From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 13:39:17 MDT
--- Amara Graps <amara@amara.com> wrote:
> insanity
>
> http://iht.com/articles/67503.htm
> U.S. considering wide terror hunt
>
>
Oh, where to start?
How about here:
"Some officials outside the Pentagon have expressed concerns that the
proposals ultimately could lead the military into covert operations
that have traditionally been conducted by the Central Intelligence
Agency under tightly controlled legal conditions set out by the
president in secret "findings," operations which are then closely
monitored by Congress"
While I'm not surprised much that the New York Times can't seem to get
their facts straight, it does bother me that they think they can
blatantly get away with this despite the widespread public knowledge
that special forces teams are regularly used in CIA covert operations.
There is little that is new in this story, but much that is false, for
example:
"The discussion whether to give special forces missions to capture or
kill individual Al Qaeda leaders may at some point conflict with the
executive order prohibiting assassinations."
The falsehood by the writers is the assumption that killing a terrorist
is somehow an 'assasination'. Assasinations are the killing of
political leaders of governments or political parties with standing. Al
Qaeda is neither of these, unless the New York Times is implying that
it considers Bin Laden a legitimate political leader of a government or
political party.
"In past administrations, there was a clear effort to distinguish
between the combat activities conducted by special forces and missions
handled by the CIA. But the line has gradually blurred as the campaign
against terrorism required greater cooperation among U.S. law
enforcement, intelligence and military officials."
No, there was no such effort, outside of an effort to use individuals
and equipment which could not be traced easily to the US government,
'plausible deniability' and all that.
Amara, I would not rely on the New York Times for factual reporting of
anything they don't like. As a 2nd Amendment activist, I can attest to
their pervasive use of lies, distortions, misrepresentations, and
frauds upon their readers in that issue, I cannot believe that they
would change their stripes for this one.
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