for its crimes as it states, "Cheney is a traitor for his role in outing Valerie Plame (and yes, he had Irv Lewis Libby, his chief of staff, try like hell to out her; it is not relevant that Bob Novak took the information from Armitage first). He hid covert operations from Congress. He contemplated assassination squads and for all we know ran some. If Congress doesn't want to look mean-spirited or to risk disillusioning the public with government by prosecuting the former vice president, let's at least have a truth commission that gets documents declassified and lays out his full role so we don't have to wait until 2039 to judge it.
The only thing worse than impunity for crimes is a decades-long cover-up of those crimes from the American people. Complete sunshine on Richard Bruce Cheney's misdeeds is the minimum necessary to work against them being repeated by the next administration."
The article "CIA Assassin Program Was Nearing New Phase" at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071503856_pf.html
notes that we could have been the source of Cheney's assassins and that it was getting close to being implemented as the article states, "CIA officials were proposing to activate a plan to train anti-terrorist assassination teams overseas when agency managers brought the secret program to the attention of CIA Director Leon Panetta last month, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The plan to kill top al-Qaeda leaders, which had been on the agency's back burner for much of the past eight years, was suddenly thrust into the spotlight because of proposals to initiate what one intelligence official called a "somewhat more operational phase." Shortly after learning of the plan, Panetta terminated the program and then went to Capitol Hill to brief lawmakers, who had been kept in the dark since 2001."
Could it be that W was willing to go after U.S. citizens here? The article states "The finding imposed no geographical limitations on the agency's actions, and intelligence officials have said that they were not obliged to notify Congress of each operation envisaged under the directive."
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