You think they'll quit bombing homes in Pakistan once the hit squads are sent out? No. This house bombing and the plan for hit squads is happening because liberals demand it.

Clinton had Osama in our sights and we chose not to push the button. I see a lot of hand-wringing over the ethical dilemma of spying organizations but really, it could have saved countless lives in the end had we used them properly.

Sibel Edmonds gave testimony about 3 weeks ago where she stated that Osama Bin Ladin was on the CIA payroll right up until 9/11. That's why he wasn't taken out by Clinton. Sibel Edmonds was an FBI translator and came forward with the info, claiming federal whistleblower status. John Ashcroft put a federal gag order on her for 5 years, which just expired recently. When you start to consider everything that this implies, it blows up the cute little picture our government tries to paint for us about who our leaders are.

Interesting interview with Sibel Edmonds:
http://amconmag.com/article/2009/nov/01/00006/

I really dont see the problem with this. We know you're already doing this so why not do it more efficiently?

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Some of us don't like it one bit whether it's secret or not, that's why. After the Maine was blown up in Cuba, our leaders have thrust us into one international intervention after another to satisfy their evil and greedy intentions.

If we are worried about effieciency, let Walmart do it, or save more money by outsourcing to India or China.

Dial 1 to have Osama Killed. Dial 2 to have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad killed...

Funny thought. A thousand years in the future, the world was prosperous, at peace, ecologically sound, and had been led there by an enlightened US.

A psychotic mad genius in that time, decided to alter the timeline and used a time machine to transport a bomb back to the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, knowing that the US would take the suicide pill of adventurism.

Interesting SciFi scenario, but it's mentioned pretty matter of factly in government documents. In planning a domestic terror attack to raise public support for an invasion of Cuba in the 1960s, the US government states it will be like the US Maine incident:

Page 8:
http://www.smeggys.co.uk/operation_nort ... mage=11#tt

Good docs... I read about Northwoods before on George Washington Universities site:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf

I don't disagree with you.

I'm trying to figure out why so many knickers are twisting over something that we've been doing for a long, long time.

Is it the proposed consolidation of all assassination activity under one agency that have people upset? -maybe that would at least offer some degree of oversight.

Is there a fear of socialized assassination that would drive the small, mom & pop assassination shops out of business? -hey, welcome to the free market.

I'm just surprised by how few of us seem to be questioning the legality of the act itself. We took the bait offered by the first word in the thread title (starts with a "D") and have turned this into a Rep/Dem slap fight.

I thought this sort of thing was illegal regardless of which party was in charge. Wasn't there something signed in the '70s... No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.

That was an Executive Order, all it takes is another Executive Order to override it.

Normally assassination is a bad deal for TPTB. Which is why you don't see more of it.

Well... there you have it.

Has an overriding order been signed?

I think we're seeing plenty of assassinations - we just call them targeted killings now.