CIA Had Secret Al Qaeda Plan -- Wall Street Journal
Initiative at Heart of Spat With Congress Examined Ways to Seize, Kill Terror Chiefs
WASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter.
The precise nature of the highly classified effort isn't clear, and the CIA won't comment on its substance.
According to current and former government officials, the agency spent money on planning and possibly some training. It was acting on a 2001 presidential legal pronouncement, known as a finding, which authorized the CIA to pursue such efforts. The initiative hadn't become fully operational at the time Mr. Panetta ended it.
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More News On The CIA And Secret Programs
Report: CIA had plan to kill al-Qaida -- AP
CIA Was Trying to Create an Assassinations Capability -- Washington Independent
Democrats Push For Probe Into Bush Policies -- Yahoo News/AP
Cheney accused of 'hiding' CIA anti-terror program -- Yahoo News/AFP
National Security Debate Takes Partisan Turn -- US News And World Report
Clamor grows over CIA secrets -- L.A. Times
US Legislators Decry Secret Bush-Era Program -- Voice of America
Democrats Call for Probe Over Canceled CIA Program Never Reviewed by Congress -- FOX News
Feinstein Says Law May Have Been Broken -- New York Times
Bush Anti-Terror Policies Get Reluctant Revisit -- Washington Post
Independent’s Day -- Newsweek
Republicans hit pursuit of torture probe -- Washington Times
Former Agents Say Stop Picking on the CIA -- ABC News
Targeting al-Qaeda would have been wiser -- Daily Mail
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