Secret Assassinations = Cheney

The UK has hit the bricks running. The Guardian reports on uber-zealot Dick Cheney's secret assassination program. This is when the cover up will be worse then the crime and crimes are heinous:

"Dick Cheney, the former vice president, ordered a highly classified CIA operation hidden from Congress because it pushed the limits of legality by planning to assassinate of al-Qaida operatives in friendly countries without the knowledge of their governments, according to former intelligence officials.

Former counter-terrorism officials who retain close links to the intelligence community say that the hidden operation involved plans by the CIA and the military to launch operations, similar to those by Israel's Mossad intelligence service, to hunt down and kill al-Qaida activists abroad without informing the governments concerned, even though some were regarded as friendly if unreliable.

The CIA apparently did not put the plan in to operation but the US military did, carrying out several assassinations including one in Kenya that proved to be a severe embarrassment and helped lead to the quashing of the programme."

Imagine that, a secret operation without oversight used to kill people overseas went astray, leading to an embarrassing end of the program.

Can we please start the investigation now!

Source: Guardian