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Headlines : IntelligenceOn the Trail of the CIA
The secret war does not end with America’s spy agencies. Likewise in the shadows – sometimes operating within international law, sometimes outside the boundaries – are the special forces of the American military. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sends them on missions across the globe; indeed they may, some say, already be operating inside of an Iran that continues its pursuit of nuclear weapons. He would be “surprised and disappointed” if covert measures were not already under way against Iran’s armaments program, says Ashton Carter, assistant secretary of defense under Bill Clinton.
Is the CIA on the road to re-establishing the notoriety it for so long had in the Third World? That of a frightening, secret power that kidnapped politicians, bought mercenary troops and toppled governments at will merely because Washington didn’t approve of them?
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from Der Spiegel
Operating in the shadows, American secret services have been given wide-ranging powers by the Bush Administration. And they include murder, abduction and torture.
It’s Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001, four days after the terror attacks in New York and Washington. US President George W. Bush withdraws with his closest advisors to Camp David in order to escape the chaos of the week and to develop the first plans to confront the new and unprecedented challenge facing the United States.
In the afternoon, then CIA head George Tenet distributes a file to all participants of the crisis summit. It’s called “Going to War.” Inside are the first rough outlines of the coming war against terrorism. In the upper left corner of the file’s cover, there is a red circle inside of which is a portrait of Osama bin Laden with a black line drawn through it.
Tenet wants to finally go on the offensive. And his list of priorities is ambitious. Goal number one: Destroy al-Qaida and close off the terror group’s zones of safety wherever they might be.
According to Bob Woodward in his book “Bush at War,” this is a list with wide-ranging powers granted to authorities battling worldwide terror. And Tenet does not…
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