The Guardian claims that one big of the top secret CIA program former Vice President Dick Cheney kept hidden from Congress was not new, controversial means of gathering intelligence, but was a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/13/cheney-cia-al-qaida-assassinations/print"assassinating al-Qaeda operatives in friendly countries/a.br /blockquote 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./blockquotebr /But, as several commenters note, it has to be more than that, as far as what Cheney wanted hidden. Although, the cooperation with Mossad – if the U.S. ever had a hit on, say, Saudi soil with Mossad cooperation, THAT would be hugely controversial.br /Cdiv class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-799742793946349754?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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